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9/10 times, there's your problem right there... (media.piefed.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (12 children)

As someone who grew up in an ex Warsaw Pact country, reading your characterization of the USSR is hilarious to me.

Imagine a Native American reading comments that are praising the US for how well they've done by them by giving them casinos.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    Yeah, you grew up in an ex Warsaw Pact country, not in a Warsaw Pact country. Keep blaming the problems of capitalism on the system that you had 35 years ago. If it weren't for the USSR, your ancestors would have likely been exterminated by Nazis.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Make assumptions about me and my ancestry at our first interaction, I'm sure you will eventually convince someone you're arguing in good faith.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    I can argue with you in at all because you're alive thanks to the USSR. Almost all Warsaw pact peoples were liable to Nazi extermination, if you belong to the few who were not, it's not a good argument either. "Nazis wouldn't have exterminated me!"

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Well I hate to disappoint you, but for me the weight of your narrative pales in comparison to the first hand accounts of my actual ancestors.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Again: you have ancestors because of the Soviets.

    I'm a Spaniard myself, if you ask some of my ancestors, "con Franco se vivía mejor". You know, under a fascist dictatorship. So no, the "argument from authority by old people" isn't convincing to me.

    I wish the Soviets had liberated my country from fascism too, unfortunately my country is on the other side of the continent and the Soviet aid during the Spanish Civil War was insufficient (likely due to being the only country to sell weapons to the antifascists while Nazi Germany bombed them and the rest of the world looked the other way).

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Again: on one hand I have the stories of my actual relatives who lived under and lost people to both nazi and communist terror, on the other hand I have an internet stranger, who doesn't seem to be interested in anything that goes against their preconceived notions.

    I suggest you spend your energy somewhere else, because your line of reasoning will be either insulting, or laughable to anyone in my position.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Sorry your relatives were fascists. My great grandfather got murdered by the reds in Spain and I don't cry anticommunism on the internet because he probably deserved it. I only feel bad about having fascist ancestors.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Are you under the assumption that only fascists were persecuted under communist dictatorships, or are you just being mean?

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Not only but majorly, especially outside the USSR, which took the brunt of the excessive repressions in the period between 1939 and 1942.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Well I guess being well informed on a topic is not strictly required to form an identity around it on the internet. Being ignorant sure seems to help with the confidence tho.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'll repeat: you can thank the Bolsheviks from saving your bloodline from extinction.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Thank you, Bolsheviks, for doing a bit less damage in our area, than what you proved to be perfectly willing to inflict on some of our neighbors.

    Also, huge thanks to my ancestors for staying decent in some of the darkest decades of our history. You lived and died with moral integrity in times when you could have easily gotten a comfortable living by becoming corrupt bootlickers to some of the worst despots in human history.

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