My favourite anti-communist trope is the made up quote attributed to a famous communist.
Lenin's "useful idiots", Stalin's "one million is a statistic" and "what matters is who counts the votes". There's also a supposed Che quote about how killing people made him feel good.
Just the most moustache-twirling maniacal-cackling cartoon villain stuff.
Meanwhile, actual real-life liberals are publishing articles on the inferior asiatic hivemind, how colonialism was actually good, the non-humanity of the poor, and why we should consider that nuclear annihilation might actually be a positive outcome.
Stalin personally executing people for interupting him and torturing animals half to death and then feeding them to make a point about control is a big one. I also heard someone say that Karl Marx would walk around killing people for wearing shoes in the 1870s, assumed it was a joke but they were deadly serious, the brainworms are genuinely beyond parody.
The chicken plucking version of the Stalin animal torture story is hilarious to me ever since someone pointed out to me that plucking a chicken is a very long process and the chicken, quite naturally, is gonna be fighting back
So just imagining Stalin wrestling with a squirming chicken, getting the shit scratched out of him for twenty minutes while his officers watch and wait for him to make a point is just fucking hilarious
I didn't know those Stalin quotes were made up. Perhaps I didn't investigate it because it's easy to read a correct meaning into them, unlike the Nazi quotes people give Lenin.
It's like Stalin's "No person, no problem" quote which is completely correct from a Marxist standpoint but removed from context and refracted through anticommunist mythology, goes from sociological first principal to endorsement for wanton murder. Mao also has one about the inevitability of death that experiences the same effect.
Useful idiots is not real.
A similar term, useful innocents, is attributed to "Yugoslavian communists", like, in general. But I'm not too inclined to believe that one either lol.
My favourite anti-communist trope is the made up quote attributed to a famous communist.
Lenin's "useful idiots", Stalin's "one million is a statistic" and "what matters is who counts the votes". There's also a supposed Che quote about how killing people made him feel good. Just the most moustache-twirling maniacal-cackling cartoon villain stuff.
Meanwhile, actual real-life liberals are publishing articles on the inferior asiatic hivemind, how colonialism was actually good, the non-humanity of the poor, and why we should consider that nuclear annihilation might actually be a positive outcome.
Stalin personally executing people for interupting him and torturing animals half to death and then feeding them to make a point about control is a big one. I also heard someone say that Karl Marx would walk around killing people for wearing shoes in the 1870s, assumed it was a joke but they were deadly serious, the brainworms are genuinely beyond parody.
The chicken plucking version of the Stalin animal torture story is hilarious to me ever since someone pointed out to me that plucking a chicken is a very long process and the chicken, quite naturally, is gonna be fighting back
So just imagining Stalin wrestling with a squirming chicken, getting the shit scratched out of him for twenty minutes while his officers watch and wait for him to make a point is just fucking hilarious
I can only assume this happened with Diogenes though
Diogenes had the good sense to pluck the chicken beforehand
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True, also nothing works up an appetite for scones and tea on the Isle of Wight like summary executions of those damned bougie shoe-wearers
"I am evil and look forward to doing evil things, I think I'll eat all the food in Ukraine with a giant spoon today." - V.I. Stalin
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I didn't know those Stalin quotes were made up. Perhaps I didn't investigate it because it's easy to read a correct meaning into them, unlike the Nazi quotes people give Lenin.
It's like Stalin's "No person, no problem" quote which is completely correct from a Marxist standpoint but removed from context and refracted through anticommunist mythology, goes from sociological first principal to endorsement for wanton murder. Mao also has one about the inevitability of death that experiences the same effect.
iirc useful idiots was real. Not too sure about the other ones.
Useful idiots is not real. A similar term, useful innocents, is attributed to "Yugoslavian communists", like, in general. But I'm not too inclined to believe that one either lol.
I see. I remember seeing something about it on lemmygrad.