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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly that article should be spread WAY more. It's litteral agitprop that is readymade by the richest people in the world and it's unrelentingly mask off and honest.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I promise I try to take my job a little bit seriously, but I did just get sent an article written by a various self-righteous Danish lawyer that was litterally talking about "the principle of "Cum in" in Danish Law". (paraphrasing the title, as I don't want to make it too easy to find)

Latin is a deeply serious language and boy do I love that it continues to be used by the most annoying people in the world

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the actual Tank Factory (tm) is in Ohio rather than NC, but and Ohio is slightly more insulated from natural disasters than the coastal states are, but it does present a quite obvious weakpoint to only have 1 factory that produces a very key part of the millitary's ability to deploy. Sort of like how the F35 has components built in litterally every single state in the US, because Lockheed knows how to lobby better than almost anyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Huh, thats where that line is from. I only ever knew it as the introduction to a Rise Against song.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Isn't that what happened with Meloni in Italy? She was considered an unrepentant fascist and right winger, then got elected and suddenly she is just "right leaning" because she changed her tune on NATO and Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

A People Betrayed by Paul Preson. It details a long story of Spain and it's politics from around the time of the Spanish-American War and until the fall of Franco I believe. The lead up to the civil war is incredibly long and detailed, and I think it's about 300 pages before you even get to the civil war, and then 20 pages of war, before it goes deep into post-war politics under Franco. I'm not even halfway and it's really good, albeit it's REALLY fucking detailed, and it makes you hate everyone that has ever been a right winger with a burning passion, if you don't already.

Edit: Should probably add, this book was recommended highly on GenZedong back when that sub was still pretty active, and it was recommended with the caveat that the author isn't a socialist or a marxist, but he is still really good at understanding how structural contradictions drive society. Apparently the author isn't all too charitable to the Spanish socialist movement, but all I've seen so far is the fact that he blames the Republican's own infighting for the poor performance of the left/center in the civil war. Which isn't too much of a stretch to argue, I would say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, but like, I'm reading a long-ass book about Franco's Spain, and one of the things that the Spanish Right would do in the leadup to the Civil War was just the Spanish oligarchs denouncing various people as jews. That author at least, didn't make it sound like it "spanish right accuses others of being secret bolsheviks" but more liken "spanish right reinvents inquisition and accuses random catholics of secretly being jewish / jews", with the implications that being jewish was the crime these people committed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A hysterically funny thing to me personally is whenever I read about right wingers prior to 1945, they would always accuse other people of being jews. It comes out of nowhere every time and it sort of cracks me up, because I genuinely cannot imagine people doing that today. Granted, today they just use other words to amean the same thing, but it's probably the bluntness that tickles me.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (13 children)

A hysterically funny thing to me personally is whenever I read about right wingers prior to 1945, they would always accuse other people of being jews. It comes out of nowhere every time and it sort of cracks me up, because I genuinely cannot imagine people doing that today. Granted, today they just use other words to amean the same thing, but it's probably the bluntness that tickles me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Danish millitary officers are every bit as imperialist as the rest of NATO, just a lot worse at their job. And the Danish Defense Academy is anti-imperialist sort in the same way that the F-35 is, i.e. it's too bad at the job of being a tool for imperialism to be of any actual threat.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

We all hope that is the case, but Liberals keep coming up with new and exiciting ways to deny reality. See for instance also the Finnish campaign to paint themselves as the winners of the Winter War and the deliberate exclusion of anything regarding the Continuation war.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've sort of come around on the Danish Defense Academy. They seem to be one of the single most effective anti-imperialist organizations in the country, which is a good thing considering that even the Red-Greens have bend the knee to NATO, and now opposition to NATO is basically only a position held by very old social democrats, non of whom seem to have noticed the party all but kicking them out.

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