That wasn’t real communism. Everybody’s equal under real communism.
Hetero people would get executed too!
They did. Not just the hetero men, but the hetero women and hetero children too!
Wait. Didn’t they?
Yes but not because of their heterosexuality. It was usually nationality, ethnicity, religion, being “counterrevolutionary”, or just because someone like lavrentiy baria didn’t like you
Or you didn’t clap long enough at Stalin’s speech.
Or you clapped too long at Stalin’s speech
clapped exactly the right amount of time? Believe it or not, gulag.
Would be surprised to find out that Lavrenty Beria liked anyone
He seemed to like those children quite a lot.
Mans really did get the whole ass Soviet Union want to mob kill him, rightfully.
Isn’t counterrevolutionary a catch all term, including heterosexuality?
It’s only used for enemies of the people
Real end-game communism is a stateless, classless society
Nobody would be executed under real communism
Real end-game communism is functional, stateless, declarative, reproducible, and defined in a single configuration file.
communism-rebuild switch
cant have state, money, or class if everyone is dead >:3
Imagine I posted an image of Stalin tapping his forehead because I’m too lazy today to create one
People can be executed under Communism, though ideally the death penalty would be abolished, with rehabilitation being the focus. The state in Marxian terms is the apparatus within government by which one class oppresses others, a classless society can have a government. Marxist Communism was always envisioned as a Socialist World Republic.
This is why Anarcho-Communism and Communism are different, along with strategy.
No no no! You got it wrong! It was because checks notes Imperialist USA!
I remember tankies telling on Reddit me how “Pushing for LGBT Rights is forcing Western ideals on non-Western people” and how “Putin killing the gays is good actually”… the Horse Shoe Theory is real
Horse shoe theory still doesn’t work-- you have to change to the stethoscope model to include tankies
“I’m so leftist I’m voting for Trump” --some young voters unironucally
More like bots and bad faith commentators.
Unfortunately, people like Peter Coffin, InfraHaz, and Caleb Maupin are confirmed to be not bots.
Those are what the Bad Faith addition is for.
I want to believe this, I do, but that would mean that !libertyhub@lemmy.blahaj.zone is filled with nothing but
119 subscribers, 5 users a day.
That describes like half of Lemmy though
There were sadly people in 2016 who protest voted for Trump to get back at the DNC for not nominating Bernie, even when Bernie begged them not to.
Is there any evidence of that? I know that 12% of people who voted for Sanders in the primary ended up voting for Trump in 2016, but where’s the evidence that they were ever Democrats? It’s just as possible that they were Republican-leaning voters who were attracted to Sanders’ message, or trying to sabotage the Democratic primary. That’s a really good narrative for Clinton supporters to soothe their chagrin at the electoral college loss, but as that article points out, that number is actually pretty par for the course in elections.
Have you met any irl?
Like 12% of Bernie voters. I imagine meeting 12% of any demographic is rare.
I don’t think enough Bernie voters flipped their votes to cause the Trump win. I do believe that many of them stayed home though, but I blame that on the DNC running Hillary Clinton on the most deenergizing platform. I did vote for her, but I didn’t consider her a real progressive. She was just the status quo option when Trump was dementia flavored fascism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders–Trump_voters
I’ve never seen the Eiffle Tower IRL, but that doesn’t change the fact that it exists.
Well, the whole notion that things are on a spectrum is kind of false.
There are the people using what we know about the world right now to try to improve the conditions for all of us and who are willing to adjust course based on evidence and results, and then there are those clinging to failed notions of the past, whether it be an outdated philsophy from four hundred years ago or a failed theory from yesterday.
In that way it’s more of a binary that does not care if you’re anarchist, monarchist, communist, libertarian, democratic etc. If your ideas aren’t working and you fail to admit they aren’t working then you have become a conservative, regardless of how radical your idea was when it was concieved.
Should the political compass be a pyramid?
Yup, it’s always “critical support” for any country with an adversarial relationship to the “imperial core” no matter how fucked up they are on human rights, or anything else.
It’s never critical support for any of the “succdem” countries for their advances on human rights and social safety nets despite not moving towards socialism/communism, and then trying to get them moving in that direction.
Not that all or even most of the countries they support are actually moving towards socialism/communism either. The countries they list as AES (already existing socialism) make me think they have literal holes in their heads, like that guy that didn’t realize he shot himself in the head with a nail gun for years.
They’re good at quoting Marx but when it comes to who they support their only requirement is anti-western aligned countries, and they’ll twist their brains into any knots necessary to invent a narrative to justify that support.
It’s because they don’t care about socialism. They mostly care about relitigating the cold war. It’s honestly pretty transparent.
