Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

• flandish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they don’t?

  lol. have you seen how child labor works? or banana republics? or coups? or prison labor? or slavery?

  come on now. stop being a thick moron.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why do you first support my point, and then call me a moron?

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    • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      was your point that capitalism is doing what stalin did?

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No that all the problem you mention are worse in totalitarian countries.

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• Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You sure?

  Really?

  How sure?

  Like, I could look at ICE raids and their obvious purpose of terrorizing the immigrant community, but I have a feeling you’re the type of bootlicker that thinks those actions are justified.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Compared to genocide by Stalin, ICE is peanuts.

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    • Sunforged@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dude the US is fully funding a genocide right now. Since October 7, 2023, the U.S. has provided Israel with billions in military aid, including at least $21.7 billion in approved funding, along with tens of billions more in future arms sale commitments.

      You entire premise is so inherently flawed.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Please read my edited post.
        And no I’m not anything remotely like a tankie, I am one who favor ACTAUL democracy, where among the best models we have running currently is the Scandinavian model.
        A 2 party system can never be accepted as a functional democracy, also the level of corruption in elections is undemocratic. preventing people from voting and gerrymandering.
        All those things detract from USA as a democracy.

        You are delusional and create strawmen and then you think you have a superior view based on your delusions that have no basis in reality.

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    • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      fine. compare stalin to something else that was closer to his time than he is to us:

      American slave trade. do it. tell me stalin was worse than slavery?

      the gfy.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Again with USA as the example, no other democracy had slaves like USA did.
        On the other hand comparable stories to Stalin can be found in multiple autocratic systems.
        Where USA is the exception as in exceptionally bad among democracies, what Stain did is commonplace among autocracies.

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