Am I the only one who gets bunch of posts from leftist and even communist subs/circlejerks in their feed? It’s kinda weird to see genzedong and similar popping up in hot/rising feed. This just hopefully some of the growing pains of a new platform.

  • CrimeDad@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry that your family had a bad time. It’s still wild that you don’t think the Nazis were incomparably worse.

    • EVH@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You cannot use “incomparably” and “worse” in the same sentence. Worse designates a comparison between two things. Meaning one is inferior to the other. If by worse we are talking about murder (because this is what the conversation was pointed to), let’s look at the numbers: Hitler - roughly 20 mil including soviet civilians Stalin - Roughly 45 million Mao - Roughly 40 million (in a 4 year period) Ongoing Uyghur genocide in modern day Communist China - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037 MINIMUM 500K in camps with an estimated 12 million persons who identify in that group. Obviously the government isn’t going to actually disclose the REAL numbers.

      • CrimeDad@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You can indeed describe something as incomparably worse when it is so bad that a comparison doesn’t make sense or there’s no point to making one. I really don’t think I’m the one who’s out of line here.

        Anyway, the whole “victims of communism” trope you’re invoking is just embarrassingly facile. The numbers are contrived and no consideration is ever given to the terrible conditions out of which the various revolutions came or the horrible forces they were subsequently up against, let alone comparative conditions in the so-called free world. Everyone who ever lived and died in a communist state is a crime against humanity, but whenever someone dies in the US because they had to choose between medicine and rent it’s their own damn fault. Give me a break.