Very similar to the Lemmy tankies arguing that Russia was forced to attack Ukraine by the Ukranian crimes of protesting and voting.

Nazis called themselves national socialists as opposed to the ruling democratic socialist party.

It would have been impossible for a non-socialist party to get any kind of popular mandate in 1933 Germany. Nonetheless, the democratic socialists had discredited themselves by being feckless and awful.

Socialist policies that the Nazis supported were mostly superficial and quickly abandoned. Those included:

1. Making May Day a national holiday, which they did do but then they used the following day to arrest all the trade unionists and confiscate all union property or use by the the party
2. A public stimulus/building program, where all projects were quickly abandoned except those that were seen as valuable for war, like the autobahn.
3. "People's products" subsidized consumer goods like radios and automobiles. Only radios were ever delivered through this program by the NS regime mostly so people could hear Gobbles' propaganda.

The Nazis did not support land reform preferring to sidestep/triangulate with their "leibensraum" theory: they will not reform the large landholdings in Germany but they will give land to peasants from conquered land. In general the Nazi's socialist/materialist promises came with an asterisk that the people will be compensated after the war by redistributing the spoils of the conquered lands.

It's the voter's fault for voting for the Zionist candidate.

Americans fleeing to Canada in 2024 gives Germans fleeing to Austria in 1934 vibes.

Wasn't he literally on the Russian payroll? Cashing checks from gazprom.

They will also propose giving up office space and making everyone "hotel" with no assigned desks.

They're basically MAGA McKinsey.

Not talking about the USSR there skipper.

You keep saying that people are called "tankie" for being "left of the DNC" but the only people I see being called "tankie" are folks who think a lot more people aught to be dying from polonium poisoning.

Somehow supporting colonial aggression by a totalitarian state is a left cause.

Probably because there are a lot of tankies here. 🙃

Really not true. Minutes were taken during meetings where these decisions were made and it's possible to see what people actually were thinking and saying rather than speculating.

That being said, the firebombing of Dresden was absolutely as a warning to the Soviets. The RAF put out a memo saying that they "want to show the Soviets what Bomber Command can do."

They tried to shoot blind and got their hands wounded.

Don't forget futuristic space bartender.

I grew up Catholic and my family was mostly Irish and Italians but I never saw that particular cross. Even Polish people (lots of them here in Chicago) I knew tended to have things like the black madonna or our lady of sorrows.

Also this guy isn't Polish.

I think the appeal to the far right would be its similarity to the iron cross. When I saw it on the guy, having never seen the Jerusalem cross before despite my catholic background, I honestly thought it was an iron cross.

It's a bit like people in Europe who wear the confederate flag and when asked claim that they just really like that corny US sitcom from the 70s with an orange car in it. Of course that's just a plausible cover since overt European fascist or nazi symbols are illegal, so instead they fly the battle flag of a racist slave-state from a different continent.

Privatized public transit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriva

core of US power projection and intelligence gathering

This is what Biden and probably other Washington ghouls think but if Israel is "projecting" American power then to what end? Meaning, what US interests are served? Cheaper oil? That's our relationship with SA which is potentially hurt by Israel's behavior (Israel, importantly, has no oil, we'd be better off normalizing with Iran). US bases? We don't have any bases in Israel, that would be Turkey, Bahrain, etc. Do you think Israel ever considers US interests before acting? If they did historically they definitely do not under Netanyahu.

With regards to intelligence, I am sure that when intelligence is shared it's done so to craft a narrative that Tel Aviv wants Washington to believe. Also mossad is the most pervasive, aggressive, and successful spy agency in Washington. The flow of information is heavily one-sided.

Liberal never really meant left. Traditionally "liberal" was more an old-timey word for libertarian.

Even more recently "liberal" was just kinda an upper-class socially conscious do gooder who would always be reactionary if they felt personally threatened in any way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdqQ2BdgOA

It was extremely obvious that he was going to be. He was Pelosi's pick.

Several theories:

1. Epstein was mossad. There are a lot of tapes with a lot of people.

2. Lots of Zionist billionaires: America is a plutocracy that acts on their behalf

3. Some sort of "great game" calculus of keeping a client state for regional instability (Biden apparently believes this based on old speeches)

4. Biden in particular has a melted brain. Many people have pointed out that Reagan was tougher on Israel than Biden has been. Reagan would set red lines and then say "you will comply."

Ezra Klein's picture is in the dictionary next to the "neoliberal" entry.

Right before the election he was on a Bloomberg podcast doing a premature endzone dance promoting Kamala's suburbs-and-cheney strategy. The Bloomberg person asked about unions and Ezra pretty much said there should be consequences for the Teamsters not endorsing her after Biden 'bailed out their pension.'