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.
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
Actually Russia is a good bit more equitable than the USA :yea:
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?
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
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
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
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.
I think they haven't made comparisons to Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun because they forgot they existed
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