Had a heated argument with a tankie who glorified stalin and lenin. So fucking tired. The worst thing he’s a discord mod of a good streamer, and i left the server because i can’t be there anymore. Context: i’m russian whose grand-grandparents were repressed and forcibly relocated. Left Russia several years ago because i didn’t want to support the aggressive war in Ukraine. And his american (no offense to amreicans tho) ass tried to explain me that stalin is an actual hero who singlehandedly saved Europe from fascism, and all repressed were rich “bourgeois land owners” (actually, no. but even if yes, that’s a terrorism). Then he and other user started posting stupid tankie memes. Ofc they ignored my questions how LGBT+, religious groups and small nations were treated and deleted the message. I’m sick of that shit. Needed to vent somewhere.
I can’t for the life of me understand why someone would advocate for an authoritarian government. Is it really just a really deep belief that “some animals are more equal than others” and that exploiting or oppressing those “lesser” is good?
frankly, yes. you’ve summarized the position basically perfectly. there’s a lot of people out there who view hierarchical society as necessary and good. auth comms take issue with the order of the hierarchy, but not with the structure of it
also that bootlickers yearn for someone to tell them what to do
and the answer to that is easy: they need to tell themselves. Or if they so badly want to, they should read Kropotkin.