Bonus points: He's also a transphobe and against "identity politics". Anyway, link: https://twitter.com/jafjan/status/1557595239963033605
AN ANTI-COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP IS THE REASON THERE ARE SO FEW JEWS IN MODERN GERMANY YOU ABSOLUTE DULLARD
No no no. Stalin was also very antisemitic and if the Communists had succeeded in the early 30s all the same bad things would have happened, but worse.
FYI, Jan Feddersen is also an LGB drop the T kind of transphobe who just two days ago defended the dehumanizing gatekeeping that still happens around legal name and gender changes in Germany and parrots every nonsensical TERF narrative you can think of.
Edit: nvm, i overlooked that you already included his other pastime in the bottom text.
LGB drop the T
This movement will always be hilarious (in a fucked up way) to me, like uhhh once they get rid of the T who do you think they'll be coming for next
They think they can go back to that brief window when there already was a gay and lesbian movement, but it hadn't expressly included bi and trans people. That lasted for less than half a decade IIRC, but that doesn't stop this kind of nostalgia.
They are also all respectability politics libs who believe that the nazis will leave them alone if we do not provoke them by acting too flamboyant. My non-passing ass in a pleated skirt endangers their false sense of security. They think i'm drawing fire to their position, that they'll be left alone if they assimilate enough.
Sometimes I wish we had communities on here in other languages just so that we could dunk in detail on all those German (etc.) reactionaries. Just imagine how much material there is between taz, FAZ and Die Welt.
Ich koennig ein bisschien Deutsche sprechen, nur vann ich getrunken sind.
Ehrlich gesagt, betrunken zu sein ist fast eine Voraussetzung, um Deutsch zu sprechen. (My German is also not very good, but I'm sticking with this)
Spiegel is also really bad at times, they have a really bad transphobe infestation. ZEIT is complete blellow radlib brained and full of awful takes that try to link postcolonialism and antisemitism.
Not to mention real chud shit like BILD, nzz and so on. The reason i dunk so much on people like Jan Feddersen or Sebastian Hammelehler or Jasper von Altenbockum may very well be that i just can't stomach the actual worst our press has to offer.
He’s also a transphobe and against “identity politics”
average reactionary who’s pretending to be a leftist while being “anti-idpol”
Hilariously this guy agrees with you unironically but in the worst possible way.
I agree that Germany has to die, but Antideutsche would never actually kill it. They'd have to ask permission from the AmeriKKKan state department and these surely don't want their gladio assets and air bases hurt.
If you're not a clown, you do not end up as Antideutscher. The entire movement shows poignantly what happens when you try to engage with antifascism entirely within a completely co-opted liberal framework that never looks at the materialist root causes of fascism, actively refuses to consider the influence of colonialism on the holocaust and never dares to question the moral superiority of the USA. No, seriously, these clowns worship AmeriKKKa. You can't be a leftist while stanning that fascist nation, it's just not possible. But these people try anyway because America was accidentally opposed to the nazis for 3 or 4 years at some point. They are so indoctrinated with anti-soviet propaganda that they completely overlook the sacrifices the USSR made in defeating Hitlerism.
This is what happens when you read zero theory and try to make up a leftist theory from scratch, based purely on what you learn in German schools.
I'm willing to forgive a lot for punching Nazis. I'm almost willing to forgive Churchill...almost.
Yeah, he was a monster, but i can still respect a monster's contribution to defeating Hitler. The Brits went through a lot during the Blitz. That goes for Americans who fought Germany as well, even though the biggest props clearly go out to the brave people of the USSR. But if you were storming a French beach on D-Day, you're a hero, you can rightfully say that you helped saving the world from fascism, there's no debating that. Just doesn't mean i have to be a fan of their homeland when it immediately started rehabilitating nazis after the war.
In fairness, the US siding with Germany (or staying neutral) is not as plausible a scenario as people think. Not out of moral principle, of course (save for a few individual actors in the US government) but because Germany and Japan carving out their realms would have been cancerous for the economies of the US and its allies (namely Britain) in the long run, so the Bourgeoisie would never allow it. Especially with Germany outright stating they wanted complete autarky which would have removed America and Britain from those sweet, sweet markets. Of course, the Nazis, having no sense of materialism whatsoever, took this to mean that America, Britain and the USSR were all controlled by the Juice.
Similarly, FDR didn't necessarily want to cultivate ties with the USSR because he liked them. Rather, he considered the British and French Empires to be more immediate threats to :freedom-and-democracy: and, unlike the Soviets who were more conciliatory and reasonable which he mistook for being easy to manipulate, Western Europe would hold on to their colonies to the bitter end (He interestingly had it out for de Gaulle especially). There was actually a lot of tension between the US and the two "Entente" powers even into the Cold War before the latter finally relented, "decolonized" and submitted to American capital. The thing about global capitalism is that there can only really be one "center of world capital", lest the centers come into conflict a la WWI. Bretton-Woods was kind of a foreshadowing for that.
But yeah, world would be a lot better if someone like Henry Wallace took the presidency and continued FDR's plan as opposed to fucking Truman :yes-honey-left:
Lmao,
Could there be an homologous thing in murica? Libs that despise their fascist nation but end up worshiping other fascist nations because gommunism bad?
Libs that despise their fascist nation but end up worshiping other fascist nations because gommunism bad?
Amerikkkan neolibs jerk themselves off to Merkel
Ah, the four terms geriatric ruler, totally not the kind of leader they shit non-stop on their stupid CIA written op-eds
idk, there's a lot of highly specific German brainworms at play here. Being confronted with living in Naziland is hard to deal with, it leads to all kinds of weird ideas when you don't have a thoroughly leftist worldview that makes it intuitive to reject fascism. When you realize "this happened here, i know people who where part of that regime", it's honestly terrifying.
IDK, I think some Gen-X contrarians ended up being "Antiamerikanish". I feel that is the fate of some like Max Blumenthal. They will just be less clownish and right more often because the US's position as a settler-colony, world hegemon and maintainer of global capitalism means that just reflexively saying everything in American culture and everything America does is bad is correct more often.
:germany-cool: I tried to conquer large swathes of land and annihilate their native inhabitants to settle the land for the Volk
and my corporate masters.:wojak-nooo: Fuck off, I don't believe in that shit.
:amerikkka: I pulled all that off successfully and even inspired that guy to begin with.
:so-true: YAS, a true force for good!
:thinky-felix: ”Fighting Antisemitism just means assuming any times someone calls something “bad” it’s code for “Jewish.””
Hes telling on himself here, he must believe that every jew is a capitalist rich guy
Anti-Capitalists use metaphors and we all know metaphors are racist.
Capitalists are totally realistic. They only use literals. You can't be racist as a capitalist. It would be impossible.
There's really only two forms of politics. Zionism and anti-semitism.
Thing 1 and Thing 2 are actually just one thing: "Thing 1 and Thing 2"
