• Jasz the Stampede
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    -32 years ago

    Sometimes people like things that aren’t good for them, like if you’ve ever known someone who is stuck in a bad relationship they ignore the shockingly horrible things and just focus on some happy memory or something they are desperately holding onto. I agree Soviet nostalgia is cool but if it was really that great it wouldn’t have collapsed, you know

    • @HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml
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      It’s extremely presumptuous to just assume that the people who lived through BOTH socialism and capitalism are mistaken or have Stockholm syndrome or whatever for liking socialism. Like, did YOU live through both and have that unique point of comparison between them? Instead of dismissing their opinions and refusing to even consider that they might have a point, maybe look to them for first hand insight into how socialism compared to capitalism?

      • Jasz the Stampede
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        -32 years ago

        Not everybody has the same opinion, even people like me who experienced both. I’m not dismissing theirs, but you are definitely dismissing ours