• Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          So there’s a state prosecuting gay people, and a person named after that state is getting prosecuted for being gay. If you can’t see a fat irony here, you’re 100% immune to it.

          Also, there’s no single word about blaming, merely an observation. Don’t put words from your head into other people’s mouth.

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            Seeing the irony and saying someone got what they bargained for are two different things. Only the latter is victim-blaming, which is what was done.

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                Do you think that sort of trolling comment is going to help you here? Because you’re already on thin ice for saying a queer person deserves to be persecuted for being queer because of their username.

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                  Primo, on what thin ice? Over what?

                  Secondo, I very much enjoy watching when people are arguing over remarks they made up instead of grasping the essence of what an opponent says. I challenge you to point where I said what you said I said.

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                    Sorry, it’s not a moderator’s job to argue over such comments. You were shown exactly how what you said was victim blaming and it violates rule 4, but I was trying to be lenient. I have given you plenty of opportunities to rectify this situation. Now it’s time for you to take a break for a few days.

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        Just for your information, but Russia hasn’t been part of the USSR for over 30 years now. Also, Putin’s Russia is extremely different to the USSR, in that it is now ruled by far-right religious fanatics. I don’t think that would fit well into the USSR.

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          Just for your information, USSR in 80s ran operation Denver - a massive disinformation campaign to plant a belief that aids was created in USA laboratories. You, my pedigree chum, should go home and do your homework.

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          In practice USSR was fascist since Stalin came to power. Argue all you want here, but the only difference was social hierarchy. On paper. As sold to common folk. In practice, since Stalin, a rigid hierarchy was established and enforced. It had a name, Nomenclature.

          USSR was authoritarian - one guy run the show since Stalin.

          Ultranationalist- soviet vs rest of the world. Argue till you are blue, but soviets its just a different name for the nation concept.

          Centralized autocracy. People did not rule jack shit.

          Militarism - they sure do love their parades.

          Forcible suppression of opposition.

          Belief in natural social hierarchy. Nomenclature is one thing and the same as current day oligarchy. People were trained to uphold it.

          Hell, equality in USSR was also worth jack shit. In the 90s russia opened archives. Guess what, georgian soviets were sent first to the meat grinder. Prime example Battle of Berlin.

          And for fuck sake. USSR forced other countries into their system. Suppressed culture, enforce russian language. That is ultranationalism.

          Also, hello. We as a group of people have a mortal enemy. That mortal enemy is ever present, weak, but always encroaching. Ever endangering us.

          If I have to spell it out, it is a staple of fascism.