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[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You're specifically the British or English local party of whatever your tendency is, then. Tendency probably depends on whether you use individual mugs or a teapot, how you heat the water, and whether you use teabags or looseleaf, and if looseleaf, the exact way that you put it into the water and remove it from the steeped tea.

(Or, you're a modern Chinese commie, see the pics of Xi with two teacups in front of him. But I like the British party branch joke better. Took me longer to write.)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Feel free to invent a new tendency

Like the Trots keep doing? (Party splits)

Or... Trot pretending to be a proper ML... I've run into a few of those. Most Trots are proud of being Trots (they shouldn't be, but at least it makes 'em easy to spot and ignore), but there's a few weirdos out there...

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Ok, but I absolutely love this bit and have come up with something similar - "Big Sister Katya" - her whole thing is that she's a 1950s/60s Soviet sympathiser, who thinks McCarthy's a complete idiot, but her personality is otherwise every bit a sheltered middle class teenage girl of the era, she's often in the kitchen with her mum or helping with some domestic task in her videos, the mum is always a voice offscreen, or partially on screen for short periods but her face isn't seen, she's seen taking care of children sometimes - her little siblings - her whole vibe is "It's the beginning of souring relations with the USSR post war, and your big sister explains why the Cold War is bullshit and neither the guys on the TV news nor Mum and Dad know what they're yapping about". It's never made clear to what extent the character she's playing genuinely believes it's the beginning of the Cold War and the peak of McCarthyism, and how much of it is "it needs to be that soon after the Great Patriotic War for some of her points about fascism and defense and good allies to land properly". Every video follows a formula of "Today we're doing [insert domestic task] with Mum/for Mum while she's out today, and discussing [insert Marxist-Leninist theory concept]".

[-] [email protected] 41 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

America: dictatorship of the bourgeoisie does dictatorship of the bourgeoisie things

Outraged liberals so close to getting it: "What are we, a bunch of COMMIES!?"

I wish y'all were, buddy. If only.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago

Of course not. Because to make it work, the US would need a Communist Party that isn't totally useless. And no one who lived through the Cold War is going to allow that to happen.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I don't know in what context Bugs Bunny would dress up as Stalin, but hot DAMN, even a bunny looks good stealing Stalin's look.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah... on the one hand, the dragons are a little more creative than drawing China as a panda bear. On the other hand, the panda bear always looks cuddly and detracts from the meaning of the propaganda and I think that's an incredibly funny juxtaposition.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Of course China's a panda! There's an old Sino-Soviet joke in there about the Soviet Bear, that resolves to a panda bear and a grizzly bear having a nice snuggle and looking just plain adorable.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They're trying to counteract previous mistakes of drawing China as a panda bear, which... the Soviet Bear thing worked because you can draw a grizzly bear that looks scary (although I find most Soviet Bear junk to look hug shaped anyway), the panda allowed for good Sino-Soviet jokes, but they eventually figured out that it's very difficult to draw a panda bear that doesn't look hug shaped and adorable, so they started drawing China as a dragon instead... which only serves to make China look badass. Though I do miss the cuddly panda bears.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That would be amazing and I'd love it.

Except that it'd never exist, because it could only be real workplace nightmares and real union organising under capitalism, but it would never be filmed or aired in a capitalist country. The USSR absolutely would have been willing to make something like that back in the day, but the necessary class contradictions, and unionising as the only means of recourse, simply weren't present.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

I love that some of the modern McCarthyists are so bad, that when they call someone a communist who actually is a socialist of some description, no one takes them seriously.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I wish a "Stalinist" party would take power in the US. Maybe then the sins of that guilty land could finally begin to be purged. Maybe then the US would actually do some good for the world. Maybe they could actually spread Freedom and Democracy by supporting other communist revolutions. Instead of just saying they're Spreading Democracy as an excuse to bomb civilians in countries 90% of their population can't point to on a map.

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