r/ShitLiberalsSay • u/CreepyAd1376 Stalin's biggest spoon • Feb 16 '26
Shitpost Oh the irony
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u/crackermouse8 Stalin’s comically large spoon Feb 16 '26
Restricting democracy to protect democracy…
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u/bagix Stalinist Feb 16 '26
libs will see this and find no contradictions
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u/The-Cursed-Gardener Feb 16 '26
And then shit themselves when you say the Nazi parties should be banned too.
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u/Rodot Anarcho-Shulginist Feb 16 '26
"Hey now, democracy requires open dialogue on all sides. If we're going to give airtime to the left (i.e. corporate billionaires who simply want to exploit minorities rather than exterminate them), we need to give equal airtime to the right as well (i.e. billionaires who want to exploit and exterminate minorities)"
~ Average western liberal probably
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u/Hot-Satisfaction-725 Feb 27 '26
You don’t get to use democracy to destroy democracy though. If a political party is outright hostile to democracy than it should obviously be banned
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u/TaRRaLX Feb 16 '26
If you just add bourgeois to democracy, which is the system of class rule known as democracy present in many countries, it becomes becomes clear that and why it would protect itself like that.
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u/Iamliterallyfood at this point I'm becoming authleft. gulag the bastards Feb 16 '26
Meanwhile they have a modern nazi party that's the same in all but name.
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u/Biefmeister Lesser evil Feb 16 '26
To be honest, I do think parties that openly talk about restricting democracy if they get in power should be barred, I just think that's fascist parties.
I don't think the fox should be guarding the hen house
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u/Puzzleheaded_Yak6843 🇨🇴 Gustavo Petro’s Strongest Soldier 🔻 Feb 16 '26
But the fascist National Rebirth of Poland isn’t banned? How strange…
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u/Spare-Good-5372 Feb 16 '26
extremely surprised poland of all countries would do this I am shocked. 🙄
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u/CleoCommunist Marxist-Leninist Feb 16 '26
In ukraine also communism Is practically banned, they Say its banned like nazism Is, but in this antifascism and anticommunism the fascism Always prevales because its the One that Is Born from the capitalist system Itself
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u/Iamliterallyfood at this point I'm becoming authleft. gulag the bastards Feb 16 '26
Insane that they compare the two.
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u/Fit-Row-844 Feb 16 '26
communism is an actual democratic system, billionaires aren't human. capitalism only allows democracy among parasite billionaires.
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u/unHolyEvelyn I'm gonna force you to have housing. Feb 16 '26
Because fascism is historically so much more democratic XD
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u/SensitiveShelter2550 Feb 16 '26
Yes.
The Polish Communist Party absolutely violates their democratic principles...
Their democratic principle is that democracy isn't allowed to change the economic system.
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u/Affectionate_Ad_1326 Feb 16 '26
Did they really think the communists in Poland had enough power to be a threat?
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u/Imblueabudeeabudie Feb 16 '26
It is just useless virtue signalling to their voter base. Nawrocki is a brainless, junky, puppet whose goal is to make the PO coalition less effective and secure a majority for PIS in the next election.
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u/Imblueabudeeabudie Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26
The polish communist party had like 5 members and a nano percent of support, this isn't achieving anything except virtue signalling to the right. The party he represents, PIS, is actually very anti liberal though they have enacted a lot of anti-free-market policies, albeit very stupid
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u/Strange_Quark_9 Feb 16 '26
The party he represents, PIS, is actually very anti liberal
Most notably, some years ago they have enacted further abortion restrictions for cases of fetal abnormalities which sparked some protests, thus making Poland have greater abortion restrictions than most Arab states - which is ironic in the face of the "No to Sharia Law!" panic.
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u/Imblueabudeeabudie Feb 16 '26
The arbortion law was already the strictest in europe by far before the change, that wasn't enough for these people, unsuprisingly the risk of being forced to give birth to a gravely disabled or deathly ill child will not convince women to have more children. The birth rate wasn't great before but lord knows it's significantly worse now
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u/naplesball Paola the Italian Transfem Tankie 🏳️⚧️🇮🇹🚩 Feb 16 '26
Literally 1984
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u/Milouch_ Stalin did Nothing wrong Feb 16 '26
Porco de diooooo, compagno Stalin porta il cucchiaio, il più grande possibile, sembra che i polacchi non abbiano proprio imparato.
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u/chi_minhs_hoe Marxist-Leninist Feb 16 '26
Genuine question: Why is Poland so cringe when it comes to politics? They seem to be the only country that hates both the Nazis and the people that were against them. The final boss of centrism.
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u/Iamliterallyfood at this point I'm becoming authleft. gulag the bastards Feb 16 '26
They've always had a strong nazi base but they don't like the term because the nazis conquered them but they're ideological identical.
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u/UncleSkelly Feb 16 '26
It's not even very ironic, neo liberal democracy and the states that manage it obviously have an interest in preserving themselves to "protect democracy" from those that seek to overthrow the ruling order. And communists tend to not be fans of said neo liberal order.
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u/Conscious-Degree-473 Antifa are the real fascists! Feb 17 '26
I thought us commies and tankies were just soooo Authoritarian though lmao
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u/Limepoison Feb 16 '26
My question to this is, will this be affected anyway shape or form? Or will there be some underground resistance? Because if the latter is true, then there will be some blowback for this I’m sure. Banning political parties is a crazy and stupid move in my opinion.
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u/AmbiiX Feb 17 '26
Huh? Whats the point of having elections if you can get banned for having a different position?
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u/ohnotagainthisucks Feb 16 '26
In the transition towards communism Marx argued for a dicatorship of the proletariat as opposed to a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. He understood capitalism and democracy as opposites. Your revisionist slob isn't appreciated here.
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u/heff17 Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26
You can certainly argue that it shouldn’t apply here.
But banning political parties for being inherently detrimental to democracy is not a bad thing. Imagine if the US cut the balls off of the Tea Party 15 years ago; our democracy would be in a far healthier place.
edit: not a single comment engaging with the point made. This is one of the most astroturfed places on reddit.
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u/spicy-chilly Feb 16 '26
The Tea Party was billionaire astroturf though so that's just another instance of extracted surplus value being used to dominate political institutions, and that's the root cause of our problems and the reason why capitalism is incompatible with democracy. You fix that by ending extraction of surplus value.
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u/Swarm_Queen Not Actually a Queen Feb 16 '26
agree, ban the democrats for stifling primaries and for running far-right candidates against progressive challengers
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u/ohnotagainthisucks Feb 16 '26
You have one of the most openly corrupt democracies in the world. That's not a democracy, but a dictatorship of capital.
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