• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    Yeah, we’ve known Musk is an utter moron for years now. He doesn’t need to keep proving it.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    “First they came for the communists, but I did not speak out because I was not a communist”

    Hitler was the literal opposite of a communist. He came for the communists before he came for the Jews.

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    Lol, Hitler literally got his start telling his gangs to go beat the shit out of communists.

    Revisionist history much?

    Hitler’s mind, communism was a major enemy of Germany, an enemy he often mentions in Mein Kampf. During the trial for his involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler claimed that his singular goal was to assist the German government in “fighting Marxism”.[138]Marxism, Bolshevism, and communism were interchangeable terms for Hitler as evidenced by their use in Mein Kampf:

    In the years 1913 and 1914 I expressed my opinion for the first time in various circles, some of which are now members of the National Socialist Movement, that the problem of how the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated.[139]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitler

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    Those people are so dumb that they’re turning against their own idols. Next thing you know they’re gonna be saying Mussolini was never involved in WWII nor right leaning because of how much of a disgrace he was. Can’t have people who failed at being a terroristic right wing dictator in their revisionist history books.

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      They are not dumb, just evil.

      Weidel is a lesbian living in swiss with her Thai wife and 2 adopted children.

      In Germany she wants to prohibit gay marriage or any other form of family other than nuclear and hates migrants.

      I have no idea who pays her but this is a level of cognitive dissonance only explainable with hardcore corruption.

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      Thank you, this was the information I was looking for. I knew that the Nazi party was named as such but didn’t understand the implications.

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      Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality; socialism without redistribution is a tyrant trying to trick you

      - Bakunin if he was alive to see this bullshit

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Hey! Whoa! That’s NOT true!

      I lost my whole mind, and I STILL agree! It’s so obvious, even an idiot like me can see.

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      Unfortunately, there’s a lot of people out there missing half their brain.

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    Known hip-hop expert Lil Wayne and my toaster agree: “2 plus 2 equals a hug and maybe a pepperoni pizza”

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      Yeah, I remember watching Elon personally shooting fire Jewish babies to death yesterday and curb stomping a few more…

      Oh wait, that didn’t happen and FFS dude, stop with the hyperbolic nonsense. Elon musk is the scum of the earth but he is by far still not further right than Hitler. He very well may become, but for the moment he’s not.

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        I was just reading some news on Meta, and it certainly did happen, there is plenty of articles to prove it.

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          Yeah I just some an article on FB about how Musk ate raw babies. Not saying it’s true, just that people should think for themselves.

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        Following through and holding beliefs have very little to do with each other. There’s a reason you can’t find pictures of musk and Zuckerberg being friendly to each other.

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        Same thing that happened with Biden on here with people accusing him of literal genocide as if he flew over there and shot people with his own hands. Some Lemmings are quite dramatic.

        Also, where did all the “genocide Joe” comments go after November? I haven’t seen a single one.

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          Are you suggesting Hitler manned the gas chambers himself? As far as direct murder goes, Hitler probably never killed a socialist, Roma, Jew or homosexual. The policies under his leadership resulted in the mass extermination of millions. That’s why we charge him with genocides. Likewise, Joe Biden’s policies enabled and continue to enable a preventable genocide.

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          So Hitler was also innocent of genocide since he didn’t personally murder any Jews?

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            Well, Hitler was the one giving the orders. But the Israeli genocide is being directed by Netanhyahu and his cabinet. I don’t mean that Biden isn’t complicit because that is different.

        • IIIllIII@sh.itjust.works
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          Because you stay on . world, whose admins and mods consistently and repeatedly ban anyone that’s Against the US Democrat party or suggest there are any flaws with them.

          Joe Biden’s legacy will be suppressing the working class and genocide.

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            You don’t need to assume that I don’t subscribe to other instances or have other accounts. I subscribe to a lot of your instance’s communities, for example.

            Joe Biden’s legacy will be suppressing the working class and genocide.

            No doubt, given that he has barely lifted a finger for the working class who deserve better but I didn’t mean anything related to that.

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    Fuck, someone should have let Hitler know before Leningrad. Could have saved a lot of time, energy, cost, lives, etc.

    He and Stalin could have been frens.

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      Tbh they had the ribbentrop pact, but with friends like Hitler who needs enemies

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          Yep, tankies will probably disagree when someone claims the country that invaded the USSR was a ‘friend’ due to a diplomatic treaty of non-aggression. The USSR had already tried making pacts with the UK and France first, which were rejected, as referenced in the second paragraph in the link you gave:

          The treaty was the culmination of negotiations around the 1938–1939 deal discussions, after tripartite discussions with the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France had broken down

          As pointed out in the Munich Conference section:

          The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East and to stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany in the hope that Germany and the Soviet Union would wear each other out and put an end to both regimes.

