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Purity Tests (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's fascinating to me how the same people who like to do purity tests for China or Vietnam claiming they're not actually communist are also the ones who'll defend places like US or Canada saying yeah it's not perfect, but it's the ideal of the system that matters.

It's such an incredible example of cognitive dissonance. These people able to recognize that their own system doesn't live up to the ideal they have in their heads, but still treat it as a valid interpretation of the idea, but when it comes to a system they dislike then the same logic doesn't apply all of a sudden.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Also, the slant of this, when Liberals talk about how Russia lacks a fair democracy and a small group of people hold a majority of the power within the political system. Then argue that all you have to do to change conditions in Western countries is to vote.

And, ya know, Russia's just "the villain," so they'll talk and talk about how bad that situation is, but when you talk about the US, who they see as "the hero," they get defensive and act like you're the problem for implying that the US has the exact problems and voting doesn't matter.

"my dumpster fire is pure and perfect, all of the issues that my dumpster fire has can be fixed if we just vote on it. Your dumpster fire is evil and impure. The only way to fix its problems is if my dumpster fire invades it." literally their take.