Grad is full of tankies. They stan just about every adversary to the US because their whole belief system is "American imperialism bad" so they'll unironically defend north Korea, China, Russia, USSR, etc. Hell, a few of em have "Stalin" in their name. Last month they were celebrating the hamas attack on Israel. They support Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war. Check meanwhileongrad for more interesting tidbits.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like half the stuff posted there is to disenfranchise young leftists enough to keep them from voting for Democrats in 2024 inorder to allow mask off fascism to take hold of American politics, but not enough to get them to practice any real praxis and keep them regualted to having purity politics circle jerks while doing nothing to challenge the status quo. Putin is the biggest Imperial threat on the planet. While Stalin also holds the lions share if the blame for forcing revolutionary Marxism to stall out in the dictatorship of the Prolitariat stage. They also aren't defending the actions of those countries as much as they are recontexualizing them. We should learn from previous socialist experiments and take what was good from them into the future as much as we should recognize and strive to leave their failures in the past. Eithet way we must recognize that the Capitalist Status quo is not working out what so ever for tge vast majority of humanity and something has got to give.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You got it pretty much spot on, though I'll nitpick here

They also aren't defending the actions of those countries as much as they are recontexualizing them.

They're whitewashing history. Yes, if you want to try communism, it's critical to understand where previous attempts failed. They don't, and they don't want to.

Putin is the biggest Imperial threat on the planet.

And yet they still support him. I got banned from grad for 3 years for telling a mod to stop throating putin's cock. I'll see if I can pull up the exchange, it was pretty funny. He immediately whatabouted the US working with nazis after wwii. Like, yeah bud that was bad, I agree, tell me how that justifies invading Ukraine right now though?

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 11 months ago

So you got banned for homophobia then?