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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 9h

Nono, pretty sure they meant Obama the war criminal

Because literally every US president since at least FDR has been one

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 9h

See this is why you should never say something about someone that you'd be unwilling to say to their face

That doesn't mean I won't ever shit talk people, but if word gets back to them I'm completely happy to stand behind what I said

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 9h

The difference is poorly defined because neither is a currently recognized psychiatric term

It's basically just common speech for "person who completely lacks empathy"

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 9h

It's darkly funny if you understand what kind of operation the NYT actually is..

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 9h

Yes

This is satire

That is literally the joke

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, the Hitler Youth chat is real, the post you are responding to is satire about that, and how one might expect the NYT to "both sides" the situation, because that's a thing the NYT likes to do

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah I've known way too many people who needed severe brain deworming after leaving 4chan to fully believe these "immune" claims

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 10h

The meaning of "dictatorship of the proletariat" has very different interpretations in different strands of revolutionary Marxism

Some of which are more blatantly authoritarian than others (most specifically Marxist-Leninism and it's derivatives)

Not a lot of people refer to Trotskyites as tankies

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 10h

Marxism-Leninism or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism is the proper terminology

It *shouldn't* be, because that's just what Stalin called his ideology, which Mao then added to, never mind that it's a pretty garbage interpretation of Marx and a questionable interpretation of Lenin, but here we are

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 10h

The problem though is that centre right conservatives (aka liberals) found out about the word and they usually use it as "online leftist saying mean things about unrestrained capitalism"

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 10h

Eh

They're "actual socialists" still

They *honestly* believe that oppressing the populace and perhaps killing a few million Ukrainians or rolling tanks into Hungary (the original reason they got called tankies) will somehow eventually create a utopian classless society

Which is silly, of course

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 10h

Trolling is fucking with someone online to get a rise out of them

These people just are Nazis, in a nazi group chat

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

You mean the bill that's so shit even the CPC refuse to support it?

Also, ran out of space in my previous reply, but we still have actual functional news outlets. Not as many as we used to or should have, but still miles better than the US or UK

We have our problems obviously, just..less, for now

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

It's getting worse, yes

But no, the US has quite blatantly never had true meritocracy

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

Even in Canada..

When Obamacare passed I was trying to explain how it works to a coworker. He straight up didn't believe me because it's so garbage

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

You don't think that perhaps your understanding of what he was getting at might be skewed by the fact that you only mentioned books from the 20th century?

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

It does help watching it with good actors

If Mercurio is doing his job, you know exactly what he's referring to

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that doesn't work anymore either

"Black, but also slightly glowing" would probably be closest

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not saying Scotland didn't get fucked over by the English repeatedly

But what you're saying is...not really how that happened

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck psychopaths too

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

So...not Scottish then?

Also, more specifically, the thing you did was weird. Yes, the US is deeply involved, but not everything has to be about them

Hell it's not like the UK government isn't also neck deep in Israel's genocide and sliding precipitously to the right, why not that as a suggestion?

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

He's referring to Jewish migrations to Israel post independence. And conflating that *some* were forced expulsions with the majority that were voluntary

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

So no, not really what happened at all

Also you're running a soft defense for ethnic cleansing here, which is kinda messed up

runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

Unbeknownst to them, though, Zionist leaders always intended to seize more land later

When civil war broke out due to inaction by the British, Zionists then used the opportunity to seize as much land as they could, forcibly expelling Palestinians from the area (also not part of the plan)

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runawaycornpop.bsky.social @runawaycornpop.bsky.social · 1d

The UN partition plan was blatantly unfair, giving far more and better land to Israel, despite Jewish people being 1/3 the population

Arab states are not the same thing as Palestinian Arabs - the people actually living there, who largely supported the plan as their best chance for independence

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