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    21 days ago

    Why don’t you define “tankie” or authoritarianism before, then? Instead of just sharing a silly meme and acting as if that was an explanation.

    What even is communist authoritarianism? Lol

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        Yeah, communist authoritarianism is not a thing.

        You’re thinking of literal fascist anti-communist propaganda and using a very basic knowledge of anything leftist/communist-related to fill-in the rest

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          Was Stalin authoritarian? If massive purges to consolidate power aren’t authoritarian, I don’t know what is.

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            Exactly what I was referring to… A bunch of the same old tired talking points that you’ve never actually bothered to look into.

            "The US has basically lied since its founding, but they would NEVER lie to ME about Stalin or the USSR. And I know this because I saw a whole tiktok video once and a meme that said “commie bad”

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                No, that’s not what I’m arguing. You just can’t read well.

                Also, what opponents? Name them since you’re such an expert

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                  Bukharin, Rykov, Tukhachevski, Ryutin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Trotsky, Tomsky, Smirnov, Ter-Vaganyan, Eidemanis, Blyukher…

                  I could go on for pages. Men, who had ensured that the Soviet Union even existed and who were executed on Stalin’s orders.

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                  "The US has basically lied since its founding, but they would NEVER lie to ME about Stalin or the USSR. And I know this because I saw a whole tiktok video once and a meme that said “commie bad”

                  Seems like you’re implying the US is lying about the horrible things done by Stalin and the USSR, aka implying they didn’t happen AKA “arguing that Stalin did not purge political opponents”

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                    Since you really liked to use this with me in a previous comment…

                    Stay mad troll!

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      Why don’t you define it if you know it so well? I’m looking through this comment chain and the only thing you have been doing is deflecting or jumping to another topic, while asking bad faith questions.

      The other guy could at least be bothered to give his definition, it might be the wrong one, but I ain’t reading a counter definition.