RubicTopaz

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[–] RubicTopaz 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It is the Fourth Reich

Oh wait, that's just post-WW2 West GermanyThere were more Nazis in West Germany's justice department after WWII than during Third Reich

Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.

Nazis in post-WW2 Germany's government

From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.

Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler's rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.

[–] RubicTopaz 4 points 4 hours ago

Love the implication that the shitty imperialist anglo organization was ever credible.

[–] RubicTopaz 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Was it worth losing the election to support genocide?

Edit: I'll assume the downvote means "no". Hopefully you'll learn from this and start organizing.

[–] RubicTopaz 48 points 9 hours ago

The most relevant paragraph imo

Bernie’s coalition was filled with the exact type of voters who are now flocking to Donald Trump: Working class voters of all races, young people, and, critically, the much-derided bros. The top contributors to Bernie’s campaign often held jobs at places like Amazon and Walmart. The unions loved him. And— never forget — he earned the coveted Joe Rogan endorsement that Trump also received the day before the election this year. It turns out, the Bernie-to-Trump pipeline is real! While that has always been used as an epithet to smear Bernie and his movement, with the implication that social democracy is just a cover for or gateway drug to right wing authoritarianism, the truth is that this pipeline speaks to the power and appeal of Bernie’s vision as an effective antidote to Trumpism. When these voters had a choice between Trump and Bernie, they chose Bernie. For many of them now that the choice is between Trump and the dried out husk of neoliberalism, they’re going Trump.

[–] RubicTopaz 11 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

It's worth noting that "fascism" specifically is a eurocentric — or even more specifically a 20th century-centric — ideology. You could argue the US has always been "fascist", just that the fascism has been focused on people outside it — the countries it constantly wages wars on. Still a good way to describe the direction declining capitalist states are headed to, I guess.

[–] RubicTopaz 4 points 3 days ago

Again, just go back to reddit/stormfront

[–] RubicTopaz 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Reddit and stormfront should be fascist enough for your tastes then. Just go back there. An open source community will naturally have slightly better people on average.

[–] RubicTopaz 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Just go back to reddit if even this is intruding on your echo chamber too much lmao

[–] RubicTopaz 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not a good sign...

I'll see myself out

[–] RubicTopaz 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cuba's biggest current shortages right now are energy and building materials like cement. Both of which are directly caused by the embargo, and worsened by the recent storm.

[–] RubicTopaz 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah like with how the US sanctions on Zimbabwe were forced to be removed (for the most part, anyway), this will only end by direct action and protests in the US itself.

That is, if the civil unrest in the US due to the sanctions harms profits for the capitalists more than lifting the sanctions on Cuba does, they will choose the latter.

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