• DogThatWentGorp [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Imagine you’re a key.

    Now imagine you’re in a lock- a lock that hurts you as a big hand turns and jiggles you around.

    A big hand that cannot hear you scream.

    And what’s that hand trying to open? That’s right:

    It’s The Scary Door

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      She’s basically been in a constant state of mental breakdown since she literally had Hillary Clinton in her home and received so much backlash from her fanbase she went full Ethan Klein and blamed Hasan for creating ‘transphobic’ (i.e. they didn’t agree with her) hate (i.e. they criticized the things she said and did) mobs (i.e. the 90% of her audience that no longer watches her content).

      So she thinks, by saying Stalin (someone she believes her ‘haters’ (again 90% former fans) likes) is Hillary Clinton (again the reason she went from 7 figure views to getting barely 6 figures on a viral video) then she’ll magically be right and will have totally dunked on all those transphobic* tankies* that hate her for literally hosting a right-wing actually transphobic war criminal pedophile enabler in her own home.

      Even 2020 era contrapoints would make a take down video on 2026 contrapoints, and she was pretty liberal at that point compared to where she started.

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        love, like, or hate him (i am ambivalent) Hasan seems like a shining role model for how a cis male should be when it comes to trans people

        transphobic would be the furthest thing from my mind when it comes to him

        contra is really doubling and tripling down on everything ridiculous she has physically isolated herself to the point where i think it’s really fucking with her head

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        transphobic’ (i.e. they didn’t agree with her) hate (i.e. they criticized the things she said and did) mobs (i.e. the 90% of her audience that no longer watches her content).

        Natalie is TC69 confirmed?

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    What if the world was made of pudding, Natalie?

    Then we’d all be drowning in a chocolate mudslide or vanilla avalanche or pistachio something

    Way to go, you’ve doomed the human species!

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      It’s also like, one of the most confusing policies that ever occurred. There’s no explanation for why the USSR took that position, and we know that the communists viewed zionism as a far right ideology at the time.

      They were doing something but we have zero documentation about what it was and then they U-Turned pretty fast too.

      It is one of the most curious historical questions that remains unanswered. Why did they take that position? What did they think they were getting out of it?

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        At the time Israel was controlled by the Mapai party (socialist/“labor Zionist”) with Mapam party in second (Marxist Leninist). At the time it appeared Zionism would be a socialist force to break open the Franco-British imperial project middle east. In retrospect it was a foolish bet that came at the expense of Palestinians, but at the time the Arab world was largely still under colonial rule.

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        Pure speculation on my part, but could it have been some sort of appeasement? Trying to work with the western powers to avoid escalating tensions? But when the USSR saw that the west was going to be escalating with them anyway they realised that policy wouldn’t work.

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          I have no idea. We can only speculate. We have literally zero documentation about it to work from. I’ve never seen a single thing and I’ve looked.

          This is a complete contrast because even before the Russian revolution was successful Stalin was writing about how the zionist movement was far right reactionary. He knew exactly what it was decades beforehand.

          [1] Zionism – A reactionary nationalist trend of the Jewish bourgeoisie, which had followers along the intellectuals and the more backward sections of the Jewish workers. The Zionists endeavoured to isolate the Jewish working-class masses from the general struggle of the proletariat.

          This is the very first note in Stalin’s “Marxism and the National Question”.

          So given that he knew what it was, there must have been some other strategy going into these decisions. But what they were we just don’t know. I will stay deeply curious about this shit until some documents about it are eventually discovered.

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            Yes unfortunately there are only speculations.

            And you’re completely right that zionism has been thorn in the back of communism in Russia literally since there even was communism in Russia, they constantly pushed to the right and tried to wreck party by drawing Jewish workers from it. So it might be so that USSR seen the chance to get rid of them.

            Another possible reasons i can think of:

            • WW2 just ended and world was in outrage over fresh info about holocaust. Opposing creation of “Jewish state” would create instant outrage towards USSR. And Israel would have been created anyway, it was basically 95% on USA and UK anyway. Then USSR would be put into yet another nasty position of choosing between “Jews are running away from USSR” or “USSR is the prison for Jews”
            • Israel was iirc created based on UN charter, again USSR was invested in creation of UN, it wouldn’t wanted to torpedo it right at start. Also remember it was before the ultimate shift in 1949 that put an end to the illusion western powers are not hostile to USSR and that it is possible to maintain good will relations with them.

            Ultimately they maybe hoped to maintain some control over it but alas.

            Still i see this issue as choosing between bad or worse, it would be only avoidable by creating Jewish state in Germany, but western powers would absolutely never agree to that. As for creating it in USSR, the autonomous oblast existed back then already and still exist but zionist have zero interest in it.

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        Labour Zionism got very popular during the early days of israel and the USSR in a geopolitical play saw that if they supported them they could get an ally in the middle east to fight the American-Saudi alliance

        https://youtu.be/ehp9PZo4UR0

        Obviously this didnt happen, but thats why they took that position

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      Yeah, but it’s a very weird gotcha because she’s using it to insinuate that Stalin was responsible for a famine, but because he was being antisemitic or something

      It’s hard to tell, it’s one of the rare times where someone is being disingenuous but in a way where I don’t think even they know what the hell they’re trying to say

  • If Clinton is the liberals version of the leftist ultimate political evil, and the most gready and expansionist people a liberal could imagine a leftist could think of is the Israelis, then this makes complete sense.

    Stalin is total evil.

    The Soviets were imperialist and colonialist by nature.

    This is the liberal perspective.

    They believe leftists think Hillary is the ultimate evil (Which the liberal doesn’t).

    They believe leftists think that Israelis (and from the liberals perspective Jews as well probably) are power hungery authoritarians doing a imperialism and colonialism against Palestine (Which the liberal knows Israel as the most moral place on earth)

    This framing according to the liberal theoretically makes the leftist go “oooooooh” when they say the magic words “Hold the door”. And snap the leftist out of their totalitarian ways.

    “You see!” The liberal says smugly, “it was genocide all along!” And then everyone claps, and the leftist weeps for the genocide of Ukraine and maybe even the Uyghurs.

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    I usually try to explain it like this: picture Natalie Wynn as Natalie Wynn. Now, imagine she’s making a good point. Doesn’t look so much like she’s making a pointless point now, does it?

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    We literally have anti-communist sources saying how much food was destroyed by kulaks. They just blamed the kulaks’ actions on the Soviet government and not, you know, the fucking monsters who slaughtered thousands of animals before leaving the corpses to rot, torched grain silos, torched fields, killed some of their neighbors, then fled the country to become collaborators with the Axis Powers.

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    the internet was a mistake. I’m not so naive as to think that takes like this are a product of an internet connected society, but I sure as fuck wouldn’t have to know about this tweet and allow it to take up some storage in the little bit of brains i have that still function.