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Whats with the Lemmygrad hate? (lemmy.world)

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

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What’s with all the downvotes?

Saw a few threads get blasted, and a de-federation post - did I miss the drama?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My favorite take is "Stalin was right wing".

Like how delusional can you get?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The Khmer Rouge wasn't communist" is another good one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it wasn't, but tankies sure think it was

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Actually, the irony is that a lot of tankies also say that the KM wasn't Marxist, but that Stalinist Russia and Maoist China were.

Quite why, I couldn't tell you.

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

It’s the human rights abuse and genocide that really light their fire.

They just also happen to be interested in leftist political ideas.

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

That one is especially funny, but it does expose how meaningless the term is now. Everyone on the left uses "right-wing" as shorthand for "bad," and ditto for the right and left-wing.