• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    All the evils are on the same side. Trump and putin are huge pals now. Theres china but they commited countless genocides and are silently ereasing queer culture. The original tankies came from supporting the russian obliteration of the 1956 hungarian revolution. Most communists did not support it but the tankies were too busy nibling on russian dick and/or only believed in communism enforced with violenc, which is a shit take by itself even before you get to the issue of the ussr not being communist. As for transphobes, hexbear encouraged people really heavily to vote third-party, which we all know doesnt work in the usa, and thus basically helped trump who has been a catastrophy for trans rights. Im pretty sure tho hexbear is pretty openly pro-trans so that mightve been just idiocity. On the other hand, ml’s literal administrator and owner is a huge open transphobe.

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      Theres china but they commited countless genocides

      There has not been one genocide in China since the coming to power of the Communist Party of China. You can bring up harsh policy or even police state accusations om Xinjiang province in the past decade (not anymore since the reeducation camps are closed), but no serious organization or analysis calls it a genocide.

      are silently ereasing queer culture

      China is more backwards in queer issues because they’ve developed later, but they’re most certainly progressing. There is no persecution of gay people, the worst thing you can point to is the closure of a few popular apps last year (with many more remaining open), and there are openly gay hubs in China like Chengdu (colloquially called Gaydu by Chinese genZ on social media) that are growing in popularity and feature drag shows and many elements of queer culture in their night life.

      The original tankies came from supporting the russian obliteration of the 1956 hungarian revolution

      Yes. Hungary, until 1945, was a literally Nazi country. The “revolution” 11 years later had extremely reactionary elements and did not want democracy or anything similar, just some people were mad because they had to pay reparations for the atrocities they did during the war.

      tankies were too busy nibling on russian dick

      No need for homophobic phrases like that, eating dick shouldn’t be used as an insult.

      even before you get to the issue of the ussr not being communist

      Communism is the last stage of socialism. The USSR was socialist, though. It had free and universal healthcare and education to the highest level, it eliminated homelessness and unemployment, guaranteed the lowest levels of economic inequality that the region has ever seen in its history, and had immense advancements in women’s rights and worker’s rights. It also saved Europe from Nazism and was the main contributor to anticolonial movements in all the global south, including Vietnam, Cuba, China and essentially the entirety of Latin America, Africa and Asia. It was by no means perfect, but making a balance of the positives and negatives, it still comes out as the most emancipatory and progressive socialist project in the history of the world by any metric you want to use.

      Regarding your “vote for third party”, are you really blaming “leftists who voted third party” for the Trump victory? The numbers literally don’t match, take all third party votes and give to dems and they still lose the elections. The democrats lost the elections because they ran a conservative candidate months before the elections, without primaries, promising “the most lethal armed forces in the world” during a US-funded genocide in Gaza.