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Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity
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God, ain't that the fucking truth.
Tbf the last 300 years put the white people in a pretty comfortable first place.
Well yes, but once you start oppressing the other people, they generally don't get much of a chance to oppress anyone else.
Actually, quite the opposite is true for colonialism. Colonizers often chose a "favourite" group of local people and gave them a tiny sliver of power on the condition, that they help oppress everyone else. I'm not judging that btw.
Right but if you follow that power dynamic up the chain the cause would still be the group that picked the " favorite".
This doesn't resolve the "favorite" group from their role, but rather distributes blame to all involved
Moreover, the intentional pitting of Group A against Group B in colonialism is specifically to make it so that Groups A and B never realize that they could overtake their colonizers by cooperating.
What I really don't get with tankies is their reverence of Russia. Their history can be summarized like so: and then everything took a change for the worse. To this day Russia is an empire where white people use colonized people to die for bits of field in parts they already starved in 1932-1933.
you really don't want to get into that discussion with them, trust me
How else is he supposed to get his ml honor badge? 🔨
I'm not well versed in tankie discourse, but to challenge specifically your point, I agree Putin is very bad but surely Stalin was much worse?
Tankie discourse is more along the lines of "Putin is good but Stalin was even better".