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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneIs it?
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    1 year ago

    Not to say that dodging federal taxes isn’t either good or neutral, but the problem isn’t specific to this administration.

    Where are you living that the wealth you create doesn’t end up in the hands of billionaires who then spend it on propaganda to convince you and others that that is just?

    Cuba? Vietnam? Laos? China?




  • Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters

    If that’s what you think I’m suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.

    There were protesters protesting for a change in government, there were organizers setting up alternative structures to compensate for the government’s failure, there were also fascists lynching government officials in the streets.

    Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?

    A lot of governments built monuments to Nazi collaborteurs. That doesn’t mean jack shit

    Oh lmao.



  • The Young Turk movement started with medical students.

    There were quite a few pro-segregation protests when schools were desegregated.

    There’s also a lot of cases where students with real grievances and positive intentions are coopted; most of the students protesting in the early 90s in eastern europe didn’t intend to do a color revolution and have their countries stripped for parts.




  • They were selling weapons to both sides. GM controlled Opel until the 1940s, they built a lot of the nazi war machine (using forced labor), the Ford-Werke factory in Germany produced V2 rocket turbines among other parts, and US strategic bombers were specifically told to avoid bombing it because it was owned by an american, Exxon and Dow licensed patents for synthetic rubber and other war materials Germany lacked, Chase provided loans necessary for the rearmament, IBM sold the nazis the computers they used to carry out the holocaust.

    The capitalist class looked at fascism as the savior of capitalism; they’d been terrified of a revolution in Germany and Hitler had just shown them an alternative. There’s a reason he was Time’s man of the year in 1938.



  • Further evidence that the democrats can be moved if we don’t let them maintain the delusion they can win while trying to be republicans: The entire party told Biden to drop out when it was clear he had no path to victory.

    Sadly Kamala was allowed to believe she could win while embracing the same policies and messaging that killed the Biden campaign. Instead of screaming at the party to campaign on overwhelmingly popular left policy necessary to win the election and use every power at the democrat’s disposal to accomplish it, blue MAGA told anyone pointing out that we’re headed back towards the waterfall to shut up and paddle harder.