That's what I'm thinking. They think actual communists pointing that out means we are "offended" when we're just amused/bewildered they think it's a flex. Especially when even average Joe Schmoes don't think good things when they think "Red Scare" or "McCarthyism".

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"You see, nazis are actually socialists because they called themselves national socialists."

"I repeatedly keep identifying with national socialists all the time. Isn't that funny?"

Sounds like they're the real socialists, not us. We're just civic libertarians.

They just really like birds. Nothing to see here.

A nazi soul is unscientific. They are made of Hitler Particles.

Robert Silverberg is a sometimes a good alt-history writer, Christman has praised him. When he's at his best he's drawing parallels between divergent ruling classes and our own. He's at his worst when he's getting deep into the idealism, like his alternate Rome that survives to the modern day because Christianity was never invented, and so the western and eastern Roman Empires never fought one another. You got it right. Alt-history guys usually don't understand materialism.

Kim Stanely Robinson wrote a pretty good alt-history novel, "Years of Rice and Salt." The premise is the black plague kills 99% of Europe, so it's a world without white people. So the whole world is split between various Chinese and Muslim states. It's a good novel because it's from the perspective of two people who keep getting reincarnated. There's a chapter where one of them is a tiger.

I wouldn't call him "alt-right adjacent". More just your run of the mill anti-communist shitlib who may or may not vote Sanders. The fact that he has far right fans is more just that the specific brand of low-effort althist gruel panders to the kind of audience who are susceptible to it otherwise.

Side note but there's an interesting in-progress Drakaverse revolution forum quest (ie, alternate history where repliers can influence it as its written) by Marxists on SV.

They won the Cold War and the world didn't instantly get better. In fact, everything seems to be slowly getting worse. There are no grand aspirations for humanity anymore. Every new technology is met with justified skepticism because people know it'll be used to fire as many workers as possible. They just don't connect it back to capitalism. In fact, when shit goes wrong today, people STILL blame communism for it.

"Wtf this house I built on the sand keeps on shifting, this fucking sucks"

Althistory in general is fucking awful. Most people who are into it don't actually bother to understand history or why historical events occured. They don't go "What if X historical thing didn't happen, how would that change things?" Instead they go "Hey, I want xyz version of history to be true, how can I retroactively change things to get to my preconceived conclusion?" They start with their goals and move backwards, it isn't an exercise in academic curiosity, it's mental masturbation for them. It's them pretending that the world works the exact way they think it does instead of trying to actually learn how it works.

I wouldn't trust my back anyone who thinks stuffing a piece of cloth into a whiskey bottle is a good enough fire bottle. You gotta have professional mindset for this stuff

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Anecdotal but a lot of the better stories I've read have always had a significant amount of focus put on a Global South nation or, better yet, North American First Nations people. It's a generally good litmus test between sheltered people who don't want to go outside the confines of their worldview and those who want to study history by the details.

So do I. Which is why I find it funny that they're trying to use it as a slur