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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

There's a pretty good chance that user will, in the same breath, go: Jefferson bad, Stalin good. Because authoritarians and genocides perpetrated by entities pretending to be communist are somehow excusable.

Edit: I rest my case. You'll notice their immediate jump to whataboutism, strawman arguments, and childish demands for you to research why their "nuh uh" is wrong.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

This guy must have something wrong with them.

This comment is literally whataboutism, they clearly don't understand what a straw an argument is, and the childish demands are us simply asking for him to explain himself.

What a joke, lol.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Genocidal slavers like Jefferson are, indeed, bad.
Not sure why a person took part in massively improving the rights and living conditions of the working class and fighting against the original nazis should be considered bad in comparison with enthusiastic slavers.

Just admit it - you only said that because you have been bombarded your whole life with propaganda about how the most vile polity in the world is somehow good, while Stalin is somehow bad for some reason.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Two things can both be bad. This is what you mls never seem to grasp.

And It's not for some reason. He killed so many people. No one can take you seriously when you praise a monster like Stalin.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Who did he kill and when?

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Two things can both be bad.

They can, but they aren't in this case.

And It’s not for some reason. He killed so many people.

Killing nazis is not a bad thing, actually. Nor were they 'his own people'.

No one can take you seriously when you praise a monster like Stalin.

You are yet to actually explain why he is supposedly such a 'monster'. Just admit that your sole source of information on Stalin has been memes from the same people that sold you on Iraq's WMDs.
And no, again, killing nazis is not a bad thing.