https://twitter.com/BrianMteleSUR/status/1432413459627614219

    • andys_nuts [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The U.S. hides it by portraying any mildly redistributive policy as three beers from Literally Hitler (remember, Stalin = Hitler). Therefore, whatever terrible stuff we're forced to do may be regrettable, but it's ultimately heading off something much worse.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        That's where the power in the "communism killed 100 million people" lie comes from. Because if by it's nature, communism kills a lot, then we're justified in killing a couple million in Vietnam because Uncle Ho would have killed ten times that.

        The 100 million number was absolutely a CIA op, and a very effective one at that.

        • andys_nuts [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          Yup, that's exactly the point. Make communism synonymous with the worst thing that can happen to a country, lube up that slippery slope to the point where "maybe we should have child labor laws" = communism, and pretty soon you're destroying a village in order to save it (from communism).

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Glad to have all this as evidence to pointlessly argue with Wisconsin libs in twitter when even Lula gets assassinated.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's the original socialist state that experienced a slow and brutal Republican takeover. It still has a latent left tradition and it's still overall left leaning - despite this the Republicans have a legislative supermajority due to flagrant gerrymandering.

        Literally 1 train going from Milwaukee to Madison would permanently turn it into a reliable blue state with room to move left. Which is why the Republicans desperately killed the proposed train project in 2010 despite it being fully federally funded

          • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Used to be an important hotbed for American Socialists, too.

            :deeper-sadness:

            Milwaukee is a city of contrasts.

            • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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              3 years ago

              I wonder now if they were explicitly only fighting for white labor rights. Settlers does a great job showing how the vast majority of historical labor movements in the u.s. essentially sabotaged themselves by organizing along explicitly racial lines, excluding black workers, and then ultimately blaming them when they got wrecked from the inside by capitalist deal making.

              • SerLava [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                I'm sure people were racist as fuck in 1920 but I think a big factor is that Milwaukee didn't get Black migration until much later than the rest of the North, in like the 60's and 70's

              • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                IDK to be honest, though it would not surprise me.

                I have a Frank Zeidler biography laying around somewhere I could read and learn a little more about it.

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Why will you be arguing with Wisconsin libs specifically about Brazil, that sounds torturous.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Cuz some of them will obviously gonna post about how Brazil is very democracy ackchually cuz their TV says so; and I like to comment on their politics so it's fair I guess they comment on Brazil, the bad thing is them being idiots

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Wisconsin hasn't any insane power posters? Shame

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Well you can't have any good cheese with that attitude

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Nobody can have good cheese in Wisconsin.

            #SickBurn

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Ayy fine government you have there, shame if something happened to it.

  • mr_world [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Damn I can't believe ISIS-R2D2 is in Brazil and helping The Left.

  • hillaryisbossqueen [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    terf jungle, I don't mean trans exclusionary radical feminists, I mean terf in the fake grass because they cut down all the trees.

  • pppp1000 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Biden defenders will somehow try to find a way to defend this.