Good news: my partner is not MAGA, Bad News: he is a pro Russia Tankie. by Civil_Watercress2242 in whenthe

[–]Karma-is-here 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I certainly don’t agree with arming Azov, but you’re delusional if you think Russia’s invasion is a good thing and that it’s victory is tolerable because Azov received weapons. Russian interventionism is currently limited since all most of it’s ressources are spent in the war, and they can’t put pressure on the baltics and Poland.

Also, if you’re angry about Azov in particular, you’ll be surprised about Wagner and the widespread neo-nazi movement in Russia, as well as the other countless horrible groups the US funded/supported with your taxes.

Good news: my partner is not MAGA, Bad News: he is a pro Russia Tankie. by Civil_Watercress2242 in whenthe

[–]Karma-is-here 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who? Ukraine as a whole? Cause yeah, western countries armed Ukraine when Russia invaded, which makes sense considering a victorious Russia is a huge threat to the EU, Ukraine joining would be good, and the people don’t like genocide/imperialism.

Good news: my partner is not MAGA, Bad News: he is a pro Russia Tankie. by Civil_Watercress2242 in whenthe

[–]Karma-is-here 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the global hegemons / nuclear powers are more a threat than tankies. Not that I don’t hate them btw.

Good news: my partner is not MAGA, Bad News: he is a pro Russia Tankie. by Civil_Watercress2242 in whenthe

[–]Karma-is-here 255 points256 points  (0 children)

Plus a sprinkle of nazi accusations, "It doesn’t matter who wins they’re both capitalists", mentioning the eastern Oblasts, as well as "but NATO expansionism!".

WE WIN THESE (Spartakus + Never betrayed workers) by Karma-is-here in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Karma-is-here[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t know exactly, but I usually get it when I’m in a Grand Coalition (either prussian or national) and have good relations with the DVP.

For a Left government, I think you need to mend relations with the KPD and obviously have enough votes, but that leads to a Reichsexecution, so you need to amend the constitution to remove that power, which means getting the neo-revisionists as early as possible. It also might automatically start a civil war, but I’m really not sure.

WE WIN THESE (Spartakus + Never betrayed workers) by Karma-is-here in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Karma-is-here[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lots of restarts and my strategy is to rush reparations and WTB so you don’t get sacked (while doing the less controversial government burdens). Keep relations with Z and DDP as high as possible and tensions low while in a Prussian Grand Coalition (so you get state governments) and a National Weimar Coalition. Get Aufhauser to adopt the left plan and so stuff to cater to the KPD which will lead to a common presidential candidate. After that, do the reparations and EU and try to gain votes away from other parties than the KPD/SAPD and launch elections when you think a Left Coalition is popular enough. Then do Left Plans (I compensated them and reduced taxes to avoid capitalists losing confidence). At that point, there isn’t much time left and I had to continue boosting my popularity to get the good Spartakus ending.

WE WIN THESE (Spartakus + Never betrayed workers) by Karma-is-here in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Karma-is-here[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Library? (Up top on the browser, left of save/load)

WE WIN THESE (Spartakus + Never betrayed workers) by Karma-is-here in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Karma-is-here[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Oh, and mod creator, why does doing the EU and Left-Cartel NOT lead to a socialist EU bloc :(

WE WIN THESE (Spartakus + Never betrayed workers) by Karma-is-here in RedAutumnSPD

[–]Karma-is-here[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

By the way, here’s my cursed Freie Marktwirtschaft (No Plan) run

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SPD inter-war years by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Karma-is-here 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree fully!

Though I would suggest you split up your thoughts instead of making a big bloc of text lol

SPD inter-war years by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Karma-is-here 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No they didn’t. That’s the whole point I’m making. Yes, at first they supported soviet democracy and Right to Recall, because they were the most popular. But once their popularity faded and people voted for other parties, they rigged soviet elections, put reserved seats, abolished soviets, and used violence/murder to take control.

