The brainworms in the comments it's just incredible. There's one actual good detailed explanation in the comments, waiting to see what :galaxy-brain: takes show up

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Where I'm from liberals worship a bowdlerised Mandela as some sort of nice non-violent civility grandpa. The large amount of reactionaries who supported apartheid South Africa for owning the commies (or, if you ask them in private after a few beers, owning the [slur]s) is an embarrassment that your supposed to forget about.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Yeah similar here. A great way to get under their skin is to mention pro Cuba and Libya Mandela speeches, or anti USA quotes. Their brains can't comprehend it.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Also, don't mention how the South African communist party has been an extremely close ally of the ANC for ages. Or how the ANC and Mandela used to have explicitly socialist goals for nationalising the economy, something they saw as a prerequisite for ending apartheid, and how the imperialist nations forced them to abandon these goals in favour of neoliberalism.