Broke: It’s Joever. Woke: It’s only just Xigun : chapotraphouse

[+] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

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 2 years 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 2 years 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 13 points 2 years 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 5 points 2 years 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.

[+] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[-] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

It makes a lot of sense when you remember education is deliberately handicapped and "communism=authoritarianism=totalitarianism=fascism" is taken as unironic political dogma for many. Someone "forcing" pronouns onto this dipshit is the same league as him being put in a re-education center for reactionaries.

[-] trabpukcip@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

I can't believe he'd shake hands with a genocider

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

Mao shook hands with Nixon and Kissinger

[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Day ruined

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

if it makes you feel better, lenin didnt lenin-laugh

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Hey, if I have to put on my customer service face for shitty customers at work, Mao and Xi can do it, too.

At least mine don't have nuclear weapons.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Xi meeting his hero JoeMao biden-leftist

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

ok the conservatives have finally made a good joke

[-] shath@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

a second joke has been found

[-] buh@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

second-plane

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

me upon seeing this

data-laughing michael-laugh

[-] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

I know the ruling class (and their prole champions) were throwing accusations of "socialism" at each other since Marx's days, but it's hilarious to imagine this is the equivalent of the Black Hundreds calling an Octobrist politician an undercover Bolshevik because he wanted to pogrom Jewish villages less.

[-] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

I was watching a video about the origins of horror comics in America. It was hilarious watching people on both sides of the comics code accuse each other of being communists. One side for censorship and the other for promoting removed in the youth. Crazy to see how much has changed in 70 years

[-] 4zi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

sicko-wistful

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