• Nobsi
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      311 year ago

      Hopefully.
      Fascists don’t understand anything else. Proof: History

      • @[email protected]
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        Communists can’t be fascist, they have a thin veil of very conditional worker solidarity! They’re inherently good! Stalin was just misunderstood.

        • @orrk
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          Ironically, the whole point of Leninism was that Russia wasn’t wealthy enough to be communist, and thus had to have state capitalism watched by a “vanguard party” (who are in theory supposed to keep the capital in check), so not even the Russians believed they did communism.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            Nothing has ever been really tried, other people don’t exist they’re all projections of your mind.

      • @TokenBoomer
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        I think NATO is a tool for capitalist imperialism and therefore fascist. Should we use violence against NATO?

        • Nobsi
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          You obviously cannot use your brain, otherwise you wouldn’t say such a stupid thing, but yes. If they were fascist then we should use violence to make them go away. Tiny problem. NATO is not that and you are an idiot for saying such a thing with seriousness.
          Thanks for the joke and letting me answer it seriously.

          • Blue and Orange
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            If NATO is supposed to be a defensive alliance, it should not operate outside of its own borders under any circumstances, yet it has done so multiple times in the past.

            In theory it is an alliance of equals, but in practice it is an enforcer of the foreign policy of its most powerful member, the US. As with Russia in the USSR and the larger Warsaw Pact. If that wasn’t the case, the US would have no use for NATO and would just leave, which is what many European countries would want to avoid at all costs.

            • @Katana314
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              The way modern weapons work, defending from within your own borders just isn’t practical anymore. A simple example is those rockets constantly used for strikes in the middle east - often deployable from outside established borders.

              The only true safeguard against those strikes is having a constant awareness of what’s going on - for instance, someone deploying thousands of soldiers right to the edge of their border without actually crossing.

            • @orrk
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              you know that the whole Middle East thing wasn’t due to NATO?

                • Nobsi
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                  I am not in kindergarden anymore.
                  I don’t have the time to argue with childrens understandings of what defensive alliances are and should be.
                  Good night bobby

          • @TokenBoomer
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            Don’t listen to me, maybe consider a think tanks opinion. >Source But yeah, I’m the idiot. /s

            • @[email protected]
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              You know things have gone bad when you’re relying on a libertarian think tank literally founded by Charles Koch (as in, the Koch Brothers) as your source

              • @TokenBoomer
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                Maybe a Lebanese source then. Maybe Venezuelan? Maybe a Marxist perspective? Oh wait, you want the neoliberalist to tell you when NATO is fascist. Good luck with your wait.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Ah yes, the Lebanese source “Tim Anderson”.

                  the European Parliament went so far as to blame both the USSR under Joseph Stalin, alongside Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, as being jointly responsible for WW2

                  Uh…. Then he delivers a diatribe on how Stalin’s self-made famine was actually fantastic. Yes, we’ve heard all about that on Lemmy recently, thanks.

                  Yes, very nuanced and well reasoned “Marxist” perspective. Capitalist alliance having members in Eastern Europe: omg, so evil. Capitalist Russia controlling Eastern Europe: great, for some unexplained reason.

                  • @TokenBoomer
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                    Capitalist NATO controlling Eastern Europe: great, for some unexplained reason.

            • Nobsi
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              Yes you are. And i will leave it to the other people that have already told you why to continue. The mods here will probably delete this comment because I haven’t been nice to you :(((

              • @TokenBoomer
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                I hope not. I respect the discourse despite the insults. Maybe try to see the world from a less Americanized lens.

                • Nobsi
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                  I am. I am not even American.
                  Maybe try to see the world from a lens that doesnt gobble up Propaganda

                  • @TokenBoomer
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                    You are not immune to propaganda. Sure. The person who wants to stop the war and killing is the one influenced by propaganda./s

        • @[email protected]
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          I guess I know what you’re trying to say, but not even remotely close to what fascism means.

          • @TokenBoomer
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            I know it’s not fascism by definition, it is metaphorical. Capitalism decays into fascism.

            • @orrk
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              Capitalism doesn’t inherently decay into anything, it does help those who would enact fascism tho, but that is a VERY different beast.

                • @orrk
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                  yes, yes it is.

                  • @TokenBoomer
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                    Glad we don’t have anything to worry about then…

        • @[email protected]
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          My friend NATO was started by a literal nazi, it’s not fascist because it’s imperialist. It’s fascist because it’s fascist.