• (deleted-account)@lemmy.world
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      Hey, just fyi, there are different branches of communism. The most popular ones vehemently oppose Russia, China, and North Korea.

      u/CommunistLady is part of the delusional few who are pro-China, but please don’t attack communists as a whole because of the loud idiots.

    • psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Your outrage is completely misguided.

      Say Russia was trying to “exterminate gay people”: it is a capitalist country.

      You can’t present the deeds of capitalists as evidence of communist wrongdoing.

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        …it would great if the tankies could understand that fact to be case in any other context when discussing Russia, but they don’t, so we won’t.

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            Because it isn’t logical, because it is all a mess. Yet because Russia claims Soviet glory and tankies actively shows the current regime reverence as if Putin was a General Secretary, it is rather hard to actually make a distinction between the current authoritarian regime and the one of the Soviets - the fact of the matter is that Russian political culture whether royalist, communist or capitalist doesn’t change.