Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad
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Edit: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
We now have literal “Soviets were godless barbarians” arguments. The revolution is never perfect enough, is it? Wish there was a time machine to send people back to moralize about doing what needs to be done and Christian moral goodness to the leaders of a nascent revolution being ruthlessly attacked on all sides. I’m going to reserve my tears for the thousands of dead Jews and millions of starving and dying peasants.
Maybe we can have a struggle session over dead teenage Nazis from WWII next time.
The Russian Civil War ended when the Bolsheviks depicted the Whites as the cringe wojak and themselves as the Chad wojak.
At first I wasn’t going to upvote but I have to give props for kicking off a struggle session over the Romanovs
Tune in next week for the Hexbear pity parade for veterans
Una mensaje muy Bien
What does this translate to?
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Nice!
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People always go on about Soviet art and Soviet architecture but one aspect of Soviet innovation that gets constantly overlooked is Soviet interior design, with Yakov Yurovsky being the progenitor of what I’d call Soviet deconstructivist interior design.
Truly Yurovsky is an unsung pioneer of this interior design movement.
While we’re doing Ipatiev House memes, here’s this one:
(It’s much funnier if you know what King George V looks like)
Did not know we had this emote lmao
You tankies want to give us real leftists bad drywall? No wonder communism has never worked
i dont get it
It’s the wall in the basement where the Romanovs were shot.
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The pun being basically transphobes get the wall
ah i havent seen this picture before
I think it’s a reference to “getting the wall” aka summary execution aka one of the great crimes against humanity perpetrated by revolutionaries in the past that is cause for understandable distrust among leftist non-communists especially, anarchists like myself, whose philosophical comrades were among the murdered.
OP, please don’t go there. We’re better than that and don’t have to repeat the tragedies of the past.
EDIT: To try to reduce the friendly fire, I did not recognize that this image was from the Romanovs.
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As noted elsewhere, I was not aware of what particular wall it was and took it to be a call for summary executions of bigots in general. I absolutely do think that royals should not exist and should be punished for their crimes against humanity.
When it comes to the the children there, that was just murder though. Strip them of their titles and, if they commit crimes, try them for them, as was done in China (though I do think that he was let of lightly for his crimes in Manchuria).
I think the quote from Mark Twain about the two reigns of terror fits in this context as well.
“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”
How many trans people have suffered unnecessarily due to transphobes, how many have died? How many cultures have been destroyed because Europeans came in and enforced a gender binary where there wasn’t one before? We don’t keep track of every single trans person murdered, we don’t keep track of the misery of starvation and poverty of trans folks, we don’t keep track of every time a trans person is looked past for employment. If we take the protection of minorities seriously we need to look at these instances and act accordingly and make sure they can’t do any more harm. And before you say reeducation, how many of these people have been educated but decided to ignore it because it’s a conspiracy of groomers, or they just don’t care about the scientific evidence and will just continue to hate it because it’s against their religion. What do we do with these people that refuse to change?
I think the quote from Mark Twain about the two reigns of terror fits in this context as well.
Absolutely. Very apt, especially with the context of the image, which I was initially ingnorant of (and look at the fun reactions that I’ve had from people who I’ve had previous good interactions with due to that ignorance). I took it to mean “the wall” in general, calling for summary executions.
The Romanovs and every other royal and aristocratic family together committed crimes against quantities of humans that I think is likely in the billions. I do not think that the fate of the family, with exception of the children, is undeserved, though, arguably it was getting off light.
How many trans people have suffered unnecessarily due to transphobes, how many have died? How many cultures have been destroyed because Europeans came in and enforced a gender binary where there wasn’t one before?
The answer to both is too many. And it needs to stop.
And before you say reeducation, how many of these people have been educated but decided to ignore it because it’s a conspiracy of groomers, or they just don’t care about the scientific evidence and will just continue to hate it because it’s against their religion. What do we do with these people that refuse to change?
Many have been abused themselves and “educated” to be the way that they are. There are changes in their brains that heighten fear responses, etc. I am not completely certain of the best path for dealing with those that refuse to change but do know that refusing to give them a chance to change in the first place by executing them, as was my interpretation of the meme, is just murder.
I’m not meaning that we should pardon their crimes, if they have committed any, just that every excused murder makes it easier to excuse the next. And that makes it easier to excuse murders of a wider and wider group. State sponsored violence changes people.
Go fuck yourself, seriously, get the fuck out of here
one of the great crimes against humanity
Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?
Fuck off you liberal scumbag
Come on mate, not a lib. I was not familiar with that particular wall and saw it as a call for summary execution of bigots, which is a fucked up thing.
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You can have a leftist community, or you can treat bigots with kid gloves. You can’t do both.
Where am I advocating for use of kid gloves? Any fair and just society must treat all as equal when it comes to criminal behavior, not having separate classes where some are “more equal”. Bigots trying to cause harm should see justice, as much as anyone else.
Summary execution is not something to be lauded or celebrated. Doing so diminishes you as well as much as it does your enemies.
An anarchist having sympathy for one of the bloodiest regimes of the 19th and early 20th century makes absolutely no sense
Is this a bit?
No. An anarchist not knowing that it was the wall from the Romanovs, thus thinking it might be any wall where people were executed.
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I dunno. I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few months. Some people really enjoy being edgelords on the Internet. Without the context of what particular wall it was with bullet holes from summary executions, it could just as easily been a farmhouse where Black and Tans murdered someone for speaking Irish, to me.
Context matters and I didn’t have it - might be good to ensure that everyone is on the same page before deriding and belittling them. The world’s fucked up enough as it is without going off on each other or assuming malice when ignorance is the cause.
I agree context does matter, that’s why it’s usually sensible to look for context clues before engaging in a sectarian screed about the typical commies murdering folks because it was “perpetrated by revolutionaries in the past”
But hey I got no beef, you claim it was ignorance I’ll take your word for it
Thank you.
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This is incomprehensible
it’s the wall where the romanovs got got
it’s just saying “not every westerner will be executed, but transphobes will”
Ah, I see, based
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