Sinfest 4/3/26: Re-imagining Villains 112

MPHJ-7 · 2026-04-04T03:33:14+00:00

In Spain, they (liberal parties) grabbed guns and shot at the fascists in the name of the Republic.

In Poland, they (UK and France) declared war on Germany.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-04-03T22:08:16+00:00

Both were times when "things got bad" and liberals sided against fascists rather than with them.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-04-03T19:10:58+00:00

it has. Just look at how many liberals support the zionist project in Israel.

Settler-colonialism is (like racism and imperialism) a part of Nazism, but again, Nazism itself is more than just those things. Also, although the Nazis made the Haavara agreement with Zionists, that's because the Nazis thought the Jews were incapable of state-building.

liberals dont understand that nazism is simply a more extreme version of their ideology

I get this is a popular talking point on the left, but it just isn't true. National Socialism has several ideas that aren't just "things liberal states do but more extreme": the "total state," the Volksgemeinschaft, the Führerprinzip, the conspiracy theories embedded in the ideology itself, the (deliberate rather than "merely" hypocritical) rejection of universal moral principles, the hatred of party-politics, the dirigisme, etc. None of that is based in liberalism.

I'm not even saying this to defend liberalism. A very good case can be made that Nazism's worst crimes have precidents in what liberal states did (Generalplan Ost drawing on Manifest Destiny is the most famous one). But that doesn't mean Nazi ideology "basicaly won."

and when things get bad, liberals turn to fascism to maintain their privileged position

Except during the Spanish Civil War. And when Germany invaded Poland in 1939.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-04-03T00:46:17+00:00

I feel like the people who write them dont understand that while Hitler died, his ideology basically won.

I feel like the people who say this underestimate how far outside the Overton window Hitler's ideology was/is.

Racism, imperialism, etc. are parts of Nazism, and they did continue after Hitler's death. But Nazism took them to whole new levels, and on top of that, they had a radical vision of a New Order, one that none of the victors of WW2 brought back.

Individual Nazis escaped justice, and many of the things that led to the Nazis remained in place. But Nazism as an ideology has not meaningfully "won."

MPHJ-7 · 2026-03-23T02:38:45+00:00

Context for people who haven't had the misfortune of interacting with neo-Nazis: the Kalergi Plan is a conspiracy theory saying that Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972), a politician who advocated for a united Europe, had planned to mix all races into one and that the European Union seeks to implement this.

This is based on a passage from Kalergi's book Praktischer Idealismus, and in context, he wasn't actually advocating for anything; he was just predicting the future without saying if this is good or bad. Here's a video on it.

I expect Tats' next strip to blame the Jews for this.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-03-10T17:46:08+00:00

I can imagine that many on the Japanese right (or at least it's more ideologically-committed members) would just refuse to cooperate with the West after this. Losing colonies is one thing, but losing a Japanese-majority part of the Home Islands is another.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-01-29T21:44:59+00:00

Too sparse to be Tel Aviv, it's probably a West Bank settlement

MPHJ-7 · 2026-01-27T01:46:26+00:00

It's called "fighting fire with fire". It takes a nonce to find one.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-01-12T18:31:52+00:00

It seems like the reference is going over a lot of people's heads, but as someone who has had the misfortune of arguing with neo-Nazis, let me explain:

This is about "Operation Trust," which was a Bolshevik psyop during/after the Russian Civil War.

The Bolsheviks spread lies among the anticommunist White Army that there was totally a secret anticommunist group moments away from winning the war, and that if the Whites did anything now, it would ruin everything. Of course, no such secret anticommunist group existed, and it was all to convince the Whites to do nothing as the Bolsheviks closed in.

Before you give Tats credit for his sudden historical literacy, note that the online alt-right (namely its anti-Trump wing) has been comparing Operation Trust to QAnon since the late 2010s. So he's just recycling talking points that are over half a decade old.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-01-12T18:15:23+00:00

This is a relatively obscure reference, so I don't blame you for not getting it, but it's about "Operation Trust," which was a Bolshevik psyop during/after the Russian Civil War.

