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Lemmy libs: "But stalin baddd mkayyy" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by jackeroni@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] vas@lemmy.ml -2 points 20 hours ago

This is disrespectful to common sense.

The number of people KILLED in the mentioned Gulags is in the millions. The total number of killed by the regime is estimated as ~~20 million people. The number of people imprisoned in the US is just a bit north of a million.

Having a mass murderer on a picture and trying to picture it as "wasn't as bad as the US now" is distasteful. Have self-respect, spend effort and verify the numbers. Think critically about the picture you're thinking to upvote.

P.S. I'm not a US citizen or resident. In terms of freedoms, both the Soviet Union was terrible, and a lot of the events happening in the US right now are terrible.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 36 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I made this in 2019 doggirl-happy

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

Thank you for your service

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Your memes are the backbone of the online communist community at this point.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The ones I shared on r/ChapoTrapHouse in 2019, like this and the space race one, are by far the most proliferated. The reach of that sub explains why the feds had to shut it down.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 days ago

Imagine a bunch of shitposters scaring the shit out of the feds. This year they have already nuked 3 more communist subreddits.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

I saw it reposted all over. Thank you for your service 🫡

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

Thank you for your service comrade

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because anyone else would have let the USSR capitulate to the wehrmacht invasion.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You joke but there is legit someone calling themselves anarchist who said that the 27 million soviets the nazis killed deserved it because of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago

They're a power mod on their instance too

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[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This meme is old. Now it's 25%

[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago

PROGRESS

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Inb4 "tWo ThInGs CaN bE bad At OnCe" from someone comparing something real the empire is doing with a story that same empire told them about someone else.

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