• nyamlae@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Ah yes, the USSR, a state which considered homosexuality to be a mental disorder and a sign of fascism, and then subsequently criminalized it, arrested queer people, and sentenced them to years in labour camps.

    People oppose communism because we don’t trust authoritarians to make good decisions, and when they inevitably make bad decisions, the effects are disastrous and widespread due to how centralized the system is.

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      6 days ago

      It’s unrelated to Ussr.
      Many countries criminalized it and still do including US until very very recent times.

      Nothing to do with communism vs capitalism.

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            I get, you’re saying the benefits of communism are well worth the sacrifice of a few minorities. That’s an argument you can make, but who decides who the minority is? What if they decide that you’re the minority? Seems like that’s gonna be a fun little twist in your little utopia, won’t it?

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              the minority

              not sure what u talking about.
              there hasn’t been mass ethnic deportations after about ww2 - which I think we can all agree was a very special unique case.
              besides - supposed democracy of the time were putting peaceful japanese into concentration camps and segregating negros - so how are they better.