• buttwater [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    Kinda feel bad for the op tbh. That's what western education gets you. Basically gotta become a librarian to unpack the propaganda

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    6 months ago

    Mao's bodyguard knew the five finger death punch and they used to hold dinner parties where he'd wow guests by making people's heads explode by punching them with the dim mak

  • carpoftruth [any, any]
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    6 months ago

    So you see, children, the American brain pan is uniquely resistant to propaganda....

    • HarryLime [any]
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      6 months ago

      Not that I'm a fan of Pol Pot, but I have to laugh at the idea that he had satin sheets and cognac in his tiny wooden house in the jungle.

    • HarryLime [any]
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      6 months ago

      I mean, I'm not sure he did. He lived in a shack in the jungle.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 months ago

        No, didn't you listen to the "evil anti-freedom dictators" podcast? The one hosted by three great guys, Charlie, Isaac and Alex? They said that he built a giant supermansion/medieval palace/that one cloud city building thing from Star Wars and he lived like a king, they weren't "satin" sheets, they were Saturn sheets, he stole material from Saturn to make his bedsheets (at extreme cost to the people of course). And Pol Pot? He was actually one of the least dictatory on the dictator scale, Mao and Stalin and Castro? Even worse.

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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      6 months ago

      When my would-be partners refuse to sleep on my bare, stain-covered mattress, I kick them out for their bourgeois decadence

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    Real Dictators podcast

    I prefer fake dictators like Cobra Commander and Baron Bedlam, thank you very much

  • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    I see Real Dictators podcast didn't even cover the fact that Mao could shoot lasers out of his eyes... smh