Summary
Russian state TV hosts are celebrating Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, claiming they could “dismantle America.”
Figures like Vladimir Solovyov praised the nominees, including Kash Patel for FBI director and Tulsi Gabbard for intelligence, as a “radical dream team” likely to undermine U.S. institutions.
Critics in the U.S. warn that Trump’s selections, including conspiracy theorists and controversial figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Pete Hegseth, signal plans to weaken federal agencies.
I’m fine with communists of various flavors, even though I personally disagree with it as a political system. Hell, if the current system isn’t working, and someone promises you all the potatoes you can drink, of course they’re going to attract a lot of supporters.
But just because something or someone is in opposition to the status quo, doesn’t mean they’re better. That’s where tankies come in - I see too much idiocy coming from that camp that communists are getting a bad reputation because of them. Stalin was a benevolent head of state, Beria did nothing wrong, North Korea is a worker’s paradise, etc. Oh, and of course some claim an anti-colonialist stance while having no answers to what happened in Afghanistan in the 70’s, eastern Poland in 39, and Finland in 39-40, Tibet in 51, etc
Lemmygrad-brigading in 3… 2… 1…
I take it that by idiocy you mean hypocrisy. Ideology often does that to people. We’re much better at seeing the crimes of our enemies than we are at seeing the crimes of our own ideological group. People can also justify a lot of objectively terrible things in the pursuit of their ideological goals (the ends justify the means). It’s important to note that these phenomena are not unique or exclusive to MLs. These biases exist, to one extent or another, in every ideology.