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Is it better to spend a similar amount of time criticizing "tankies" when "tankies" have never held political office in the US federal government, yet liberals, as in the Democratic Party, are the opposition party in the US and are the most common ideology in the Western world?
If the same amount of time was spent criticizing fascists on the slop community, most of the content would have to be censored because fascists are just too violent and say too many things that aren't even funny to laugh at, they're genuinely disturbing.
That's why you guys need to toughen up. You talk big game about revolution, as I said earlier, a few spooky words such as
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idiotThe democrat party isn't at all most in common with the Western world lol, they can't even implement universal healthcare, which all nations have already implemented. Again you guys can't stop from seeing the world with a US-centric cone, it's so gross.