Fuck Macron. It’s a shame this won’t remove him.

I really am more focused on the whole Prussian military organization structure and the coalition with the Freikorps, who were demonstrably anti-democratic monarchist military groups in direct coalition with the Ebert government. It is such a major component to the whole SPD-KPD relationship that was so bad it led to Thallman actively supporting Hitler.

The Freikorps was such a major component to the SPD-KPD relationship that… almost a decade after the Freikorps had been effectively disbanded, it FORCED Thalmann, coming into power in a KPD that had had a very productive relationship with the SPD for the past 8 or so years, to cooperate with the literal Nazis.

Fucking insane.

Oh, I completely spaced on the time period mentioned in the meme, lol

Cats were brought to Japan with Buddhism, I believe.

Nya

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Ancient Peruvian Metalworker: “This is my fursona, OC DO NOT STEAL”

The point is that under capitalism you can never have true change through reform, this is agreed upon by nearly every major communist ideology.

There’s a difference between “Capitalism will not reform itself out of existence” and “Democracy must be overthrown by a small cabal of vanguardists before the People’s Will can TRULY be expressed”. Unless Kautsky and other Orthodox Marxists are no longer ‘major communist ideologies’

How is highlighting the aftermath of World War 1 and that context leaving it out?

By literally leaving that context out and attempting to paint it as “Mean ol’ SPD went murdering the KPD for no reason :(” instead of literal fucking self-defense against an anti-democratic coup attempt. But fascist apologists rarely argue in good faith.

The critical issue is Ebert (who inherited authority from the monarchy initially) made a coalition with the Freikorps to allow the Weimar republic to inherit the separate governance for the military that existed in the Reich. That was instrumental and core to the issue.

Ah, yes, what he should have done is nobly refused compromise with what was the actual power returning to the country from the front, that way Germany could have enjoyed fascist dictatorship some 15 years early, or a ML dictatorship some 25 years early.

“I didn’t say anything of the sort (unless the audience liked it)”

I would say there’s a significant difference in the approach. The Biden administration throwing things at the wall in the hopes that something will stick is a bit different in intent to the Bush administration lying, obfuscating, denying, downplaying, and only then resorting to semantics to cover their illegal activity. Not that Dems have never done that, but the two examples you cited are far from the egregious disrespect for the law displayed by the Bush administration.

In any case, we’re in agreement that Trump is beyond even that. What a shitshow. It can always get worse, it seems.

I have to giggle at the “yo” because in my head the whole thing turns ‘jersey’ at that point for me, yo. ;p

With 4chan, it’s hard to tell sometimes. Sometimes it’s some fascist bitching, other times, it’s a sane user (relatively speaking) needling fascists. I’m assuming this one means everything as a good thing, and is fishing for big mad chud reactions.

Explanation: Roman society was remarkably open, by the standards of ancient societies, to outsiders. Most societies only allowed full membership in the polity for those with the proper ethnic descent. The Romans, while automatically granting citizenship to the children of any two citizens, also freely granted citizenship to any who proved themselves sufficiently loyal and useful to the res publica. This could take many forms - grants of citizenship were used to reward cities which had been loyal for a sufficiently long time, or to lure local elites into supporting the Roman government, or as a gift for exceptional deeds (including, curiously, a slave-turned-freedman who became a baker and was granted citizenship simply for supplying bread to the city of Rome for a number of years).

However, the most reliably attested-to method was instituted by the Roman Emperor Claudius, who formalized that any provincial, freedman, or barbarian who served 25 years in the Roman auxiliary forces, in support of the famous Roman Legions, would receive citizenship for themselves, their wife, and their children. Service, clearly, guarantees citizenship!

The drawing is a reference to the movie Starship Troopers, a satire of jingoism and imperialism, but ‘service guarantees citizenship’ comes from the original book, Starship Troopers, which, depending on who you ask, is either pseudofascist drivel or an interesting exploration of what a hypermilitarized sci-fi democracy might look like.

Sparta ten minutes later: “Hey, Persia, you need a catspaw?”

Fixed, thanks!

Stalinists are absolutely fascists. Accelerationism is just the preferred technique.

I wouldn’t cut things off at a half decade. A little more than a decade prior the German communist leadership were killed by military companies in coalition with the SPD,

Yes, after trying to coup the government before elections could be held. Funny how tankies and their apologists always leave that out.

and then those same military groups tried to overthrow the SPD government, but the SPD ended up compromising with the coup uprising anyway.

“Compromising” here meaning “If you surrender we’ll give you amnesty”. Wow, what an astounding compromise.

There was a general strike!

Yep. And when the KPD started shooting, the strikers decided they wanted no part of that nonsense. But keep trying to peddle fascism.

It failed in large part because the Communists weren’t ready for it and their leadership was too paralyzed in the moment to actually seize power!

“Well, yes, we WERE trying to stop democratic elections, but we just weren’t successful!”

Red fash never change.