I’m talking takes that make them immediately throw out the civility fetish and reach for the most crying wojack buzzwords in their vocabulary

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Pointing out similarities between them and fascists. Their reaction is pretty much exactly this:

    :wojak-nooo: noooo u r stoopid tankie who went to school in :GDR: u don't understand proper civilized democraterinoooos

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Is it Germans who say this or US Americans?

      Also, damn, you got to experience the DDR?

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        It's German and no, sadly i didn't have that luck - but libs here are so convinced of the power of propaganda education that some of them assume that not believing in CIA fairytales and horseshoe theory can only be explained by having been socialized in a classroom where this guy's picture here hung on the wall :honecker-interesting: