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Parenti was right to quit being friends with Sanders. History vindicated that decision well before this.
Bookchin hated him too
Even the most cartoonish caricatures of Stalin by Western propagandists doesn’t come close to the level of bloodshed and pure evil emanated by each of the heads on that mountain.
Or the bloodshed involved in dispossessing the Black Hills from the Lakota
Satan opposed unjust authority. god is the one who demands love and obedience.
edit: oh stalinist not satanist. Whatever I’m leaving it
uncritical support for Comrade Satan in their struggle to unseat god and end the dictatorship of the angels
Wait, I thought we like Angles because he gave Marx so much money?
I thought we didn’t like Anglos because of the whole colonialism thing and general cracker behavior
wtf is alt-left?
alt just means bad now
alt-right? bad
alt-left? bad
alt rock? bad (this one has always been true)
Alt-tech, Alt-A, alt.* hierarchy, Alt-y-Graig railway station… it really is all bad
The weird fucked up and crazy offshoot of the real left, which is of course the democrats
I seen that dumbass all over .ml with this take lately. From the context alt-left means basically “left that is not sucking up to liberals”
vindicated
Alt-left means communist beyond the barest social affections and liberal-academic truisms.
I have to imagine Stalin enjoyed widespread popularity for providing leadership and marshaling forces during a global, industrial war of extermination brought by fascists, and that any opportunism of others in the political sphere hitching their wagon to him by way of open, blind support, was owed to his achievements.
comparing MAGA to that is absurd. what has Trump achieved? celebrity/reality stardom? he isn’t even that popular, and all he’s done is exposed how there is a much larger demand for a politician saying they will do something than there is a supply for the same.
a Hitler comparison would be much more apt. some asshole, inflaming the worst people by talking shit non stop while hosting slop rallies, but ultimately being an incompetent and cowardly leader who mistakenly believed himself brilliant and capable.
From the bluesky replies:
I actually choked on my drink while reading this. A statement so truly bizarre that it nearly killed me.
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fyi this is how you can put alt text (and, separately, a title which is displayed as a tooltip) on images on lemmy.
Thanks, I couldn’t remember how to do it the right way and the lemmy markdown guide is kinda vague so I didn’t get it at the time. I think it should be good now!
It’s true, the USSR never recovered from Lennon’s death, they were huge Beatles fans over there.
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
They no longer could after Lennon was gone 
what do you think the hit song “Back in the U.S.S.R.” was about?
No nation has ever been capitalist, socialist or communist. Every nation is a dictatorship, paying a percentage of the population off, threatening the rest into believing they are a bastion of civilization and virtue.
Fukuyama will love this one
The only thing preventing utopia (me being king and you all being my slaves) is national governments
I have taken psychic damage from this
I’m sorry, I couldn’t suffer alone.
True communism has never been tried… nor capitalism or socialism.
no nation has ever been
I mean Craig isnt wrong. Technically if everyone was dead there’d be no nations, poverty, sickness, or homelessness. He’s just advocating for human extinction guys.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I don’t want to share a planet with these people anymore
Bernie comes out as Trotskyite.
That would be cooler than the reality of it
I swear to god Americans - even the “smart” ones - are so intellectually incurious. Who was Josef Stalin? What did he think and do? Doesn’t matter don’t care, just talk about him like he’s a comic book villain, no one will call you out on it anyway.
Bernie, shut the fuck up forever, you zionist.
“if you’re a leftist you’re actually a trump supporter” -bernie sanders recently for some fucking reason
fuck you Bernie you liberal zionist piece of shit
i want my money back you old piece of shit
I fucking love anticommunism.
