• Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Holodomor was part of my studies In 2011. Blaming that situation on anyone but the soviets requires either some very uneducated opinions or serious mental gymnastics. Hexbear probably provides both.

    The most favorable number to those who claim it wasn't a genocide is a death toll of 3.5 million by starvation.

    To put that in context. The great Irish famine claimed about 1 million lives.

    Ukrainians resisted soviet policies. Soviet responded by engineering a mass starvation as retaliation. Guess people can't resist you if they're too busy starving to death.

    • wombatula@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I literally stopped lurking and made an account just to block them.

      EDIT

      New Hexbear keep coming up is there any way to block them all or do I have to squash each one as it comes up? A big part of the reason I left reddit was all the ridiculous bad faith political arguing, I really don't want to leave one site because of mostly right-wing extremists to have to leave another because of mostly left-wing extremists?

    • Someonelol@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You can even tell who they are if they have a gender pronoun tag next to their username. I get it might be helpful in casual conversation with these folk but the format of conversations here don't give too many chances for them to be used.

    • antifascist@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      it's actually a very old term that was recently revived. Khruschev intervened against CIA-backed fascist "revolutionaries" in Hungary in 1956. This caused a split in the Communist Party of Great Britain. those who supported the USSR's antifascist action in hungary were called "tankies". I'm not joking by the way. Liberals using the term "tankie" today to describe the so called "authoritarian" (antifascist, revolutionary, anti-imperialist) left are totally divorced from the origins of the term. It's just something they picked up. They have no insight into the historical origin of term in CPGB infighting.

      • yata@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        You exemplify tankie behaviour perfectly with your deliberate blatant lies and attempt at gaslighting.