• MarxMadness
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    1 year ago

    I’m referring to people who never actually lived in a communist state but claim to have witnessed first-hand all the anti-communist propaganda they’ve swallowed

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      1 year ago

      … yeah, Ceausescu’s brutality was definitely Westoid propaganda. You caught us.

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        What are you even talking about?

        All I’m doing is predicting we’ll have someone drop in with the “oh but you never lived it like I did” bit, only to be revealed as too young to have had any meaningful life experience under the government they’re criticizing. It happens so often in threads like this it’s basically a trope.

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          What are you even talking about?

          I’m just referring to the inevitable denial and downplaying of the brutality of dictators by tankies claiming it’s all anti-Communist propaganda.

          Damn, didn’t even take a full minute after I posted this for you to start licking boots. Yikes.

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            “Tankie” is to libs what “woke” is to conservatives

            Yikes.

            Lmao I’m supposed to take this asshlole’s understanding of history seriously

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            No, I was referring to 20 year-old people as well. The difference is, they were talking about 20 year-olds who falsely claim experience in the old Soviet bloc, and I initially interpreted it as 20 year-olds who glamorize life in the old Soviet bloc against all evidence.