I know it's :reddit-logo: but jesus christ this is just... Do they not know what books are? Have they ever seen one? Can I donate one to them?
I'm actually surprised it was downvoted but small mercies.
Link because I'm not a lib - https://www.reddit.com/r/Qult_Headquarters/comments/si8f9s/arent_most_people_including_most_democrats_in/
On January 30, 1933, the day Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the KPD asked the Iron Front, the SPD, the general trade union association ADGB and their organisations, and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold to declare a general strike against Hitler. The Iron Front declined, issued a call on February 2 to "all comrades of the Reichsbanner and the Iron Front", warning against participating in "wild actions organised by irresponsible people", and exhorted members to "turn all Iron Front events into powerful rallies for freedom".
These people are always so strange. Also posts in Enough_Sanders_Spam, NEOLIBERAL, exatheist, work reform. MODERATOR OF r/EnoughBidenhate r/Enough_Clinton_Hate
I really want to do a deep dive into their brains
I'm so glad you posted that and inspired me to go looking, as I found he asked his friends for help - https://www.reddit.com/r/Enough_Sanders_Spam/comments/sij37e/-/hvak7z1
So now I know where he gets his history from.
Edit - fucked up the link
it's really awesome how the designation neoliberal originated in critical scholarship on developments in liberal capitalism toward the end of the cold war and some barely literate IR undergrads ignored all that and decided to just use it to label their grievances against anyone who makes them feel bad on /r/politics
This is just straight up historical revisionism and Nazi apologism.
Has this person ever read a book?
the 2d stick animated history videos have been a disaster for the human race
Enough_Sanders_Spam. WallStreetBets. Politics, WorkReform... aaaaaaaaaaand NeoLiberal as the free space. I got a lanyard bingo!
What a disgrace to penguin kind. I'll bring this guy up on the next colony meeting. Motherfucker has probably never even left his parents nest or seen a seal irl.
They dont. At best they watch YouTube vids on ww2, but even then it's always about nazi tank technology or battle maps
I've tried, but they have liberal amateur historian brain, which is basically inoperable
I know this can be harsh sounding to a lot of people here who are younger and don't have many friends but I'd stop being friends with them. If they believe that and won't budge then there's more than likely some Nazism sympathy to some extent and i just don't allow anything even close to that within anyone I would call a fire d. I have the luxury of being able to have high standards living in a city and being in a link community where shit like that is barely tolerated but you're on wstch
Nah, they're not at all sympathetic to Nazism. They're pretty leftwing overall and I've been to anti-fascist demos with them. They just have some of the brainworms of growing up within a liberal political culture and reading too many pop history books written by Guardian columnists and the like. The whole reason it matters to them is that what they perceive to be the failure of the KPD to form a unified fascist front with the centre-left means that the party is now tainted with the stain of fascism. Ultimately, I don't think it matters that much other than being frustrating
It's a-historical and that's demonstrably true and provable. Really weird and super specific wrong thing to cling to lacking an ideology reason tho
I'm not sure it's so simple though. That narrative has a lot of mainstream traction and has assumed a kind of popular orthodoxy. Like, from my perspective, obviously there are good reasons that a popular front doesn't happen in the 1930s - for example, only a decade earlier the SDP had sent the Freikorps to crush the Sparticist revolution! But if you go to wikipedia (from which my friend and a lot of other liberals interested in history and politics get a lot of their information from and generally trust because for some reason they see it as different from other big tech companies), the article on the KDP pre-WW2 only has citations from a New Statesman article about how the KDP enabled fascism by rejecting the popular front and supported dissolving the Prussian parliament
If it comes up again, I'm definitely going to try this. It might not cure the ailment, but we can treat its symptoms homeopathically
