Never forget,

Mr. Travis, cruelly murdered by his own Slaves

1. Their own.
2. Norway.
3. The US.

EDIT: Yeah, you're right. It is obvious.

That's truly the worst fact check I've ever seen.

Thanks for having me! This is my first time being openly communist online. I'm a long time lurker, and I love the vibe here. In light of the recent radlib uprising though, I really wanted to openly show my support for my comrades here.

That's why I'm so glad to have found everyone here. It's quickly become my little spot of sanity. The Ukraine war really did a number on me. Even the most reasonable people I knew were in full on genocide mode. You are far from alone, and I think we all feel the same way.

I love each and every one of you, and thank you so much for having me as your comrade!

About damned time. I was checking the LGBT travel advisories a few months ago, and was surprised that the US was green. Absolutely no way should anyone be travelling to Florida.

Tell me about it. I've had a VERY fun day at work, doing my best to keep my mouth shut all day whilst being subjected to the worst propaganda.

I think it's just the sheer quantity of liberal redditors that have flocked here. 100 upvotes is a lot for our posts, and liberals don't really want to hear our content, so they ignore or downvote it. Browsing lemmy.ml, I see plenty of posts that are in the thousands of upvotes. We just aren't the big fish of the small pond anymore.

It's also possible that some of our members might be posting more on other instances. We're one of the most blocked instances in the fediverse. That means our posts/comments will not be visible to most people, and we generally do want to challenge the western narrative.

I did find your post when browsing lemmy.ml by new though. So we are still federated (and I would be shocked if lemmy.ml ever defederated from us)

The propaganda campaign is really ramping up. This is the second time in as many days that I've heard leftists being called terrorists. I'm already a groomer and pedophile according to these people. I guess it stands to reason that terrorist is next up. It's really not going to be long before there's calls to lock us all up.

I saw that thread. I'm too tired and hungover to do what Karl would do today. So I very much appreciate your efforts comrade.

It's always irritated me that so many people think that the holocaust was entirely about exterminating Jews. It does a disservice to everyone else who died at their hands. I would have been sent to the camps for at least 3 reasons. None of them for being a Jew. I recognise that Jews probably got the worst of it (Slavs would certainly be #2, which I am not either). I'm not trying to start genocide olympics, it's just seldom that people recognise that there were more than just Jews in the camps.

I had a similar moment that convinced me to be openly red. I can't believe that they think decrying us for human rights violations is a good idea. It's a tactic that a child could see through.

I mean, even if all the FUD about communist countries were true, it still pales in comparison to the shit that the US actually did. It makes absolutely zero sense for them to complain about our support of human rights violations while giving American "patriots" a free pass.

It's just angering.

Oh hey! I'm the chick off camera, just to the left!

The primary complaint about our existence is our support for China, the USSR, Cuba, and other evil authoritarian communist regimes. I think most liberals agree that the USSR under Stalin was the most evil country ever. Let's examine the USSR more closely then, assuming that it did all the human rights violations and atrocities it was accused of.

Googling for "Stalin's worst acts", led me to this website with his 7 worst atrocities:

https://history.howstuffworks.com/...

Now, assuming all this is true and unbiased, I would like to compare the list to the USA. I think it's hypocritical to accuse us of supporting human rights violations, EVEN IF THESE WERE ALL TRUE. How is it wrong to support the USSR if the USA were to provably commit even worse human rights violations? I don't see the liberals banning American "patriots" anytime soon.

1. GULAGS. Stalin created the GULAG system for political prisoners, and worked 3.7 million people to death. The USA had a chattel slave population of 3.9 million in 1860. It currently has a prison population of 2 million, who are legally slaves.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

1. Collectivisation. Stalin siezed the land of wealthy landowners and sent them to the gulag. The USA quite famously did that exact thing to the native peoples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears

1. The Great Famine. Stalin killed millions of people by amplifying the effects of a famine, and pushing the worst of it onto groups he disliked. The US had this to say about the Buffalo: "Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone". The USA brought the buffalo to the edge of extinction, just to try to starve the natives. Fun fact: This was one of the primary inspirations for Hitler's final solution.

https://www.theatlantic.com/...

https://thecirclenews.org/...

