includes a translation of Putin's entire speech from yesterday Jun 14

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    We should start using swastikas too, since those were used before Nazis.

    I've literally never heard the word globalist before fascists started using it, so it can't have been that common.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Liberals often talk about “globalization” in the economic neoliberal capitalist sense, and in the 90s it was very common to be pro-globalization and anti-globalization. It was what the famous Seattle protesting WTO was all about, the anti-globalist vs. pro-globalist split in the new post soviet left

        • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          English isn't my first language but they seem interchangeable to me in most geopolitical contexts

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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            5 months ago

            They are similar in meaning and derived from the same root, but globalization is a much more common word. That's the reason fascists adopted the term globalism: because globalization was used by leftists.