Now that this community has mods, I think we should come to something approaching a consensus on whether there should be a rule against posting “nice” comics from transphobic and other kinds of bigoted artists. People like Stonetoss and Jago who have a lot of innocent-looking relatable comics, but also post the most mean, bigoted propaganda.

And I’d like to present a third option besides yes and no: one might post comics from bigoted artists after removing the artist credit, if the mods think that’s a good compromise.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    how friendly father joe was just as bad if not worse than actual Hitler,

    By the way, you’re wrong on this too… Because you live in a rightwing Capitalist/Fascist echo chamber, so sophisticated in cultural manipulation, that you’ve been subtly indoctrinated.

    Stalin was a relatively insulated leader, he was horrible in that he didn’t really care about the conditions of others as long as he was well fed, and drunk.

    Most of the deaths in the USSR were a product of Lysenkoism, rather than ideological Communism. Lysenkoism also spread to China, as Wikipedia states here:

    Lysenko forced farmers to plant seeds very close together since, according to his “law of the life of species”, plants from the same “class” never compete with one another.[45] Lysenko’s ideas and practices contributed to lower agricultural yields in the Soviet Union throughout the late 1930s until his downfall in the mid-1960s.[10] Lysenko’s ideas found influence in China for several years, from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, through 1956, when a genetics conference in Qingdao spurred the resumption of genetics teaching and research in the country.[12] The Atlantic writer Sam Kean contends that Chinese agricultural methods utilized in the late 1950s were inspired by Lysenko, and contributed to the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962.[45]

    Trofim Lysenko lied about his results and crop yeilds to stay in place (and well fed) as the Agricultural Minister, as the famine closed in.

    Even if we look at the USSR’s Gulag system, they pale in comparison to Hitler’s extermination camps. Of the 18 million Soviet citizens that went through the Gulag system, only 1.5 million died. The vast majority walked out of Gulags alive. Comparing that to places like Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobiber (Hitler’s 3 major extermination camps), and the horrors of Auschwitz, Mauthausen, or Trawniki… And your statement becomes patently ridiculous to anyone who knows history and has studied these subjects.

    Here’s a primer on Lysenkoism in the form of a podcast if you want to learn in an easy manner:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t05d8MPzfvs

    …and what I’ve said here in no way endorses Stalin, or Stalinism, or claims he was a great leader. I wrote all of this merely to say how incredibly incorrect the claim you’ve made is. Hitler’s regime was far worse, and as anyone whose seen the 2001 movie Conspiracy which was based on the transcripts of the 1942 Wannsee Conference (where the Holocaust was planned), the deaths under Hitler’s regime were far far more intentional.