• @nomecks
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      561 year ago

      No. You see, corporations murdering people for profit isn’t the same. Coke killing union leaders or Rio Tinto destroying entire towns doesn’t count because they’re not government. Q.E.D

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Coke pushing foreign governments to murder union leaders is in fact quite different than the state purging people. One is a company paying off a corrupt government to murder people that government likely does not want gaining power and the other is the state murdering people who oppose their political views.

      • JJROKCZ
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        31 year ago

        Yes, have you not been paying attention to the rampant unchecked police problem

      • @[email protected]
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        281 year ago

        You understand that communism and socialism are not the same thing? Stalinism and Communism are also not the same thing.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            Party foul. The point was ‘socialism bad because socialists kill people for opposing socialist dogma!!’

            Showing the US spending 70 odd years ramming it up the arse of various countries for daring to consider /vote in a system that is not capitalism belies that position and acts as a counterpoint. Going ‘hurrbluur soviets’ adds nothing.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 year ago

              No the pointy, which I made, was socialism is evil because the people who attempt to install it purge their populations.

              Thus the US’s imperialism abroad is an entirely unrelated issue to the point I was making. If you have evidence of mass purges for ideological reasons that would be relevant but also has never happened here.

            • @[email protected]
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              -11 year ago

              That’s just because you didn’t read the page, Soviet’s did the same as the US, they just collapsed a lot sooner.

              If we can take a critique of historical socialists and do a “whatabout the US”, it’s fair to do a “whatabout the Soviets”.