Shane ๐บ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฆ
@aphexurbanite
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Historian, Sovietophile,Twitter-hater. Moderate left-wing. I like urbanism, public transit, the welfare state, and democracy. I am ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐นlove๐ฏ๐ต๐ฌ๐ง๐ซ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฝ
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Joined September 2022
If only like 2 decades of social media is bringing Western, and especially American society, so close to the brink of schizo authoritarianism, and there is no political will to do anything about - in fact the opinion of many being that doing anything is bad - we are very doomed.
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Youโve never met a Mexican.
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I canโt think of a much shittier place to put a sniper team.
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So the Holodomor is a genocide then?.
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What wars is the US in?.
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This is the most hilariously made up claim the internet far-right has adopted in recent years. You are fooling no one into thinking the Southern Anglo Protestant aristocratic planter class and Confederate States of America were Jewish. Might as well be saying the Nazis were Jews.
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This is what Gaza is actually like btw
sorry i feel more sympathy for dying palestinian children than ukrainian neo nazis.
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@Ahn6618 I have several right-wing nationalist Mexican mutuals maybe you should actually try.
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Yawn. You'll never replicate the fear of Soviet power. Russia is weak, poor, and pathetic, and everyone knows it now.
What Biden doesnโt know is that Russia has long-range missiles too. The only difference is that, unlike those the Ukrainians have, Russian missiles can wipe out entire cities.
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It's difficult to really even tell what "decline" means. In what way has the US declined in a general sense? Especially in historical context? US GDP is several times the size it was in the 90s, the population like 50 million more, our global contribution steady, I don't see it.
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Remain poor and voiceless then.
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No it isn't and he is right.
I'm not giving some moron youtuber a back and forth but this is OBSCENELY racist.
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No it isn't, global military expenditures have never been a smaller portion of global public spending than today.
@historyinmemes This comic is over 82 years old and yet you donโt have to change a thing about it. Itโs every bit as relevant today as the day it was drawn.
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@literallyme92 Ive been around a very large number of Mexicans in my life and they have earned it.
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I decided to modify the meme for historical accuracy
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We wuz for white people.
Reminder that the CCP refuses to allow genetic testing of early emperors and their families
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Just realized the guy on the left has an AK variant, thatโs even more stupid.
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You canโt have this both ways, you guys need to pick an argument and then stick to it. You canโt say things like Bengal, Ireland, or Gaza are genocides and then say Ukraine both times is not. Choose a position.
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How much of the United States would you surrender to an aggressor to prevent deaths?.
Three years ago all of these men were alive. Three years ago they were here with us, living life. Three years ago these cemeteries did not exist. Now they are all dead, not because they fought for the freedom and security of Ukrainians, but because the fought for the interests of
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Still havenโt heard a good argument for how these people thinking the vast vast majority of people to live supposedly being Nazis doesnโt massively contradict communist beliefs about humanity.
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The left position used to be that Nazism is a uniquely evil historical force and that liberalism should be shamed for not doing more to stop it. Now itโs that Nazism wasnโt all that bad, itโs exactly the same as liberal democracies somehow,and 95% of all humans ever were fascists.
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You know this scene was making fun of you, right?.
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The first post-Kievan Russian unitary state was founded in 1547 in the dark green borders. Everything else was gained by colonization, conquest, settlement, and assimilation. Out of all the old world countries, Russia is the most similar to countries in the Americas in this way.
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@goofxist Social media.
If only like 2 decades of social media is bringing Western, and especially American society, so close to the brink of schizo authoritarianism, and there is no political will to do anything about - in fact the opinion of many being that doing anything is bad - we are very doomed.
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The left doesnโt want to hear it but Milei is better on economics by far.
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Bro not even Stephen Cohen (the historian considered among the most Sovietophilic) felt positively about Stalinism, the only guy who wrote positively about it literally was not a historian.
Understand communism through a kids book made by a anti communist
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@Unussum My great grandfather spoke only Italian the first several years of life despite birth in the US, yet, Italian-Americans reached similar income and crime rates as Anglo-Americans by the 1970s and assimilated. Defending other Latin Catholics makes me the opposite of a traitor.
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If you think American police are bad and have no accountability wait until you see police under authoritarian systems.
