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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Muh nazis were akschually leftwing and communists rightwing... Typical nazi tactic

[–] sauerkraus -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you think that right wing authoritarianism is communism, I’ve got a democratic republic to sell. The only way tankie logic is consistent is if you believe that Nazis were socialists and North Korea is democratic. But somehow those are not true yet the USSR was communist? You gotta stop gulping down the imperialist propaganda. I could forgive someone for believing it during the Red Scare, but these days there’s no excuse.

Tankie apologetics are a farce.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are the imperialist here, yankee. Did you send tanks into iraq, huh? Will you call me a judeo-bolshevik now?

[–] sauerkraus 1 points 1 year ago

You’ll never be an ally to communists, no matter how hard you perpetuate Cold War propaganda.

[–] LexiconDexicon -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is National Socialism not real socialism?

[–] sauerkraus 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Since you capitalised National Socialists like a proper noun I’ll assume you are referring to Nazis. The answer to that is yes, Nazis were not socialists. Socialists were among the first groups targeted by the Nazis after attaining majority power.

A bit like how communists were oppressed in the USSR, or how democrats are oppressed in North Korea.

The U.S. was more than happy to conflate Marxist-Leninists(tankies) with communists because it made communists look bad. Tankies are all in on continuing to conflate their own ideology with communism because they understand that being proud of right wing extremist ideology is a bad look.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yankeeland is the most fash country, but the fash dont wanna be called fash, so they call the nonwesterners fash. Typical racist tactic.