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IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
2hr ago
More importantly, why didn't they count hard Rs and soft As independently? I need to know how close to a real MW2 lobby we're talking here.
HereAndGone
2hr ago
Anyway, "this girl is fully retarded" is hardly worth clutching pearls over... maybe imitation pearls?
Remember a little while back when there were finger-wagging lists of words that were no-no because they were ableist, including describing things as "things are insane round here" or "we're crazy busy this week"?
So terms like 'retarded' are no-no because slurs and because 'excuse me, my brother is retarded, how dare you?' as per this article ("When someone casually says, “she’s so crazy” in an off-handed way, they could be talking about someone like my mom.")
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
2hr ago
one could imagine a fascist movement built on the basis of "our nation has never been particularly great or important, but we are going to be great in the future".
Without that specific spiritual foundation it just decays into regular old authoritarian nationalism. Most right wing African governments have this sort of setup and they are recognizably not fascist. And South America has it's fair share of Caudillisms too.
When you start to bring out some mythic past to rewrite the history and meaning of all institutions through fanatical and totalitarian mass politics, then you're in fascist territory.
In a weird way the Woke movement is as close to Fascism as MAGA, just from the other side. But neither are fascist.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
2hr ago
Or Imperial Russia, whose failure to do exactly this was the entire reason Stalin rose to Tsardom in the first place.
JarJarJedi
2hr ago
I thought about doing 8/16 IF but that's quite hard to fit in my schedule. Looks like 10/14 is working OK for me so far, and it fits well, but if it becomes not enough I could try to go to 8/16.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
2hr ago
Talk is cheap, of course. What did they actually do to support the average working-class non-party-member family? Granted, they did do the Nazi thing of rounding up co-ethnics and shipping them off to concentration camps in Siberia, but far as I know that wasn't an explicit policy goal and was more about paying off supporters than anything that would have benefited the average Russian.
By contrast, there's a country in the Near East- the ethnicity of its founders even had 'nazi' as part of their name- that despite its small size actively sends armed 'settlers' into a combat zone to displace the natives there, spends a great deal of treasure doing this, and the people that do those things have a TFR above 2. That just ain't a thing the average communist does.
JarJarJedi
2hr ago
Yes, Mr. Ivanov, Alexander Ivanovich, Alexander, Alex, Sasha, Sanya, Shura, Shurik, Ivanych, etc. are all the same person, depending on context. And using the wrong one in a wrong context may be a major social faux pas too. Unless you grew up with it, it can be a bit tricky to guess, especially that some diminutives have very little obvious connection to the full name, and some of them are also non-unique. You just have to know it.
DuplexFields
Ask me how the FairTax proposal works. All four Political Compass quadrants should love it.
2hr ago
Would you happen to be the Twitter Skeletor? That guy rocks and you rock.
NullHypothesis
2hr ago
I haven't heard of the Young Republicans before this.
Their Wikipedia page is almost empty except for the story that just broke out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Republicans
They have under 4000 followers on Twitter https://x.com/yrnational
I checked their website and most state chapters have at most a Facebook page.
They haven't seem to have accomplished much that would be newsworthy.
I'm sure they do stuff, but as an outsider doing some minor research, I can't say I'm impressed.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
Yeah, he should get some credit for that. It's more than you can say for Republican Spain, or even modern progressives.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
2hr ago
when he realized it's ruining the country, and he might have a war or two to fight
Translation: Stalin perceived that the valuation of men in society increased (or would increase), resulting in it being necessary to pander more to their interests lest his forces simply permit the Germans to walk right into Moscow and overthrow the government through inaction.
stuckinbathroom
2hr ago
If you had the same access to 'Young Democrats' or whatever it is on a college campus, you could 'both sides' this pretty quickly
Indeed, Vance did exactly this, bringing up the Virginia AG candidate who called for the deaths of conservatives’ children in a text message exchange.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
a total lack of emphasis on family formation and children
I was just a baby at the time, but that seems a bit off. My parents told me the message at the time was "the family is the basic cell of a society", and other such slogans that you could easily mistake for coming from the Tradcath sphere.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
2hr ago
Made an IF routine where I only eat anything between 10am and 8pm, outside of it I only drink water or tea
When my a1c crept into the prediabetic range, sticking to an eating window of 9 to 5, at least 6 out of 7 days a week fixed me right up. Dropped my a1c by 0.5 after a year. I cut back on a lot of things by virtue of not fucking snacking at night, but didn't cut out alcohol, carbs or sugars entirely.