Spolied Chinese Teens don't know how brutal anglo capitalism really is
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Every once in a while some dimwit communist has to bring this up as if they are stumbling on some stunning anti-racist commentary when in reality it's a completely accepted practice only a clueless white person could possibly take offense at
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What's libertarian about slavery?.
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Given Russian performance in Ukraine itโs more like they give NATO an extra several weeks.
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Lmao, without fail
Are liberals just not seeing these exploded children or do they just not care idgi.
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The Gulf War was so clear-cut good this is absolutely insane.
52% of Americans think it was wrong to get involved in Vietnam. 45% say the same for Iraq. 67% say it was the right decision to get involved in WW2
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I'm just gonna keep thinking about this reply
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If the Holodomor wasnโt a genocide I donโt see a reason why Gaza would be. Both rely on softer genocide interpretations to be labeled as one.
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Mathematically completely impossible 100 times over but that wonโt stop the most gullible people alive from posting and reposting this garbage.
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@nerfs00 Okay so I guess you donโt actually think wars are bad you just want Israel to lose.
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The movie had a lot of creative liberties (itโs a comedy) but some rings true. The part where Malenkov asks Stalin what happened to a party member they were telling funny old stories about and Stalin says, irritated, โYou really want to know etc.โ is 100% Stalinโs personality.
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@MingAutocrat @JanPogman2 Yes because the reveal at the end of the trailer is that he is saying all of this from the coast of England.
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I feel like itโs very much Stalinists doing the coping. The Finns have that as a legitimate point of pride while itโs a complete embarrassment for the ML ideology. Winning a hollow minor victory against a tiny opponent after horrific casualties is an atrocious look.
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If shit โhits the fanโ (it wonโt) no amount of preparation will save you from total logistical collapse, mass starvation, and roving banditry. Your fate would be up to chance regardless as you are one out of hundreds of millions. Stop idealizing the apocalypse.
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See, now this is an appropriate use of this meme.
"Where are the Israeli's supposed to go?" To hell.
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If decline means "a deterioration of perceived potential and prospects" or something like that, then China has surely "declined" since the 2000s as well.
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โFood shortagesโ were not the primary reason for the Holocaust and itโs insane to suggest itโs Holocaust revisionism to acknowledge the more important non-material factors. The Nazis despised market-centric policy and worldview and carved out the Neuordnung in spite of economics.
This is Holocaust revisionism you illiterate baboon. The Nazis had a "starkly economic incentive for murder on a scale larger even than the Holocaust" due to food shortages. Slave labor replaced workers who had been called away to wage war on the Eastern Front.
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Man every time this person gives an incredibly world-shatteringly dumbass take on military matters they somehow manage to top it with one that is even worse.
wow itโs so nice of the americans to float their coffins so close to yemen.
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Guy who just now learned about the passing down of symbolism through history.
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Germans were partying in Berlin in 1945 as the Red Army was encircling the city, you just simply don't understand humans.
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Okay but this is actually true of actual space colonization.
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Crazy how often these people just donโt even live on the same planet anymore.
@aphexurbanite The USA is losing a war against Yemen right now.
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Iraq was more modern in 1991 than Venezuela is now.
The last part is basically the reason why the Pentagon very likely said Trump that invading Venezuela could end in a disaster.
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Wehraboos will go on and on about superior technology but they couldn't even figure out how to make a nuclear reactor work and the US did. They will cherry pick examples like the STG or ME-262 but ignore the superiority of UK and US tech in virtually every arena of combat tech.
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@fivethirtybait I feel bad that you put that much work into a response but yes my point was either they both are or both not - either position academically respectable - but not a double standard.
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"fortunately" covered terrorism.can't imagine why!
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@VoidstriderLulu @LilithLovett Iโd like this meme more if the picture for the communists didnโt look like it was drawn by a Nazi lol.
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Nobody has ever killed as many communists as communists.
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Literally not a single person pre-war expected Ukraine to last this long, not even a single pro-Russia person predicted how poorly itโd go. How the hell is anyone but Russophiles coping?.
@tulpapilled >Donetsk in 2 days.>Pre-war borders by the end of 2022.>Belgorod in few months.>Crimea by the end of 2023.>"Kiev in 3 days" is still a thing in 2024.The Ukrainian cope is unreal.
