Phyrin@lemmy.world to Out of the loop@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhats with the Lemmygrad hate?message-squaremessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up155arrow-down1message-squareWhats with the Lemmygrad hate?Phyrin@lemmy.world to Out of the loop@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square130fedilinkfile-text
What’s with all the downvotes? Saw a few threads get blasted, and a de-federation post - did I miss the drama?
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoMy favorite take is “Stalin was right wing”. Like how delusional can you get?
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year ago“The Khmer Rouge wasn’t communist” is another good one.
minus-squareanimist@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoI mean it wasn’t, but tankies sure think it was
minus-squarealeph@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoActually, 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.
minus-squaredeejay4am@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s the human rights abuse and genocide that really light their fire. They just also happen to be interested in leftist political ideas.
minus-squareJasSmith@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoThat 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.
My favorite take is “Stalin was right wing”.
Like how delusional can you get?
“The Khmer Rouge wasn’t communist” is another good one.
I mean it wasn’t, but tankies sure think it was
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.
It’s the human rights abuse and genocide that really light their fire.
They just also happen to be interested in leftist political ideas.
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.