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Do you think people in the USSR ever called each other "comrade" in an ironically aggressive way? "You fucking wot, comrade? Cmere and say that to my face, comrade!"

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Retrosound [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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Today in China, the word comrade means gay. Don’t know how the change happened but it had to start as irony.

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WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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The heirs of the revolution tbh

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axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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I was told it started in Hong Kong because the word for comrade (tóngzhì) is vaguely phonetically similar to the word for homosexual (tóngxìngliàn)

Does comrade mean gay in the mainland or is it just a Hong Kong and Macau thing?

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