1. The Great Purge. Stalin rounded up thousands of communists and executed them to secure power. I'm honestly confused by this one, as I thought that liberals loved purging communists. But regardless, the USA famously purged communists as well during "The Red Scare". Mention should also be made to high profile communists such as Malcom X and Martin Luther King who were killed under suspicious circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare

1. Order 277. Stalin gave orders to shoot any soldier who retreated. I would argue that rounding up millions of your people to go fight "communism" in a country that did nothing to you would qualify as just as bad. You decide.

https://www.vva310.org/vietnam-war-statistics

1. Punishing Prisoners of War. Stalin sent captured soldiers to the gulag upon liberation. The USA condems this, but said nothing of reimprisoning concentration camp survivors. Odd.

https://time.com/5953047/lgbtq-holocaust-stories/

1. Giving a Pass to War Crimes. Stalin ignored war crimes from his soldiers. I really hate this one. The USA quite famously snatched up every nazi rocket scientist and spy that they could. They lived out their lives in positions of power in the USA, and even wrote some of the drivel I'm talking about today. The US has also famously refused any oversight from the International Criminal Court, even going so far as threatening invasion if a US soldier was ever tried. The list of US war crimes is huge, and the punishments are brief. A book could be written about how hypocritical this one is, but I'll just leave it at this link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

So here's where we are. Of all of Stalin's atrocities, I think I've shown that the US has done something equivalent but worse in the majority of cases. But it's still acceptable to liberals to wave an American flag, but not a Soviet one? Why do you suppose this is? It gets even worse if you start questioning the veracity of these claims of course, but even if they were at face value, I would still support the Soviet state. They were the first Socialist state and should be respected for that alone. I don't agree with everything that they did, and I don't think anyone does. We don't hate the American people for loving their country. Why should we be hated for loving the USSR?

https://ips-dc.org/...

That's the whole problem. In western circles, it's socially unacceptable to say one word in favour of Russia. If you do, you're branded as succumbing to russian propaganda or a bot. Because nobody reasonable would support Russia.

There was an article posted here recently that was written by one of you. He served as the assistant general secretary for the UN. Not a troll, educated, and has no reason to support Russia (just like we don't). Also "escaped East Germany". He wrote this:

https://www.meer.com/...

It's something that could well have been written by people here, aside from the swipes at the Soviet Union. I strongly suggest you check it out, if you actually wish to understand our viewpoint. It was written with liberals in mind as the target audience.

I'm native. Not Christian. That makes me pagan by default (I'm actually atheist, but respect my ancestors and what's left of my culture). My dad had a proper Indian funeral. I'm here. I'm honestly not sure what the right gets out of appropriating it. They don't respect nature. They seem intent on killing the world. That is the antithesis of our primary beliefs.

You're obviously just agitating, but I'll bite.

A reactionary is defined by the OED as "a person who is opposed to political or social change".

The propaganda you posted was about the famine in 1933. Read the link you were given. It's an overused talking point with a grain of truth. It's propaganda because it specifically blames communism for a natural disaster. And people who typically bring it up completely gloss over what was happening in capitalist north America at the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

I might also argue that it's not so much "if you don't meet the quota, you're paid less", but more of "if you meet the quota, you're paid more". But that's a matter of personal bias. I work in a capitalist country, and both statements apply to me. I would be more charitable with the socialist state, and probably use your statement to describe my job, but that's my personal bias.

I love that you dropped in to post that on a topic about racism. Shows where you stand for sure.

Thus making the point. This post wasn't arrogant. His reply was simply off topic given the community, and was unnecessarily rude, which is against instance rules. Why is he here?

Welcome comrade!