Chinese Spy submarine.

Way ahead of you.

Honestly, it’s not the taxes that kill me. It’s what they do with the money.

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That is just not true. Homosexuality was absolutely a crime.

Karl Gorath, a gay man, was first convicted under the law in 1934. He was sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp and later to Auschwitz, where he survived until its liberation by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945.

In 1946, more than a year after the end of the war, Gorath was prosecuted again. During a court appearance, the same judge who had convicted him during the Nazi era greeted him with the words: “You’re here again.”

Gorath was sentenced to five years in prison and later spent decades battling to undo the injustices done to him. His Nazi-era conviction was annulled shortly before his death in 2003. Post-war convictions were only annulled in 2017.

Yes. Sorry, best source I could find in the time available. But it’s true and well documented. West Germany specifically, although other western countries weren’t great either.

That doesn’t match with my readings of the history. Here is a larger article about it. I’ve also heard mention of a soviet delegation to the famous LGBT clinic in Germany. That wouldn’t indicate that it was an oversight either.

Regardless, even under Stalin, I don’t think the Soviet Union was demonstrably worse than the west in queer rights . The Soviets didn’t reimprison prisoners with pink triangles liberated from concentration camps for example.

Never forget,

Mr. Travis, cruelly murdered by his own Slaves

Of course not. When the US does it, it’s just how the world works. When anyone else does it, it’s evil authoritarianism.

There was a dipshit in here the other day who said “free Tibet” and “return Hong Kong” in a completely unrelated post.

I told him he should free Hawaii and return whatever land he lived on. He said that it was conquered fair and square.

There’s just absolutely no self reflection in these people. I think it’s fear. Fear that someday, someone is going to do to them what they did to us. But simultaneously unable to deal with the truth.

Most people here are not capitalists. They’re workers like us and would benefit from socialism. But they’ve been subjected to nationalist and capitalist propaganda their entire lives, and that makes socialism become the boogeyman. It makes it hard for them to see how much they would benefit.

It’s never about the source. It’s about the content.

The only user I’ve blocked so far.

I made it less than a minute in. How on earth do people buy into this shit?

I don’t think the person is dangerous. I think that the thought is that we’re a bunch of extremists, so we must be saying as much stupid shit as the fascists, and if only we’d listen to ourselves, we’d see how wrong we are. Horseshoe theory and all that. So there surely must be piles of misinformation and bigotry lying about that they can laugh at, right? But the pickings seem to be REALLY slim if the top post of all time is some gallows humour about the feds watching us. That’s clearly some narcissistic conspiracy theory shit, because it’s never happened before right? yuk yuk, look at the stupid tankies.

I could be wrong though. The fact that this person reads so much of our material but still thinks its all nonsense and even messages random people for debate is indicative of an extreme degree of brainwashing.

I was wondering why his username was so familiar! I’d completely forgotten about that idiot. I just checked out meanwhileongrad again. I get the feeling that they wanted it to be like shit liberals say or selfawarewolves. But there’s just nothing there. The top posts for the month were speculation that beehaw is run by US psy-ops, a discussion of homophobia in China, and a complaint about downvotes on a post on a liberal instance. (I can’t be bothered to look up what the post was)

That’s the absolute best that they could come up with in the last month. Well done libs.