Its a shame because they’re prominent voice on lemmy. Good on the admins for not tolerating this. I don’t understand the point of targeting a person you don’t like on the internet just because they said something that upset you and spamming their post with downvotes. If you don’t like someone block their ass and be done with it. I agree with the perspective that its harassment (and an incredibly petty ineffective form of it at that)

  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    In normal discussions, simple mistakes like confusing the Wikipedia page for “Elections in the Soviet Union” with the page for “Soviet Democracy” merits some grace, especially because I have been exceedingly patient with you. Again, I’m only being patient with you because I understand that you feel caught out and alone, that’s why you’re jumping for screengrabs for the drama communities you mod while talking to 3-5 people at the same time. It isn’t really a healthy thing to do.

    As for the “lack of democracy,” no, it’s definitely been affirmed as a somewhat flawed, but working democratic system. The Soviet Union was the world’s first socialist state, it broke new ground and stumbled along the way, but that doesn’t make it “fascist” or those who supported it so. Same with trying to pile on a bunch of new topics to discuss, hoping one of them lands. It’s desparate.

    I don’t see how I reject everything Marx stood for. You’ve admitted to not being a Marxist yourself, what makes you an authority on Marxism? My opinions are largely in line with the overwhelming majority of Marxists, I’m a Marxist-Leninist that holds a fairly standard Marxist-Leninist view.

    You keep misusing the word “fascist” and genocide. You have no sources but Wikipedia links, and you’ve again been at this for hours. For your sake I’m disengaging here, this just isn’t worth it for anyone, and I recommend you do so as well. You obviously don’t care about anything I have to say, and I don’t really take your insults seriously as I know they hold no water, so that’s it.

    • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      As for the “lack of democracy,” no, it’s definitely been affirmed as a somewhat flawed, but working democratic system.

      The overwhelming consensus since the fall of the SovUnion by academics has been a rejection of the idea that the Soviet Union was in any way democratic even by socialist academics. But tankies online still pass around the sacred texts from 1938; they could never be wrong!

      You’ve admitted to not being a Marxist yourself, what makes you an authority on Marxism?

      Basic fucking literacy?

      My opinions are largely in line with the overwhelming majority of Marxists

      This may be shocking, but the Soviet Union fell 30 years ago.