You know how there are online communities that are like "ironically" racist, but that lasts 0.1 seconds before ACTUAL racists think they've found a new home and suddenly it's a legitimate alt-right racist sexist bigotted shithole?

That's what lemmygrad instance is, except people legitimately pine to live in an authoritarian communist regime.

Like, I'm Canadian. "Socialism" doesn't hit my ears as a dirty word. Honestly I can hear "Communism" as a theory without losing my mind. I'm a CO-OP member. I'm pro union. I think Regan is directly responsible for most of what is wrong with the western world today.

But these people aren't even "akshulallyy true communism has never been tried" they're straight up "Stalin was a saint".

I had to block lemmygrad. It's just too infuriating to hear 17 year old edge lords pontificating about things they don't understand, and worse, REFUSE to consider under a critical lens.

I'm married to a Lithuanian. Occupation isn't even a generation old for her. Her grandmother was called before a tribunal to answer why her son, in grade school, had in crayon combined the colours of yellow green and red under the suspicion that she had taught him what the Lithuanian flag had once looked like. Lithuania has meticulously preserved records of the thousands of academics and leaders who were pre-emptively exiled to Siberia. The Soviet Union was nightmarish in occupied territories in ways that westerners literally have no frame of reference to comprehend.

So, I dunno, IMHO do yourself a favour and just block that instance. It's a cesspool of 17 year old ignorant edge lords who've been enlightened by thier own intelligence.

A ton of them are on Lemmy.ml. I was just banned from there for posting a news story that didn’t cast the Chinese government in the best light.