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What does "praising" mean? Being critical of what we learned in school about the USSR?
What does "communism" mean here? Advocating for the type of social democracy that's done pretty well in much of Europe?
I mean I know tankies "exist" but I rarely see them. Just because we're all critical of capitalism doesn't mean we're all dumb enough to want to re try what the soviet union did. It's almost like our kids will die under capitalism so we're willing to think outside the box for once.
Just because you've been blessed from limited exposure to lemmygrad (a Lemmy instance) doesn't mean everyone has been so lucky.
Yes, they literally pine for the USSR. Yes, they literally venerate Stalin. They're not just saying "capitalism bad", they're saying "the specific implementation of social and economic policies of the USSR is what we want".
If lemmygrad is what op is commenting on, they left it out of the image and caption.