• solardirus@slrpnk.net
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        9 hours ago

        Is the owner a tankie? (stalin justifier) I thought they were just communists, many of whom I know actually hate stalin.

        • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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          1 day ago

          Like clockwork, tankies will call actual leftists “liberals” everytime someone mentions that tankies are fascists who support capitalist imperialism from Russia and China.

        • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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          1 day ago

          Yes, the famous communist fascist. His name is Stalin. You’ve probably heard of him.

          In a world gone mad, you have to be insane to stay sane.

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      2 days ago

      But just* as extremist…

      • Approximately. How is this sort of thing measured objectively?
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      1 day ago

      That’s true but not useful.

      It’s probably better to describe both ideologies as extreme-authoritarian or totalitarian. They’re about equally undesirable; when someone has a boot on your throat, it doesn’t matter much whether it’s the right boot or the left boot.