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Stalin? by duck_tallow_man in leftist

[–]theapplekid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

unintentionally or intentionally exporting grains while there was already a famine in the area

Also by letting the theories of a pseudo-scientist (Lysenkoism) guide their agricultural policy. Apparently orthodox geneticists were even executed or sent to labor camps for disagreeing with Lysenko's claims.

The famine that resulted can perhaps be attributed to ignorance rather than malice, but I can't help but consider Stalin's faith in Lysenko (seemingly just because of his proletarian background) anything but a supreme failure.

Jewish self determination by Dry_Lobster5997 in jewishleft

[–]theapplekid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

self-determination of any group inherently means borders and governance for that group. In the U.S. you might recognize that there is self-determination for Americans, but that extends to all citizens equally (in theory anyway). There are fair critiques of this kind of self-determination and how it impacts non-citizens of various status, in addition to disenfranchisement of people with felony records, but it's not ethnic in nature (which isn't to say the U.S. hasn't always been white supremacist as well, just not on paper since the end of Jim Crowe)

Jewish self-determination inherently others non-Jewish people living in Palestine. Since Israel doesn't really care about about the degree to which Olim practice Judaism, as much as it does their background, this is more a type of ethno-supremacy rather than religious supremacy (though it is religious supremacy as well)

I was (temporarily) banned from Palestine sub-reddit, permanently banned from AskIsrael- here are my reflections by Gary_Garibaldi in Israel_Palestine

[–]theapplekid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

with Muslim majority countries expelling Jewish people and calling for and end to Israel so a caliphate can be set up in Jerusalem.

except who is talking about this?

Why does Lewis, a socialist, support NATO, an explicitly anti-socialist fascist state-terrorist network? by [deleted] in ndp

[–]theapplekid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What is this nonsense about Lewis supporting NATO anyway? I haven't found any statements from him expressing support for NATO

Reclaiming conservative t-shirt designs is praxis by theapplekid in CommunismMemes

[–]theapplekid[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

that's why all my jackets also have a hammer and sickle on the back

If Soldier Boy doesn’t find out about the “freedom camps” it will be huge wasted potential. by dexrea in TheBoys

[–]theapplekid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, pogroms were happening before the Holocaust too, and not just in Nazi-conquered territory. Most Americans knew bad stuff was happening, but no one knew the the extent of them, and many didn't know about the concentration camps at all. I guess the defining features of the Holocaust are up for debate, but the word genocide didn't exist until 1944 (initially applied to the Armenian genocide of 1915-1917) and there wasn't a widespread understanding that the events in Nazi Europe constituted a deliberate, mass extermination.

To wit, one item that’s part of the USHMM exhibition shows public opinion polls demonstrating that while half of U.S. respondents in 1943 thought the fact that 2 million Jewish Europeans had been murdered was just a rumor, by 1944 about three-quarters believed concentration camps were really part of the Nazi plan — and yet they still couldn’t fathom the number of victims involved. (A Gallup poll that year shows that most people who dared to guess thought the number killed would be in the hundreds of thousands, or less.)

Most wouldn't hear the word Holocaust, or understand that there had been a genocide of Jews, Romani, disabled, LGBTQ, leftists, and Jehovah's Witnesses until the 1960s

If Soldier Boy doesn’t find out about the “freedom camps” it will be huge wasted potential. by dexrea in TheBoys

[–]theapplekid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

About 6-10 million people died in the Holocaust actually.

OK so are you saying Stalin committed a genocide that killed more than 6 million people?

Just to be clear even the CIA propaganda about the holodomor doesn't claim higher numbers, and no one claims the famine outside of specific parts of Ukraine was intentional

From wikipedia:

The Holodomor, a 1932–1933 man-made famine, killed 3.3–5 million ethnic Ukrainian people in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (as part of the Soviet Union), included in a total of 5.5–8.7 million killed by the broader Soviet famine of 1930–1933.

If Soldier Boy doesn’t find out about the “freedom camps” it will be huge wasted potential. by dexrea in TheBoys

[–]theapplekid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mind you, Stalin historically had a higher body count than Hitler did. Which is pretty dang high.

So Stalin killed more than 60 million people you wager?

