• @finitebanjo
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    No.

    This is malfeasance etched into paper. The intent was by people who wished us harm.

    Imagine if you started quoting a leader of the KKK because even though hes a hateful violent asshole maybe some cherrypicked quotes seemed innocent. Do you think you would be well recieved?

    • @Apepollo11
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      But that isn’t the same thing at all. These are not Stalin’s words.

      If you buy into the McCarthyism “Red Scare” nonsense, then fine, but remember that the only lives McCarthy ruined were those of Americans, and with one possible exception*, all of whom were innocent of any actual wrongdoing.

      *Alger Hiss maintained his innocence to his death, and the evidence against him is dubious at best.

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        If these words weren’t condoned by Stalin and his goons the writers would have been flogged, tied to a post, and shot if they were lucky. These words and this drawing were sketched by the will of his administration.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 hours ago

      Brother, capitalists are using the power that capitalism gave them to destroy the planet, public institutions, and democracy around the global and you are still repeating the pro-capitalist / anti-communist Nazi lies from 80 years ago???

      • @finitebanjo
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        -93 hours ago

        The USSR was nonstop greed and corruption, sabre-rattling with Nuclear Weapons until it imploded and gave way to its current capitalist form, fuck off.

        • Enkrod
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          Now Russia is nonstop greed and corruption, sabre-rattling with Nuclear Weapons under capitalism, so completely different!

          • @finitebanjo
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            -43 hours ago

            Indeed, their words were empty if not for their malice.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 hours ago

      Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man.

      — Muammar Gaddafi