Rule #1 of communism: constantly commit a bunch of atrocities for absolutely no fucking reason whatsoever.
If you must give a reason, attribute it to something frivolous and shallow like ‘power hunger’, ‘jealousy’, ‘stupidity’, ‘narcissism’ or what have you, but do not, I repeat, DO NOT MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT PERTAINING TO MATERIAL CONDITIONS! ABSOLUTELY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER ARE YOU TO EVEN HINT AT THOSE! Suggesting that the circumstances common to other countries made those actions inevitable IS HISTORICAL MATERIALISM AND BY EXTENSION BOLSHEVISM. NEVER MENTION THE MATERIAL CONDITIONS OR CIRCUMSTANCES, EVER, EVER, EVER! DO YOU UNDERSTAND‽ I AM WARNING YOU: DON’T! DO! IT! EVER!
I couldn’t agree more! As an American, whenever I turn on the television, walk into a school, visit a social network, or open a book, I am almost guaranteed to be immediately bombarded with messages about how great Bolshevism was and how Joseph Stalin was a fine politician. Day in and day out it’s crap like how he supposedly provided famine relief to Ukrainians or tried to form an antifascist alliance with London and Paris. You’ll never find a single communist familiar with any of the horrible things he’s done! You can always find somebody talking about how capitalists supposedly ‘partitioned’ Sudetenland, but you never see anybody even mention the Molotov Cocktease Pact!
If you are an anticommunist, you constantly read and hear this same shit over and over again: an American General continued an Axis concentration camp, American and Axis forces collaborated to suppress Asian communism, an American bank supported Mussolini, the American govt. forgave most of Fascist Italy’s war debt, the Italian Fascists massacred approximately one million people—ARRRRRRRRRRGH! SHUT THE FUCK UP LITERALLY EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS ABOUT THESE!!!
His username is ‘Dwightpower88’. I think that this is another open and shut case; no clues needed.
:::spoiler No! It was normal for the Iberian authorities to harass neo‐Christians — people who left Judaism or Islam for Christianity — because they suspected these Christians of secretly preserving their original cultures. One could argue that mediaeval Iberia was the birthplace of ‘real’ antisemitism (if you will), rather than just anti‐Judaism, which goes back to the days of Haman. Eventually in Iberia, converting to Christianity no longer guaranteed protection from xenophobia, as the Inquisition so amply demonstrated.
Accusations came from townspeople who feared competition from former Jews and resented the part played by conversos in the king’s service. This kind of anticonverso feeling, saying in effect that a Jew will always be a Jew and baptism did not wipe out his Jewishness, came to a head at about the same time as small images were becoming common. In the inquisitorial trials of conversos in Zaragoza between 1484 and 1515, the inquisitors’ questions during an interrogation focused on the religious behavior of suspects, rather than considering whether their conversion had been authentic or not.¹¹⁸
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Like other early modern Spaniards, Bleda embraced the notion of “blood purity,” according to which any degree of Jewish ancestry renders one unfit to participate fully in Catholic society. The language Bleda uses in his tongue in cheek allegation about Muhammad—that he is “a four-quarters Jew,” which is to say that all his grandparents were Jewish—reflects this racial conception of Jewishness and Christianness alike.
Bleda’s warning about baseless allegations against honorable Spaniards is also no idle remark: David Nirenberg observes with only slight exaggeration that “there is no leading sixteenth‐ or seventeenth‐century Spanish writer or politician who entirely avoided being accused or accusing another of genealogical or cultural ‘Jewishness.’”²⁵
Bleda’s sober description of Muhammad’s ancestry, no less than his intentionally over‐the‐top allegation, reflects the pervasive anxiety about Jewish ancestry within early modern Spain and reinforces the importance of safeguarding the reputation of one’s own Christian lineage.
(Source.)
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Learning about how Iberian gentiles mistreated marranos is heartbreaking. Even Jews who sincerely considered theirselves Christians remained unsafe from xenophobia.
You mean this? I searched that entire list and there is no evidence whatsoever that American antisocialists collaborated with Fascists. Name one example.
Just because the American ruling class refused to hold a major tribunal for Italian Fascists, let Axis personnel continue running concentation camps, relinquished its commitment to justice at Nuremberg, intentionally recruited thousands of surviving Axis employés and collaborators for anticommunism, relied on Axis servicemen for intelligence, gave former Axis employés comfortable jobs in post‐1945 Japan, staffed South Korea’s police with Axis employés, hired Axis criminals for a space programme, defended Axis war criminals in courts, sanitized antisemitic fascists, discretely internationalized fascism, used a Slovakian fascist as an asset, collaborated with fascists to manipulate Italian politics, nurtured a lobby full of Axis collaborators, staffed the NATO with former Axis officials, declined to uproot German Fascism, became unconcerned with neofascist shrines, worked with neofascists to crush Turkish communism, let Axis personnel infiltrate the Republican Party, saluted Waffen‐SS employés, and allows hundreds of monuments to Axis collaborators, doesn’t mean that it failed to destroy fascism.
Show me one example—just one—of an American antisocialist knowingly protecting, endorsing, or reusing an Axis war criminal.
See, when I complained on Nightdive’s Discord server about map glitches that have not been rectified in twenty‐nine years, the excuse that somebody gave to me was that fixing those glitches would result in compatibility issues with other source ports (which would be especially noticeable if attempting multiplayer).
Here is what I wrote:
Is there something in the contract stating that the current designers aren’t allowed to fix old bugs that nobody—and I mean nobody—enjoys?
I mean, the wall running and the silent BFG trick, yeah, but… inaccessible secrets?
Here is the response that two official developers gave me:
So a chunk of the developers for this port are people who have been programming and modding Doom for 20+ years. As such, we tend to err on the side of caution on fixing specific behaviours because we know the knock on effects of trying to fix them, Technical debt is a problem we are trying to avoid, essentially.
If we change something, we have to maintain that change and all systems it affects.
and mod support is on the table, so anything we change has the potential to break 70000 mods[.] unfortunately Doom seems very much built on a table made out of very thin wafers
I replied that while I did not know if that was a sacrifice worth making, I could at least understand why they were making it. Somebody replied,
if it wasnt worth it, doom purists would just be playing (g)zdoom
A couple of nights ago I had another strange dream: one about Fascists who fought for the Allies.
That would actually be a passable idea for an article seeing as how some Fascists such as Marshal Pietro Badoglio and General Mario Roatta stuck with the Kingdom of Italy until its end, and it is at least plausible that some Axis soldiers ended up in penal battalions. There was also George Lincoln Rockwell, somebody who worked for the Western Allies yet became a neofascist anyway. How I could spin all of this into an article, though, I am less sure.
I am planning on publishing an article about dogs in the Third Reich a few weeks later, but I have barely started writing it.
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