this is some like NATOpedia shit on the Taipin rebellion so like 1000000 grains of salt for everything, but man that quote goes hard

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    Both Communism and Fascism were forms of sacralization of politics that rejected coexistence with other political ideologies and movements

    And that’s why we need to ban TikTok, shut down the Confuscious Centers, raid the consulats, embargo and blockage whole island nations, and launch a Forever War to eradicate them from the face of the earth.

    It’s the only way to protect our sacred democracy from the hideous evil of the foreign menace.

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      Do the people who write this shit know that capitalist and nation-state politics are a zero-sum game? And they just making shit up to indoctrinate kids? Are they so caliper-pilled they literally just don’t consider nations under imperial exploitation as people?

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        The human mind is capable of incredible feats of rationalisation…

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        Are they so caliper-pilled they literally just don’t consider nations under imperial exploitation as people?

        100% this. Especially if they have different religious beliefs. So many white Christians I’ve talked to don’t consider Muslims human, they causally say they want to nuke Muslim-majority nations. Just a bunch of genocidal freaks.