Tree
4d ago
Ironic that he was fired not for celebrating Kirk’s death, but for the kind of post-truth statement maga has whole-heartedly embraced : “I don’t really know, so I’ll just believe and say whatever is most convenient for my side”.
I can see how stupid it all is, but I still feel the blue tribe had it coming. Once the red mob has collected its own scalps, their feelings of rage, impotence and confusion may dissipate. And the blues can brush up on newton's third law, all for this small price.
As to you people, this is another victory (of sorts) for the right that you would never have predicted, blackpillers that you are.
Tree
4d ago
The left as forced economic redistribution of resources, to the poor. I thought that was implied. Sulla lining handing his enemies’ estates to his allies doesn’t qualify. Sulla abolishing the grain dole does make him right-wing. Enclosure , that’s just privatization. Although it might be characterized as dispossession of the riff-raff, which would be right-wing.
Tree
5d ago
If you define leftism as forced economic redistribution, there’s a good case to be made for the nazis. It fits in the pattern of liquidating a minority’s assets for the benefit of the majority. In other places, leftists liquidated aristocrats or kulaks, hitler picked the jews.
Some medieval kings, once they were deeply in debt to jews, suddenly discovered that they were enemies of christ after all, and in fact, they should leave his kingdom; not their assets though, these could, and should, stay, he insisted. Philipp IV famously liquidated the Knights Templar with this simple trick.
The german working class lived large under the nazis, largely from stolen money, first from jews, then from conquered euro countries. Many of their welfare laws are still on the books. The reason why this isn’t commented on more is that everyone else at the time was also turning hard left. With FDR’s new deal, and Leon Blum’s government in france, both laying the groundwork for their countries respective welfare states.
Tree
6d ago
No more US money to Egypt and the other nations around them means no more land trade. The US giving up (well more than they have already) at dealing with the houthis means there's no more shipping, either.
How? The houthis are on a completely different sea from the main israeli coast. It’s like saying alaskan separatist tribes are going to blockade the US.
Maybe the reason the tide turned was because BLM, cancellations, terrible netflix movies and so on alienated the center-left.
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