• kboos1@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Are saying this because you think Obama could have been more like Stalin and killed millions? Seems like a dumb comparison.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      16 hours ago

      If Stalin was in Obama’s shoes, we’d have had free healthcare, an end to homelessness, the end of the US Empire, and the adoption of a socialist economy. I don’t know what you are specifically referring to when saying Stalin “killed millions,” if you’re blaming Stalin for famine then you should also laud him for the fact that life expectancies doubled following the collectivization of agriculture and an end to famine:

      If you mean the purges, the number sentenced to death was in the 700,000s, not millions, and the total number of executions carried out was significantly lower. Further, there was absolutely conspiracy against the socialist state in the USSR, they didn’t just randomly execute people. If you mean the Nazis killed during World War II, then this was a good thing.

      Obama continued US imperialism, and destroyed countries like Libya for corporate profit while the working classes suffered. Stalin would have been much better.

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      15 hours ago

      You could have just said you don’t understand the difference between defending a socialist revolution and capitalist wars of Imperialism. The demonstration wasn’t necessary.

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    1 day ago

    Gotta make sure the leftists are fighting the liberals instead of the fascists, eh? And you even put some stalin apologia in there too! This is peak tanky post

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      13 hours ago

      Anyone going to bat for Obama is not any kind of leftist and needs to be disabused of the notion that he is laudable or admirable if they are to have any chance of becoming one.

      Stalin apologia

      We aren’t apologizing for shit, apologize for liberals enabling fascists at every turn and maybe then we can talk

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      16 hours ago

      I’m sorry, does our shitposting get in the way of liberals wearing frog costumes and doing interpretative dancing?

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      22 hours ago

      Fighting the liberals instead of the fascists? That’s like saying you’re choosing to eat an apple instead of a piece of fruit. Apples are fruit, too. Liberals are fascists, too.

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      1 day ago

      leftists are fighting the liberals instead of the fascists, eh?

      Theres the problem with your thinking .world zionazi, liberals are the fascists