And no, I’m not saying don’t vote; I’m saying that there comes a point when voting isn’t going to solve the problem

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    Well, you see, every atrocity committed by Stalin or Mao was justified and it’s only CIA propaganda that makes you think otherwise. /s

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      And everyone I know who has horror stories of life in the glorious workers’ paradise of the USSR is a lying counterrevolutionary who should have been shot by the KGB

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      MFW I realize genocide denialism follows the Narcissist’s prayer

      It didn’t happen, and if it did it wasn’t that bad, and if it was it’s not that big a deal, and if it is it wasn’t (insert genocidal party)'s fault, and if it was they didn’t mean it, and if they did the victims deserved it.

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        Which follows because it’s perpetrated by the political equivalent of narcissists: dictators and oligarchs.