• psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Your outrage is completely misguided.

    Say Russia was trying to “exterminate gay people”: it is a capitalist country.

    You can’t present the deeds of capitalists as evidence of communist wrongdoing.

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      …it would great if the tankies could understand that fact to be case in any other context when discussing Russia, but they don’t, so we won’t.

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          Because it isn’t logical, because it is all a mess. Yet because Russia claims Soviet glory and tankies actively shows the current regime reverence as if Putin was a General Secretary, it is rather hard to actually make a distinction between the current authoritarian regime and the one of the Soviets - the fact of the matter is that Russian political culture whether royalist, communist or capitalist doesn’t change.