• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Being pro Russia because you’re pro communist is so fucking weird to me. The Russian federation is an imperialist capitalist oligarchical fascist state.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Because they’re not communists, they’re just fascists that don’t like being called fascists.

        • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          The lengths to which they cry just because people use the word “tankie” is ludicrous. They also have this custom to equate “tankie” and “communist” the same way not too politically literate right wingers do.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah it’s all down to the political spectrum bullshit. Far left and far right are complete opposite ends of the spectrum so therefore completely antithetical to one another!

            Meanwhile in the real world, fascists and communists (well at least the Leninist/Maoist/Stalinist ones) are all just authoritarians with slightly different rationalizations for it. I kinda feel like the only reason the concept of left/right political spectrum even exists is so some authoritarians in academic circles can claim to be nothing like the Nazis.