EDIT: The author of this article is Alex Skopic, not Nathan J. Robinson

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Spend enough time on the socialist left, and you’ll eventually encounter this vocal minority of latter-day Stalinists. Some are just online trolls and contrarians who use Stalin’s image for shock value in absurd memes—Stalin turning SpongeBob’s ‘Goo Lagoon’ into a ‘Goo Lag,’ and so on.

    i'm not reading anymore. First paragraph on a presumably serious article on Stalin mentions SpongeBob Squarepants memes.

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Americans don't have someone who accomplished things on the level of Lenin or Stalin so we have to fall back on that one episode where Squidward leads a fast food restaurant strike.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        that one Iranian cleric who said they had no ability to retaliate against the US for Qassem Soleimani's assassination because the only American heroes are Spiderman and Spongebob

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      it was written by willy fucking wonka, it was never going to be a serious article

      hence being in the dunk tank