• Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    reactionaries like you believe everything the CIA says today, then disbelieves everything they declassify 60 years later. Which is funny, since they only declassify things once they’re low stakes, and have fallen out of public attention, and no longer matter strategically. If the CIA said “we have nothing to do with this coup against socialists in Latin America” 60 years ago, you’d have believed them. But if today they were like “yeah we totally did that shit.” suddenly you’re willing to call them The Lie Machine. You believe them whenever they are lying, and you disbelieve them whenever they finally admit the truth. This is because you believe what is convenient to your reactionary anti-worker national chauvinist ideology.

    people who lived through it

    most people in the USSR voted to preserve it

    • Grimble [he/him,they/them]@hexbear.net
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      You believe them whenever they are lying, and you disbelieve them whenever they finally admit the truth.

      Damn, this pretty much sums up modern libs and reactionaries in a sentence.

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      This is because you believe what is convenient to your reactionary anti-worker national chauvinist ideology.

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