Not just trans people— all LGBTQ+ people are regarded this way

USSR never went away. And if you dig deeper, it's still just russian empire in a trench coat

Also the whole idea behind Trump Derangement Syndrome. Unsurprisingly, those fuckers can't even be original in their awfulness.

Quite, I fully intend to have civil and reasonable fact based discussions about the USSR which will not trail off into tribalistic whataboutist tirades.

ml wiped out his whole family

It is a rite of passage

.ml would have deleted it, and banned every account that read it.

That TDS bullshit is a thought-terminating cliche, but this really is different - actual imprisonment, transfer to remote Siberian work camps, etc...

I came in here to say the same thing. It was pointed out that the USSR did this when Republicans first started with that nonsense, and it was my first thought upon seeing this post.

It's entirely different when the government authority not only says it but takes away your freedom & subjects you to abuse. How are so many here missing that crucial distinction?

this is only true for the stalin years i think.

in any case, living in a country without due process kinda sucks

incarcerated

What an ugly word! Oh no no no they were being cured of their mental illnesses in dedicated institutions and provided with advanced education in special schools.

The school of digging frozen turf in Siberia while starving for instance or the hospital of getting beaten with a phonebook

Link to source?

The Soviet Union at its height

"Its height" is a very soft way of saying "during the Nazi invasion that ended up in the death of 25 million Soviet citizens"

These were hard labor camps, too

False. The GULAG system was simply a prison system. Soviets believed in work as a manner of reintegration into society, correctional labor is not hard labor camp. The vast majority of prisons were near big cities like Moscow or Leningrad.

where millions worked until they died

As far as I know, the number of Gulag deaths is about 700k, not "millions", but I'm quoting this from memory so feel free to correct me with actual data if you have it. It's easily disproven that Gulags were labor death camps by looking at the death rate over time:

You can see a peak death rate during the famine occasioned by the Nazi invasion (again in a period where 25 million Soviet citizens died). People died of hunger inside and outside prisons, albeit logically at a higher rate inside them.

I've seen "conservativism is a mental disease" too. People love that shit.

The phrase comes from a shitpile book with the title: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder by some guy trying to eclipse Rush Limbaugh in 2005.

It's not just a thing they say - these people genuinely believe that compassion is a mental illness.

Liberalism is not as dogmatic as other ideologies, because liberalism itself encourages free thinking and going against the grain.

It's entirely different when the government authority not only says it but takes away your freedom & subjects you to abuse. How are so many here missing that crucial distinction?

W reporting

It's fuckin insane that ODD is still in the DSM. That alone is enough for me to want to dismiss the entire text.

Has been spiteful or vindictive at least twice within the past six months

We all have ODD on this blessed day.

ODD is an excuse diagnosis. It's literally "You rightfully criticise people for being authoritarian and us cops and fascists don't like that, boohoo".

ITT: A lot of people who have no clue what ODD is.