Unlike other posters who make this thread, online takes are cool here, but bonus points for IRL stuff.
I was drinking with a coworker last night and somehow communism and the USSR came up. They went on about the Holodomer, implying it was engineered and targeted. I explained "hey you're literally repeating nazi talking points" and I dont recall the rest of the conversation, but im happy I got to defend Stalin at a work gathering.
Not the worst thing I've heard all week I don't think, but its both IRL and fresh in my brain.
Heard this one through a friend who had been arguing with a non-mutual friend over if former colonial powers should pay reparations:
"Colonial exploitation was okay, and the Brits and French WERE going to give the colonies some development in return, but the UN bullied them into granting independence before they got to do it"