No no no. In socialist countries, the Big Government is in control. There’s no freedom. Everyone lives in fear. You don’t even own your own toothbrush.
Anyone who supports socialism is a Tankie who just wants to kill rich white people for fun and doesn’t understand how awful their lives will be afterwards.
Folks can’t remember Bush Jr at all, much less Clinton, Bush Sr or Reagan. They can barely remember Obama, except through a haze of nostalgia.
What’s notable about Trump isn’t his fascism - plenty of presidents have been openly fascist. What’s notable is how many middle class white people are getting sucked up into the current dragnet.
Things are working great and you people need to quit complaining
Barely on the cusp of calling it “Fake News”
Rising American anti-Semitism isn’t a foreign influence operation.
If I’m not allowed to blame Putler for this, why should I even consider it a problem?
Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl
Oh boy, excited to hear his opinions on Israel-Palestine.
Yee-haw!
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland
Shrug
The Eastern Block got the same fuzzy treatment from NATO that countries like Afghanistan and Columbia and Iran enjoyed.
Americans love a color revolution when your government aligns with Russia or China. But they have zero tolerance for dissent once their friends are in charge.
40 years ago poland was the most progressive country in europe regarding homosexuality because unlike everyone else they never criminalized it.
Damn, that’s wild. What was Poland like 40 years ago?
flips open history book
Omg, you’re a fucking tankie! TANKIE! TANKIE! Mods, get this guy out of here!!!
Unpopular American Opinion
We got a lot of German refugees in the late 1940s
Russia running into all the same problems of a prolonged ground war that plague any imperial power.
Strangely, I see so many of these posts indicating this as some kind of weakness Ukraine should be expected to exploit. However, you can see all the same problems of conscription on the opposite side of the front lines. Ukraine has increasingly turned to South America for expendables, with 40% of new recruits coming from across the Atlantic this year. Incidentally, a lot of these recruits are coming from the drug cartels.
we’re just shitheads picking shitheads
Where are the non-shithead options?
The anti-natalist folks and the pro-natalist folks are clearly in some kind of competition to produce the shittiest ideology imaginable.
Congrats for putting points on your side of the board.
They say AI can’t replace us, but that’s exactly what I’d tell my boss
Sort of like how “Al-Qaida in Iraq / Syria / etc” wasn’t a real organization, just a way of publicizing the War on Terror in a language Americans reflexively accepted.
We’re going to see random people persecuted as “Members of Antifa” in the same way we spied on and harassed anti-War Quackers and anti-Genocide college students by affiliating them with “terrorist groups”
Poutine backed Trump’s campaign
It’s so weird to see guys like the Mercers and the Adelsons put up hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Trump. FFS, the Qatars donated more money via the Kushner back door. Nobody seems to give a shit. It’s always Putin, Putin, Putin. Like, the entire domestic O&G industry is backing this guy, but nobody seems to give a shit about Exxon or Chevron or Energy Transfer LP.
The Nixon situation is a drop in the ocean
My Brother In Christ, please at least pretend to learn about the Vietnam War, the Chilean Coup, or the 1971 campaign to conduct a nationwide pogrom against brown voters and liberal organizers under the guise of the Drug War.
Nixon isn’t a drop in the ocean, he’s the mushroom cloud in the distance. You’re only now feeling the shockwave and the radioactive burn.
Asking my TikTok nephew for a loan to cover rent this month and I have to listen to him rap at me for ten minutes before handing over the cash in crypto.
Biden came into office in 2021 with the promise to root out corruption. After four years, he’d dramatically inflated the incomes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, turned his back on Donald Trump, laundered billions to his friends at AIPAC, and spent two years trying to force the sale of US branch of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin.
With liberals like that, who can really be surprised when the nation swings conservative again? Biden effectively self-financed his party’s defeat.
apathy and not voting, which is exactly what Republicans want
Between 2014 and 2024, Republicans became enthusiastic advocates for higher voter turnout. Trump’s wins in 2016 and 2024 came through record numbers of Republican voters turning out in both the primary and general elections. Republicans have maintained control of Texas, Ohio, and Florida and tightly contested states like North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania by juicing their base voter participation.
The doggedly myth that Republicans only win when turnout is low was flatly disproven nearly a decade ago. Movement Conservatives have been more successful at turning out new voters in swing states than their Conservative Democrat peers, which is precisely why so many purple-ish states have swung red since the end of the Obama Era.
Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from?
The Ivy League mostly, with honorable mention to Stanford, MIT, and the bigger state Universities.
But also, they tend to come from the nation’s wealthiest families, or as personal friends and social relations of these ultra-wealthy elites.
they are elected by American citizens
We had a 44 year run during which a Bush or a Clinton was a leading contender for President (1976 - 2020). What do you do when your options are so limited? Hell, guys like Trump and Biden are the outliers.
Get down to the state and local levels, and you’ll see much the same. Perennial incumbents from entrenched social circles cement themselves into power and promote their cronies to surrounding offices. Down in Texas, you can point to the tight-knit social circle of former Bush-Era cronies running the state as their own private fief. Opponents are subject to a litany of subversive tactics, ranging from vigilante harassment to criminal prosecution. Voting participation is deliberately suppressed through both legal and illegal means. And misinformation runs rampant in a press owned and operated by outspoken fascists.
To say people are just picking its leadership on perceived merits is plainly false.
Not just with socialism. This was the response to the civil rights movement of the 60s/70s, to the environmentalism of the 80s/90s, and to the anti-war movement of the 00s/10s.
Every progressive position is pillared as unworkable, overly expensive, and jobs-killing.
Meanwhile, we sink $1T/year into chat bots that spam your Twitter feed with racist porn and armies of tweaked out sheriffs deputies to crash their cars into anyone they consider illegally brown