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I remember reading this and hoped it got posted here, I was pissing myself laughing at it like, the arseholes in those communities are absolute fucking morons.
The point is right in front of their face and they still can't see it (so the my can't screenshot this comment for a post, the point is that those regimes were authoritarian nightmares to live in as an ordinary person). I've said it before and I'll say it again, they're not tankies they're idiots who for some reason love any auth regime and then pretend that life there is so good.
And everytime I post some shit like this I have to say at the end, I do not like capitalism or the US (also I'm Irish and I live in Austria currently) I would much rather see a socialist state or proper commune style communism, what they admire is basically horrible shit which should be callef Maoism/Stalism/etc.
This is what really gets me about their brigading nonsense. The fediverse is very heavily leftist already. In large part they're attacking other leftists while claiming to be a "left unity" instance. -_-
It's the same left unity that the Hungarians and Soviets had when the Soviets put down pro-union and pro-democracy protesters with tanks.
They don't seem to realize that they're supposed to wait until after they've gained power to pull that shit.
That's why I love this post so much
On a political quiz, they call themselves all progressive and shit, but when it comes to different countries, they're fascist.
Something I love about that post is that that this is the kind of thing a shiteating bootlicker posts, who the fuck tries to impress some leader like this?? A problem with modern society is focusing power and holding up people in power as better or perfect. Thats not very communist or socialist if you ask me, in fact it implies the existence of a ruling class still.
There's some of them mixed that are level headed communist believers. The most vocal, if not the majority seem to be totalitarian sympathizers. It's so weird to me that all these "communists" don't seem to realize the economic system a dictatorship claims to be doesn't really matter.