• Diva (she/her)
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    3 months ago

    From personal experience they’re great at spending inordinate amounts of time attempting to browbeat people who are not interested in voting for their team

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      3 months ago

      Yep, as Lenin and Stalin showed. Slaughtering and violently opressing everyone that disagrees with you is far more effective.

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        3 months ago

        Yep, as Lenin and Stalin showed. Slaughtering and violently opressing everyone that disagrees you suspect of disagreeing with you is far more effective.

        Paranoid dictator gonna paranoid dictator

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          3 months ago

          Absolutely valid and excellent point. I am sure there are plenty of Polish descendants who would attest to what happened to their families in Soviet territories.

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        3 months ago

        violently oppressing fascists is the lesser evil option though