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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

What's that red dot?

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

That Communists fought to destroy democracy, and prevent the formation of democracy, everywhere they went. In Russia (destroyed the fledgling democracy in 1917 after losing the election), in Germany (aligned with Nazis to destroy the republic pre-1934), China, Cuba, etc.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

Considering the fact North Korea is called the Democratic Republic, you would expect most people to be pro-North Korea unless they are against democracy.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 11h

"Does that make them opposites and one of them the good guys, or can they both be bad?" was obviously a rhetorical question. You're a drooling moron.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 11h

MAGA took (1) social media companies choosing to delete things on their own, and (2) the government giving info to companies about stuff on their platform, which the companies didn't always respond by removing.—And act like this justifies outright government censorship. They act like it's the same.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 15h

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 11h

No, it's obviously a rhetorical question. Since you clearly are just stupid (I don't need to ask), I'll help you out: totalitarianism is bad, and the fact Commies and Fascists both killed each other a bunch on the eastern front didn't magically render either group any better than before.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 11h

You know way less about this than me.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 11h

No, it sounds like I'm a normal person who values democracy, meaning I dislike the forces of totalitarianism (the Tsar, the Fascists, and the Communists).

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 17h

When Nazism was a rising power in Germany, the Communists aligned with them in attacking the republic. After Nazis gained power, the Communists signed a nonaggression pact with them and only joined the war after the Nazis broke it.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 17h

No, I did not say the Tsardom was democratic.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 18h

Nicholas and Batista weren't less fans of democracy than the Communist dictatorships that replaced them.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 18h

In 1933, some Nazis killed some other Nazis. Does that make them opposites and one of them the good guys, or can they both be bad?

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 18h

The only reason I mentioned that is to say I feel like I remember hearing about them as a leftist podcast some years ago. I'm not suggesting that you should consider them left-wing today.

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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 18h

Look, there's such a thing as anti-authoritarian right-wing ideas, but when we talk about "the far right", we tend to mean the authoritarian ones, because those are the ones that manifest in a problematic way we have to deal. (Also, liberalism and democracy is anti-authoritarian.)

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 18h

Because I wasn't as plugged in to some podcast? Right.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 18h

I doubt he's reading these replies.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 18h

The lack of 'cluelessness' is the thing that people find upsetting about my comments here. I see extremists for what they are and don't play from within their narratives.

"Liberals are the fa in antifa" is an example of what I argue: the far left will always backstab you to help fascism win.

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