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How about resisting & remembering communism? We are far closer to a communist dictatorship than we are to a fascist one, but for some reason the left these days considers communists warm & fuzzy, despite communism being responsible for more deaths than anything else in the history of the planet

This is not to say that we shouldn't keep a watchful eye out against becoming too far right wing, it's just frustrating as a politically centrist gamer to see a FLOOD of anti-fascist stuff out there and nothing about the evils of communism.

Legion3 years ago(+17)(-2)

...that seems especially timely because communists just tried to violently overthrow the US government oh wait...that was fascists? Okay.

"it's just frustrating as a politically centrist gamer to see a FLOOD of anti-fascist stuff out there and nothing about the evils of communism."

As a socialist progressive I find centrists extremely frustrating. Often more so than quote-unquote "conservatives" (increasingly a misnomer in the era of trumpism). There really is no such thing as too much anti-fascism.

With less snark: I don't worry about the kinds of idiots for whom communism has some kind of cache (I think my Zoomer chums on the Left call them "tankies"?). These people are idiots but they aren't the idiots that have been engaging in acts of stochastic terrorism motivated by the rhetoric of their toxic ideology.

I'm an American so that colors my perspective when I say that for everyone my age and older growing up in the United States, neither "fascism is bad" nor "Stalinism was bad" was exactly a "hot take". Both of these things were so glaringly obvious and fundamentally inarguable for most of my life that I never would have dreamed back in 2006 that in the 2010s/2020s being an antifascist would be some kind of a statement, and that I'd be making a statement that "fascism is bad, m'kay?". \

Then Charlottesville happened. Then the President's response to Charlottesville happened. American Communists have, as far as I know, killed no one in the last decade. That is not true of American fascists and their enablers in the establishment.

Mainstream society has always agreed on the rather obvious fact that unreformed Stalinist communism is REALLY REALLY BAD. But about five years ago as we entered the era of Drumpf and Drumpfism it seemed like millions and millions of Americans were starting to be much more accepting of openly fascistic ideas. Communism--not socialism, I mean full on Stalinist state-property fuck your civil liberties capital C COMMUNISM as it failed in the USSR and China--isn't any more popular in Western society now than it ever was. Socialism is more popula,r, and growing more popular by the day but as I am personally a socialist I obviously don't think that's a bad thing. It's fascism--cryptofascism, jingoism, palingenetic ultranationalism, ethnonationalism, Nazis by any other name--that has shown an ALARMING amount of mainstream appeal among so-called "conservatives" and an equally alarming amount of downplaying by political centrists.

Thank you for your comments, though. I appreciate the opportunity for civil political discourse, it's all too rare these days.

MetalGearOpz872 years ago(-15)

You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. LOL

kidkaos22 years ago(-6)

"that seems especially timely because communists just tried to violently overthrow the US Government oh wait...that was fascists?

No, that was communists.

You're a product of an education that presented a distorted worldview in order to present a skewed left wing view of policies and history. Most people are these days, and I've only ever seen one accept a fact. One time I was able to provide a strident feminist talking about toxic men are and how gendered both intimate partner and sexual violence were. She was giving the standard 1 in 4 stat I was able to respond to her stats from feminista by telling her how that survey for one didn't include men at all and so of course reported no problem with them, and secondly that study has become famous in psychology for how to NOT bias your results because the questioners counted "have you ever been raped" and "have you ever had sexual experience you regretted" as the same question, so any woman who ever regretted a one-night-stand or had a bad breakup ended up in the "rape victim" column.

People such as yourself are essentially incapable of rational thought. You've been brought up since children to think with your emotions. This is how you get to a preposterous notion like a few loudmouths running round were an "insurrection." Now this is the most secure place on the planet. Try putting your thinking hat on for just a second here: which is more likely, that a couple dozen bucktoothed mostly unarmed rednecks completely surprised and then overwhelmed the security forces protecting all of the people and all of the confidential data in the capital, or do you think just perhaps the DNC and the capitol police decided to make a weak spot in the security to tempt a situation, then bring it easily under control and have every politician and news anchor ready with the "insurrectionist" term immediately.

Now here it is 2022 and you're still talking about it. Is anybody talking about the 50 people who died during the riots? Is anybody talking about how much of the government information about the virus ended up being wrong? Is anybody talking about the billions of dollars in damage the riots did? Is anybody talking about how many low skilled workers lost their jobs because their places of work were smashed? Nope.

50 deaths, billions of dollars in damages, arrests and riots all across the country. But what are you concerned about? You're concerned about some right wingers who do not, never have, and never will pose a threat to this nation.

It's a great propaganda job that people just love to fall for, because it excuses their feelings of guilt over looting stores and donating the money to BLM who just stole it and bought cars and real estate

Legion2 years ago(+2)

cool story, bro

Boxbox2 years ago(+2)

Look at what Kasparov has been saying. Warning people about the evils of communism, and its ideological remnants that exist today -- BUT -- warning that calling anyone in the current US political climate "communists" is not helpful.

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