• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    The portrayal of the Communists and Nazis as “twin evils” exaggerates the sins of the Communists in quantity and quality, while minimizing the sins of the Nazis in quantity and quality, in order to show them as relatively equal problems. In other words, its Nazi apologia, and historical revisionism. Read Blackshirts and Reds.

    The Nazis executed the Communists, Socialists, gay people, trans people, disabled people, Jewish people, Slavic people, and many, many more. It wasn’t simple opposition, it was a racially supremacist ideology.

    The Communists executed Tsarists, fascists, and terrorists to the state. They did not create a systematic industrialized murder machine like the Nazis did in order to keep up with how many people they needed to kill.

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      I would really like to live in a society in which the state that DOESN’T execute people. The U.S. was getting close to that, but then Trump happened. So 🤷

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        The US has never been close to that, and has been far worse than the USSR in that the US is formed on genocide of indigenous Americans, settler-colonialism, and massacring millions all over the world such as in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Cambodia, and more. It’s incomparable.

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          Wrongs that could be righted. But honestly. You’re not changing my mind. I’m not changing yours. I’ll fight against communism, just like I’ll fight against this proto-fascism forming in the U.S. I’ll try and keep no one from lining up in gas chamber or being pushed out of helicopters. Your ideology sucks ass. And so do Fascists. Good day. 🎉