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@Its_Hasy Cry more? Like the people whining and throwing a tantrum and threatening global genocide because they canโt win a war against a weak neighbor they decided to start?.
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@keirsisverydumb I donโt hate Israelis or want destruction of their state same as I feel for Palestinians.
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Liberals: โAmerican isnโt fascistโ. every American government building
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@kyliesoniquelvr Yeah from those examples I definitely get the sense they view it more as a porn act than asโฆ something humans always did. Really not all that exotic when you remember that tens of billions have done this for hundreds of thousands of years.
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@RedFrontTweeter There isnโt much meaningful difference in the situation between Ireland and the Holodomor.
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Youโre a โleftistโ that thinks the US was worse than Japan in WWII?
@Mixed_Lib They entered ww2 because of Japan and ended up being more evil than they were.
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I canโt remember the last time you types were right about literally anything at all.
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A multipolar world would suck ass actually.
"They need to die because they don't hate my country as much I do.". Great people.
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behold: leftists' greatest ally on this question, apparently
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Love how these people have an eternal racial feud against Baltic peoples just because they didnโt like being under the Soviet Union all that much.
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Communists side with authoritarian government far more often than any liberal. In fact if a fascist government isnโt white it essentially an absolute certainty that communists will defend it.
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Bruh ISIS has like the Wikipedia record for number of countries and groups it has hostilities with. They are a schizo death cult in purest form. Literally everyone hates them.
weird how isis somehow perfectly aligns with u.s. foreign policy interests.
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Liberating Kuwait was cool, wasnโt terror, was good and Iraq got what it deserved in 1991.
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Historically liberals literally unleashed the power of the sun on fascism and ever since then communists have complained about how it was going too far.
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The US as a portion of the global economy has been basically the same since 1980, and the only reason it was such a massive portion before that is because the rest of the world was leveled or colonized after WWII.
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400,000 corpses after less than 3 years = meh, they are white and probably all Nazis . 70,000 *brown* corpses after a year = worst thing to ever happen, even worse than holocaust itself - totally not anti-semitic or the left selling out Jews tho.
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average political views of the "slaveowners" who voted in favor of the 13th amendment in congress:
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99% of human failures ever recorded took place in this area
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The only one responsible for Ukrainian deaths is Russia, and Russia would have annexed and terrorized Ukraine without the ones who chose to die for Ukraine.
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@planefag The thing that bothers me is I have read some truly horrifying police brutality cases yet for some reason those never become national news despite being way more clear cut than some of the ones that do.
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We are in a progress trap. Escaping it requires action that the progress trap has made difficult if not impossible. Increasingly the populations of the West are detached from reality and politically polarized and this will spread in time to the entire planet.
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@SocDoneLeft The left places too much emphasis on stuff like this. The argument is that gender is cultural but then they act like it matters the way its defined or structured. Why expect people to change that on a whim as long as they accept trans people and people who don't care at all.
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This is true but it also shows that they weren't selling *their* people into slavery, which is a common talking point on the right.
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See my thing is that I donโt think people being right-wing, or not all that nice, makes them deserving of brutal destruction. But in Ukraine itโs just some small Nazi militias while in Gaza most people hates Jews and sympathize with Nazism because they have been bombed by Jews.
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How could anyone in the year of our lord 2023 think that this would be anything but a South Korean victory?
@Empty_America I wonder what the international reaction will be when the Korean Peoples Liberation army waltzes in to South Korea unopposed and reunifies the peninsula.
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Excellent evidence these people are a non-factor in politics and will always remain so. Fortunately.
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@ArchysLife If they had included post-Stalin USSR it probably would have beat Italy. Obviously no one wants to live under Stalinist terror lol.
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Many people with mentally challenged replies so I am posting this here. In 2023 this percent is about 2.3
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Gee I fucking wonder why they would put all the death camps in the East. Your sense is certainly uncommon!
The only โdeath campsโ ever discovered were on the Soviet captured side of Germany post WW2. Meaning you have to trust the Soviet communist version of history in order to believe the official narrative. ๐งต 8/16
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He literally lost money lol.
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