I can't get in to how or why I saw this, but I just read a piece from a 10th grader explaining that in the American Revolutionary War, we fought the British because they were trying to make us communists.

:doomjak:

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Mladorossi:

        The Union of Mladorossi (Russian: Союз Младороссов, Soyuz Mladorossov) was a political group of White émigré Russian monarchists (mostly living in Europe) who advocated a hybrid of Russian monarchy and the Soviet system, best evidenced by their motto "Tsar and the Soviets".

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladorossi

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  • Vampire [any]
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    2 years ago

    No matter what media environment or political environment prevails, there will be silly/uninformed people around saying silly/uninformed things every day.

    Treat them with as little energy as possible and focus on high-quality mindfood.

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I can usually get past wacky student writing, but this one got to me.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    My cousins were home schooled and they had a completely different set of textbooks that claimed stuff like the south won the civil war and the north was socialist.

    Oh wait, cheering you up. I saw a bunny this morning! Think about bunnies

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Scrubbing my brain of your first sentence, only thinking about bunnies rn.

  • I_Have_IBS [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I’m sorry for writing that, I didn’t know you were secretly a leftist and I have IBS.

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  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    When I was in high school I was a libertarian, I then spent the next 13 years shilling for communism. There's hope for them, they are a literal child

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      2 years ago

      shilling for communism

      British financial imperialism strikes on many levels.

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      You've got a point. "All our enemies worship Satan" is the og "all our enemies are communists."

  • American_Communist22 [she/her,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    If I had had a nickel for everytime I hear someone call the british empire "communist", I would have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird it happened twice

    also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuyZ-ExYkpQ

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I liked that video, thanks!

      Dare I ask the reasons given why the British empire was communist? I don't know why I'm hurting myself like this, but it's such a bonkers take that I have to say I'm curious.

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Probably because they were "the bad guys" since functionally to Americans, communism and socialism just means "thing I dont like".