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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Liberals when talking about human rights: :) Liberals when talking about the enforcement of human rights: :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tankies ≠ leftists ≠ liberals

Plenty of leftists want human rights and even know we'll need a revolution to get them, but the USSR and CCP were not ever communist, they were authoritarian oligarchies disguised as communism. The same way the US is not a democracy or a republic, it's an authoritarian oligarchy disguised as one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The USSR wasn't perfect (and Stalin ruined most things that were good obviously) but they weren't any worse than the USA or the west.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your reading comprehension really is something to behold. You basically just disagreed with me by saying exactly the same thing I just fucking said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah okay, fair enough, I kinda only read the start and end of your post. I guess I agree with you then. I still think the USSR gets too much hate in general though. I vociferously defend the USSR around liberals and attack it around M-Ls lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a Liberal through and through and I'm all in favor of enforcing human rights.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's great, but liberalism as an ideology in the real world is pathetically weak on the right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the Liberals only destroyed the Nazis and Imperial Japan in WWII, saving the USSR in the process.

Not to mention jailing far right nutballs whenever they step out of line.

Much worse than running gulags for anarchists. /s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The USSR did 90% of the work in beating the Nazis though. As for jailing the far right, it sure doesn't look like it, just look how many of them are running around encouraging stochastic terrorism against the LGBT community.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The USSR only fought the Nazis, and then only after allying with them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The west also did a ton of non-aggression pacts and friendship pacts with the Nazis. Also; Poland was fascist at the time too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Poland was not in a good place politically, but it wasn't Fascist, and the USSR didn't just make a friendship pact with the Nazis, it went to war alongside them. Stalin was an opportunist who made a dumb decision, not a principled anti-Fascist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Sir, are the talkies in the room with us right now?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not in this one they're all on the tankie instance

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

well it sounds like the tankie instance needs blocked then. What instance is that btw?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The instance is called lemmygrad.ml and already blocked by most of the other instances. You can see blocked instances if you scroll down the page and click on the Instances button.

Their 196 is called moretankie196.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's a 196? What's a tankie?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A 196 is a meme sharing forum with the name 196. I don't really know how to describe a tankie, but something like: a leftist person who glorifies autocracy and the use of force to make a leftist utopia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

«tankie» is a term used to describe communists who support or are critically supportive of so-called "authoritarian regimes" (AES (actual existing socialism) such as Cuba, the USSR, China, Vietnam, the DPRK, Laos, etc.) or their actions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The guy driving the tank rather than standing in front of it.