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

• roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And yet, here this person is, not incorrectly using Stalin to say communism is bad. He is criticizing Stalin on his merits, or lack thereof, and not using one person to disparage communism.

  You are one tying Stalin’s crimes to communism.

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stalin tied himself to communism as much as possible, all critics of communism tie Stalin to communism as much as possible.
    think reeeeeLly hard about how that might be a relevant point to be had.
    also lemmy is chock full of tankies tying stalin to communism but pretending like he was super good and all of the bad things he did were western propaganda

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That’s the same “logic” as claiming that all critics of the Nazis are really trying to speak ill of people of Germanic Ancestry or that all critics of Zionism are anti-semites.

      Just because those evil regimes tied themselves to those groups or ideologies doesn’t mean that critics of the regime are actually people speaking ill of the groups or ideologies those evil regimes linked themselves to.

      In fact the strategy of misportraying criticism of the regime as being criticism of the group that regime claims to represent, is a common propaganda trick of the most evil of regimes.

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    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, those tankies are twisted, bring unable to support communism without making excuses for a brutal dictator.

      So surely you must appreciate someone capable of criticizing that brutal dictator without smearing communism in the process, right?

      Why would you see a conversation abouta brutal dictator and jump in to talk about how he was a communist? Don’t you think it might be people like you that encourage tankies to reflexively disagree with any criticism of Stalin?

      If you can’t have a conversation about Stalin’s crimes without someone erroneously bringing communism into it maybe that’s why frustrated communists often defend the indefensible.

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      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        what a lame troll

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    no i’m not, i also don’t care about arguing with someone this dense

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    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, have a nice day then. I genuinely hope you find something you do care about today.

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      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        certainly not you arguing that i said something i didn’t, and then that i shouldn’t say something

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