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What's the most deranged political hot take you've ever seen? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like the kind that made you stop and think for a second about how stupid the person advocating it is. For me, it's the classic "The biggest mistake in recent history was the Allies not pushing into Russia after the fall of Berlin."

There's just a level of imperialist arrogance and blood thirst in there that makes my skin crawl. The worst thing in human history was that the US didn't immediately betray the Soviets and wipe them out until they were sure communism was done for.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure I've heard a lot but one that stuck with me is "gunboat diplomacy and imperialism is good actually." From the same mouth a minute later: "the only reason the KMT lost [the fucking Chinese civil war] was because the US stopped giving them weapons. Communists are fundamentally incapable of accomplishing anything on their own."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like his mind had to course correct mid-sentence because he was close to fucking up his own world view.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It does seem like that, but I do believe he thinks it's all internally coherent.