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[–] darq@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why is it that whenever someone says "Nazis are bad" there are always weirdos crawling out of the woodwork to say "what about communism?"?

It's like clockwork.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Because anti-communism is just fascism with a fake mustache and trenchcoat.

[–] mcgravier@kbin.social -4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because Communism overall killed more people than Nazism. The hypocrisy of banning nazi symbols while allowing soviet ones is just unbearable.

[–] darq@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You are just going to have to live with the fact that you're the weirdo on this. People do not see Nazism and communism as similar or comparable. Nazism has discrimination and extermination of the "other" as core tenets of the ideology, communism is an economic model that simply does not have those elements no matter how desperate you are to assign them to it.

Authoritarianism is bad. But communism is not authoritarian. Governments calling themselves communist have become authoritarian and committed atrocities. But as much as weirdos like yourself like to deny it, governments capable of genocide are also capable of lying about being communist.

[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Completely agree, and I think the pithy tl;dr of this is simply:

Communists have hurt and killed people in service of the ideology. With fascism, hurting and killing people is the ideology.

[–] natebluehooves@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago

Weird how he just… disappeared instead of admitting you may have a point. How long until he makes the same argument in another thread?

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Communism overall killed more people than nazism

This claim likely comes from the black book of communism, which includes lowered birth rates as deaths. Birth rates sink when women gain more freedom and education, so it should absolutely not be considered a bad thing, let alone a death.

Further, if the calculations used in that book were applied to capitalism, capitalism would have caused more deaths.