Auntievenim

I just don't understand why a marxist would cape for russia at any point in any form. Russia is MORE capitalist than even america, at least until this past January. Might as well defend pinochet since he also was a unitary executive.

Socialism is when no bread mfs look at russia like "that's pretty socialist!"

Ooh do me next!

Is there an extension that shows account "karma" somewhere? I dont care very much but I would be interested to know how I'm getting along here since there's no notifications for reaching upvote Milestones.

Now that I think about it; I don't get notifications from lemmy at all. Maybe I should look at my settings..

Don't worry, liberal media is going to save the day here by passive voicing genocide and offering comfort to fascists being "unfairly criticized" so they can remain fair and balanced. The revolution will be televised, as they always say.

Youre right, the correct terminology here is "doublethink"

The whole thing was computer, he was expecting an automatic I'm guessing

I'm glad someone understood what I was getting at lol

Fuck ronald reagan, fuck the entire apparatus that allowed him to get into power, and fuck all the cowards in congress who refused to convict him for deliberately betraying our nation time and time again while in office.

The bow was my entire reason to play this game

Youre either lying or stupid https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-child-recovering-brain-cancer-deported-mexico-undocumented-rcna196049

President carter just did nothing while those hostages were stuck in iran and Reagan got them out!

Sorry for getting heated, I initially read it as nitpicking but scaled back my reply when I read it a few more times to fully understand what you were saying.

When I wrote the original comment I was just rattling off the most well known events and I honestly didn't remember the Vegas shooter having not disclosed a motive or left clues.

At first it seemed like an attempt to derail the conversation but I went and doubled checked all the reporting to make sure I didn't have it confused. You were right, and I got defensive. I didn't want the heart of the message to get lost in the combing through of each individual culprits motive.

Either way, the dude was a piece of shit, and there's 400 more open neonazis committing violence to pull from the database if we really want to make sure all our t's are crossed and I's dotted.

Thanks for the reply, and for understanding where I was coming from. I did not mean to come off condescending.

He was basically absent from her life, i don't think the outcomes could be attributed to musk positive or negative. She obviously had to find her own way with a negligent and abusive parent, who just happened to end up being the richest man in history.

Famously when the nazis demanded obedience they did so not by making laws outright banning speech. They simply made sure that nobody in any position of power would risk drawing attention and behave accordingly "of his own will"

Its brilliant that a hundred years later people with access to any human in the world just... do the exact same shit Germans did.

From They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933 - 1945

[...] "I gave them French and English literature, more so than before, although to do so was one of those vague betrayals of the ‘new spirit’; still, it had not been specifically forbidden. Of course, I always said, to protect myself (but I said it in such a way that I hoped the students would see through it), that the foreign works we read were only a reflection of German literature. So, you see, Herr Professor, a man could show some—some independence, even, so to say, secretly.” “I understand,” I said. “Many of the students—the best of them—understood what was going on in all this. It was a sort of dumb-show game that we were all playing, I with them. The worst effect, I think, was that it made them cynical, the best ones. But, then, it made the teachers cynical, too. I think the classroom in those years was one of the causes of the cynicism you see in the best young men and women in Germany today.”

[...]

"Tell me, Herr Hildebrandt, what about [Shakespeare's]Julius Caesar?”

He smiled very, very wryly. “Julius Caesar? No … no.”

“Was it forbidden?”

“Not that I remember. But that is not the way it was. Everything was not regulated specifically, ever. It was not like that at all. Choices were left to the teacher’s discretion, within the ‘German spirit.’ That was all that was necessary; the teacher had only to be discreet. If he himself wondered at all whether anyone would object to a given book, he would be wise not to use it. This was a much more powerful form of intimidation, you see, than any fixed list of acceptable or unacceptable writings. The way it was done was, from the point of view of the regime, remarkably clever and effective. The teacher had to make the choices and risk the consequences; this made him all the more cautious.”