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straightlightyagami · 5 months ago

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there is a subset of tumblr liberals that are always making posts like “i hate communism >:( i hope the commies die“ positioning this as some kind of brilliant insightful take only they thought up with their genius brain and they are soso unique and oppressed for. when they are from a former socialist country i can understand (still cringe when they say everyone who is a communist these days is a westerner. cmon we both know you know that’s untrue). but when they and their family are from the west and they act like they’re oppressed for being anticommunist it’s just deeply cringe.

#iso.txt #uncharitable #not even doing the whole ‘im not an apologist’ obligatory disclaimer thing if you want you can find some of my posts #actually discussing actually existing socialism and see that im pretty critical of the ussr et al #and critical of people who worship historical figures or think stalin was totally a good guy etc #(by critical i mean No He Was Not.)#i just try to be nuanced and i think we can learn some things about what to do and what not to do by looking at history #from a socialist perspective in my case #ive made more posts making fun of people ‘on my side’#and im not going to play the ‘my family members lived under socialism too’ card bc that is a bit irrelevant imo #and on this blog i don’t really focus on issues of my country specifically. it’s for an international audience so i frame it that way

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