i just woke up, and this is a little test - i just got banned from [email protected], and i’m NOT even sure if this is the right community to post this on. does anyone know?

that said, first off, i would like to sincerely apologize for calling the genocide over in gaza a “feud”. i called it a feud because the countries of israel and palestine have been a war, but i realize now that me calling it a “feud” is sort of an understatement and is a bit insensitive. oh and i WASN’T pulling the ol ‘both sides are bad’ card - i strongly support palestine in this war in gaza.

secondly, i sincerely promise to act in good faith and learn a bit more when it comes to socialism/communism. i sincerely hope you forgive me.

if anyone has any resources to watch without losing focus, i’d appreciate it. thank you!

edit: i just edited the slop link. seriously!

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlOP
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    15 hours ago

    i called it a feud because of huge tensions between israel and palestine, but i realize that that was an understatement that’s a bit insensitive.

    that said, do you think hexbear is run by tankies who DIDN’T realize that you DON’T have to support stalin to support marxism-leninism?

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      12 hours ago

      Stalin has been dead for over 70 years, and “tankie” is nothing but a terminally-online pejorative for anyone left of Sanders. Maybe spend less time worrying about people’s takes on Stalin. He was neither Jesus nor was he Lucifer, despite what a century of anticommunist propaganda has said about him.

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      15 hours ago

      As Weng Weiguang says, The Evaluation of Stalin is Essentially an Ideological Struggle. Marxist-Leninists don’t idolize Stalin. At the same time, Stalin synthesized Marxism-Leninism, and oversaw the world’s first socialist state during its most turbulent period. The CPC rates him as 70% good, 30% bad, and this rating is roughly orbited by most communist orgs. Those who denounce Stalin entirely, also denounce the USSR, and existing socialism.

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      I don’t really concern myself with who runs things. I just treat the federation like the real world. If I like places I frequent them, if I don’t dislike places they will be in my rotation, if I don’t like them then I don’t hang at them.

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        13 hours ago

        So you’ll frequent a Nazi owned bar as long as it plays music you like?