I did not wake up to choose violence, I was born for it, and therefor I will now start crossposting this to the Tankie comms.
I find engaging with fascists tedious, but you do you, one supposes.
There are a few I can’t crosspost to, exact reasons vary, such as !memes@lemmy.ml others aren’t showing up as successfully crossposted on Piefed.world yet but they do appear on lemmy.world very interesting.
Here is a prediction of your near future
Godspeed.
Seeing all the removed comments makes me smile lol
Did you know, on lemmy.ml, if you disagree with them, they delete your comment?
Damn right i do lol, be there been smacked. I’ll fucking do it again too.
I could have made a grad account. I probably would have been happier on a grad account. Why did I ever delete my hexbear account?
sigh
Stay on ml.
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Just wait until you hear what Stalin did to his critics!
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I mean America isn’t one person, so the meme still tracks. Whoever invented manifest destiny is definitely in the running though.
I mean America isn’t one person, so the meme still tracks.
“America allowed a controversial and counter-protested Nazi rally” doesn’t really compare to “Stalin invaded a fourth of Europe in coalition with the Nazis”
Whoever invented manifest destiny is definitely in the running though.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that they could not have been Nazi collaborators, on account of the lack of Nazis at the time.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest that they could not have been Nazi collaborators, on account of the lack of Nazis at the time.
Eh, technically one-sidedly helping Nazis isn’t collaboration, but it’s close enough.
Oh look, „America first”-ers have arrived!
Volunteering for bans. America has many sins, which are freely discussed and memed about on this comm, but anyone who comes in to play “WHATABOUTISM” apologia for Nazi collaborators is not welcome.
It’s just that I can’t avoid seeing irony in Americans (or people overfocused on US) dismissing literally everyone to build their worldview around US faults.
I mean, take a look at dessailnes’ essays repository. The whole thing is built around US, and fuck anyone else who dares to exist in the real world, because only US and recognize adversaries of US matter, apparently.
The crux of people thinking fascism can be defeated by violence think WWII was an example of this. Not only did this not stop fascism, it exploded it. Now almost the entire world is fascist and they still somehow think violence is the answer.
Can I ask then, if you know of a time fascism was definitely defeated? Because if it’s not by violence, I do not know of a time fascism has been defeated.
On a global scale, I think there’s an argument to be made that the fight never ended at all.
But, on a local scale, Chile comes to mind. Pinochet was ousted democratically and the military dictatorship ended. But that was only really because Pinochet was willing to relinquish control (due to external factors mostly, not just some change of heart) which isn’t exactly common for fascist and authoritarian leaders, so Im not sure if that example applies much generally.
It would probably be more accurate to say that Pinochet realized he did not have the requisite violence to crush the popular support arrayed against him - the military refused to back his proposal to hold onto power after losing the election, so he stepped down in the hopes (sadly successful) of avoiding a noose for his crimes against Chile.
Institutions - and popular support - matter even when violence is involved, or implicitly threatened.
True, that is a better way of putting it
Well, my belief is that it was never defeated and has become the dominant form of governance around the world.
Long before fascism existed, during the American Revolution we see how the wealthy oligarchy manipulated peaceful colonist into a violent revolution. Shortly after this the first President was sworn in who was a military commander and also one of the more corrupt people in US history.
We see the intersection of a controlled economy run by the wealthy for the wealthy combining with the military to create the first truly fascist nation. A nation that later went on to perpetrate a genocide.
You have to be able to separate propaganda from reality and it is not easy especially for me as I was indoctrinated into the cult of the US.
When you start seeing the government as an illusion to maintain control you begin to make sense of things like the US overthrowing countless democratic governments to install fascist leaders during the Cold war.
What a bizarre view of world history.
You have not studied the revolutionary period of the US critically. If you did, you would.see our modern interpretation is based purely on propaganda.
Long before fascism existed, during the American Revolution we see how the wealthy oligarchy manipulated peaceful colonist into a violent revolution. Shortly after this the first President was sworn in who was a military commander and also one of the more corrupt people in US history.
We see the intersection of a controlled economy run by the wealthy for the wealthy combining with the military to create the first truly fascist nation
Is not critical so much as it is the mirror image of a caricature of nationalistic hagiography.
You have to go back and read primary sources of civilians at the time who were not wealthy land owners to see the reality. This is the foundation of a critical analysis.
This is not about a patriotic re-envisioning centuries later. This was cold and calculated propaganda used to manipulate people at the time. A great example of this is the Boston Massacre which was used as a rallying cry against British oppression.
You see the corruption was there from the very start. The lies, hyper nationalism, military conquest, violent suppression of dissent, victimhood, etc. They had already checked off all the boxes of fascism before it was even a concept.
You have to go back and read primary sources of civilians at the time who were not wealthy land owners to see the reality.
Except when they disagree with your campist analysis, at which point they’re to be rejected out of hand as simply fooled by the propaganda, of course.
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You forget that, contrary the the four-power pact or the German-French non-aggression pact, the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty was a military alliance, in which both parties divided eastern Europe between themselves. There’s a big difference between a non-agression pact and an alliance…
