say goodbye to nonce island
Blakey
"uh I didn't vote for the fascists, I voted for the party that tolerates the fascists, failed to put up any kind of real opposition to the fascists, and lost an election to the most obviously incapable candidate of all time . . . And who then handed power over peacefully to the fascists while spewing platitudes about how important it is to work peacefully with the fascists. And who also have 95% of the same goals as the fascists just with a progressive coat of paint. And that is totally different and makes me the adult in the room" you would have been totally on board with appeasement.
Yeup. One of my guilty pleasures is the"ask a manager" blog, and she (Jewish-American) had a Jewish-American reader write in the other day because someone had put up a swastika at her workplace and the company was failing to do anything about it. Just to prove that we need to be careful about antisemitic infiltration, this was an escalation from a previous piece of vandalism where someone had put up "kill all Zionists", which the company also refused to do anything about (and while that's fair given, y'know, Zionists, the fact that the follow up was a literal hate crime I think does paint a picture of what's going on there)
Of course the infuriating thing about this kind of antisemitic co-opting of antizionism is that it makes it impossible to reasonably say "well... Maybe Zionists ARE bad and it's no more unreasonable to say 'kill all zionists' than 'kill all fascists'", because yeah, when someone's putting up fucking swastikas you WILL look like a freak.
I dunno, fucking Nazis never fail to make literally everything worse.
M-R was after the publication of Mein Kampf. Hitler had been openly saying he planned to murder the soviets - all of them - for years by the time of the pact. Why, do you think, were the Soviets willing to sign it anyway? Why wasn't there an anti-nazi alliance at the time of M-R? Who else signed treaties with the Nazis and in what order? There's some fascinating history in the lead up to WWII but you have to be willing to actually look into it rather than just looking for excuses to trash talk the USSR.
If every human on Earth simultaneously turned communist and decided to save the world, we could reverse it.
I don't think we could, tbh. We've passed so many tipping points, lost so much stuff. Everywhere you look it's shit like "nearly 33% of the world's adequate or high-quality food-producing land has been lost at a rate that far outstrips the pace of natural processes to replace diminished soil." (Actual quote from a guardian article)
"liberalism (...) minus the stuff you don't like. AKA capitalism"
So... Not literally just not liberalism, then? The brainworms it takes to just post whatever on a subject you clearly have taken no effort whatsoever to understand.