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For shits and giggles I went to check out his successors as head of the Bundeswehr

It took until 1986 for them to get a leader that wasn't a Nazi

It's old disgusting chud tier memes from the early 00s

The unspoken implication is that the average liberal hears "Afghanistan" and immediately begins imagining muezzin calls and images of women in burqas being leered at by dangerous, swarthy men with AKs and turbans, and that Afghanistan looks this (incredibly racist stereotypical) way because of religious fundamentalism, and this image is from "pre fundamentalist" Afghanistan , and that if Republicans (also religious fundamentalists) win they'll do the same to the US

It's a deeply racist and orientalist "meme" that's indistinguishable from early 00s chudposting

It's been almost ten fucking years

When the piss tape was relevant and newsworthy, Vines were still the dominant memes and people were playing the waning days of Pokemon Go. I wasn't even a communist yet and even then, at my peak liberal, I was starting to realize the piss tape/Steele dossier was absolutely meaningless

How are there still people clinging to this?

Imagine if the rest of Europe was as revanchist about each other as Finland is to Russia

They fought one short border war in the lead up to WW2, but to hear the Finns talk about it they make it seem like Russia was personally massacring every single civilian they could for fun on their way to burn down Helsinki

Imagine if France still held out a deep mistrust and hatred of the Germans for two world wars, or the Belgians for the Franco-Flemish war. One war a century ago and Finland can't get the fuck over it

His real grave isn't the sick statue but is actually a small stone with his wife a few meters away down the path. While the massive statue is sick as hell, his gravestone is very quiet and very somber, and when I was there someone had left a little note on it:

"While he didn't bring about communism in his lifetime, fate willing, we will in ours."

And if you ever point this out, the anti-china people assure you that this happens daily in China and you don't hear about it because they cover it up (which is also why there's no proof, see)

Canada got by for a long time by an international reputation for being apologetic and polite, but if you want to see how bad it can get here, ask the average Canadian their feelings about first nations or immigrants. I would easily say 3/4 of this country believes immigrants are the reason for the intense cost of living crisis no matter how much proof or arguments to the contrary

running out of older Soviet era chassis

It struck me recently that what's implied by the use of "Soviet era" and the reality are two different things

Like even though the USSR collapsed in 1991, I feel that the use of "Soviet era" always implies to people some out of date clunky 1960s tech, and fails to properly contextualize that basically everything the west has sent to Ukraine has also been "Soviet era". The M1 Abrams, Leopard 1, the F-16, all of these are 1960s-1980s, they're as old as the "Soviet era" stuff. Hell most countries haven't adopted anything new since the early 2000s

It would be like calling US equipment "Gulf War era" or something, it's fucking meaningless

The OP in that link continues to try and defend themselves by saying they didn't recognize the trans flag which I find wholly unbelievable in the year 2024 in the global North

Over/under on this being the US' handiwork?

I didn't know this before

IT WAS FUCKING 11 ?

Until well into the 1970s, the entire Bundeswehr and NATO's West Germany leadership were Nazis. I don't mean they were nationalists voting for whatever the proto AfD was, I mean that they were all actual card carrying Nazis who, prior to gaining their posts in 1945, had been shooting Allied troops and committing genocide, yet somehow avoided Nuremberg

For 30 years post war, the Bundeswehr was essentially just the Wehrmacht all over again in all but name