Nearly all of that is just a few people flaming out when suspected communists comment in “their” internet spaces, even when those comments weren’t particularly about communism.

Don’t deserve rights? Do you even hear yourself?

Woosh

You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you’ve never been there.

I have been to the Czechia, actually. I spent a week in Prague in the early 2000s.

The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, […]

• https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf
  American and Soviet citizens eat about the same amount of food each day but the Soviet diet may be more nutritious.
• https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/06/30/russia-will-raise-pension-ages-that-date-back-to-stalin
  When the Soviet Union started paying pensions in the early years of Josef Stalin’s rule, the retirement age was set at 60 for men and 55 for women. It has not been raised since.

[…] genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations

If the USSR exterminated the cultures and languages of “occupied” nations, then why are those cultures still speaking Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Estonian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek?

You’ve likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.

I have known some, and I know a few right here on Lemmy.

There is no left equivalent, and horseshoe theory is horseshit.

• ‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_studies_and_criticism
• Funny thing about Hannah Arendt’s construction of “totalitarianism”: She came from a bourgeois family and so unsurprisingly was anti-communist. She was also quite racist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.
  Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

  One of the centerpieces of the cultural cold war was the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), which was revealed in 1966 to be a CIA front. Hugh Wilford, who has researched the topic extensively, described the CCF as nothing short of one of the largest patrons of art and culture in the history of the world. Established in 1950, it promoted on the international scene the work of collaborationist academics such as Raymond Aron and Hannah Arendt over and against their Marxian rivals, including the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

Pretty much it’s a thought-terminating othering. To label someone a tankie is to give license for prejudicially dismissing them.

For which you have precisely the same “evidence,” no more, no less.

Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.

I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”

• JFK Files Reveal CIA Role in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising The tankies were right
• The 1968 Prague Spring — Counterrevolution as the “Trojan Horse” of Imperialism
• The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent

Yes, I know that’s all you’ve got as far as lemmy.ml promoting transphobia goes.

Accusations of genocide denial isn’t the cheat code you think it is, or do you not deny the genocide of white South Africans? And what say you to this one? Previously.

And if accusations of promoting transphobia held any water, blahaj & hexbear would have already defederated from us.

blahaj isn’t particularly hostile toward anarchism or democratic socialism, I don’t think, but it’s largely a liberal instance. It’s defederated from hexbear & lemmygrad, so a lot of socialist content is blocked.

dbzer0 is explicitly anarchist. It blocks lemmygrad but not hexbear.

slrpnk is anarchist-friendly and environmentalist. It blocks both hexbear & lemmygrad.

lemmy.ml is predominantly socialist. It’s federated with everyone except for porn and fascist instances^[1]. The only instances that block it that I can only think of are infosec.pub, lemmy.cafe, and programming.dev.

Quite a few instances are defederated from lemmygrad and/or hexbear. Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world, and lemmygrad only blocks porn and fascist instances.

Were they hard-line demsocs, or were they really just “progressive” liberals?