• melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    there are no left authoritarians in office.

    liberals are not leftists. haven’t been since 1848.

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      6 months ago

      Dunno why 1848, but those students on the streets of Vienna whom “dear father field marshal” Radetzky hanged on many lanterns were not leftist. They were pretty republican-nationalist, right liberal that is.

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          6 months ago

          I don’t get your thought process. The original incidents were Soviet interventions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

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            6 months ago

            sorry when I hear about a name from that language family I I st assume. I ignore most soviet history and as much american history as I can because its stupid and can be summarized ‘and then they figured out how to make even worse decisions! hooray!’

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        6 months ago

        Only the fringe lunatics think it’s even possible to disarm a population. Far lefties like myself realize the power that small arms represent in the fight against fascism. Marx said to arm up.

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          6 months ago

          Marx also assumed that revolution eventually leads to a communist utopia.

          Thus far they have only led to authoritarian regimes. Even Cuba is little more than a benevolent dictatorship.

          Weapons are a good way to combat other weapons, not ideology.

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          6 months ago

          fuck that dude about so much, but yeah, he wasnt wrong about everything.

          that means anti armor and anti drone weapons, too!