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It's almost like Mao was a narcissistic dictator eh.
BANNED until you submit to a public struggle session and a loyalty dance to demonstrate your dedication to the cause of the peasants and proletariat!
Of course dear leader!
Smacks my back while dancing
🎼🎵No gulag please 🎵
🎵No gulag please🎵
🎶May Mao move me more🎶
🎵But not to a gulag!🎵
Sweating 🥵
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Well that was a horrifying read.
I dare you to post that on lemmygrad.
Also, I believe Pol Pot was super efficient, too.
I dare you to post that on lemmygrad.
As amusing as some find poking the idiots' nest, I generally find it tedious instead. If I wanted to talk to blinkered idiots parroting braindead reactionary talking points, I'd just go to my hometown in rural Appalachia and strike up some conversations with folk in red hats.
I find it more amusing to just observe their cognitive dissonances at certain events.
My favourite was when Bernie Sanders condemned Taco Don for trying to side with Russia and then "socialists" suddenly don't like him anymore and conjure some peculiar arguments as to why he's wrong, while trying their hardest not go spamming Z's 4-chan style.
I mean, considering how many leftists on here (ie not a majority, but a still-significant minority) dislike Bernie for being a filthy 'succdem', that hardly surprises me. It's the same group of people who think Bernie is 'controlled opposition' and condemned AOC for daring to [checks notes] exist in 2024, and the like.