It's really bewildering to hear from a western tankie their alternative history in which the soviet bloc countries had it super cool and all the badness is just capitalist propaganda and being shown a recording of some one guy in Latvia that actually liked it as proof, while being East European and knowing how it really was — awful to the point of people hijacking planes just to get to the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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There is no "right-wing pipeline" that comes even close in its effectiveness to just how absolutely insufferable vocal left-wing people tend to be. When I see memes pushing right-wing propaganda I just scroll further, when I see the way leftists behave I have to resist the urge to repost these memes just to piss them off.
The failure to notice and address that costs progressive movements more people than any doge shitposting group could ever achieve.
So I've made a negative of a friend's profile picture for a meme and TIL that the Ukraine flag in negative basically just turns upside-down.
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