• Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    Russia is a fascist reactionary dictatorship

    People will now resort to label any country that opposes the west as a dictatorship (and not in the marxist sense), even if it openly celebrates bourgeois elections every 6 years.

    Inb4 “but they are rigged!!1!”

    So are they everywhere else, either by limiting by design the choices (see: USA) or by limiting the powers that democracy grants to the people. You seem to be Swedish: you cannot even choose your own head of state.

    Edit: my country constantly suffers from scandals every election in which governing parties shove thousands of fake votes by mail into the system and no one has ever called it a dictatorship simply because it is part of The West™.

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        11 months ago

        Ad scandinavicum: point out your opponent’s Swedish/Norwegian/Danish nationality to immediately obliterate them.

        Jokes aside: Scandinavians are overall nice fellas but damn it, they are also not only some of the people most pleased with bourgeois order that I know of, but also completely politically illiterate. Just search on Quora for people asking if Norway, Sweden or Denmark should keep their monarchies and look at their defenses to keep them around on the replies.

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            11 months ago

            Trade unions are good insofar as they’re the levers of collective action, but they’re not really anti-imperialist or even socialist, since their primary concern is their membership.