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[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

It's hilarious to me that the people who most hate communism have no clue what it even is. Have they ever heard of the concept of "know your enemy"?

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Nah, it's one of the contradictions built in to fascist ideology. They need the enemy to be both everywhere and all powerful but also snivelling and weak at the same time. if they actually knew anything about their enemies they'd have a harder time maintaining the overpowering enemy half that justifies their paranoia and demands for conformity and military postuer while also maintaining the weak enemy that justi

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

This is one of fascism's largest weakpoints, is it not? Constantly underestimating your enemy is a terrible war strategy. Thinking of the Hitler quote where he was shocked that the USSR had built so much in so little time.

They need the enemy to be both everywhere and all powerful but also snivelling and weak at the same time.

Let's be honest here, MOST people do this about their political rivals. We do it all the time here, American fascists are all lard ass cucked dorks, but also the most terrifying force in human history.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I feel like that's a bit different though, because american fascists are usually insufferable losers as people, and that's not incompatible with them being dangerous and pushing harmful ideology

Not exactly the same as what fascists do, which often materialises as claiming their enemies to be completely weak and ineffectual, lesser humans, but somehow able to control the world from the shadows, or similar

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Some of the people in the military seem to know. I remember Mike Milley testifying in court that critical race theory is nothing like “Mao Tse Tung” (not Zedong) because he’s read his books in the military academies

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Supposedly Mao's book on guerilla warfare has been intensely studied in the millitary academies of the US since at least the Afghanistan invasions. The fact that the officer corps doesn't seem to internalize litterally any part of it is another problem.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Well, it's because it says that there is no actual way (for an invader) with a small military presence to win. You can't make them internalize facts that they are physically unable to cope with strategically, because then the logical conclusion is that they shouldn't do it, and that is an unacceptable answer.

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