Not my screenshot but found the source https://www.reddit.com/r/dccomicscirclejerk/comments/y0zf4m/war_of_the_supermen/irz501h
I've never encountered anyone who says "cope and seethe" more than once per conversation who didn't come off like they spent an inordinate amount of time doing both.
Historically speaking, every empire in history collapses due to an obsession with conquest and power. Turns out being a cruel asshole is fucking stupid when you're a social species.
Might makes right :blob-no-thoughts:
But seriously, the only legitimate position is the one that is exercised by those with power. If you don't have power, you're obligated to use any means to attain it, so that you can actualize your position. Of course taking care to not alienate allies in the pursuit of power.
The problem isn't that. Most communist figures have acknowledged that political power comes from the barrel of a shooty-stick, at the end of the day.
The problem is assholes using it as a cliche truism to excuse them being assholes, from past empires/states to smug right wing Redditoids like this guy. It's always wielded as a cudgel by people who consider themselves confidently speaking from a position of power to begin with (or so they think), knowing that if they were the ones on the receiving end, they'd be whistling a different tune.
(Ironically, Hitler is the poster boy for what this kind of thinking leads to AND is one of the few exceptions where he conceded that Slavs were the master race once the Red Army was closing in on Berlin, and that Germans deserved their "impending" extermination. No, I won't hand it to him for being a good sport.) :dril:
"Ah mein Gott, ze Slavish Untermenschen must be the true Chosen Ones, destined to wipe out all other races and rule eternal!" :pit:
"wtf you weird nerds, why would anyone want to do that?" :soviet-hmm: "please get ready for GDR-ification" :josus-stalin:
Tbf, the Nazis would consider extermination preferable to being "Judeo-Bolshevized".
right around when Israel was founded (1948)
yeah sure it was (((them))) and not the Second World War that really soured the whole world's taste for the "right of conquest." fucking chud
Ah Jews,
we're diligently plotting to take over the world and establish world peace....we're such fiends!
So there's an entire race of psychopathic manchildren that want to kill everyone else because they have an insatiable megalomania, but the peace-loving Jews that want them to stop are seen as the enemy of all humanity? Including the victims of the manchildren's power trips?
Granted, I do not necessarily see white people as genetically warlike or a "natural" enemy of Jews. After all, Irish people are white and have a relatively chill history. In fact, Ireland has historically been relatively tolerant of Jews. Logically, as a Jewish person myself, if I were plotting to take over the world, my first target should logically be Egypt. However, I do not hate all Egyptians, let alone arabs or Muslims.
Damn, a lot of conventional internet wisdom really falls apart when you apply critical thinking... :shrug-outta-hecks:
Me holding a sign that says: "Don't hurt people and don't take their stuff!"
The majority of westerners: "That's him officer! That's the (((crazy leftist authoritarian)))!"
