something that puzzles me about reactionaries speaking about north korea or any communist country, is the idea that they have a dictatorship so powerful that people aren’t able to fight against it, movies and spectacles accused as “staged” or “if he/she fails he/she will die with his/her family”. the typical idea of enemies “being weak and uberstrong at the same time”, like damn…if people in dprk were under a dictatorship so brutal as they say, you would hear more about uprisings and strikes more frequently than in USA, are you trying to tell me that the only “efficient dictatorships” are the communist ones? that capitalism isn’t able to keep people like pinochet or hitler more than a couple of decades and with constant revolts and a huge media industry? ok…
Jeez, why are brain-dead anti-AES takes having more upvotes than downvotes on this post?
Brigading. r/communism is basically just r/socdem, so those folks come here expecting they can be just as ignorant and American as they are on reddit.
I’m just surprised more people are brigading than here naturally via the vote ratio earlier
I might be using the term wrong. It is probably just redditors finding communities that they assume are exactly like reddit, then being mad they aren’t and trying to turn lemmy into reddit. Probably not actually any organised thing going on here.