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[+] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)
  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Quibbling over the definition of "authoritarian" is kind of a red flag for a country that invented the term "gulag"

    Defending the Soviet Union in this way has the same energy as someone claiming that the Nazis actually did some really good scientific research

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Quibbling over the definition of “authoritarian” is kind of a red flag for a country that invented the term “gulag”

    "Pointing out that my epithet is categorically meaningless is a real red flag for a country that had -checks notes- prisons."

    Are you just doing spooky Slavic word association at this point?

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