• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Moa

    May socdems be swiftly hunted to extinction like birds of the same name.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Those god damned ostrich looking mother fuckers 😥

  • ValliumOverdose [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Does anyone here think Pol Pot was good? Didn't he get his ass handed to him by Vietnam?

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Not sure if they were trolling but on the old sub I came across an anarchist who said Pol Pot came the closest to liberation lol

      It's actually slightly less weird than it sounds because Pol Pot was basically the closest you could get to being an anarcho-stalinist. Dude tried to read Marx and he didn't understand it, but then he read Stalin and Kropotkin and was like "this is my jam". I'm not shitting you. Basically what happens when you give theory to a dumb psycho.

      • ValliumOverdose [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Which is funny because China was backing them to stall USSR expansion into the area.

        • Eldungeon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          The US also gave pol pot coverage in the UN and materials through Thailand. In an attempt to stall Soviet aligned Vietnam from expanding.

          • ValliumOverdose [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah. The one time the US was okay with communism was to fuck with other communists lol.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              That was why the US secretly supported trots and titoists in the Balkans post WWII.

      • keki_ya [none/use name]
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        My favorite inept Pol Pot Moment was when he misread a Marx passage on money and decided to dissolve the national currency, instantly tanking the economy and essentially making all state employees slaves as they no longer received wages for their work. Then the population had to start using rice as a currency like it was fucking 5000 BCE again.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Well, to his credit, he did admit he didn't understand Marx.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I don't understand what this post has to do with mine?

          • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            You said pol pot read stalin specifically. But stalin was basically a Leninists, and by extension that would make pol pot a centrist Leninist that thought evolution was from cooperation or something. Seems not true.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Yes, he read Stalin, and Kropotkin. Along with other things (such as Mao, importantly). I'm not sure what you mean by "thought evolution was from cooperation". But, like, Stalin and Kropotkin are pretty disparate things, and I guess these things combined into his mind aided by his brain worms into whatever super weird nonsense he ended up believing.

              • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                Lol, sounds like quite a party.

                It was a joke about mutual aid: a factor of evolution.

    • femandems [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      No wtf

      There's a reason that the US aligned themselves with Pol Pot.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    4 years ago

    Imagine saying socialism successfully murdered over 100 million bourgeois reactionaries then complaining that it doesn't work smh

  • post_trains [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You met Phil Pot in Accounts Receivable? Really weird guy - needs glasses, but gets pissed off when you mention it. Keeps talking about Year Zero, but I’m like: Buddy, we only keep those records for seven years in case the IRS comes sniffing around.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Hes got a brother Paul though, used to work in sales, fucking legend

  • theboy [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    He's right, we should get rid of all these choir boys.