the New York Times was talking about Adolf Hitler as early as 1922

https://i.ibb.co/kSDGcGf/NYT-1922.jpg

They didn’t invent Nazis until after he died

He died in 1937. The Nazi party was founded in 1919.

when an anime pfp Twitter Nazi is born 100 years too early

so, a nazi

Also he married a Jewish woman

that poor soul

while it is easy to place all the blame on Hannah Arendt’s 1950s political work, I do believe :porky-happy: would have come up with this little rhetorical trick with or without her writing The Origins of Totalitarianism

Things Keffals hates about Marxism Leninism:

Muh Show Trials

Muh Authoritarianism

Muh Stalin’s Giant Spoon

Vietnamese Streamer Lady Talk On Camera :guts-rage:

I think on a long enough timeline it could be said Gorbachev killed more people than WW2. Because what he really did was he dismantled the nation best equipped to handle climate change, and to help others handle climate change. :doomjak:

Gorbachev said in an interview in Turkey in 2000 “My ambition was to liquidate Communism.” and establish a “Union of Independent Sovereign Republics” and to basically help America fight China. So he wanted a return of bourgeois nationalism, and a fully capitalist mode of production, but without dissolving the USSR, and with the addition of social democracy, which would rely on imperialism. It was a very naive in my opinion.

history ended (good), :dean-smile:

but then vibeo gabe (bab) :dean-frown:

:michael-laugh:

i have never fed the algorithm by clicking any of that man’s shit, but I can tell just from the titles and thumbnails that he has single-handedly resurrected the medieval morality play in all its unsubtle glory

rapidly folding dollar bills in front of my child like i’m in 4th grade again to recreate the experience of being 9 when 9/11 happened :pepe-silvia: :rust-darkness: :stalin-smokin: :pannekoek-point:

I liked the meditations on empathy, etc. I have no objections to the vast majority of the article… until it talks about current events, stripped of context. The article was perfectly good until it started talking about the present war in ukraine in a totally amaterial and unexamined way.

Quote:

The brutal British empire, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the current Russian invasion of Ukraine—in each case, the perpetrators think of themselves as acting rightly against an evil enemy.

This is how the soldiers might be taught to think of themselves, but this is not how the leadership thinks of themselves. The leadership does not trouble themselves with morality, only strategy. Putin does not believe he is acting “rightly” against an “evil” enemy. He believes he is defending the Russian border from NATO expansion. Anything beyond that is rhetoric.

we are just as reluctant to apply serious self-scrutiny as Vladimir Putin is to question his bizarre fantasies about the need to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.

denazification of Ukraine might be a cynical rhetorical justification for Putin’s broader strategic goal of preventing NATO expansion… But the need to denazify Ukraine is not a “bizarre fantasy” for the people DPR/LPR when the USA has been in bed with Ukrainian nazis since WW2, and has been overtly using them as pawns in their geopolitical games since 2014. The need to denazify Ukraine is not a “bizarre fantasy” for the LGBTQ+, the Roma, the Jews, and the Proletarians of Ukraine, who are victims of far right violence just as much as the breakaway republics. Even Zelensky preferred peace to the present situation, but has had US-backed fascist guns to his head this whole time, preventing him from pursuing this the way he may have wanted to.

a time he and his wife went to see a movie in Boston in the early 1950s.

christ he’s soooooo old. my grandparents were born ~ 1950 and I’m ~ 30. sorry to be childish about this, but it’s astonishing that anyone can live that long. :chomsky-yes-honey:

“I’ll call them what they are then - rapist, pedophiles, murderous barbarian hordes.” - top comment

i find it tragic that the propaganda is so powerful people were fooled into dying for NATO and neo nazis.

every US president since the invention of fascism is a fascist, and every president before the invention of fascism was a proto-fascist

all the chaos occurring in the Ukraine is the fault of the United States. Putin is the fault of the United States. Zelensky is the fault of the United States. Azov Battalion is the fault of the United States. NATO is the fault of the United States. Anyone who does not take this line is either naive or is a liberal fascist.

You would not have a quasi-fascist like Putin running Russia if it weren’t for the fascist neoliberal looting of the former USSR, which was the greatest dream of the fascist Truman doctrine realized. The world as it exists today is the twitching corpse of the cold war, which was won by fascists. The world we live in was created by fascists, is run by fascists, and will be destroyed by fascists.

“Calf cramping?” Ask the liberal fascists about that.

Putin and Zelensky as leaders wouldn’t be in power if it weren’t for US-led NATO imperialism going back to 1949

Thank every president since Truman for being united in the consensus of walling off the global north and looting the global south