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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.
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.
@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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
If decline means "a deterioration of perceived potential and prospects" or something like that, then China has surely "declined" since the 2000s as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
Americans are so detached.
There is nothing "cool" about large-scale combined arms warfare or terror bombing, which is what the US did to Iraq.
The human suffering created by the Gulf is nothing to celebrate or "find cool"
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
Well Weimar Germany wasn't a death cult that left Europe in ruins, dominated by communists, killed 50 to 60 million and started shifting power away from the West like the ideology that took over in Germany after was and did.
@EzkBig
@nerfs00
I think both sides are shit and just want Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank and for both sides to leave each other alone. Hamas is only less bad in the sense that they arenโt strong enough to carry out the atrocities they wish they could.
Itโs insane that the worldโs most famous Georgian is one of the most notorious men who ever lived and then basically no one can name a second Georgian
Oh, but donโt worry guys, even though everyone who ever existed outside of our social media political cults was fascist, human nature is actually good!
The European reactions to the Congo Free State and Mussoliniโs invasion of Ethiopia suggests this isnโt actually the case. Even the otherwise very colonial Churchill was disturbed by the subjugation of the Ethiopians, who were historically in fairly high opinion by Europeans.
None of these fuckers are ever going to make me forget it was America-hating islamofascists that did this. Especially in the light of all those braindead fifth column zoomers sympathizing with Osama on TikTok. Definitely to hell with conspiracy theories,and the agenda behind them
@AltHistCody
The strangest part is that everything still pretty much goes on as usual on this website while something like that occurs. Makes me imagine what a few weeks into a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would look like on Twitter.
No it isnโt the US spends more on healthcare as percent of GDP than other first world nations not less.The US healthcare system is why the US doesnโt have free healthcare. Were US regulations and the system properly restructured it ought to be cheaper and thus not effect military
If gays were only known for smashing cop cars they'd still be criminalized. Pretty obvious political acceptance came from social acceptance and not from antisocial maliciousness.
Beria once tricked Khrushchev at one of the dinners at Stalinโs dacha into speaking positively about a party member that had been purged and Stalin just looked at him dead in the face with an unamused look without saying anything. Pretty similar situation.
Actually the US military would do far better against a domestic insurgency because it couldnโt simply leave whenever it feels like it unlike when fighting insurgencies overseas.
Think about how bad the US military did in Vietnam, then imagine that in a country with thirty times the land area where a hundred million people are armed.