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@The Free Penguin then the kitten was executed with an anti-aircraft gun

@Protestation idealism

@TrippyFocus Which is, again, extremely recent, and also fraught with contradiction among its voting populace. It has an amazing constitution, but it only barely squeezed through (and is still only that — a constitution).

Russia is not at all stable, nor is the rest of the Soviet bloc. It moved straight from the ossified and besieged socialism of the 70s and 80s into fascism, immediately embracing capitalism in crisis, and that’s where it’s remained.

@harc A state being bourgeois is not the only material condition of that state. The west in the 90s saw immense growth and stability, which meant that it could afford more rights to the groups that it had previously marginalized. We’re now seeing that rolled back as said stability comes crashing down.

China, meanwhile, is quite new to stability, so we’re only now seeing rights there increased. The USSR, one could argue, never really saw stability due to constant sanctions and external threat.

@harc almost like material conditions of countries on opposite ends of the globe or literal decades apart make a difference

@HiddenLayer555 I have more respect for you than to believe that you can’t imagine how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife.

Jesus’s whole cult was about, yes, salvation through his sacrifice. This is Christianity 101.

@HiddenLayer555 Which does not require following Jesus, yes. That is a comparatively novel implementation. But hey, congrats on being able to CTRL+F the bible for “hell” and then acting like you know anything about Christian theology.

@HiddenLayer555 Golly, look at all those verses that say you go to hell if you don’t follow Jesus in specific.

@HiddenLayer555 sighhhh.

He’s not.

Liberation theology would disagree.

The idea that the guy who literally started…

No, he didn’t. That didn’t come about until Dante in the 13th century.

Have you ever actually read the bible? I have

No, you clearly have not lmao

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Who gives a shit. “Opium of the masses” doesn’t mean what you think it means. Stop dividing the working class; militant atheism died on Reddit a decade ago for very good reason. These days, Marxists support religious freedom.

@☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ Just look at all those European Marxist countries

@Protestation A strangely reactionary sentiment.

@King_Simp As far as I know, he didn’t actually do anything wrong apart from being the as-of-yet-still-unsurpassed founder of the torture porn genre. Saw has nothing on 100 Days of Sodom — I say having only read descriptions of both because I am actually an utter wimp.

@☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ Yeah it’s batshit insanity down there even six years later. Westerners glorify it because Kpop dweebs are the modern weeaboo — the RoK has very successfully exported its culture to the west — but people who actually live there, or even pay attention to the politics, know it’s a shithole.

@☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

But people really hate them and are just begging for a regime change, we promise, let us do a regime change bro

@VladimirLimeMint Lenin was really sex-averse, even for his rather patriarchal upbringing. It led to some pretty bad takes by modern standards but he also may have been an OG ace icon.

Lenin: “Gay sex is counterrevolutionary!”
Modern chud: “Fuck yeah!”
Lenin: “Straight sex is also counterrevolutionary!”
Chud: “Fuck y­— wait what”
Lenin: “If you aren’t putting every ounce of your energy into physically building the revolution, what you are doing is counterrevolutionary!”
Trotsky: “Also the concept of family is bourgeois, and parents should have little to nothing to do with childrearing!”
Lenin: “… okay one tick there bud”

@deathtoreddit username does not at all check out

@blobii lol, what is it?

@Fencer_JP What if I told you they’re the same thing

@ComandanteCapybara I believe it’s the biggest military parade the country has ever had. Also the most international, with the national leaders of the DPRK and Russia also being there.

@Spectre idgaf, rankings are dumb, but you just completely excluded the DPRK.