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[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 21 hours ago

I mean i get your point but that's wild.

There's certain things that you can just assume are universally understood due to their crude nature. You're not gonna argue meaningfully that the Sovjet system didn't kill 20 million people in an attempt to control the population.

[–] ambidexterity@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Bolsheviks did unspeakable things though.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My source is my history teacher in secondary school, who had actually fled from the Soviet Union, and whose grandparents were dumped out of a train onto the Kirgis steppe without food or shelter by the Bolsheviks, where close to half starved in the first winter, for being of German descent.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"it's just a meme" that justifies literal genocide...

You're a broccoli head who cries "it's just a joke" when called out

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

My whole extended family on grandfather's side was killed for being jewish. My great grandfather was executed for the sin of not being executed during Holocaust.
You, personally, are trying to whitewash pretty atrocious evils, best case scenario because you're a stupid kid who don't have enough empathy.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good thing the Bolsheviks never did anything wrong during their rule, like genociding Poles, committing mass murder in the Baltics, ethnically cleansing Crimean Tatars, brutally crushing workers' protests and stripping them of more rights than even bourgeois capitalist democracies did, running a system of high-mortality slave labor, etc etc etc etc etc.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

consider moving your account and posts to lemmy.ml

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that the tankie instance?

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I just like saying tankie now, after they banned me for saying tankie there :)

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean they do have a point in that the word is overused, but they also lack any kind of self-reflection on their own use of the world 'liberal' lol

Good one 👍

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

After watching the latest Atun-Shei video, I'm using burger instead of bourgeois from now on.