Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad

    • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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      1 year ago

      misrepresent what I said by claiming that I want to “kill our way to socialism”

      Well let’s strip out the euphemistic cover to the following.

      Bolsheviks took out an easy path to anti-revolutionary activity and stopped the flower of evil from flowering

      What specifically did that involve? A smidge of killing possibly?

        • SixSidedUrsine [comrade/them]
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          81 year ago

          Fuck you. Killing children is never necessary. If you can’t understand that, I don’t know what else to say.

          the enforcement of authority of the proletariat must be carried out agaisnt the former oppressors.

          Children were never the oppressors you fucking ghoul! You remind me of the goddamned apologists for the US nuking Japan “anything done in the name of furthering the goals of my side, even deliberately to innocent people born in the wrong place at the wrong time, may seem icky but thems the way it is. I’m just being practical.” Not only does the argument rest entirely on a possibility of what might happen, it’s completely unjustified regardless.

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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            91 year ago

            I don’t think it’s fair to equate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the injury and radiation poisoning and genetic defects of countless more to killing, what, 5 children? That’s absurd. You’re blowing this completely out of proportion.

            You can argue it’s wrong but I can’t imagine getting upset over something like that. There’s a simple matter of scale to consider.

            • SixSidedUrsine [comrade/them]
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              71 year ago

              And again, that’s exactly what the fascist apologists for the dropping of nuclear bombs on innocent Japanese civilians say.

              “I can’t imagine getting upset over something like child murder.” I almost put in one of the disgust emojis here but it felt like it was too light-hearted for the disgust I’m actually feeling right now for people I used to think of as comrades.

              • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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                111 year ago

                Lol holy shit 5 innocent people were killed a hundred years ago and you’re throwing around “people I used to think of as comrades” because we’re not clutching pearls hard enough over it.

                What a ridiculous thing to care about. Do you support revolution? You realize that lots of innocent people would die in a conflict like that, right? Way more than 5, I can tell you that! Revolution is not a dinner party.

                I’m sorry that I don’t consider the lives of royals to be worth more than other people. Kill the lib in your head.

                • SixSidedUrsine [comrade/them]
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                  81 year ago

                  “lol, you actually care about innocent people? What a rube! What a LIB!”

                  And no, I don’t give a shit what you clutch pearls about - I mean, I would have thought someone interested in liberation would give a shit about human beings, but maybe that was naive of me - I’m said the “former comrades” thing because I expect the people I consider comrades not to support murdering the children simply because those children were born to their (and my) class enemies.

                  And get the fuck out of here with your “ooooooooh, but that’s ReVoLuTiOnN!!” schtick. You’re like the fucking reactionaries talking about those woke tankies for being upset by the “collateral damage” of all those Iraqi civilians. Oh boo hoo, innocent people. Who gives a shit about them, right? That’s just WAR. Yeah, no shit people die in war, but you pretending that that’s the same as there being innocent people who are your prisoners and are defenseless, literally children who at your mercy and then choosing to shoot them… That kind of false equivalency and gross disregard for innocent people truly is beyond the pale.

                  Kill the reactionary chud in YOUR head.

                  So yes, fuck you. You are no comrade of mine, just as no apologists for bigotry, SA, fascism, or in this case, child murder, are. It’s like that Che quote “if you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” Well, you clearly aren’t because you clearly don’t give a shit about injustice, so long as it’s perpetrated by those you deem to be on your side.

                  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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                    141 year ago

                    Comparing killing the Romanovs to not only dropping atomic bombs on civilians, but also to the Iraq War you really have no sense of scale at all huh.

                    I really don’t care about this at all, I’m sorry it makes you so upset.

        • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
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          51 year ago

          enforcement of authority of the proletariat must be carried out agaisnt the former oppressors.

          Like a 12 year old? I guess that’s the part I don’t understand.