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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not incorrect though. If we're worried about the erosion of human rights, it distracts from the fact that corps own our government. Not that that means we shouldn't fight the erosion of human rights as well. That's the brain dead centrist take.

The problem is where you draw the line. It's a fucking shame to democrats that Nancy "insider trading is OK when I do it" Pelosi is still politically relevant, but what are we gonna do when the alternate choice is a fascist?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh I'll still be voting for the lesser of 2 evils dont get me wrong, i dont fuck with lemmygrad.ml at all anymore because they have deleted multiple comments ive made arguing for the necessity of voting for the lesser of 2 evils to protect the Prolitariat long enough for class conciousness to grow in America.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The genocide denial/celebration didn't turn you off of grad first?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Didnt see any genocide denial or celebration.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Grad is full of tankies. They stan just about every adversary to the US because their whole belief system is "American imperialism bad" so they'll unironically defend north Korea, China, Russia, USSR, etc. Hell, a few of em have "Stalin" in their name. Last month they were celebrating the hamas attack on Israel. They support Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war. Check meanwhileongrad for more interesting tidbits.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like half the stuff posted there is to disenfranchise young leftists enough to keep them from voting for Democrats in 2024 inorder to allow mask off fascism to take hold of American politics, but not enough to get them to practice any real praxis and keep them regualted to having purity politics circle jerks while doing nothing to challenge the status quo. Putin is the biggest Imperial threat on the planet. While Stalin also holds the lions share if the blame for forcing revolutionary Marxism to stall out in the dictatorship of the Prolitariat stage. They also aren't defending the actions of those countries as much as they are recontexualizing them. We should learn from previous socialist experiments and take what was good from them into the future as much as we should recognize and strive to leave their failures in the past. Eithet way we must recognize that the Capitalist Status quo is not working out what so ever for tge vast majority of humanity and something has got to give.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You got it pretty much spot on, though I'll nitpick here

They also aren't defending the actions of those countries as much as they are recontexualizing them.

They're whitewashing history. Yes, if you want to try communism, it's critical to understand where previous attempts failed. They don't, and they don't want to.

Putin is the biggest Imperial threat on the planet.

And yet they still support him. I got banned from grad for 3 years for telling a mod to stop throating putin's cock. I'll see if I can pull up the exchange, it was pretty funny. He immediately whatabouted the US working with nazis after wwii. Like, yeah bud that was bad, I agree, tell me how that justifies invading Ukraine right now though?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

So you got banned for homophobia then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Lemmygrad doesn’t deny real genocides or celebrate genocide AFAIK. Please let me know if that’s not the case; I wouldn’t want to be a part of a community that does that.