• mindbleach
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    1 year ago

    Just like China.

    And Cuba. And North Korea.

    One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.

    To be perfectly clear: I’m not strongly opposed to what any “14-year-old white girl” means when she promotes communism. I understand leftist goals as distinct from what these countries actually did. But the fact these countries had those goals, and then did this shit instead, demands a better explanation than ‘that doesn’t count.’ Especially when leftist philosophy has a lot to say about liberals and capitalism inevitably producing terrible outcomes.

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        1 year ago

        Just like China.

        Which is also a dictatorship.

        Turns out literacy or whatever doesn’t cancel out being a dictatorship.

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            1 year ago

            It’s a dictatorship of the Castro family, in a way America’s representative democracy isn’t one at all.

            It was literally modeled on the Soviet Union, well after all y’all insist the Soviet Union stopped doing anything communism-ish and was a straight-up dictatorship. Again - quoting the initial mook I replied to - “just like China.”

            Boring goddamn tankies think it’s a zero-sum game where one thing being bad means the other must be flawless.