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[+] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (35 children)
  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Buddy they made Lemmy, you're in their space

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Quite frankly I'm not looking forward to the renewed deluge of Reddit opinions like "the US Army is socialism"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean, tbf, joining the military IS what made me start looking into the concept of Socialism and what it means.

    Is the military socialism? No, us Enlisted have no power and the Officer corps is the "owning class", but we have good, tax payer funded social benefits that I believe everyone should have access to.

    It's like a gateway drug into anti-capitalism idealogies. If the US is never going to go full socialist (or at least not in our lifetimes), then I think raising taxes and giving everyone TRICARE, VA Loan benefits, tuition assistance, and a pension will go a long way in solving most people's biggest fears/relieving a metric fuckton of oppression caused by capitalism.

    Also, having been to the Middle East and seen firsthand the stark difference of people driving around Ducatis and Lambos, parking in front malls inlaid with real gold, while 10 minutes up the road whole communities had built their shack homes in the desert with random odds and ends and thrown blankets over their windows was...I cant really describe the feeling I got. Dread, anger, immense sadness, just a whole myriad of negative emotions. Couple that with the intense religious fervor that is rampant in the region, and yeah, I have no idea how a military member can look at all that and be like "This. This is what America needs."

    Granted, yes, unfortunately a lot of our service men and women are still unfortunately extremely pro-Capitalism/Trump and Elon Musk fanboys...I just don't know how.

    Either way, my comment got long, but when people start in on the "The Army is Socialist!" Dont be mad. Educate! They're at the very least coming from a place of "Fuck, we really could make everyones lives better if we give everyone these benefits that we enjoy so much!" And that shows compassion for others, which is something so fucking desperately needed right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're right, but it doesn't stop it from being tiresome to constantly be fighting that battle.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Oh I believe that 100%!

    I suppose I'm a little more patient with it because I went through the same change myself, AND because I like people (finally) pointing out that we do have a system for socialized healthcare in America!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I blame the anti-tankies. Like this is the only site i even see the termed even used and it looks like a weird hysteria for most. The community is already smal so it looks relay wired. Even this whinny attitude of blocking every one on this tiny space give real off vibes.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    they already have thier safe spaces on r/consevative, conspiracy, and trueunpopular opinon, but they whine on other subs that th ey are still get censored, or the so-called left is in an echo-chamber ever since trump won. even though those sub is mostly run by russian state owned bot system.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    Can confirm - I'm new here and when I see pieces of shit who'd be right at home amongst the people my grandfather killed in WWII (AKA nazis) it doesn't make me more interested in sticking around. At this point IDGAF why they think they way they think, they can fuck off into the sun. At some point I'll see whatever blocking thing there is and it will get better. Still an improvement over reddit.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    people my grandfather killed in WWII

    YSK that it was tankies who killed 80% of the Nazis in ww2

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    We know, it was a team effort.

    There was also that broken Nazi/Soviet pact and all that carving up of other peoples countries though that was supposed to go the other way.

    And look, another Nazi plot with the Russians.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    The Nazis had pacts with literally everyone. The Soviets were one of the last to sign one, because they had spent the proceeding years trying to form an explicitly anti-Nazi pact with the capitalist nations, only to be rebuffed.

    If Chamberlain had listened to Stalin, the war either wouldn't have happened, or it would have been over much more quickly.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    It’s the cutting up other peoples countries part without their say that the bully countries never understand.

    There was also a secret protocol to the pact, which was revealed only after Germany's defeat in 1945[101] although hints about its provisions had been leaked much earlier, so as to influence Lithuania.[102] According to the protocol, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland were divided into German and Soviet "spheres of influence".[101] In the north, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia were assigned to the Soviet sphere.[101] Poland was to be partitioned in the event of its "political rearrangement": the areas east of the PisaNarewVistula, and San rivers would go to the Soviet Union, and Germany would occupy the west.[101] Lithuania, which was adjacent to East Prussia, was assigned to the German sphere of influence, but a second secret protocol, agreed to in September 1939, reassigned Lithuania to the Soviet Union.[103] According to the protocol, Lithuania would be granted its historical capital, Vilniuswhich was part of Poland during the interwar period. Another clause stipulated that Germany would not interfere with the Soviet Union's actions towards Bessarabia, which was then part of Romania.[101] As a result, Bessarabia as well as the Northern Bukovina and Hertsa regions were occupied by the Soviets and integrated into the Soviet Union.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s the cutting up other peoples countries part without their say

    Please tell me what alternative there was for these "cut up countries". If the USSR hadn't established military presence in these countries, they'd just have been invaded by the Nazis. Maybe you expect the Soviet Union, after being ignored for a decade of mutual defense negotiations, to selflessly send its people to die for the countries that refused a military alliance? Like literally, what was the alternative here

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    What a bunch of bullshit. It was naked irredentism as Stalin conquered countries that had gained their independence from Russia during the Revolutions and you know it.

    And they were damn well proven right to be mistrustful of Russian chauvinism.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Many of these countries didn't "gain" their independence from "Russia", they were GRANTED independence by the Bolsheviks immediately after the November revolution. Really, look at Wikipedia's article on the independence of Finland. The first constitution of the Russian Socialist Federation of Soviet Republics clearly specified the right to unilateral secession and independence for all nations of the former Russian Empire.

    Regardless of my or your opinions on the independence of these countries, you didn't answer the question: what was the alternative to Soviet military occupation for the Baltics and Poland? Tell us, what was the realistic alternative?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (9 children)

    The Nazis had pacts with literally everyone.

    Nope. With only with Russia, Axis nations, and a few small countries.

    Stalin literally made a pact with Hitler to participate in the imperialist invasion of Poland.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

    Here’s one example that took place a year before the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

    Yes, we all know about the infamously foolish appeasement of Hitler. That wasn't a defense pact like Hitler made with Stalin.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Clearly you don't know much about it, that's why I'm trying to teach you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Clearly I know more than you do, since you didn't know the difference between a Military Invasion Pact that Hitler and Stalin made, and an appeasement agreement that the infamous fool Neville Chamberlian made.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    No, you're someone who was blatantly and obviously wrong and now over a week later you've moved the goalposts in order to declare victory.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    LMFAO! Dude I am not the person who equated Stalin and Hitler's imperialist joint military invasion pact with the UK's appeasement agreement. That was you. You are a Hitler/Stalin apologist. Who both killed tens of millions of people.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Equating Hitler with Stalin is genocide apologia. You don't know shit about fuck on this topic or, I suspect, any other related to historical communism, and for over a week now you've been showing your entire ass. Just stop.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago*

    I imagine that less-determined redditors will take one look at this place, see a liberal-bashing post, and then immediately fuck off

    Good. The last thing we need is more stormfront brainrot.

    Also, quite the ironic comment.

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  • [+] -23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    All politics ruin everything.

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