Basically I was tagged as mentioned in a comment, one of several in the thread, and got an inbox notification of it. It was about 20 min after the comment itself was posted, in a community I don’t interact with, with a user I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with before. Not sure if it’s a piefed problem, a cross-talk problem, or just a random bug, but as per screenshot, it wasn’t intended behavior, and I wasn’t meant to be tagged.
The comment in question is this one: https://anarchist.nexus/post/480792#comment_2817887
those people really should speak with (family of) immigrants that escaped the Soviet horrors, goddamn.
Or just like, read any political theory outside of their extremely narrow bubble. There’s a lot of revisionist marxist theory which keeps the core concepts without the Soviet baggage. Anyone who is still out here trying to defend Soviet statecraft is likely more interestes in relitigating the cold war than actual political theory.
Cowbee’s schtick is so transparent. He’ll write (vibe) long posts like this which make him seem perfectly reasonable, like of course MLs condemn the Soviets for this and that! And then turn around and defend this shit in other threads, and will certainly never correct a fellow ML on these topics under any circumstances.
That thread is super fun too. "Those tankies are the ones that believe Soviet propaganda, it's totally not us falling for CIA propaganda. Only the Soviets ever did propaganda but actually the US would never lie to anyone ever"