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by cocoricamo 1319 days ago
Not only one but two. The first dude has Che Guevara and the other one Fidel Castro.

I bet they'd be all riled up if someone used Mussolini or Franco as their profile picture.

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They are open about not being interested in working with or federating with far-right groups, you don't have to make a bet.
It was a comment on the irony of their profile pictures.

It shouldn't be acceptable to glorify neither of: Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, Fidel, Guevara, Hussein, Pinochet, Ceaucescu, Gaddafi, etc.

My point is that authoritarian murderers are authoritarian murderers no matter their political affiliation and should not be glorified. You can be against one extreme without supporting the other.

> It shouldn't be acceptable to glorify

Profile pictures are not necessary used for glorification. It often used for trolling also, especially on classic forums.

you forgot to include Bush.
Too many people to list.

Although I'd say the tag kind of fits, but Bush is in another category. All the people I mentioned had in common the persecution, imprisonment and execution of their own people at a massive level and maintained power by force. Bush went after other countries and was voted out in the end.

What a ridiculous false equivalence to make.
They were almost the same in their practices, just happened to have different political ideas and better propaganda.