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EDIT: no, I don't sympathize with nazis (neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they're losing an argument ;)

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[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Tankies aren't real Communists

Sucking the dick of authoritarian regimes does not make you communist

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Heaven forbid an actually existing place on the planet actually make some real tangible gains for its people while necessarily suppressing threats

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's "threats" and there's "anyone remotely criticising the regime"

There are some tangible gains in these places but also significant losses for the freedoms and rights of their residents

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

They don't/didn't suppress criticism, that's a myth

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hell yeah there's that lib homophobia, 1 milimeter below the surface at all times

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm bi but no go ahead, call me a homophobe for making a dick joke :p

[–] mustardman@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Then you should know better than to be homophobic as a substitute for saying anything interesting. Self-reflection would probably help you to not embarass yourself in the future.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which Communist regimes would say are the "real" communists? Because if you think (as many do) that every single mass movement that described itself as "communist" was bad, then I suspect you're not a communist at all.

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not communist, but I do observe that many of the existing "communist" states seem to be just authoritarianism disguised as the common good

[–] spiderplant@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All nation states are authoritarian disguised as the common good.

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[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why does it always go to homophobia with these types

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Idk where the homophobia is, I'm partial to sucking the odd dick myself, just not Mao Zedong or Vladimir Putin :p

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"umm actually I used it as an insult because it's a good thing!"

How do you people survive the cognitive dissonance necessary to convince yourself you're not being bigoted?

[–] mounderfod@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"you people"?

Besides, I'm not bigoted because I disagree with your ideology, my way of pointing that out may have been hyperbolic but certainly not bigoted

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, you people, people who used homophobic insults about dick sucking but insist it's ok because they're gay/bi/have an LGBT friend.

I agree that you're not bigoted because you disagree with our ideology, but you are definitely bigoted for using bigoted insults to point it out.

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Real Communism exists only in the pure and untouched ethereal plane of your mind palace.

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[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I support whatever this is so idk what that makes me

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Celebrating an increase in life expectancy from 30 to 40 years old is not remotely the win you think it is.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (49 children)

I'm celebrating the increase in life expectancy from 35 to higher than that of the US, actually, which is the win I think it is.

The point is not the immediate increase in that specific 5 year period, the point is the clear trend of rapid, long term increases after a long period of stagnation, with the pivitol turning point being exactly when the CPC came to power. You're supposed to look at the whole graph.

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

My god he can't read a graph. How has our educational system been allowed to fail for this long?

I'm not committed at all to China as the salvation of the communist project, but it's exactly this sort of self-imposed illiteracy and ignorance, and nearly religious faith in the inferiority and duplicity of The Orient that makes me default to distrusting anything negative a cracker says about it.

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[–] randint@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Careful calling those regimes authoritarian. Hexbears like to attack this point by assigning a slightly different definition to authoritarian and then either (a) claim that all governments are "authoritarian" or (b) blame liberals for using this word to demonize socialist states. I once saw someone cite https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Authoritarianism to "prove" that those states are not authoritarian.

[–] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Not by "assigning a slightly different definition", just by applying the definition consistently, rather than using the us-foreign-policy standard.

[–] ThisMachineKillsFascists@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yes, doge-firefox, please tell me how consistent your beliefs are lmao

[–] mustardman@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you just ad hominimem this poor LIB ?

I strawmanned ad hominined logical fallacied all over them.

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[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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