Speaking of, I should probably get my yearly scheduled soon, make sure things haven't relapsed.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
2hr ago
Why? I think it was very feminized- layers of bureaucracy simply to make work (especially important for women), a total lack of emphasis on family formation and children (China is an even better example of that), and total equality of outcome (which favors the gender with the evolutionary disadvantage when it comes to producing physical things at scale).
Were the same things true of the fascists? No; where communists increase bureaucracy fascists do away with it, where communists fail to provide suitable accommodations fascists say 'living space', and equality of outcome is as far as I can tell not a thing for a Nazi (unless it's a group for which a claim that they owe reparations can be made).
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2hr ago
I don't think the USSR was a particularly feminised society.
As feminists (and even superficially non-feminist women) will tell you, even today's society isn't. The USSR definitely did have a short stint of the sort of progressive craziness we are facing right now, which Stalin had to cut short, when he realized it's ruining the country, and he might have a war or two to fight.
PutAHelmetOn
Recovering Quokka
2hr ago
that both sides say extreme things and that both sides get indignant at the other does not prove the situation is symmetrical. How do you prove that someone is joking or if they are being serious?
NullHypothesis
2hr ago
Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined.
I just found it funny the writers censored out "faggot" and "nigga", but not "retarded". So they're trying to get the list of the worst offensive things that were said but the 3rd item on the list wasn't offensive enough to censor but it's all grouped together to get the 251 count?
Mosiman was derided by members of the chat as “beaner” and “sp-c.”
How come they didn't censor out "beaner", isn't that racist too?
What's with the self-censorship, anyway? Politico had no problem quoting faggot just a year ago:
https://www.politico.com/search?q=faggot&s=newest
Same with bitch, cunt, nigga, nigger, spic, and chink. All words that have appeared in previous politico articles uncensored.
Eupraxia
Of all words spoken, all things read / most true was that which went unsaid
2hr ago
[ideas fundamentally, perhaps existentially hostile to the intersectional coalition] are common, [ideas fundamentally and existentially hostile to the intersectional coalition] are not
You see why they treat the two as equivalent?
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
The native Americans weren't subjugated to eliminate them or permanently other them, they were subjugated to integrate them as Americans, they got treaties and reservations.
This was a later development. The original rationale for reservations and treaties was very much ‘get out of the way’.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
2hr ago
I don't think the USSR was a particularly feminised society. Blue-haired feminists may consider themselves communist, they may even be communists, but they definitely haven't established Socialism in One Country.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
2hr ago
If that is not "proof of Bad Nazi" to you, what is?
Is Hitler in the room with us right now?
Look. The reason communists hate fascists is because the driving impulse behind both are identical except for who, whom. It's bikeshedding.
The reason Germany and Italy went one way and Russia and China went the other is simply due to which gender role [gender is too reductive in the face of mechanization] found itself in oversupply relative to its output given the technological conditions at the time. Working class men were in undersupply in the former nations, and in oversupply in the latter (sometimes called the 'unneccessariat').
That is why communism usually goes full civil war mass murder dependent on the poverty of the nation, whereas fascism does not need to. (That's not a guarantee it won't, of course, but since when have dictatorships- including communism/fascism, which is the dictatorship of the working class- ever really been rational?)
faceh
2hr ago
being aggressively, overtly racist isn't quite socially acceptable yet.
Uhhh it certainly is if you're from an oppressed demographic and directing it against an oppressor demographic, as framed by the left.
Even the guy who used to write for John Oliver and still is liberal in every conceivable way is getting fed-up of the activists blowing up mountains out of molehills and the 'trust the science' bullshit being, well, bullshit.
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