Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoTankie is a pejorative for communists, the US calls everyone who doesn’t do what they say a dictator
Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoTankie is a pejorative for communists, the US calls everyone who doesn’t do what they say a dictator
Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, and drop the pipe, I know what a dictator is on my own.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You clearly don’t
Leviathan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Please, tell me more about what I know. What do I think a dictator is?
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
This is youImage
frisbird@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Clearly you think that dictators are whoever the US says is a dictator. Chavez, Maduro, Xi, Putin, Kahmeini, Stalin, Kruschev, and on and on. Never mind that all of these people entered office through competitive politics with multiple possible contenders. Never mind that they all failed to obtain some offices they strove for. Never mind that they operated within full blown bureaucracies with rules of law, regulation, standard procedures, and distributed control over massive swathes of the government. Never mind that these governments have various factions, some have various parties, all with electoral mechanisms both popular and ministerial much like European democracies have.
Fidel Castro immediately after the revolution was a dictator - his dictates were law. Lenin immediately after the revolution was a dictator - his dictates were law. Mao immediately after the revolution was a dictator - his dictates were law. But after the revolution? Outside the periods of martial law, normalcy returned to every single one of these countries with peaceful transitions of power through constitutionally defined mechanisms.