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Found this in the Cambridge Dictionary, seems trustworthy /s

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[–] prole@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

Is this the whole definition? They don't even say what it actually was or anything? Fucking useless

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"It's me, I'm the Comintern now"

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

MY WISH IS YOUR COMMAND

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am currently selling a elixir out of my wagon that will enhance the western mind to resist vile Stalinist brainwaves transmitted from the comintern

Interested parties please form single file at my wagon full of wonderous concoctions

[–] Leegh@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm ok with this definition if Cambridge applied it to every single western neoliberal organization that exists today, but they obviously won't do that parenti-hands

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

May as well read Bureau Of Controlling and Thought Police for Communism and Evil

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry to say but dictionaries should be descriptive, not prescriptive. If you poll a 1000 people you'd get something like 85% approval rate for this in the UK.

Here's the actual good counter to that: if anyone tries to cite the dictionary for some sort of political argument call them a moron because that's not what the dictionary is for. It's like claiming the proof to pythagoras theorem is that it's in the cambridge.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

85% of people in the UK don't know what the Comintern is or that it was founded by Lenin, if the dictionary was descriptivist of the usage of "Comintern" in the UK they would leave the word blank and not add it to a dictionary, or simply say "word used to demonize socialist institutions".

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

or simply say "word used to demonize socialist institutions".

they would not, no

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago
[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

So Stalin stopped controlling people after 1943?

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

Useless fucking definition