SevenSkalls

Well that's depressing. But makes sense.

I also didn't realize Spain had a liberal government before the Civil War. I guess I always figured it was a monarchy like everywhere else, but a quick read on Wikipedia shows it was a democratic liberal government and the monarchy was deposed 5 or so years earlier. Thanks for that interesting fact and unique case.

Between this and the Russia example, I wonder if the beginning of a liberal bourgeois democracy is it at its weakest. Socialism feels so hopeless now in the US, with how strong and entrenched it's liberal bourgeois institutions are now. But then the Roman Republic fell after hundreds of years, and we haven't really had capitalism that long yet, so maybe it's possible with the right conditions.

Totally forgot about that. Although in my defense, I'm still getting to that point in the Revolutions podcast (the Tsar just stepped down) and I definitely need to do more reading on that period since I heard the podcast will probably start getting pretty lib soon. I was predicting that it was going to be a more nominally socialist democratic government than liberal democracy because Kerensky was an SR and I was predicting the Bolsheviks were going to take it over from the SR's or Mensheviks or something, but like I said, haven't reached that part yet and haven't done enough reading on the period yet lol.

I forgot about the fact that the Tsar was down by the time the Bolsheviks took over. I thought they took it over from other socialists, though, because he was an SR. I'm still getting to that point in the Revolutions podcast admittedly lol, and need to do more reading on that period lol.

Eh, they got me to not automatically hate socialism. And now I'm on here arguing with internet randoms that Cuba, Vietnam, and the USSR are awesome. It's a process.

It's like Zionism and antisemitism. Sure it doesn't cause those attitudes, but damn does it not help.

That sounds hilarious. Do you have a link? Or is there another post about it?

All my friends and family are libs (except for the ones who are chuds) so I couldn't even if I wanted to lol.

And that's the worst thing. I know he's a cop but I hated seeing him disappointed in me 😭 It started doing drugs less when around him for that reason lol

That's exactly why I thought they'd pick Shapiro. I still find it hard to believe they actually did something politically savvy for once.

Of fucking course they are

Really good video. I'm surprised I haven't heard of this person before. That's the best I've seen that contradiction explained.