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[DumbDude42]

its interesting how in these countries there's a decent amount of people nostalgic for the USSR but when it comes to the polls communist parties in most countries (with a few exceptions like Russia) do badly

even in russia the communist party is tiny, irrelevant and powerless now

the thing is, people who are nostalgic for a totalitarian anti democratic system aren't gonna bother with voting anyway because they don't believe in democracy. they know that you will never get a system change like that by voting for a political party.

the only totalitarian regime that ever came to power through democratic elections was hitlers nazi party in germany, who managed to take advantage of the fact that the democratic republican political system in germany was extremely weak and unstable, that allowed them and their paramilitary to intimidate and bully the parliament into passing the enabling act which transferred all legislative power away from the parliament and gave it to the chancellor (hitler) instead.

no state today is anywhere near such weakness though, so a democratic way into totalitarianism is basically impossible. that means the only way to get there would be violent revolution and civil war, like the original bolsheviks in russia or franco in spain. from that position it makes sense why nobody bothers voting for the commies even though a lot of people are sympathetic to their cause.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

its interesting how in these countries there's a decent amount of people nostalgic for the USSR but when it comes to the polls communist parties in most countries (with a few exceptions like Russia) do badly

That depends what you mean by "these countries".
In Poland and Hungary most people, especially boomers who lived through the communist era, vote for right-wing parties like PiS or Fidesz because Poland and Hungary were treated badly by Russia.
In Russia itself people who lived through the communist era tend to be nostalgic for it because the USSR gave them a guaranteed paycheque and didn't sell the country off to oligarchs. That said, the Communist Party doesn't do that well because those people (apart from the diehard communists who vote Communist or the ultranationalists who vote LDPR) just vote for United Russia like everyone else unless United Russia screws up, which they did with pensions a couple years back.

 

[Baloney Face]

its interesting how in these countries there's a decent amount of people nostalgic for the USSR but when it comes to the polls communist parties in most countries (with a few exceptions like Russia) do badly

Nostalgia isn't the same as really wanting it back.

 

[celebrityskin]

In Poland and Hungary most people, especially boomers who lived through the communist era, vote for right-wing parties like PiS or Fidesz because Poland and Hungary were treated badly by Russia.

Iirc in Romania and Bulgaria the boomers vote for the 'social democratic' parties which are basically just nostalgia factor pensioners interest parties (also corrupt af)

The younger generations there are either #girlboss pro-EU liberals or right wing nationalists and monarchists

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

More lunacy from /r/gabbypetito as they full blown schizopost an apology.

https://archive.md/KIR1o
It kinda has to be seen to be believed, but please whatever you do don't actually read all of it. They go as far as to sign their fucking reddit usernames in cursive as well as post their sleep schedules to explain why they weren't responsible for the stickers scandal.

Gotta love it tbh, peak reddit.

 

[Hitman One]

More lunacy from /r/gabbypetito as they full blown schizopost an apology.

https://archive.md/KIR1o
It kinda has to be seen to be believed, but please whatever you do don't actually read all of it. They go as far as to sign their fucking reddit usernames in cursive as well as post their sleep schedules to explain why they weren't responsible for the stickers scandal.

Gotta love it tbh, peak reddit.

as moderators do not receive any financial compensation from Reddit

Do they mean to tell us that they do it for free? Zero compensation?

 

[Grand Omega]

I thought they were persecuted for their cheap ass stickers, not prosecuted.

 

[NickGer]

That depends what you mean by "these countries".
In Poland and Hungary most people, especially boomers who lived through the communist era, vote for right-wing parties like PiS or Fidesz because Poland and Hungary were treated badly by Russia.

It's pretty generous to call PiS right wing they are center right at best or conservative.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

It's pretty generous to call PiS right wing they are center right at best or conservative.

Really?

In the UK or US a party that got rid of communist judges and opposed LGBT ideology would be seen as pretty right wing.

 

[Fuck Y'all]

Really?

In the UK or US a party that got rid of communist judges and opposed LGBT ideology would be seen as pretty right wing.

but PiS don't lower taxes and dismount welfare, therefore they're socialists

 

[DumbDude42]

Really?

In the UK or US a party that got rid of communist judges and opposed LGBT ideology would be seen as pretty right wing.

yeah because uk, us and basically the entire west have a completely warped and delusional view of politics and call anybody who doesn't enthusiastically suck globohomo cock a nazi

from a neutral and objective observers point of view, parties like the polish pis are best described as centrist or 'big tent'

 

[Baloney Face]

By European standards, the USA has no real left wing.

The Democrats are funded by capitalist billionaires who "identify" as left wing.

 

[DumbDude42]

By European standards, the USA has no real left wing.

The Democrats are funded by capitalist billionaires who "identify" as left wing.

usa left wing exists but not as its own political party, rather they're a faction within the larger democratic party. the party as a whole is not left wing at all, it's a party of corporate interests first and foremost, and usually these corporate interests successfully placate and appease the leftists in the party by handing out socially liberal policies that make progressives happy without negatively affecting the corporate class.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

By European standards, the USA has no real left wing.

The Democrats are funded by capitalist billionaires who "identify" as left wing.

When you're so far left...

 

[Slap47]

Many such cases

 

[Montalbane]

Quick question.
What is wrong with r/nosleep?
The stories are fucking shit and are as subtle as a baobab tree and as scary as a family lunch.
What happened to it?

 

[Caramelized Squid]

Quick question.
What is wrong with r/nosleep?
The stories are fucking shit and are as subtle as a baobab tree and as scary as a family lunch.
What happened to it?

I really feel like not being able to critique the stories is a huge reason. Anyone can write any nonsensical bullshit and since everyone has to play along like it's real everything just gets huge upvotes.

It doesn't help that ever story on there now is like 45 parts of just the most redundant, boring shit.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Quick question.
What is wrong with r/nosleep?
The stories are fucking shit and are as subtle as a baobab tree and as scary as a family lunch.
What happened to it?

Same thing that happens to every interesting subreddit: it got popular.

 

[BelUwUga]

Also fuck trannies because it probably has something to do with them too and I just like saying that.

Ooh, this one is easy to explain. If you accept the premise that sex≠gender, "female" is how you get around the "but a woman might not have a vagina/might have a penis" nonsense by simply swapping out one word. Opting out of the mental gymnastics makes them seethe so they are looking for any reason to dismiss your comment entirely. Instead of accepting there are inherent differences between those that have a Y chromosome and those that don't, they can simply dismiss what you say out of hand. I guess while we're supposed to accept sex≠gender, somehow biologic terms for sex like female are the same thing as gender terms like women. It's all just so fucking tiring.

 

[Ruin]

Many such cases

Lmao based.