• SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I'm no saint, I chuckle when bad things happen to bad people. But I'm also worried about these purges. Historically purges against "extremism" has always targeted the left out of some centrist horseshoe theory bs.

    • anthropicprincipal [any]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Unlike the 1970's the Left in the United States hasn't racked up a bodycount. Meanwhile right wing terrorism has taken 100's of lives in the past decade.

      I think we are in the clear.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        When has the United States ever needed dangerous leftists to react against the threat of dangerous leftism?

        We took out Allende, who came to power in an election. We tried the same thing with Morales and Chavez, too.