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GrandmasterFrank
GrandmasterFrank @ sergio @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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  • okay well I'm glad China has sorted out trans issues in their country then

  • homosexuals were persecuted, yes that's oppression

    If you are a Communist, you don't need to defend every aspect of every Communist state (yeah oxymoron, w/e), it's okay to say "they did some things wrong"

  • You're visible on blahaj.zone

  • two things can do bad, you don't need to defend China or the Soviet Union when they do oppression

  • If you aren't defending, excusing, or justifying the oppression of people by the USSR or PRC, then I'm not talking about you; you were not the type of person which "tankie" is typically used to describe

  • "endlessly excusing" is mutually exclusive with "critically engage"

  • If you believe the same things about the US’s enemies that the US is actively campaigning to make you believe, that is a red flag.

    I agree

  • Does that make the oppression that did exist in some socialist countries okay? Of course not. But they did much better than the capitalists

    Okay, so you're not the kind of person I'm talking about, I'm referring to the people that excuse those things

  • Much of it was built on colonialism and neocolonialism, with the richness of the West built on uneven exchange with everyone else, a system set up at gunpoint. None of this is described as authoritarian

    I would agree those are authoritarian

  • Rule

    Jump
  • thanks!

  • Are you are defending, excusing, or justifying the persecution of LGBT people?

  • It’s good to endlessly excuse the USSR and PRC

    It really isn't

  • Yes, but I'm referring to people defending that persecution instead of just accepting that Communist countries can also be criticized

  • Nobody was arguing that, two things can both do bad.

  • We love Mittens

  • Tfw no commune of literate forest hobos