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Pakistan has been shockingly responsible throughout this.

Indian media and authorities have been very inflammatory.

Massive cyber attacks too. 70% of Indian power out. A lot of hacking going on. Massive MASSIVE coordinated attack

I read the community name as the onion and thought this just felt like something real and the onion just isn't bizzare enough for our timeline anymore.

Turns out it wasn't the onion 😭

I hate you (I love you)

A LOT. Almost always good. I'm shocked you've had an issue Infact that's what I primarily use it for

As opposed to what? Throwing it away? I though this was what everybody did 😭

Oats are one of those things that I just get sick of after a little while.

I'm team lentils and beans

Equating all socialism with the authoritarian regimes of the 20th century oversimplifies a complex political tradition.

Dictatorial tendencies are not intrinsic to socialism but are contingent on specific historical and political contexts.

Russia: The Bolsheviks' turn to authoritarianism was partly due to the civil war, external invasions, and a lack of democratic traditions. These circumstances led to the consolidation of power to preserve the revolution, not as an inevitable feature of socialist theory.

In other contexts, socialist movements (e.g., in Scandinavia) have successfully implemented social democratic policies without authoritarianism.

The role of individual leaders and political choices in shaping socialist experiments. Figures like Lenin and Stalin made decisions that prioritized centralized control, which deviated from the principles of worker self-management and democratic participation.

These deviations were not a necessary outcome of socialism but reflected the particular decisions and dynamics of those historical moments. So a small sample size of major socialist states and people cloud judgement.

External hostility often pushed socialist regimes toward authoritarian measures. For example, the USSR faced significant opposition from capitalist countries, which influenced its militarization and political centralization. This external pressure created a siege mentality that undermined the potential for democratic governance.

Democratic socialism has thrived in various countries, showing that socialism can coexist with democratic principles. Examples include the welfare states of Scandinavia, where socialism has enhanced equality and social welfare without undermining political freedoms.

Lemmy original!

I'm chronically online and yet haven't seen this copy pasta before

203 upvotes, 202 downvotes. The most controversial lemmy post I've ever seen

I am not op. This is a stolen meme