• SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    My God the copium.

    Regardless of what the object on this man’s wrist is. The Soviet Union edited the image to remove it to cover up the fact that looting was happening.

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          46 minutes ago

          “Tankie” isn’t a position, it’s a pejorative for those that support and uphold existing socialism.

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            26 minutes ago

            It’s a pejorative for Russian bootlickers and Soviet apologists.

            Communism is cool but pretending Stalin didn’t do atrocities or, as it happens, even cover up embarrassing details by editing photos isn’t any different than what Trump is doing now.

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              18 minutes ago

              It’s a pejorative for anyone to the left of the western liberal using it.

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                12 minutes ago

                That is incorrect.

                I’ve yet to be called a tankie.

                I also think Marx could have gone a little harder, I’m just not going to pretend that the few states that pretended to try communism didn’t also do horrible shit.