• Premature anti-fascism was a real charge that got you dragged in front of HUAC and persecuted under McCarthyism. Because only Communists and Socialists hated fascists for their ideology. If you were a true red-blooded American, you only started hating Nazis and Fascists after Pearl Harbor when they declared war on us. Plenty of good people got arrested, deported, or careers ruined because they thought Nazis were bad before December 1941. Because back then that was understood as being obviously Stalin-loving Communists. It is only later that liberals pretended to be anti-fascist for actual ideological reasons and pretended that horseshoe theory had any validity.

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    2 months ago

    Good read right up until the usual Stalin bad, Trots good nonsense.

    Still, it’s good enough that I can send it to libs and baby leftists.

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      You don’t have to be good, Trotsky was kind of an asshole, to be right. We’ll never know what would have happened if Lenin had listened to Trotsky and not signed Brest-Litovsk, but Europe and history would certainly be different.

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    2 months ago

    Next time, how about listening before the damage is done?

    Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”