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The most notorious tankie democrats:
- AOC (Maoist)
- Joe Biden (Stalinist)
- Nancy Pelosi (Stalinist)
- RBG (Marxist Leninist)
- Kristina Senima (Marxist-Trumpist)
Kind of niche, regarding the board of the San Antonio Symphony voting to declare bankruptcy and disband rather than negotiate a fair contract with the musicians union: “I’m sure no one is to blame and that everyone tried their best to make it work.”
In no way am I trying to justify poor treatment of LGBT people in the USSR, but were there any contemporaneous capitalist states which treated LGBT people better than the USSR?
Not really, at least de facto. The USSR still criminalized homosexuality on paper while Western European countries were decriminalizing, but also they didn’t really enforce it. Problematically, it was used against pedophiles, building off the widespread, bullshit, and long-running stereotypes of grooming. That’s probably the best characterization, really: towards the end, the Soviets retained and promoted many problematic characterizations of LGBT people, but folks’ actual lives and treatment were relatively egalitarian. Capitalist states were decriminalizing and generally improving LGBT rights, but also retaining the systems that disproportionately make LGBT people unhoused, in poverty, in danger.
And also worth mentioning that if “Marxist Democrats” are gonna “enforce” a certain socialist states’ rule of law, it could as easily be thay of East Germany which was wayyyy ahead of the west on gay rights
I posted this facetiously a couple days ago (I don’t think it came across that way oops): “All crimes should be prosecuted.”
This came from someone claiming to be “as progressive as it gets”. There are literally Trump Republicans whose job it is to decide whether to prosecute crimes and even they often choose not to.