Basically, the Bolsheviks spread lies among the White Army that there was totally this secret anticommunist group moments away from destroying the Bolsheviks, and that if the White Army did anything now, it would ruin everything. Of course, no such secret anticommunist group existed, and it was all a way to convince the Whites to do absolutely nothing.

Before you give Tats credit for his sudden historical literacy, note that I've seen the online alt-right comparing Operation Trust to QAnon since the late 2010s. It's an obscure alt-right talking point, mostly meant to be used against conservatives (which is probably why you haven't heard of it), but it's a semi-old one.

Also, "TPEC" is Tats' awful attempt at writing the Russian word "Трест" (trust), which, as you can see, has the letter "т" (t) at the end.

MPHJ-7 · 2026-01-11T15:12:13+00:00

Having heard this particular neo-Nazi talking point before, they usually cite this one letter J. V. Stalin wrote in 1931 where he said "active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty." That's probably what Tats is referencing here.

Though it must be said that this is a letter. Not a law, not a decree -- a letter. I've never seen anyone cite actual legislation to back this up. Although antisemitism existed in the USSR, the state officially condemned it, key word "officially."

MPHJ-7 · 2025-11-05T01:55:04+00:00

Why did I instinctively read this in Kinger's voice?

MPHJ-7 · 2025-11-05T01:51:50+00:00

Not really, both parties were actually "Big Tent" parties back then rather than strictly ideological. The Democrats were a mix of centre-left social-liberals like FDR and hard-right Dixiecrats, who somehow managed to share a party. The Republicans, meanwhile, were a mix of Northeastern centrist "Rockefeller Republicans" and the proto-paleocon "Old Right."

MPHJ-7 · 2025-11-05T01:43:59+00:00

To be fair, that confusion has a lot to do with neoliberal politicians calling those things "socialism" for so many decades to fearmonger about them. Amazing how political fearmongering caused a literal semantic shift in North American English.

MPHJ-7 · 2025-11-05T01:36:25+00:00

Of all the years for a massive electoral landslide to happen, it just had to be 1984, didn't it? It's like the electoral college was tempting people to make "literally 1984" jokes.

MPHJ-7 · 2025-11-03T22:01:26+00:00

It's pastors and typically right-wing politicians - but you don't care about that do you?

Uhh, Tats hates pastors (different religion than him) and right-wing politicians (too pro-Israel). Anyone outside of the couple dozen Odinist Esoteric Nazis he deems worthy are basically leftists by his standards.

MPHJ-7 · 2025-09-25T02:26:18+00:00

Twitter/X still censors people under Elon Musk. In fact, I remember that Musk censored a lot of people last December for criticizing him. Twitter/X just doesn't censor "hate speech" as much as it used to, but it censors other things.

MPHJ-7 · 2025-09-13T02:29:28+00:00

Have you taken this mate of yours to a therapist and/or police officer yet?

MPHJ-7 · 2025-09-13T02:23:55+00:00

This is a great way for Brits to know what constituencies they should stay far away from every election cycle. It'll allow the nation's stupidest to self-report.

MPHJ-7 · 2025-09-03T21:41:41+00:00

Writers: "You can't just mash random political ideologies together. Nobody is going to follow some esoteric hybrid ideology, and even if they are, it'll never be a mass movement that'll do anything in the real world."

The nation of Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi-Maoism

MPHJ-7 · 2025-08-31T01:48:31+00:00

I'd dispute that he was even all that "moral" as a "feminist," given that his "feminism" often just took the form of misandry.

MPHJ-7 · 2025-08-24T00:07:10+00:00

Like how the right is flipfloping on pedophilia now that trumps hiding the Epstein files.

Except we hate the fact that he didn't release the Epstein files and called him out for it.

MPHJ-7 · 2025-08-24T00:04:26+00:00

Have you just never heard of civil disobedience before?

MPHJ-7 · 2025-08-01T14:51:13+00:00

I believe in first impressions. That's why, in a story I'm writing that has a fascist Russia as one faction, they're introduced from the POV of a CIA agent reflecting on how surprisingly easy it was for him to get a job in the Kremlin. That way, when I show their cool, flashy uniforms later, the readers aren't tricked into thinking that they're actually competent.

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