• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Just like China.

    And Cuba. And North Korea.

    One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.

    To be perfectly clear: I’m not strongly opposed to what any “14-year-old white girl” means when she promotes communism. I understand leftist goals as distinct from what these countries actually did. But the fact these countries had those goals, and then did this shit instead, demands a better explanation than ‘that doesn’t count.’ Especially when leftist philosophy has a lot to say about liberals and capitalism inevitably producing terrible outcomes.

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      1 year ago

      All of those countries made great strides in accomplishing great things for their people actually, and you’ve just been lied to about them and their history repeatedly from the time of your birth, to the point that you don’t actually know jack shit about any of them but you think you do??

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        1 year ago

        Just like China.

        Which is also a dictatorship.

        Turns out literacy or whatever doesn’t cancel out being a dictatorship.

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            1 year ago

            It’s a dictatorship of the Castro family, in a way America’s representative democracy isn’t one at all.

            It was literally modeled on the Soviet Union, well after all y’all insist the Soviet Union stopped doing anything communism-ish and was a straight-up dictatorship. Again - quoting the initial mook I replied to - “just like China.”

            Boring goddamn tankies think it’s a zero-sum game where one thing being bad means the other must be flawless.