I personally love when tankie-grads larp LGBT symbols, as if they actually supported trans and gay rights. Everyone sees through this shit right?
It reminds me of the Onion video titled “First female dictator hailed as step forward for women.”
This lady becomes a dictator and then goes though and kills her political enemies along with some random civilians.
Imelda marcos??
The really early USSR was socially progressive, including legal tolerance of homosexuality. Stalin absolutely shut that down.
Yeah, most early communism was VERY egalitarian for women (not really sure about homosexuals, those don’t tend to feature much in 19th century writings), but that got rapidly stomped into the ground later.
And as much as tankies love to preach you need to read the source material, they mostly don’t.
My god, last time the fact I’ve actually read Das Kapital came up, they pretty much just went for “no you didn’t”. Yes I did, and I didn’t even get a T-shirt for the densely-written pain.
As per the gay thing, it was part of the blanket repeal of Tsarist laws, and didn’t get put back in until Stalin was on the scene. In the meanwhile advocacy groups sprang up and were tolerated, so that tells you it wasn’t just on paper. I have no idea if anyone has gone deeper into the historical sources for our benefit. (Preferably in English, because my Russian is кое-как)
My god, last time the fact I’ve actually read Das Kapital came up, they pretty much just went for “no you didn’t”. Yes I did, and I didn’t even get a T-shirt for the densely-written pain.
You’re a stronger man than I. I’ve read other Marx, but Das Kapital is like trying to eat a desert’s worth of sand without even the mercy of a glass of water.
I also love seeing identity/symbols co-opted by authoritarians.
Can we just stop the fighting and have a beach party?
Toss the ol land mine ‘round
If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, it’s safe to surf this beach!
I dunno, they seem to be thriving in certain Lemmy communities.
Bots, sock accounts, useful idiots, and those easily influenced by perceived public opinion. I ban vote manipulators from here constantly and we’re not even that large of a community. There’s no way they aren’t doing the same elsewhere.
Edit:
As I typed this, a 2day old account reported this post for “Racism”
“fragment”
That was a big-ass missile.
