Soviet Union is like the entire reason you won’t find a lot of open communist supporters in Ukraine and rest of Eastern Europe. It’s given such a bad reputation to the word
Oh yeah, totally not the Red Scare and sanctions on socialist and communist countries, am I right?
Not seeing the problem with a two-party system is everything that’s wrong with you people. Is there no such concept of coalition where seats can be distributed by the parties on a consensus?
We all see the problem. Ranked choice voting is only barely in the public consciousness, we’re still at least two decades away from realistically being able to challenge the two-party system the way things are going.
My country has instant runoff and it’s great. We’re doing way better than the US. They should overthrow the government and implement communism, or at the very least an actual democracy.
Now, do you think the communist orgs in America can pull off all that in the space between now and Trump enacting his plans for dictatorship? Or do you think maybe we should do something about the Trump problem BEFORE he kills all the trans people, immigrants, and communists in his country?
Wait no, not direct action like that. You’re no supposed to try to influence the lesser of two evils. /s
Hell yeah 🤘! Some people are actually trying to make a Biden presidency more appealing instead of giving up on fighting Trump and on saving lives
How do people not understand that Biden is not changing direction on this and that even if he did the damage is already done for many?
There is no “appealing” version of the Biden admin. The only realistic long-term strategy is allowing zionists to become politically untenable. Democrats in a position of privilege need to experience the consequences of their dead end politics, they simply cannot be made to understand any other way.
This election is already lost to the extreme right, regardless of who wins. The best long-term option is to aim for what will most quickly lead to reform within the Democratic party. The “lesser of two evils” strategy has been tried for 40+ years and has only resulted in failure after failure.
I too like to compare leaders from two different time periods and apply the same standard. When was stonewall? How is the LGBT community treated in the US today? Brandon just watching as chuds agitate against LGBT community and does nothing
The Institute of Sex Research was burned down in 1933. It wasn’t a “different time”, it was a time with the same political issues and the same Nazi rhetoric attacking trans people. Had something been done to prevent the rise of the Nazis and protect the Institute of Sex Research, trans healthcare would be 50 years ahead in technology and we wouldn’t be facing the same issues today. But Genocide Joe (the Russian one) opted not to do anything about the Nazis until 8 years later when Hitler brought the war to Russia.
Genocide Joe was aware of the issues. He chose not to protect trans people, and he chose to persecute gay people. Marx said a worldwide revolution would be required, but Joe said fuck that, homosexuality is bourgeois, and stayed in Russia. He is in large part responsible for the current plight of LGBT people.
The Institute of Sex Research was burned down in 1933.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_für_Sexualwissenschaft
That was in Germany. How is Stalin responsible for that?
Had something been done to prevent the rise of the Nazis
Stalin famously siding with the Nazis her and the Soviets not crushing them in WW2
You’re comparing apples and oranges
Stalin should have marched on Berlin in 1933, or ideally sooner. That’s what Marx said to do. Stalin was a failure of a Marxist and he failed the world.
He also shouldn’t have outlawed homosexuality in Russia, but I think you and I already agree on that.
Armchair general here telling us what should’ve been done.
He also shouldn’t have outlawed homosexuality in Russia, but I think you and I already agree on that.
Yes I do agree that was indeed a shit move.
If I’m an armchair general, then so was Marx, who said the same things I’m saying, and so was the USSR’s own People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs, Maxim Litvinov. People were telling Stalin that Germany was a threat, and that worldwide communism was required. Stalin ignored communist theory and he ignored members of his own government. And what did his Russia actually do in the end? It signed trade agreements from 1935 to 1939, supplying Hitler with raw materials for the Nazi war machine.
Stalin was an incompetent fool when it came to foreign policy with the Nazis. If he’d had a shred of common decency, he would have tried to do something about the holocaust OTHER THAN helping the Nazis.
There’s Marxists today is inside and outside of China recognizing that the US is a threat to China and that the US is supporting a genocide in Palestine. China should just go ahead and nuke the US now, otherwise they are helping the US to commit and support it’s atrocities, right?
I ask you, what state would the world be in if we had had a progressive Soviet Union? One that was 50 years ahead of the states on queer issues? One that was committed to racial and religious equality? How would the fight for global communism be going today if Genocide Joe had not armed the US with material for their propaganda that claims communism is right wing? If everyone in the world knew today that the USSR had been a haven for queer and Jewish people, decades ahead of the capitalist regimes, how easy would it be to persuade people into allies of the communist cause today? How much would a genuinely positive example help us?
Joseph Stalin fought the Nazis on the battlefield, but he was their ally in the cause of bigotry and hate. He had every opportunity to choose to become a progressive, and he refused. Fuck him.
With enough time the SU would’ve eventually gotten there. Here I point to Cuba that similarly had reactionary views on LGBT issues in the past and have the world wide most progressive protections for LGBT people.
Joseph Stalin fought the Nazis on the battlefield, but he was their ally in the cause of bigotry and hate.
Stopping the Holocaust means that Stalin was a bigot and was hateful. Please get a grip.
It shouldn’t take time for a person to realise that criminalising being gay is wrong. You should just know that by the time you’re 5 years old. At the latest. I have no idea what Genocide Joe’s parents taught him as a child, but they obviously failed to raise a good boy. They raised a shithead.
Stalin was a product of his time, which (similar to today) was full of homophobia.
Good people (such as the wonderful scientists at the Institute of Sex Research) are capable of critical thinking and questioning their problematic beliefs. That’s always been true and it always will be. There has never been a time in history when a good person thought we should throw all gay people in jail.
Funny how you ask for critical support for Brandon, but are unable to do so for Stalin
Clarify “direct action”
Painting bike lanes, growing vegetables, giving amateur therapy to otherkin, blowing up oil pipelines, giving cops a good reason to be scared, practicing witchcraft, and distributing arms to the workers.