It’s a very common thing for people to equate queerness with other concepts of otherness like “not from my group!” type pearl clutching. Bigots in a lot of places are weirdly more accepting of individual queer folks when they are noticeably foreign and more treat the concept of people being queer as an outside corrupting influence… Nevermind that the existence of queerness is basically a universal. People from non-permissive places really don’t want to believe that their culture will also constantly manifest new queer people. They often believe something along the lines of if they stamp on it hard enough it becomes more rare instead of just more people hiding and struggling in isolation and silence often risking their lives if they misjudge a social situation or dying because of a pervasive sense of dispair.
But no matter how hard you stomp the “problem” never goes away. You have to keep stomping forever in perpetuity. The boot must always rest heavy on someone’s neck and will never touch floor again because there will always be someone there to rise if the pressure ever stops. It’s in part why the concept of people essentially just being “born that way” has been so powerful.
Wait Stalin executed gay people because Stalin needed to be stronger than Kakarot?
And to circle it to a common online debate, DC has its “Red Son” alternate continuity where the major divergence point is Kal-El’s birthing matrix lands in Soviet territory rather than Kansas so there’s a Superman born and raised wholly believing in the idealized theoretical form of communism rather than an idealized version of the US, do could get the “Goku vs Superman” argument going
Hmmm are there official Dragon Ball whatifs…? Like if he didn’t land in the same place…
Communist Goku shared the Senzu beans with Cell
It’s pathological
nonono you see, it was fine because uuh homophobia was the norm back then so we can’t blame them! simple!
Imperialist US turned the frogs gay
Stalin did apparently love cowboy movies, and made party members stay up every night drinking and watching them.
He was scared of their power level
wasnt the ussr one of the first places in the planet to stop criminalizing gays?
Yes, then Stalin recriminalized it.
when?
and why?
Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union recriminalized homosexuality in a decree signed in 1933. The new Article 121, which punished “muzhelozhstvo” with imprisonment for up to 5 years, saw raids and arrests. Female homosexuals were sent to mental institutions. The decree was part of a broader campaign against “deviant” behavior and “Western degeneracy”. Following Stalin’s death, there was a liberalisation of attitudes toward sexual issues in the Soviet Union, but homosexual acts remained illegal. Discrimination against LGBT individuals persisted in the Soviet era, and homosexuality was not officially declassified as a mental illness until 1999.
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Since 2000, a campaign by Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church to promote “traditional Russian values” and oppose “liberalism” in regards to homosexuality has led to many pieces of anti-LGBT legislation being passed federally, including the banning of distribution of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships to minors” in 2013, an amendment in Russia’s constitution banning same-sex marriage passed in 2020, and expansion of the 2013 propaganda law signed in 2022 to apply it to anyone, regardless of age.Taken from this article.
were gays actually executed? from what i hear from cuba for example, treatment was much less bad than elsewhere. dunno about the ussr.
Treatment was less bad in Cuba iirc but still included sending people to go work on sugar plantations, which is pretty back-breaking and horrifying labor. I mean, horrifying to the point that the Spanish colonial state were willing to force their slaves to do it, you know?
Luckily this isn’t an issue anymore as cuba has somewhat recently liberalized their constitution and legislated free medical care for trans people and decriminalized homosexuality, probably in no small part due to the “thaw” that Obama put in place (probably one of his small wins), opening them up for better tourism and money, that trump then reversed and Biden has maintained.
But shhh, you didn’t hear any that from me, Cuba’s only allowed to be evil.
I’m not educated enough to say one way or another, sorry. I was just providing a source for the recriminalization.
User is a tankie JAQing off in bad faith.
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“Cuban gay writer Reinaldo Arenas wrote, “[T]he decade of the sixties … was precisely when all the new laws against homosexuals came into being, when the persecution started and concentration camps were opened, when the sexual act became taboo while the ‘new man’ was being proclaimed and masculinity was being exalted.””
The Soviet government of the Russian Soviet Republic (RSFSR) decriminalised homosexuality in December 1917, following the October Revolution and the discarding of the Legal Code of Tsarist Russia.
The legalisation of homosexuality was confirmed in the RSFSR Penal Code of 1922, and following its redrafting in 1926. According to Dan Healey, archival material that became widely available following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 "demonstrates a principled intent to decriminalize the act between consenting adults, expressed from the earliest efforts to write a socialist criminal code in 1918 to the eventual adoption of legislation in 1922.
Taken from here
Can you explain what your implication is?
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So it was? You literally asked this in the same thread. Did you already know? Was it a genuine question? Do you know what sealioning is and can you prove it?
What a joke. You tankies are just as bad as Nazis and live in a different world. The USSR recreminalized homosexuality, and many queer people died.
Keep coping.
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He did it because of Homophobia not Material Conditions.
Woosh.
Can you really blame Communists for not having a sense of humor? One of those could get you arrested!
homophobia? aren’t homes material?
Yeah… Exactly…
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