If the USSR does something bad, that's bad. If the USSR does something good, that's also bad. Thank you, Reddit.
It aint reddit. Its the internet. Happens on Lemmy also.
funny about the so called "gay persecution" is that in the past when homophobia was the norm, people to demean socialists, accused then of being gay, lenin gay, stalin gay, trotsky gay, mao gay and so on.
now that homophobia isnt normal anymore (to homosexuals at least, trans and nb still tough) the discourse did a 180 and they now accuse socialists of hating, persecuting and executing gay people.
anyway, imagine when they discover that su criminalized marital rape in 1922
In the same vein, communists were accused of being a Jewish conspiracy 100 years ago and are accused of being antisemitic now.
Yeah these same redditors would probably praise Winston Churchill or something. The UK killed Alan Turing for being homosexual and this is documented and known, yet liberals will handwring about it. I hate these people.
i don't even know what to say, a brilliant mind, discovered all the math magic to computers and made a contribution to ww2 got throw away like nothing.
this without mentioning churchill rampant racism, the guy was basically hitler that didn't managed to get to power.
"What are these... shades of gray... uhhg ahhhhhh!!" ~ Some Redditor.
Reddit could serve as proof that western countries still did not banned lobotomy.
I won't even mention that in USA lobotomy was performed on often unconsenting patients till 1967. Or that most victims were women.
Rosemary Kennedy, JFKs sister, was lobotomized, for gods’ sake. She was lobotomized in 1941, and she lived until 2005. She was 23 at the time of her lobotomy and was lobotomized for almost 3 times as long as she wasn't, 64 years. Ultimately, she likely had a form of depression or possibly bipolar disorder, but because she was a woman, she got the brain knife instead of any real treatment.
I hate liberals so much. Even their worst claims about the entire history of the Soviet Union pales in comparison to just one year of crimes committed by the American empire. They act like any praise of the USSR is like a vile, reprehensible act. Even viewing it as a normal valid country raises their eyebrows. You have to believe it was a cartoonishly evil place where there was only death and misery.
Yet these same liberals won't fear praising the United Kingdom throughout its full history. They'll praise the current USA. They'll lay praise on genocidal maniacs like Andrew Jackson or Winston Churchill. They might offer some mild criticisms, but they'll treat America and the UK as otherwise normal places with nuance. But none of that can exist with socialist countries. No praise or nuance is permitted, only permanent scathing criticism. Liberals hate socialism more than fascism.
So much this. Even if every single ridiculous lie, accusation, misconception, half-truth or slanderous garbage claim about the USSR/Communism from capitalist bootlicking neoliberals were true, communism is inarguably the much better and more efficient, productive, advanced and humane system.
Capitalism kills bare minimum over 20 million people a year, where as even recent scholarly studies put the total death toll of communism at around 20 million, and even that is stretching it.
To put into better perspective, capitalism kills more people in a single year than communism has in over 100 fucking years. I'd rather have a system that rewards cooperation, peace, wisdom, democracy, and technological advancement, that only persecutes genuinely violent criminals, scammers, interlopers, right-wingers and oxygen thieves, than the system that rewards greed, exploitation, genocide, environmental destruction, ignorance, abuse of power, and views over 90 percent of the human population as being expendable.
The life of a single proletarian civilian is worth a quadrillion times more than 10 million, or even one billion wreckers.
Dear comrade Kirby, are you sure its good for you to keep visiting the subreddits that you visit, I am asking out of genuine concern for your emotional well being, sometimes we need to cut back on the hatewatch a little to give ourselves a break.
Thank you but I don't do on purpose, this shit happens in even the most unrelated subs or videos you could imagine. You can literally watch random dog pics, dinosaur stuff or random movie videos on YouTube and they will STILL find a way to mention DPRK or any other socialist country somehow...
I'm with you on this. I avoid political groups (except the Grad) like the plague, but still they swarm. Just this week I've been browsing /cassettefuturism (I like the clunky aesthetic) and stumbled upon a post about Buran ejection seat. Then made the error of going into the comment section.
And it's everywhere. Hobby subs? Nazi wank and soviet/Russia bashing. Russian social media? Screeds about ebil migrants and/or Liberal brainrot. There's no escape. Internet is hostile grounds
I also highly advise ppl to block this community if they feel it's affecting their mental health. Cringe content is best like once a week or never.
So I guess lobotomies are based now, according to redditors, because the USSR banned them.
Also Holodomor mention!
