• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    Actually we just won an election

    Ok that’s just an outright fucking lie.

    The Bolsheviks didn’t start “winning” elections until they’d already forced everyone into supporting them, the 1917 election featured the Bolsheviks being blown out of the goddamned water by the SRs, and getting tailed pretty hard by the Ukrainian Regional Socialist Party

    All this comic does is bend history into absolute knots to try and sell an image of what a democratic revolution would look like, but the tone and telling it represents is blatantly revisionist to a fucking maddening degree.

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      What are you talking about?

      This strip is not even about the actual Bolsheviks.
      Everything the “Bolsheviks” say is boilerplate stuff a modern democrat (or any reasonable person for that matter) would want.

      The whole joke is that the republicans frame super normal stuff as communism.

      Did you really not get that?

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        “All this comic does is bend history into absolute knots to try and sell an image of what a democratic revolution would look like, but the tone and telling it represents is blatantly revisionist to a fucking maddening degree.”

        I’d say that’s what they’re talking about.

        And I agree with them, imo this comic is absolutely not working for getting the intended message across.

        Edit for clarification: i realized during first reading that the devil’s advocate in the comic was meant to represent USA republicans, but I still think that the comic doesn’t work.

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        Getting the joke doesn’t make it funny or any less irresponsible a way to invoke a historical period for sending a message.

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            The first panel ruined it for me as well, though. It’s meant to be political allegory, sure, but the first panel just makes it bad history instead.

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              It’s too absurd to be taken seriously. Like how in the second panel the guy with the evil goatee says “Now we get to do all of our evil communist stuff!”. Another factor is that even if you were to take this seriously, it would portray the the bolsheviks as ineffective liberals. A Lenin/Stalin apologist would not portray them that way. And most people don’t get their history lessons from 9-panel comic strips.

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      found tsar nicholas’s lemmy account lol

      democratic revolution

      haha what do words even mean!? I’m not even touching the Ukranian ‘regional’ socialist comment, fascist pig

      i agree the comic is a very confused mess