I’d say it’s also a problem that the sort of people who use the Internet to find people to beat up are idiots, so even if they aren’t going out of their way to victimize minorities, odds are they’ll just beat up some random person.

It is.

In light of the Trump Administration, a lot of the terrible shit other Presidents have done is a lot less noteworthy.

Remember Hillary’s emails?

I wonder if the people who go on about it actually understood the implications of the email server, or just reacted when Fox told them to.

In answer to the question of “why,” because the alternative is accepting that Stalinist communism sucked and the people of the Eastern Bloc rejected it when they got the chance, which is antithetical to tankie thought.

The majority of Congressional Democrats tried to let the government shut down.

What would constitute fighting?

People keep complaining about Democrats not doing anything, but under current constraints there isn’t much they can do.

People seem to spend more time complaining about Democrats not opposing Republicans than they do complaining about Republicans destroying America.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll go through with his denuclearization plan and that will finally be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and the military will take him out.

How depressing that our best case scenario is a military coup.

Evolution meant to tell you to get out of the gene pool.

I didn’t hear the media calling Adams getting in a bellweather. Everyone knows NYC is basically the most Democratic place in the country.

And Joe in South Carolina has already made up his mind about New York and Democrats and anywhere else with a sizable population of people who aren’t White or straight.

Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll move against the nuclear arsenal and the Army will finally give him the boot.

Welcome to lemmy.

That won’t be an institutional Democratic problem. That will be a “people of New York” problem.

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And you cited a website that denies the Uyghur Genocide and the Holodomor.

You’re doing genocide denial.

Right. Beria was well known for his trigger discipline.

It wasn’t that impressive for the people living there. Otherwise they wouldn’t have rejected it.

Debunked, according to a genocide denying Russian propaganda asset.

To portray the opinion of Stalinists. Which they contrast with actual data and the opinions of actual historians.

How about you cite some of those liberals, instead of a tankie rag?

“Expand as an ideology” is a strange way to say, “they weren’t shot for disagreeing with the Party.”

The reforms didn’t weaken the economy. The economy was weak, therefore there were reforms. And it’s not cherrypicking, the Soviet system worked poorly, objectively.

Nostalgia doesn’t prove anything. What they feel now has nothing to do with what the people felt at the time.

Read Robert Conquest.

No, you denied that the Soviet Union was a dictatorship. The GDP does not effect that.

And books describing the Soviet Union as a totalitarian dictatorship are used as reference. Wikipedia is providing a variety of opinions of the Soviet government. It’s not declaring Pat Sloan the sole source of truth on the question of human rights in the Soviet Union.

You clearly don’t care about being righteous or correct.

This is a good example of one of things people hate about lemmy.

Communism fan boying, implicit denial of genocides committed by communist powers, out in the open on the front page.

So, you’re denying that glasnost allowed for political dissent?

Second, no they didn’t.

Finally, it does not matter because we were debating whether or not the Soviet Union was a dictatorship, which the literacy rate has nothing to do with.

Well-respected by Tankies, not by actual historians.

We weren’t debating the quality of the Soviet Union. We were debating whether or not it was a dictatorship.