• TheLurker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh you know what, I don’t care for this government. I might make critical statements about it and maybe it will drive societal change and then political change

    Oh you know what, I don’t care for this government. I might make critical statements about it and go to prison for it.

    One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just isn’t the same. Tankies won’t tell you they’re a bunch of bootlickers, they try to convince you it’s democracy to blame.

      • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Similarly, better jail in the US than the gulag.

        …oh, and the USSR blew past the systemic racism and violence straight to broad ethnic purges anyhow.

        Happy choosing, people!

        If we could work our way toward actual communism, that’d be real nice.

    • Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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      There are currently Black, indiginous and environmental activists who are detained under Biden’s law of “domestic terrorism.” Is that what you’re talking about?