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[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 91 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Environmental storytelling

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 81 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If anything, letting Democrats win the next few major elections could spell doom for the Republican party as a whole, and give us a chance to introduce some actual competition to the Democratic party.

Why is there a time traveler from the year 2000 posting on lemmy.world?

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because that worked out so well in California, New York, and Illinois.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I'm sure it's only a matter of time until checks notes political dynasty scion Gavin Newsom presses the communism button in California

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

They legitimately think the GOP exists because a group of people brainwashed a bunch of people

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

OP, please tell me that someone in the comment section pointed out that the liberals fucking won that election and it was them appointing Hitler to the Chancellorship that produced that outcome. I'm not looking at that cesspit comment section, I just want to not be nagged by my compulsion to argue over this sort of thing.

God, this might be my least favorite lie, that Hitler won the election. It's completely obviously not true that a single google result will dispel it in five seconds, but people still confidently assert it like the KPD were spoilers. I need to assume that it's intentional deceit at this point.

Edit: Their symbol for the politics com being an "I voted" sticker that says "VOTE" is just perfect, btw

[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Theres one person there whose actually making sense, and I think theyre a hexbear poster (its cowbee).

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy shit, this one reply you got is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read lmao

What you call a ‘Process of Material Reality’ could as easily be called G*d or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I had to log off, I was getting genuinely upset. It doesn't get better, they get even worse

On the other hand... tagline?

Here it is:

"When could we have voted for a 90% tax rate?"

Eisenhower's presidency did see some tax rates above 90%, but that figure only applied to the individual income taxes of top earners. For married people filing jointly in 1953, for example, any income above $200,000 was taxed at 90%, above $300,000 at 91%, and above $400,000 at 92%.

For someone who claims to know a lot about history, you sure are short on facts.

And if history is a 'physical process' post some pictures of it working. Not pictures of people doing things, because that would prove my point. A discrete physical embodiment of history, please.

smuglord

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And if history is a 'physical process' post some pictures of it working. Not pictures of people doing things, because that would prove my point. A discrete physical embodiment of history, please.

What the absolute fuck does this even mean fidel-wut

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 38 points 1 month ago

If I'm being generous, I legitimately think they just have no clue what I am getting at by trying to baby step them through Historical Materislism, and can't fathom the idea that Great Man Theory is wrong.

They're so cooked I walked away, it was beyond medium-rare, beyond well-done, call that congratulations.

agony-limitless

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Idk but it's easy to fulfill. Here's a picture of one square meter in a world-historical hurricane

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[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And if climate change is a 'physical process' post some pictures of it working. Not pictures of extreme weather events happening, because that would prove my point. A discrete physical embodiment of climate change, please.

[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do you argue with them? Genuinely, i could feel my brain seeping out my ears just perusing the comment section.

Also good work stalin-heart

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Inside Cowbee there are two wolves

two-wolves-1 two-wolves-2

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml vs. @Cowbee@hexbear.net

Lemmy.ml Cowbee is a cringe debatebro badeline-disgust

Hexbear.net Cowbee is a chill dude badeline-heh

Is this dialectics? thinkin-lenin

[–] lilypad@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think its post-dialectics dubois-finger-guns

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[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you want communists to work with you, try not assassinating their leadership.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

One simple trick

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 66 points 1 month ago

KPD? Banned. Ernst? Executed.

SPD? Propped up as the main left party in west germany, still exists, still useless and social fascist.

and yeah calling them social fascists is never expanded on, the fuckers were advocating for colonisation, for war, for fatherland, heaveho

spd ran the police in berlin and are directly responsible for killing Rosa Luxemburg, rip

[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 61 points 1 month ago

Guys you don't get it. Ranked choice voting will fix literally everything.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah how’d that work out for the New Popular Front in France?

[–] lil_tank@hexbear.net 42 points 1 month ago

Thanks LFI for proving the libs that winning elections doesn't do shit if you're the left oh wait they don't care about facts

[–] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago

Did Franz von Papen write this comment?

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 month ago

This type of revisionism is off putting to "normies." I don't know if that will change with widespread normalization, but, for the current time, people are still (correctly) primed to respond with "wait... what the fuck?"

Anecdotal: I was discussing with a friend who isn't tuned in to basically anything explicitly "political" especially online Nazi shit. It came up due to a meme where girls were asking guys how often they thought about Rome. And I was like "yeah, for a few people it's probably for actual historical comparisons, but for most of them that's a red flag. They're just obsessed with the power and the glory aesthetics from the past. Like the Nazis."

Then I was continuing on with something like "many of them ironically agree with the Nazis, although they will always say they do not. A fundamental thing that they agree on, a core aspect of fascism and Nazism, was their hatred for communism and specifically the USSR in the case of Nazis. A lot of them have spent time trying to pretend that the Soviets were as bad as the Nazis. There's no actual basis for this, it's known as Holocaust revisionism which is akin to holocaust denialism, but they will say it nonetheless. Perhaps unaware that they are just saying Nazi talking points."

Her only response was "what the fuck? Why?"

I just let her wonder why/place that puzzle piece as she feels fit... but if you're just saying Nazi talking points and making shit up to make their crimes seem less significant, well, I know what I call those people...

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 47 points 1 month ago

Boy, it's a shame those German liberals weren't progressive enough and let Hitler win. Guess they should have been a better party.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago

Leaves out Green and PSL , WONDER WHY? cursed

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't the problem that Hindenburg could appoint any chancellor he wanted if he rejected the pick of the legislature? By the time this election happened he had been ruling by emergency decree for like 2 years. And he was a conservative, even an imaginary alliance of centrists with the SPD and KPD would not have been able to force his hand if he didn't want to accept a nomination he didn't like, and he didn't like the socialists or the communists.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

Woah, imagine just rejecting a leader put forward by a democratically elected coalition

:macron: side-eye-1

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That famous "communist" Hindenburg.......

Also for the sake of argument and ignoring their rancid revisionism; for their bullshit analogy to work the Democrats would have to be the party NOT actively engaging in a genocide

So are they saying we SHOULD vote for Republicans??? These people are neo-nazis and nothing they say should be taken seriously, they are ecstatic the dems are helping commit one of the greatest crimes of the 21st century because they think that signals a sea change for normalizing soft fascism, a comfortable, respectable collage educated, trust fund version of fascism that will keep the treats flowing and the minorities contained without all the crassness of the Trumpers

These people think it's funny to play around with genocide and neo-nazism because their daddy's home value reads 1 million+

[–] kugupu@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they're worried about trump doing a genocide of liberals or something. they don't care about the genocide that is actually happening rn

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Liberals 1. only care about themselves, and 2. view non-Americans and nonwhite people as untermensch

[–] edge@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would you like your vote to matter after November?

Then yes, I’m pushing the duopoly this time around.

lmao our votes have never mattered.

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[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Lmao liberals have no idea what the Anti-Comintern Pact was and who Lebensraum entailed.

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Libs while they murder you for opposing their genocide: " Maybe you should be nicer to me :/ "

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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