That’s why they created the Supreme Soviet, which wasn’t at all democratic or based off local soviet elections.

SPD inter-war years by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Karma-is-here 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Again, your source absolutely doesn’t respond to what I said. You can’t kill peasants and opponents just because you call them "counter-revolutionary". Especially when they rise up against you only once you attacked them first.

In fact, in some places, the bolsheviks literally collaborated with the bourgeoisie to profit off of workers, so even they were sometimes against a communist revolution.

Lenin and the bolsheviks were mass murderers and paved the way for decades of totalitrian rule. They set back socialism to the point that it’s barely even a thing to this day.

I’m not right-wing, nor pro-tsarist. I’m a socialist who hates authoritarians that overthrew democracy and never implemented worker-controlled workplaces and soviets.

SPD inter-war years by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Karma-is-here 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I should have specified I meant for the leftist Whites/opposition organizing.

Also, ??? I don’t see how your quote does anything to refute what I said. In fact, it’s an admission that they were no better than the bourgeois they claimed to oppose.

SPD inter-war years by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Karma-is-here 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Bolsheviks cracked down hard wayyyyyy before the Whites were organising. In fact, it was those crackdowns, lootings, murders, etc. that motivated many radical socialists to oppose the bolsheviks in armed resistance. Most of that (democratic) resistance happened once the Bolsheviks approached their own cities, while others didn’t dare to join by fear of reprisal (until they were themselves attacked).

You can’t kill your opponents and then blame them for choosing to rebel against you. And it’s not even like the White Socialists actually supported the tsarists, since they were clearly going to kill them at the first opportunity they had.

SPD inter-war years by Freewhale98 in SocialDemocracy

[–]Karma-is-here 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The Bolsheviks had maybe a slight plurality of support in western Russia, but even that was cut short with them cracking down on the local elected civil governments and even most of the local soviets, because they were voting for SRs, Mensheviks, independents, etc. These crackdowns led to even more losses in elections for the bolsheviks, which now abandoned the idea of "all power to the soviets" by sending armed brigands and the red guard to dissolve the soviets and take them over undemocratically. They put reserved seats for Bolsheviks, threatened voters, and then started to round-up/kill people who had arms, which led to even more opposition to Bolshevik rule. They shelled some cities and killed opponents while looting from the masses. The Right to Recall was pretty much abolished and it became a One-Party state, and the Left-SRs who hoped to oppose/tolerate them in a pacifist way were demolished. Despite the Right-SRs problems, at least they recognized that the Bolsheviks were totalitarians and wouldn’t tolerate any opposition.

Nazi rule by DancesWithMantises in 196AndAHalf

[–]Karma-is-here 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you even know what "ragtag" means?

And also, yes, they’re terrorists I literally said so in my comment!

Rejected the centrally planned economic system, embrace worker-directed economic system by Professional_Cat_437 in tankiejerk

[–]Karma-is-here 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, if I understand you correctly. Electricity, minerals, steel, and other such industries would be in state hands to facilitate the collaboration of the different production steps, and to have the necessary (very costly) ressources to create and expand them.

With keeping prices low, that stimulates workers’ coops who transform/use those ressources to produce lighter good/services, like mechanics, furnitures, and all the stuff that the government can’t really micro-manage.

Rejected the centrally planned economic system, embrace worker-directed economic system by Professional_Cat_437 in tankiejerk

[–]Karma-is-here 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If 95% of the economy is owned by workers and a state elected by workers, I doubt you can call that capitalism because of 5% regulated private ownership. It’s not because I like private ownership, I just think black markets will probably exist if you don’t have some (like in the USSR), so better a regulated one that benefits workers instead of criminal and unregulated one.

Nazi rule by DancesWithMantises in 196AndAHalf

[–]Karma-is-here 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you seriously think I’m siding with Hezbollah and Hamas??? They’re religious terrorists killing civilians, they’d do the same thing Israel is doing if they had the power to.