[0x3444ac53]

As someone who is falls pretty hard into what is considered the "radical left", facists are much worse. There are a lot of really annoying leftist, and there are a lot of reactionary authoritarian communist that often mirror the far right but prefer Stalin to Hitler.

But the majority aren't much more to the left of bernie sanders, and the minority that is are often too busy cooking meals for the unhoused, organising clothing drives, and trying to do harm reduction in our local communities.

It's more complicated, obviously, but most lefty types nowadays just want everyone to be fed and housed.

[ratrace]

>But the majority aren't much more to the left of bernie sanders

>It's more complicated, obviously, but most lefty types nowadays just want everyone to be fed and housed.

Just so you know, almost nobody who is awake is believing anything like this after what happened to Charlie Kirk.

[omnimus]

What has communism/communists have to do with Charlie Kirk?

[eduction]

“Much worse” is what you say when you know little to nothing about what Mao and Stalin did to say nothing of Xi. Completely horrifying repression, mass murder, famine, and death.

You can pick a “worse” but to act like it’s an easy call is just pig ignorance.

[0x3444ac53]

Hi! I'm sorry, I thought we were talking about the modern fascist movements vs modern communist and left wing ones.

I'm not sure why you're bringing up historical movements, seems irrelevant to my response.

[AnimalMuppet]

The others, OK, but Xi is pretty modern.

[immibis]

Hasn't Xi lifted more people out of poverty than anyone else in the last century?

[eduction]

lol modern communists. Who? Xi, Kim Jong Un, Chavez? What great guys.

And what modern fascists do you propose are worse than them?

[boxed]

Mao and Pol Pot would like a word.

Communists are worse in number of dead, and in how persistent their madness is. Fascism is functionally dead, while communism is quite powerful and still incredibly damaging.

[0x3444ac53]

Fascism is not functionally dead. We just don't have governments actively calling themselves Nazis and fascist. The modern day christian nationalist movement in the United States is a fascists movement, and that's without even getting into the actual neo-nazi and white supremacist groups that also have ties to people in power.

Like I said to another comment, I thought we were discussion the modern right wing and left wing movements happening now, I'm not sure why we're bringing up previous communist movements. Seems irrelevant to my comment.

[boxed]

None of the things you mentioned are in power though, which is my point. Compared to communism it's an utter failure.