It's hilarious to me that the people who most hate communism have no clue what it even is. Have they ever heard of the concept of "know your enemy"?
Nah, it's one of the contradictions built in to fascist ideology. They need the enemy to be both everywhere and all powerful but also snivelling and weak at the same time. if they actually knew anything about their enemies they'd have a harder time maintaining the overpowering enemy half that justifies their paranoia and demands for conformity and military postuer while also maintaining the weak enemy that justi
This is one of fascism's largest weakpoints, is it not? Constantly underestimating your enemy is a terrible war strategy. Thinking of the Hitler quote where he was shocked that the USSR had built so much in so little time.
They need the enemy to be both everywhere and all powerful but also snivelling and weak at the same time.
Let's be honest here, MOST people do this about their political rivals. We do it all the time here, American fascists are all lard ass cucked dorks, but also the most terrifying force in human history.
I feel like that's a bit different though, because american fascists are usually insufferable losers as people, and that's not incompatible with them being dangerous and pushing harmful ideology
Not exactly the same as what fascists do, which often materialises as claiming their enemies to be completely weak and ineffectual, lesser humans, but somehow able to control the world from the shadows, or similar
Some of the people in the military seem to know. I remember Mike Milley testifying in court that critical race theory is nothing like “Mao Tse Tung” (not Zedong) because he’s read his books in the military academies
Supposedly Mao's book on guerilla warfare has been intensely studied in the millitary academies of the US since at least the Afghanistan invasions. The fact that the officer corps doesn't seem to internalize litterally any part of it is another problem.
Well, it's because it says that there is no actual way (for an invader) with a small military presence to win. You can't make them internalize facts that they are physically unable to cope with strategically, because then the logical conclusion is that they shouldn't do it, and that is an unacceptable answer.
Republicans learn what Communism actually is challenge (impossible)
The dude is currently bombing Palestine, he's as right-wing as they come. You don't get to pin him on us, he's one of yours.
It makes a lot of sense when you remember education is deliberately handicapped and "communism=authoritarianism=totalitarianism=fascism" is taken as unironic political dogma for many. Someone "forcing" pronouns onto this dipshit is the same league as him being put in a re-education center for reactionaries.
Hey, if I have to put on my customer service face for shitty customers at work, Mao and Xi can do it, too.
At least mine don't have nuclear weapons.
I know the ruling class (and their prole champions) were throwing accusations of "socialism" at each other since Marx's days, but it's hilarious to imagine this is the equivalent of the Black Hundreds calling an Octobrist politician an undercover Bolshevik because he wanted to pogrom Jewish villages less.
I was watching a video about the origins of horror comics in America. It was hilarious watching people on both sides of the comics code accuse each other of being communists. One side for censorship and the other for promoting removed in the youth. Crazy to see how much has changed in 70 years