          Obviously the USSR didn’t want to be friends with the most anti-communist regime in the continent who invented terms like ‘Judeo-Bolshevik’. So tankies will consider it either ignorant or bad faith to bring up the Ribbentrop Pact to pretend it was anything more than realpolitik compromise resulting from the Western powers wanting the two countries to destroy each other. The alternative was being invaded sooner, which we know in hindsight was a real threat.

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            a diplomatic treaty of non-aggression

            It was not merely a non-aggression treaty; in fact, it also divided much of Eastern Europe into German and Soviet “spheres of influence” and set the stage for the Soviet invasions of Finland and eastern Poland a mere three months and less than a month after signing the treaty, respectively, with additional provisions for many more countries and regions. In short, aggression was very much part of the treaty, despite its name. As mentioned in the Wikipedia article on it:

            [t]here was also a secret protocol to the pact, which was revealed only after Germany’s defeat in 1945 although hints about its provisions had been leaked much earlier, so as to influence Lithuania. According to the protocol, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland were divided into German and Soviet “spheres of influence”. In the north, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia were assigned to the Soviet sphere. Poland was to be partitioned in the event of its “political rearrangement”: the areas east of the Pisa, Narew, Vistula, and San rivers would go to the Soviet Union, and Germany would occupy the west. Lithuania, which was adjacent to East Prussia, was assigned to the German sphere of influence, but a second secret protocol, agreed to in September 1939, reassigned Lithuania to the Soviet Union. According to the protocol, Lithuania would be granted its historical capital, Vilnius, which was part of Poland during the interwar period. Another clause stipulated that Germany would not interfere with the Soviet Union’s actions towards Bessarabia, which was then part of Romania. As a result, Bessarabia as well as the Northern Bukovina and Hertsa regions were occupied by the Soviets and integrated into the Soviet Union.


            You write that:

            […] tankies will consider it either ignorant or bad faith to bring up the Ribbentrop Pact to pretend it was anything more than realpolitik compromise resulting from the Western powers wanting the two countries to destroy each other.

            First, it is not and was not at the time clear that the entire West wanted the Soviet Union and the Third Reich to wear each other out; instead, it was a Soviet belief, as you quote yourself:

            The Soviet leadership believed that the West wanted to encourage German aggression in the East and to stay neutral in a war initiated by Germany in the hope that Germany and the Soviet Union would wear each other out and put an end to both regimes.

            That belief was questionable. The fact is that the West allied with the Soviet Union and supported it, through Lend-Lease and other means, after it was betrayed by the Third Reich. Of course, hindsight is hindsight, and Soviet leadership did have reasons to believe the West wanted them to fight against the Third Reich, but their assessment was fatally flawed and led to much suffering, not least amongst their own citizenry.

            Second, you ignore Soviet agency and deflect Soviet responsibility to the West when you describe the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as “realpolitik compromise resulting from the Western powers wanting the two countries to destroy each other”. That is akin to saying “look what you made me do”, edition “ally with Hitler”. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact did not “result” from anything; the Soviet Union conceived that treaty, including its infamous Secret Protocol, as much as the Third Reich did.


            Finally, you write that:

            tankies will probably disagree when someone claims the country that invaded the USSR was a ‘friend’ […]

            and that:

            […] the USSR didn’t want to be friends with […]

            Strictly speaking, states cannot be friends; only people. Therefore, the comments by @PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works and @seejur@lemmy.world must be understood figuratively.

            Figuratively, the Soviet Union and the Third Reich may be described to have been “friends” up until the Nazi betrayal in 1941. After all, the Soviet Union agreed to a treaty that benefited the Third Reich. In fact, even the non-aggression part of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact benefited the Third Reich, because it freed up German resources and enabled the Western Blitz. It could be argued that Soviet leadership intended to let the Third Reich and the West wear each other out.

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    Wasn’t one of the first groups that Hitler went after when he gained power were the communists? I’m pretty sure I remember that communists were sent to concentration camps along with Jews, disabled people, and LGBT.

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    Just because the Nazis called themselves the “national socialist party” did NOT make them communists. They called themselves that to attract naive revolutionary idiots who thought the government would help them. But they were always fascists.

    North Korea calls itself “The People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea” even though is not the People’s, not Democratic, and definitely not a Republic. It’s a marketing gimmick by the government to pretend that it’s something it isn’t.

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    Even more than ethnic supremacy/hatred, nazi ideology is anti-communist first. The intersection with Jews at the time was that European communist leaders were Jews, and the communist party was leading opposition party before Reichstag fire provided the opportunity to ban them. Jews tended to not vote for nazi party.

    In anti-communist/right wing rulership systems, the government helps business be richer and more powerful. This was definitely the system/dynamic under Hitler, and US imprisoned many German business leaders for a short time after the war until their own anti-communist ideology was aligned with their values.