• SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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    3 years ago

    Are these demonic neoliberal subhumans pretending to be dumb? Or are they actually this dumb and can't fathom how they are as genocidal as an alt-righter except their genocide is good you see its in the name of muh economic rationality and muh profits so they aren't actually genocides its just a result of market forces.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      the people in that reddit thread seem split between calling him a liar or saying Spencer has good positions for wrong reasons

      they can't seem to understand they're looking into a funhouse mirror, showing them who they'd be if they were more honest with themselves

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        they can’t seem to understand they’re looking into a funhouse mirror, showing them who they’d be if they were more honest with themselves

        I feel like that's the case with liberals and Russia too: they're literally looking in a mirror at a liberal state with comparable levels of inequality to the US, ruled by a reactionary liberal party similar to the more extreme and reactionary of the two ruling liberal parties in the US, and taking more or less the same sort of actions the US does for similar reasons and with comparable justifications, and they declare "that's fascism except worse because hItLeR wAsN'T cRoOkEd!" without a hint of irony or self-awareness.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Actually Russia is a good bit more equitable than the USA :yea:

          • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Didn't it swing from having the lowest/one of the lowest ratios of wealth inequality in the world under the USSR to having roughly the same absurd level of wealth concentration and inequality as the US following liberalization?

            • kristina [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              There was a peak yes but stabilized as they realized there was a threat for a counter counter revolution and needed reforms and stability to not end with heads on pikes

              Also America's inequality is truly grotesque

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Hitler was incredibly crooked as well the man mandated people buy Mein Kampf and kept the proceeds personally. It's not brought up a lot because naively historians assume no one would be such a bloodless nerd as to care whether the man who killed millions was also skimming from the till of the Nazi state

          • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            Holy shit, that's when it started!

            I always wondered how every single politician in :amerikkka: has the same dumb grift of writing a shitty book they make their followers buy and who started it

            Hitler wouldn't have been my first guess but this makes too much sense

          • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Exactly, and the claim that Hitler wasn't crooked or in bed with organized crime (which he objectively was) is just one of the absolutely deranged liberal hot takes where they just have to make Russia out to be something utterly beyond the pale, something bigger than the biggest demons of history, to the point where they start doing Hitler apologia and Holocaust denial to serve that end.

            Honestly surprised they haven't started penning opeds like "Why the siege of Mariupol is worse than Genghis Khan's sack of Baghdad" or declared Russia to be engaged in "An assault on Europe of a scale not seen since Attila the Hun," just the absolute most unhinged shit.

    • NomadicWarMachine [any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I mean the fact that the far right is split between Putin stans and Ukraine stans right now it helping their dissonance, every time they see some Nazi on their side they can just remind themselves that Tucker Carlson exists.

        • ToastGhost [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          never ending cycle of imperialist powers trading fascists back and forth and they get more evil every time

          • hypercube [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            on the plus side they keep getting killed as they do this, so eventually they'll be whittled down to one ultra-fascist, who can then simply be defeated by The One True Leftist in hand to hand combat

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        yeah the market is just an abstraction of the violence of the state. Laws only exists through state backing with violence, property can only exist through laws, the market can only exist through property, hence the market can only exist if it is enforced with violence