The powers that be would prefer we focus on tankies and the ills of soviet era communism -
lol.
I never consider the ills of soviet era communism until tankies show up trying to convince me they had a utopia.
I spend absolutely zero time pontificating about mao, or stalin, or communism, or collectivism, any of it, until some asshole slinks in and starts talking shit about ‘the west’ as if their own side never Holodomor’d a bunch of innocents the way we trail-of-tears’d people here.
you don’t think the people living in ‘the east’ lived some kind of perfect, ideal lives, do you? that would be silly. why would we expect it on either side?
we’re all fucking humans. none of us is better than any of the others based on geography or ideology, and a lot of us are wretched assholes when we get into a position of authority.
lol.
I never consider the ills of soviet era communism until tankies show up trying to convince me they had a utopia.
I spend absolutely zero time pontificating about mao, or stalin, or communism, or collectivism, any of it, until some asshole slinks in and starts talking shit about ‘the west’ as if their own side never Holodomor’d a bunch of innocents the way we trail-of-tears’d people here.
you don’t think the people living in ‘the east’ lived some kind of perfect, ideal lives, do you? that would be silly. why would we expect it on either side?
we’re all fucking humans. none of us is better than any of the others based on geography or ideology, and a lot of us are wretched assholes when we get into a position of authority.
uniquely western? pfft