Tedesche

Lemmy overall is just different shades of red. Picking your instance just allows you to select pink vs. crimson.

Oh, please, that’s got to be the biggest false equivalence I’ve heard in a while now. Every single communist nation has rapidly become a dictatorship, because that’s literally what’s supposed to happen in the transition phase. That’s totally different from real democracies being eroded by far-right extremists—and plenty of the world’s democracies are still fighting those extremists and their democracies are still alive. Stop hand-waiving away these stark differences with bullshit generalizations like that.

I believe I already explained that. Give me an example of a country going communist and not becoming a dictatorship.

My politics are better because they don’t result in that.

I’m not. I know what communism is and why it sucks ass. Tankies are another breed altogether.

Agreed. I’m a liberal and I wouldn’t consider myself a “moderate liberal” in every respect either (I support universal healthcare and think public universities should be free), but lefties who think communism is actually a good idea mystify me. Every single country that’s gone down that road has devolved into a dictatorship, and that’s by design, not merely a flaw in execution. Communists are as bad as fascists; they both aim for authoritarian rule.