MeanwhileOnGrad
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate-speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse
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Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
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Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
If you're violating instance rules, you'll typically be warned. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last seven days, but repeat infractions will have longer sentences. You may ask to be unbanned.
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So wait, are they saying they do consider the USSR communist and that being a positive representation of communism?
Oh wait, I forgot, they deny the Holodomor happened, since it happened to the common worker and tankies don't care about them.
Average person: The USSR was Communist.
Communist: The USSR wasn't really Communist.
Lemmygrad: The USSR was Communism at it's finest.
Had a tankie claim the gulag were actually not that bad and "most prisoners survived." Oh neat, I guess we'll ignore the 1.6 MILLION that didn't.
even if that were true, surviving is a pretty low bar. you could get tortured every day for 10 years and still survive. what makes things even more absurd is that (like you said) tons of people didn’t even survive.
oh nah it's really simple, you just pretend that 1.6 million don't exist and is cia propaganda
"Most survived" is such a ringing endorsement.
Most ist more than a half. You to take what you get i guess.
That's the beauty of the Gulag, comrade. The more you send there, the more survive!