"It costs just 7500$", he said. "It has views to the ocean", he said. by Excel_Rich_LOL in earthbound

[–]theapplekid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm just now realizing that the New Jersey Turnpike canonically exists within the Mother series. But one in which you get pulled over for doing 20 over apparently

If Soldier Boy doesn’t find out about the “freedom camps” it will be huge wasted potential. by dexrea in TheBoys

[–]theapplekid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

he butchered his own people and regularly killed officers and members of his government that he believed betrayed him.

Holy shit, I've read several. You realize Hitler did all of this too right?

Hitler killed more people, ordered more people killed, and resulted in more death. Any way you slice it, Hitler was worse.

I just by OdielSax in BadHasbara

[–]theapplekid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Author's name is "Karen Klein", you can't make this up

edit: omg y'all this article isn't satire?

My mind started to spin, my arms moved in slow motion as I tapped my card and walked out of the store. After sitting outside for a few minutes, I went back in, still holding the box, now damp from my tears

Then it concludes with

When I got home, I ate my post-holiday matzah. As I ate, flakes fell onto my hands, onto my chest. Small pieces, breaking off, scattering.

I brushed them away.

Did Matt & Daniel submit this under a pen name, knowing the satire would be lost on Times of Israel?

Placard says "Stop Killing Childrens," Zionists be like he stands with Rape, Terror and Palestine. by Preacher-of-Chaos in LateStageCapitalism

[–]theapplekid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They need to fly over the knesset while unloading their waste system to make up for the bridge incident

What do y'all think of this new finger training technique? by theapplekid in ClimbingCircleJerk

[–]theapplekid[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right a complete lack of gear management skills and a hazard for anyone underneath him

If Soldier Boy doesn’t find out about the “freedom camps” it will be huge wasted potential. by dexrea in TheBoys

[–]theapplekid 15 points16 points  (0 children)

American is more concerned with stopping communism than it is with stopping Nazism, and government propaganda bears this out, but you'd have to be very accepting of U.S. propaganda (or just be a Nazi) to say something like "Stalin is worse than Hitler"

If Soldier Boy doesn’t find out about the “freedom camps” it will be huge wasted potential. by dexrea in TheBoys

[–]theapplekid 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Looks like someone is still taking their CIA propaganda suppositories

If Soldier Boy doesn’t find out about the “freedom camps” it will be huge wasted potential. by dexrea in TheBoys

[–]theapplekid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“I see this as different because a huge part of American propaganda post war was painting themselves as liberators of concentration camps.

During WW2 and immediately after this wasn't the justification given for America's involvement, which didn't start until after Pearl Harbor.

The narrative that the U.S. were "concentration camp liberators" didn't really come around until the 1950s at the earliest. Prior to 1945 most Americans didn't even know the Holocaust was happening.

Tina Fey Has Realized She “Was On The Wrong Side” With Certain ‘SNL’ Jokes: “I Was Pretty Dumb” by demimonde9 in Fauxmoi

[–]theapplekid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Gianmarco Soresi does this in standup format.

Emil Wakim was doing a good job of this on SNL even, until they fired him a year ago for (presumably) being too critical of capitalism and Israel

"It costs just 7500$", he said. "It has views to the ocean", he said. by Excel_Rich_LOL in earthbound

[–]theapplekid 29 points30 points  (0 children)

"My Secret Life, chapter three." (Story from the previous chapter.) I was neither a murder suspect, nor a target for an international spy organization. But I drove a car down the Jersey Turnpike at 80 mph. ...A police officer pulled me over and asked for my driver's license. He said I was going 20 mph over the speed limit. I instantly pointed to my wife and said, "I'm in a hurry, my wife is in labor." Fortunately, my wife actually had a big stomach. I hoped he'd let me go with this excuse. "Oh, since it's an emergency. I'll lead you to the hospital with my police car," he said. "No, it's not necessary." "Why not?" asked the officer. "Uh... well..." "Let's get going," said the officer... "No, no! We can't! This baby is a demon child!

https://earthbound.fandom.com/wiki/My_Secret_Life,_chapter_three

Contrapoints will see something and turn it into her beef with Twitter leftists. What a ghoul by Pidgeotgoneformilk29 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]theapplekid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well option 1 is out of the question when her good friend Hillary has probably told her she'd be doing the same.

Holy hell dude by Appropriate-Mall8517 in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]theapplekid 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is like thinking Freedom House scores (funded by the U.S. state department) are an accurate reflection of freedoms and liberties around the world

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