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Today, after careful consideration and evaluation of recent events, we have decided to defederate from Lemmygrad.

Regrettably, we have observed a significant increase in hate speech and calls to violence originating from the Lemmygrad instance. Due to the severity of the posts and comments, we are not waiting for the next Lemmy update that will allow users to block instances.

At Lemmy.world, we have always strived to foster an inclusive and welcoming user environment. However, recent posts and comments from Lemmygrad have clearly violated our server rules and, more importantly, our core values. We firmly believe that hate speech and incitement of violence have no place in our community, regardless of personal beliefs or affiliations.

As always, we encourage all users to report any content they deem inappropriate or harmful. No matter one’s stance in any conflict, Lemmy.world will always take immediate action to remove and ban any posts or comments that incite violence or propagate hatred.

We encourage everyone to continue engaging in discussions within the boundaries of respect and understanding. As we move forward with this decision, we remain committed to providing all community members with a safe and welcoming space. We appreciate your continued support and cooperation in upholding our shared principles.

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43 points

It’s kinda fun watching liberals realize that Bolsheviks aren’t leftists

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neither are liberals

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it’s rad when a political position built on a lot of background knowledge is dismissed by people who lack that knowledge and have lived their whole lives in the global capital of anticommunist propaganda

And we pumped just, just, dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists, uh, in one case we had the Cuban rapists caught and tried by the Ovimunda maidens who had been their victims, and then we ran photographs that made almost every newspaper in the country of the Cubans being executed by the Ovimunda women who had supposedly been their victims.

These were fake photos?

Oh, absolutely. We didn’t know of one single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure, raw, false propaganda to create an illusion of communists, you know, eating babies for breakfast and that sort — totally false propaganda.

Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam and Elsewhere

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It’s not that we’re uninformed, it’s that we disagree.

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a lot of you are uninformed. You don’t know what you don’t know. I’ve fucking seen it firsthand. And it’s not surprising, because a lot of these topics are fucking arduous to learn about, you don’t just pick it up ambiently by browsing reddit and watching the news.

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Nothing about that changes the fact that Bolsheviks aren’t leftists. You guys have never seen an argument that you didn’t dodge with a red herring or straw man.

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It’s always the “you’re so blinded by propaganda!” angle that they all baa in unison while talking down to you. I’m so over it, tbh.

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You guys have never seen an argument that you didn’t dodge

You didn’t make an argument, you just said “Bolsheviks aren’t leftists.” Am I supposed to write some kind of “most common criticisms” FAQ-style response? What do you want from me on a fucking weeknight.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Former CIA Agent John Stockwell Talks about How the CIA Worked in Vietnam and Elsewhere

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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There are plenty of people (including those in power in some countries) that absolutely lie about capitalism.

Their lies, although clearly in support of other regimes, don’t make capitalism any less shitty.

Likewise, some capitalist lying about communism doesn’t make communism any less shitty.

They are both crappy systems, and they lead into each other, because at their core, they tend towards different and opposite kinds of violation.

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