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[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean Lebensraum was just the Nazi version of Manifest Destiny.

The Nazi's great crime, in the eyes of other Europeans, wasn't that they did all that stuff, it's they did it to other white people

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

America was also racist against white people (such as the Irish) once upon a time.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

USA only supported prohibition when it was sold to voters as a measure against European immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Italy.

You want to do anything in the USA politically, just target immigrants.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

the Irish weren't white when they were being discriminated against. they assimilated into whiteness.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

America has always been susceptible to fascism. FDR merely mitigated the worst of America at that time.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Everytime I see a cop riding a horse t think of guts from berserk slicing of their finger legs

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yep. And European colonialism was the blueprint for everything the US did, and so on and so forth, going all the way back to before recorded history.

This is nothing new. The history of our species would indicate that it's in our nature to destroy ourselves.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stupid liberals, opposing Nazis. What a bunch of maroons! /s

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To the extent that liberals have historically combated fascism, they've always been the last ones to the Nazi Bashing party.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So what? They're opposing Nazis now, so for the moment they could be allies. What is this scolding supposed to achieve, other than in-group virtue signaling?

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

They are not opposing Nazis, they just want to be the ones doing Nazi shit

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

They’re opposing Nazis now

Are they though? Half of them are still supporting Israel, most of the rest are supporting the fascist DNC

[–] makeshift0546@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thought this was hexbear for a moment 🤣

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hexbear sucks because they're hypocrites, not because they're wrong about the usa

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How are Hexbear hypocrites?

[–] timdrake@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because they don't support Pol Pot.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea no, I'm not a Pol Pot defender.

[–] timdrake@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The only way I can imagine you don’t defend Pol Pot, as a communist, in any regard is if you don’t actually hold to the notion of taking back communist history from “bourgeois historiography”™ and not automatically accepting prepared narratives. "Historical idealism" in the sense Losurdo talks about in "Hegel, Marx, and the Ontology of Social Being."

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pol Pot apologia is fucking crazy lmaooo

[–] timdrake@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 hours ago

Knows nothing about Democratic Kampuchea award

[–] butwhyishischinabook@anarchist.nexus -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Lol. So you can't actually explain

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

This is a non-answer, I don't see how users on Lemmy.ml nor Hexbear.net are hypocrites. This is a vague jab at users on Marxist-friendly instances without the specificity needed to make an actual claim.