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Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I also outright detest Stalin and Mao because they were fucking authoritarian despots

You could easily say the same of Washington or Eisenhower or Churchill or DeGualle.

Hell, Lincoln got got by a guy who was literally shouting "Sic Semper Tyrantus".

The thing that sets Stalin and Mao apart from the Francos and Mussolinis and Tojos and Chang Kai-Sheks and Churchills was their break from the old line aristocracy. The thing westerners hate more than anything was their overthrow of the local monarchies.

That's why you have folks weeping big crocodile tears over Anastasia and Puyi, while they whistle past the graveyard of the countless Chinese and Russian victims of Romanov/Qing Dynasty misrule.