I typically don’t like to show off but this was hilarious to me, the post was basically making fun of Dalai Lama, comment says “Don’t you communists like Kings?” and I just couldn’t hold back.

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    Don’t you communists like Kings?

    Okay, this is just stupid. I kind of get the usual “argument” about dictators, but specificallykings? What level of propaganda is this? Literally look at Romanovs and the Chinese monarchs, and then look at UK, Sweden, Japan, Norway, and every other capitalist shithole with a monarch in the seat

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      They’ll probably refer to the DPRK and specifically the Kims as ‘evidence’ for their accusation.

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        Again, I would understand if it was an attempt to claim Marxists like “dictators”. This is usually what is used against Stalin, Mao, Kims. But the word “king” has a very specific meaning, with clear attributes

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      Anarchist mode breath in

      “What about Castroite monarchy?”

      Anarchist mode breath out

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      The same as lemmygrad, I started on r/GenZedong and had a few banger posts there if I do say so myself 😎 so I decided to name my lemmygrad accnt the same so people could associate the same name with the same person

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    I mean, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Kim, etc. were total kings. So there’s that.