Slop.

and which supported emancipatory and anti colonialist projects everywhere in South America, Africa and Asia.

Don't forget in the Caribbean with Cuba!

I wonder if part of it comes from the awareness that the average westerner has a very cushy life, so we get solace in knowing our ancestors must have lived harder, and therefore 'earned' our position for us. Totally detatched from the reality that suffering in and of itself is not a moral good. Calvinism and its consequences, etc.

Even if your great grand whatevers were fine folk, it’s still a thought terminating cliche to pull the “that regime was bad for my family” card. I have a lot of ancestors that were from the US southeast, I’m sure plenty of them got fucked up by the Union during the Civil War, but that doesn’t change the fact that the Confederacy losing was good. Hell, I have grandparents that fled Eastern Europe during WWII because they found out they were on a Soviet list. But I have the mental maturity to understand that the nascent Cold War had a scope way beyond my family.

I love my grandma but I also became aware that she participated to the colonization of Algeria and I'm not proud of it and I'm never defending her on this. Sometimes people are weirdly defensive about their familly, I don't understand why they don't treat it as part of growing up to stop idolising meemaw

My grandmother was one of the worst people I've ever known. Definitely in the top five. She did not have an easy life, but it's no excuse for the miserable person she decided to be. She had plenty of time to correct her behavior and had many people around her providing infinite patience. It was no surprise she didn't have any friends at her funeral, only relatives.

I don't know why people have this problem where they can't realize their family members can be good parents/siblings/cousins/whatever, but terrible to everyone else. Or that good people can be shitty parents.

because they're reactionaries and reactionaries care a lot about lineage even though whatever your lineage is is basically background noise after like 4 generations.

Don't tell me their idea of a revolution is inviting the bourgeoisie to a picnic...

You did a terrorism. You did a no-growth

21th century western foreign and domestic policy in a nutshell right there

My unearned birthright was taken from me a century before my birth so we must never seize the means of production.

The arguments are so tired, anyway. Revolutions are messy, innocent people die. They're also necessary because the system people revolted against wasn't working; innocent people were dying :twain-two-reigns-of-terror:

Oh the USSR of the 1920s wasn't pro lgbtq? Remind me which countries were? Oh Weimar Germany, with their social democrat government? How'd that work out for them? Who ended up liberating Germany from fascism and implemented pro lgbtq laws in the gdr?

I hate anti-monarchists because I am the rightful heir of the true king of the realm, but was raised by shepherds or wolves or found in a basket or something.

Or, "thats ancient history"

Full offense to amerikkkans, actually

do these people even think at all about what their views actually are or mean?

In my experience their only answer is "Well I would have not done that" while offering no ideas about what they would have done instead. Frictionless idealism untainted by contact with the demands of reality.

nd i also want to know, as an anarchist, what this dude thinks anarchists would have done had they succeeded in their attempts at assassination and moved forward with revolt. he thinks the anarchists wouldn’t have needed to collectivize that land so people could be fed? do these people even think at all about what their views actually are or mean?

Well sure, but have you considered that people combining their resources to care for a population is actually authoritarian, and authority is bad? Checkmate, tankies

Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.

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It's funny how they separate those two things, though.

Isnt that the comm that like....said HExbears arent really queer and just performing to attract new users? Or some shit like that?

Alternatively, fuck^[say gex] tankies rule

I don't think it is a psyop, sounds exactly like an average Russian liberal.