If you want to see what Reddit is truly like, make a post that says “communism and fascism are equivalent in all but name.”

I wager there will be an army of +1 sigma, vegan reply guys with polisci degrees who will downvote the post and upvote comments like “fascism was German and Italian, while communism was Russian and Chinese.” Like they never made it past public middle school history class.

A Pavlovian response, beaten into them by the Soviets who won the war and whose propagandists fed them the biggest subconscious lie of the 20th century: Fascism was bad and had bad intentions, while communism was bad, but had *good* intentions.