Nelson Mandela bombed railways, was in South Africa’s communist party, worked with Cuba’s communist government, and sabotaged the South African government to overthrow apartheid.

If he did any of that right now, liberals would be calling him a “tankie”. And they did indeed insult him back then when he did so. It’s always after the fact that liberals admit these people were in the right.

if you ever needed a clearer sign that lemmy.world does not tolerate leftist views, it’s here in this post.

in case you were unaware: most of the rest of the lemmyverse will welcome and/or discuss this topic and the response you’ve gotten from lemmy.world is to be expected.

No they aren’t because I am not a bootlicker

Edit: Ah this was a response to bad mouse. Well those folks are still not my heroes but atleast the title was not really aimed at me

Смотрите любимые видео, слушайте любимые песни, загружайте собственные ролики и делитесь ими с друзьями, близкими и целым миром.

“Watch your favorite videos, listen to your favorite songs, upload your own videos and share them with friends, family and the whole world.”

People seeing this should ask themselves why the link that was posted has a line in Russian on it. The most probable answer is because the person posting the link has their browser or YouTube set to the Russian language, which implies that they’re not someone posting in good faith.

Also, none of those people were ever my heroes. Mine were–are–the anarchists, the people that opposed red fascism as well as capitalism. At every turn, the tankies stabbed the anarchists in the back as being enemies to the state.