this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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What’s with all the downvotes?

Saw a few threads get blasted, and a de-federation post - did I miss the drama?

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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The Khmer Rouge wasn't communist" is another good one.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it wasn't, but tankies sure think it was

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Actually, the irony is that a lot of tankies also say that the KM wasn't Marxist, but that Stalinist Russia and Maoist China were.

Quite why, I couldn't tell you.

[–] 4am@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’s the human rights abuse and genocide that really light their fire.

They just also happen to be interested in leftist political ideas.