Has nothing to do with it. You didn’t read any part of the comment, you replied with a generic response based on trigger words.

You can buy lemmy accounts pretty easily and cheaply given they just need emails. Any account of any age could be a bot, hell most bot farms specifically use old accounts obtained either through exploits or purchasing them en masse.

If you act like a bot, pretending all critics of Ukraine are Russian bots despite them directly calling Russia a genocidal fascist state that illegally invaded Ukraine, then you get called a bot.

Try not to be indistinguishable from a bot next time.

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Leaders of the Azov battalion believe the White Ukrainian population is part of the master race and have sought to exclude all other ethnicities in Ukraine from calling themselves Ukrainian. Explicitly when the war started there were reports of Azov members killing LGBT Ukrainians,

Ukraine itself, as a state, operated closer to nazi germany than any other type of government until very recently, as in when the west installed Zelensky. Since then it has stopped all democratic activities and has become a military Junta that frequently has purity purges of political positions, and since democracy isn’t a thing there anymore, these positions remain empty.

Zelenskyy has been on record multiple times praising Israel, Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, likening himself to Netanyahu(literally a nazi), praising Ben Gavir(literally a nazi), and promising to make Ukraine a the bigger version of Israel (a nazi state that has been committing genocide for 80 years).

Ukraine should not have been attacked. They are the victim. That is bad and Russia should lose. Russia, being a capitalist hellscape of the US’ making has also turned into a supremacist state bent on genocide of vulnerable populations to keep their myth up.

Both countries, however, tick off at least 10 of Ur-Fascism’s features. Neither is a good country. Neither is a democratic country. Neither is a country that cares about the working class. Both should be destroyed, separately, by worker’s revolutions.

They’re both nazi states, hence the Azov battalion, the dozens of state-built shrines to ukrainian nazi officers, and the fact Zelensky wants ukraine to be the next israel.

Yeah just because they build cages for kids in the desert near the border doesn’t mean anything’s going to happen! It’s just optional infrastructure in case you want to put your kids in a cage. It’s totally voluntary.

Turn off transcoding and/or unify the codecs on your totally legally acquired library that you legally ripped yourself.

So I suppose in your mind all the academics Stalin had murdered all deserved it yes?

Generally yes? Exceedingly few ‘academics’ were ‘murdered’ in the USSR, are you confusing it with China who made ‘academics’ work in the fields as a way to force them to understand how their ‘lessers’ were living?

Stalin also didn’t ‘murder’ anyone. He didn’t have that authority vested to him. There are multiple historic sources showing Stalin fighting with the council to do things, which is not something a ‘dictator’ has to do. All of the purges were backed by the democratic authority, and generally well backed. The implementation sometimes went awry, because it was the 1940 and 50ss and proving identity was basically impossible.

I suppose murder in the name of the soviet state is acceptable as long they’re political enemies right?

Depending on the enemy, yes. Objectively yes. And you also believe this. The Nazis were political enemies.

I suppose the Uyghurs are all happy and definitely haven’t been persecuted or reeducated hmm?

No. They haven’t been. Again no international neutral party has ever supported the idea of a genocide happening on the Uyghur people. Not a single one. There are a handful of people, literally less than two dozen, none of which have ever been shown to live in China, that have generated the totality of claims against China during their response to the Terror attacks funded by the US and Turkey. If you believe this propaganda point, you’re doing the meme of a ‘enlightened centrist’ that doesn’t realize their ‘center’ is a heavily propagandized and heavily curated version of reality that does not line up with actual reality.

It’s also the dimension of the political compass in which authoritarians would prefer we not talk about so I talk about it as much as is feasible.

The political compass is useless. It’s the Meyers Briggs of the political world – i.e. it has no scientific backing whatsoever and Buzzfeed quizzes are objectively more accurate to the realities of the world.

The alternative to authoritarian socialism is libertarian socialism which is where any person who values both theirs and their fellow humans dignity and mutual respect would want to live.

That is just socialism. There is no difference. That is literally the basis of all socialist movements. Read any theory, read any manifesto, read literally anything any of these ‘evil dictators’ wrote. Anything. Did you know Xi Jingping has a doctorate and has published more internationally peer reviewed papers than any other world leader? Did you know he has nine books? Did you know Stalin published at least two? Did you know there is no such thing as ‘Stalinism’, a term that first appeared in the late 2000s?

There is plenty of information out there, translated to all ten major languages that over 90% of the population at this point.

When you rule with an iron fist, when there is no due process, when there is no personal representation only state representation and the ability for change that can only come from a functioning and healthy democracy; people are squashed under the boot of those in power a la Orwell’s Animal Farm. Neither of these worlds are ones I want to live in; nor do I want for any of my loved ones.

The USSR had jury trials*. China has jury trials. There is due process written into both constitutions. The reason you believe there was not is not ‘historical record’ it is simply the propaganda you were taught by a system built exclusively to dissuade you from any useful action. All revolutions will get to the stage where the people are in charge of the state – and that will require massive amounts of violence, and that will result in massive amounts of violence. Because people do not give up their power. Tomorrow, if the US were to undergo its first people-led democratic revolution, your neighbors that own land or are fans of those owning land will be subject to violence. They’re not going to give up their greed easily. Many will work with countries that are enemies of their people in order to stop the revolution. There isn’t another solution that has been proven to work, unfortunately.

• Yes, during specific war-time purges these were illegally suspended, not by Stalin, but by individual officers who lost their jobs and many were executed by the state for violating rights. As Stalin wrote he deeply regretted not dedicating more resources and not having clearer directives on how to carry out the trials of suspected nazi and US collaborators, especially in liberated lands that had extensive nazi collaboration where proving fact was difficult.

One does, actually, by the definition of ‘left-wing’ politics, exclude the other.

Horseshoe theory and other ‘enlightened centrist’ viewpoints were created solely, and I do mean solely, to disrupt class consciousness. Nearly all propaganda you believe that make the USSR or China seem bad was created by the US wholesale, with some being created by criminals given extremely cushy paychecks for life for utilizing their background to give legitimacy to stories made up by people that never left the US.

‘Intolerance,’ doesn’t enter into it. Period. There isn’t any documented accounts of that from any left wing government. Period.

Reddit is free you know.

It actually does, if they’re leftist.

Also define authoritarian in anyway that excludes any possible state you would support, and includes a state you’ve been told is authoritarian by people currently raping children in concentration camps.

Something something 40 gorillion christians killed by JEWISH bolsheviks something something 80 gorillion innocent light skinned practically white farmers murdered by the dark skinned commie dictator Mao because of his hate for their righteous struggle against the dark something something here’s a link to a National Endowment for Democracy funded site that self-cites all of its sources or cites only old british men that have never been shown to ever be within 10,000km of a chinese person.

Stormworks. Obviously. The entire game is about engineering and designing vehicles to go on various rescue missions, or to go to space, or sometimes to mine oil… okay the devs have gone a bit off track from the original vision but the storms are still good for a voxel physics sandbox game.