Am I the only one who gets bunch of posts from leftist and even communist subs/circlejerks in their feed? It’s kinda weird to see genzedong and similar popping up in hot/rising feed. This just hopefully some of the growing pains of a new platform.

  • CrimeDad@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You can indeed describe something as incomparably worse when it is so bad that a comparison doesn’t make sense or there’s no point to making one. I really don’t think I’m the one who’s out of line here.

    Anyway, the whole “victims of communism” trope you’re invoking is just embarrassingly facile. The numbers are contrived and no consideration is ever given to the terrible conditions out of which the various revolutions came or the horrible forces they were subsequently up against, let alone comparative conditions in the so-called free world. Everyone who ever lived and died in a communist state is a crime against humanity, but whenever someone dies in the US because they had to choose between medicine and rent it’s their own damn fault. Give me a break.

        • EVH@lemmy.saik0.com
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          1 year ago

          I just look at numbers. Once you start discounting certain human lives over others, it all becomes dangerous.

          • CrimeDad@lemmy.oneEnglish
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            1 year ago

            You’re the one discounting lives. The murder rate for the Holocaust was at least 1.25 million per year and they had plans to keep going. The dubious allegations in the Black Book of Communism don’t even come close to that kind of efficiency and completely discount the lives saved by having defeated the Nazis, which would not have been possible without the USSR’s incredible sacrifice. It’s one thing to have resentment for communism. It’s just incredibly messed up to say that it’s as bad or worse than Nazism.