RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]

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Cake day: August 21st, 2020

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  • By the time of the second world war’s start, Germany had effectively been able to secure its own autarky (war loot and occupied territories factored in) and wage war independently of Western support for a good few years, though it certainly accepted outside help in some regards (like IBM, as you mentioned). Even before, while it certainly did help, Germany didn’t need material and diplomatic support from the Western Allies to incorporate Austria and Czechoslovakia (thereby giving them the industry to support themselves), only their inaction.

    By contrast, Israel’s existence while at war is entirely predicated on Western support. Without it, it would need to mobilize its entire infrastructure, population and industry towards war, which would absolutely kill it as a viable project within a matter of years. The genocide in Gaza and displacement in West Bank and East Jerusalem is effectively as much of a Western undertaking as it is an Israeli one. It’s the same beast with two different faces.

    I don’t mean to belittle the evil of mask-off Zionism or fascism, just that its soulless liberal PR team which gaslights all while making a mockery of the very concept of internationalism gets under my skin more often.


  • I hate these rabid ethnonationalist quasi-zealots but I hate the Western liberal “democracies” and their institutions who enable them in the first place so, so much more. They will parrot their utopic aspiration of a law-abiding community of secular democratic states prizing the value of individual rights above “the nation” only to then read shit like “The Bible offers three modalities for a religiously mandated war” and entertain it. Blood-and-soil “nation-building” ramblings with religious justification were bad when the Serbs were the ones spewing them but are perfectly valid for the only democracy in the middle east.



  • The “Iranian Pro-Democracy Movement” (ie, the English-speaking ones who Libs actually listen to) is funny because if you bring up Mossadegh as opposed to some failson “prince” as an actual historical figure to rally behind, they go onto some tirade about him being a crypto-commie dictator who deserved to be overthrown by Ajax “the Iranian people”. Westoids love that shit because it absolves them of the fact that “the good guys” essentially strangled a US-friendly liberal democracy in its cradle and set Iran on the path to become what it is now all because of Britbong oil interests.



  • The comments of that thread are demonstrating your points perfectly, in particular to the DNC’s overall attitude. Even after all that’s happened, they are still denigrating pro-Palestinians for being “single-issue voters” and letting “perfect be enemy of the good” (ie, the same tired talking points which worked oh-so-well the LAST FUCKING TIME), and that encapsulates perfectly just how little Libs have learned or will learn; Whether it’s those with actual direct power, their donor benefactors, or, as shown here, the Blue MAGA dipshits on the ground carrying water for them.

    Whatever moment of genuine self-reflection for the party is going to be drowned out by a cacophony of Yes-Men repeating the same mantras like a broken record. Just the same ideas that the a) the Dems ran the perfect campaign, b) that the Leftists/minorities stabbed them in the back and c) the only lessons to take from this loss are entirely superficial (my mind goes to when some MSM talking heads “analyzed” Hasan’s rant but all they took from it was that the Dems needed to reach out to the Twitch crowd).

    Silver lining is that is that this leaves the Left in a position to expand and grow by absorbing more and more fragments of the Democratic party’s base, but that won’t come to us automatically no matter how much mainstream libs shoot themselves in the foot.