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I can see the decentralized platform as a communist parallel. I don’t, however, understand the fanaticism for the murdery shit show dictatorship that was Russia/China though.

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And that’s okay. Most of them stay to their own instance and don’t come over and bother us normal people. Just ignore the crazies and move on

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Communism and conservatism are not mutually exclusive. Conservative communism involves dictators and oppression. That’s how that weird nonsense happened.

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It’s a pretty standard take on the commie side that stuff like colonialism and American slavery are pretty much the capitalist equivalent of the communist mass deaths, so I think their position is that everyone’s a hypocrite who has to support a government committing some kind of mass murder (in the modern day, America’s mass murder in this lens is its alliance with Israel). Since Americans won’t admit their government’s atrocities (even though a lot of them do call out the US, but that’s not how they see it), why should they admit the atrocities of the USSR?

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I mean… I see people around here presumably amarrican have zero issues discussing US atrocities. So at all Americans at least.

Never seem a tankie admit Stalin did a genocide once

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the murdery shit show dictatorship that was Russia/China

You have been heavily propagandized about these countries. They were not as bad as you think they were and in fact had many elements where they were plainly superior to their contemporaries. On balance, these countries were far better to their citizens than equivalent capitalist countries, and far less damaging to the world at large than the American Empire has been, even when you take into account their mistakes.

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