I keep seeing all the other leftist spaces filled with Stalin apologists and those who think he did nothing wrong (even to the point of denying the Holodomer) so I hope this isn’t a space filled with those types of people

  • QuillQuote [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    There are a lot of hardline mls here, but they know cough that we gain NOTHING from shitty pointless petty squabbles about shit that doesn't matter to growing the left and achieving our common goals

    Right comrades?

    remember why we're here.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      if not letting this poster repeat Nazi propaganda literally designed by Goebbels to justify Operation Barbarossa is squabbling then so be it

      • QuillQuote [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Here's a thought, maybe articulate your side and explain things calmly instead

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          that works the first couple times and then you need to use copypastas because it's exhausting

          • QuillQuote [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            You absolutely do not need to because it doesn't matter, at all, at aaaaalllll

            Go yell at chuds about it instead

              • QuillQuote [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                Helping your comrades and your local community does, as does practicing and improving your own ability to agitate educate and organize

                • emizeko [they/them]
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                  4 years ago

                  Go yell at chuds

                  what if it's more useful to educate anarchists since they actually seem to care about people but are steeped in anticommunist propaganda

                  • QuillQuote [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    I said to do that 3 comments ago before suggesting to go yell at chuds

                    Not at all saying it’s wrong to correct misinformation and educate each other, but when we’re talking to our comrades how we go about doing that really matters.

                  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
                    2·
                    4 years ago

                    What if it's just you wanting to feel superior to your fellow comrade for having 'the most correctest of informations, akshually'

                    Who cares about fucking Stalin in 2020... It was an example used by OP and your first impulse was to slap 'em with some copy pasted stalin apologia. Good job, you did it

                • imbased [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  Tbh I doubt you or much other people on this space organize, most online leftist spaces I’ve seen are just doing it for the memes and don’t actually care about helping oppressed people, I doubt this space is going to be much different tbh.

                • imbased [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  Actually from your post history you seem to care more about moderating this internet community and plugging your podcast then you do actually doing anything irl, so I don’t think even you can lecture the Stalinists on this issue, you’re complaining about squabbles but starting them and saying it doesn’t matter but responding as if it does, at least be more honest with your engaging than this or I won’t take you seriously

                  • redthebaron [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    hey being shitty like this makes the fact that you just made a account and is starting shit really harder to just say that you are talking in good faith huh

                  • QuillQuote [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    You know my post was not attacking you right?

                    Not to mention how ridiculous it is to make assumptions and attack others based on your assumption that they don’t organize. Am I a front lines badass revolutionary? No, but I do what I can in my community with the material conditions I’m forced to work with

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              4 years ago

              pay special attention to that "poisoned well" link. Anne Applebaum wrote the entry in Encyclopedia Brittanica for tHe HoLoDoMor, a term invented later on for the famine by fascists

      • QuillQuote [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Fighting visciously over definitions is pointless, the suffering of people’s at the hands of imperialists is not, but the two are in no way linked.

        You owning someone online who was talking shit about DPRK does not in any way help the people of DPRK nor does it help the working class at large.

        That’s why it’s pointless.

        Educate people, if you can’t teach our comrades and build solidarity with Them who the fuck exactly are you thinking you’ll sway with this?