• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    11 months ago

    “Most communists agree that the soviet union was absolutely horrible btw. The group you’re thinking of calls themselves tankies. They fully believe Stalin(and Mao) was actually a good person and all of the bad didn’t happen, and was propaganda from the US. I guess bc they think if America is bad, that must mean the USSR was good! In reality they both fucking suck.”

    Where do these people meet communists? The Vaush livestream chat?

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      They’re doing a “leftist” version of the “international community” line that neolibs have, where by “most communists” they just mean the wretched little scrotums in NATO countries that self-identify as leftists.

      Something these breadtube cranks seemingly can’t grasp is that the majority of actual leftists (whatever flavor, but it seems to me like most are either ML or Maoist) live outside of North America and Europe. Or maybe they just dismiss them all as tankies brainwashed by the seductive allure of dark and evil authoritarianism, lookin’ all hot and domineering and shit, whispering all seductively from the shadows “use the big spoon, baybee”.

    • Sephitard9001 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      They’re just making it up from half remember Vaush rants they’ve seen. First, the group they’re thinking of do not call themselves tankies, other people do. Second, none of those tankies would say “all of the bad didn’t happen”. The way they’re typing also convinces me it’s a lib adult pretending to be a kid.