@DamarcusArt
@lemmygrad.mlI did not have "liberals openly support a nazi and conservatives are the ones saying that is a bad thing (while also supporting them)" on my 2023 bingo card.
So they couped Pakistan's government, put a compliant military junta in place, and they're still sanctioning them?
It's like they're just addicted to sanctions at this point and can't help themselves.
Did Germany cease to exist when the Nazis took power? Spain with Franco?
Unfortunately, the political entity (and huge army) of the US will still exist, even if they finally take the mask off and admit to their fascism. The best hope in that scenario would be a collapse of the state due to a lack of support and inability to suppress the people, but I can't really see that happening in the US unfortunately. Some of their state police departments have bigger budgets than the armies of entire countries.
Fingers crossed, only 6-12 more months of capitalism would be pretty fantastic. I...can't really see that much change happening in such a short amount of time though.
Honestly, I think most of them are gonzaloists, they just know that if they openly admit they admire him, people will dismiss what they have to say, so they claim to be one of the "non-gonzalist Maoists" which just seems to be maoists with a tiny bit of shame left, but still lacking the self awareness of every other maoist.
Pfft, get outta here with that "history is a complex multi-layered tapestry" bullshit. History is like a Paradox strategy game, if your country gets a bad leader, with bad stats, things will be bad until they are replaced. China should've save scummed until they got a replacement for Mao with high stats across the board smh.
Yeah, it's a "fill in the blanks" apology, take your pic of any of those options. They just want people to accept whatever justification they can so they go back to ignoring the fucked up shit they do.
In reality, they knew full well what they were doing with this, they aren't sorry they did it, they're sorry they got called out for it.
Really does look to be this way. Maybe not now, but the west has made it clear, they will not give up hegemony peacefully and will destroy the world if it means maintaining their grip.
Nazis love the idea of "refuge in audacity" where they will say and do things so absurd that people disbelieve it on principle. Don't be fooled. They knew what they were doing. Even if the heads of parliament themselves didn't, enough people along the chain of decisions did and were ok with it. This is how fascism is normalised in a country. It's not through a big brown "fascism filter" but through little "gaffes" like this, little "accidents" that occur more and more frequently, and become more and more normalised until they are no longer gaffes, but "just how things are."