"Throw me in the slammer, officer, some Redditors said it's illegal not to like the monarchy!"
You have no idea how many Yankee "leftists" I've seen today going "Murica fuck yeah, we bombed those fuckers"
Well, since you're so ecstatic about bombing civilians for their government's actions, I say it's only reasonable that NYC gets nuked.
Oh, no! Punishing civilians would be unfair, if it were to happen to you. I see, I see.
Trick question, the catgirl will only like you if you push the "Reform the USSR" button
Oh, absolutely. I felt incredibly uncomfortable reading that paragraph. I didn't delve deep into the article's history, but it appeared to have been there for quite a while.
I think to some extent anti-communist propaganda has permeated Western society for over a century.
It's just that in the past decades they've gotten a lot more aggressive about crushing any socialist state, or really just any state that "stands in their way"
Parenti's quote, the one about how bourgeois media turns anything about communism into a negative, is definitely applicable to Wikipedia articles too.
I've read an article which casually claimed that the Soviet Union granting equal rights to women is actually evil, because some women wanted to be homemakers. BuT thE eBiL sOviEts putting women on equal standing meant they were pReSsUred by the tWiSTed SovIet sOcieTY to aim higher.
Bolesław, Bolesław get up, you missed a couple.
They can, they have, and they'll continue to do so. Their audiences have the memory of a gold fish and love being fed propaganda.
I've seen people call old articles from Western sources "Russian Propaganda", because it doesn't match the narrative anymore.
I mean they've already done it before
Is this from when Jim Carrey was telling Mussolini's granddaughter or whatever she was that "your grandfather being fascist is bad, actually"?
I've previously been against defederating, but seeing one of the main lemmy.ml admins defend fascists and actively promote a fascist instance has made me change my mind.
I genuinely don't think there's any way to salvage that instance.