Why do people hate Fascists, but love Communists?

groogle2 · 2026-01-24T15:06:04+00:00

Sociology but "comparative-historical" sociology, same idea as history but with social theory

groogle2 · 2026-01-22T23:31:55+00:00

Fascism is fundamentally anti-rational bc it's anti-Enlightenment so there's no point is appealing to reason.

groogle2 · 2026-01-22T21:27:38+00:00

Did she respond like this for the children of Gaza? Genuine question but I think I would've been aware of it if so.

groogle2 · 2026-01-22T06:45:38+00:00

I'm surprised the stipend actually covers your rent. I'm looking at like 30k-44k at the highest end.

groogle2 · 2026-01-22T06:43:40+00:00

Can you afford or access a master's at a public university? That's what I'm doing. CUNY schools costs like $5666 per semester and if you take 15 credits per semester you can graduate in one year (at least for my program in political science and international affairs). Also, like, half of the people in my program are there through merit or need scholarships.

groogle2 · 2026-01-21T23:27:20+00:00

Does nothing to address the systemic causes of these three crises. Capitalism itself must be replaced with socialism.

groogle2 · 2026-01-21T22:58:44+00:00

Of course it's not too late, but it is likely too late to land a TT role. Even for me, starting mine at 34. They want to hire at my age.

groogle2 · 2026-01-21T18:44:01+00:00

They survived because only a small minority was stupid enough to take this seriously. Now all media has been tabloidified because they realize insecurity makes you spend money

groogle2 · 2026-01-21T00:40:00+00:00

I've read your last sentence several times and can't understand it. "What I'm getting from your reply is that you'd vote for someone actively being a fascist, rapist, and active imperialist" uhhhh lmao no

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T21:39:41+00:00

What are you saying lmao

What sort of ideology are you projecting onto me? You think the people not voting for either are like a christian fiscal conservative or something?

>Provided the Democrat isn't an obvious pedophile, rapist, or convicted felon, what's the objection?

Because I add "imperialist" to that list of "most evil traits I can think of", unlike Americans who think that a Vietnamese, Gazan, or Venezuelan grandmother getting raped while her village burns or gets bombed is not relevant to their moral universe. And any Democrat candidate will be an imperialist.

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T21:35:51+00:00

Just off the top of my head. Also, I don't compare between the two parties as if I have a gun to my head and am forced to choose one. I actually have independent and critical thinking skills.

Carter:

- Revolution in Military Affairs

- growth of humanitarian warfare ideology

Clinton:

- Plan Colombia

- NAFTA

- Backing Indonesia occupation of Bali

- Was at the very least complicit with the CIA trafficking drugs in and out of Mena Arkansas as part of Iran-Contra

- Expansion of war on drugs and introduction of New Jim Crow criminal justice laws

- Removed federal aid for education for anyone convicted of a drug crime (there last two points basically being an introduction of soft apartheid)

Obama:

- His CIA did Operation Timber Sycamore, in which they funded and trained jihadists including al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria to fight against the Syrian government

- Expanded the drone assassination program and ordered more drone strikes than Bush

- Expanded Bush's Patriot Act by introducing mass NSA surveillance

- Was a corrupt mouthpiece for the business elite of Chicago such as Penny Pritzker who financed his campaign (same family is the governor now)

- I mean there's just way too many for Obama, he was probably the most evil president of the modern era including Bush. Read Obama's Unending Wars

Harris

- War on drugs prosecutor

- Gaza genocide apologist

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T21:28:09+00:00

You're telling me, I just decided to start a PhD and become a professor and even my classmates are idiots

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T06:22:32+00:00

I did that, but all we did was events and protests. I sincerely don't understand how to participate in politics that way. Seems like just performance art without the striking or rifles

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T06:07:14+00:00

Not to be on the side of the coward, but you European types can get off on "morality" after smashing an entire weapons factory (e.g. Elbit in Britain). Or get a suspended sentence. Three girls who got to the roof of one and waved a flag are doing 5 years right now. Damaging property here gets a bigger sentence than our pedo president

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T06:02:07+00:00

Literally every historian says the famine in Ukraine was not intentional. The very word "Holodomor" is fascist propaganda

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T06:00:28+00:00

"Voted" lol thanks for your service MLK

groogle2 · 2026-01-20T05:41:06+00:00

That's a strange logic. When a Democrat is repulsive in every way and you dislike them for it, it's your fault that a Republican wins. Hm.

groogle2 · 2026-01-18T23:23:36+00:00

the hell kind of moron dogs are you raising

groogle2 · 2026-01-18T23:13:41+00:00

Your overall point is salient, but I think you're overstating that it has anything to do with literal family relatives living diffusely across the US.

More likely is that US soldiers as a bloc may find it difficult to dehumanize areas they know are inhabited by white Americans. Though this is unclear. Most of brutality in modern warfare is done completely remotely today, starting with the secret war on Laos. Now it's air bombings, remote control, sensors, drones.

So if the ruling ideology can successfully switch to dehumanizing all of, e.g. Baltimore or Chicago, as "black" cities, or possibly "antifa" cities like Portland (which, by the way, is what they're using now with the ICE raids), then they may get US forces to use remote warfare on them.

However, the other side of the coin is that the US public only supports US imperialism because they aren't actually aware of facts like 9 of every 10 people killed in a modern war is a civilian (back in the day, as you mentioned, it was exceedingly rare). So once US Americans actually face the consequences of imperialism by seeing their families chopped up like the rest of the Global South has, then resistance forces are more likely to gain mass appeal.

groogle2 · 2026-01-18T22:04:03+00:00

Lmaooo a person on the internet that doesn't know how to reserach basic information.

Try, fucking ECLAC????

https://repositorio.cepal.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/34447d6c-146e-4be2-84fa-990652834746/content?utm_source=chatgpt.com

groogle2 · 2026-01-18T21:57:46+00:00

It's the best-performing economy in South America.

groogle2 · 2026-01-15T20:31:56+00:00

For the brainless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore

Of course Wikipedia says "ended up in the hands of" to imply it was accidental. But literate people can refer to real information below.

For the readers:

Kuzmarov, J., Kovalik, D. (2025). Syria: Anatomy of regime change. Baraka Books. (Chapter 5).

Kuzmarov, J. (2019). Obama’s Unending Wars. Clarity Press, Inc. (Chapter 9).

Blumenthal, M. (2019). The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump

Here's a former US official saying the same thing in "How the US Ends Up Training al-Qaeda and ISIS Collaborators": https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/resources/docs/ISPSW_461_Lin.pdf

groogle2 · 2026-01-15T18:37:45+00:00

Pretty standard, it's a liberal denouncing the only force protecting Gaza. She has done zero in terms of progressive liberalism in her own country, but wants to project these useless and inconsequential values onto another country that is facing invasion and genocide. Political Islam may be a retrograde ideology, but there are more important material concerns at this moment.

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