"Marketplace of ideas" for fascists and nazi spawn but not for anyone we don't actually like.
it's my pleasure
twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1706748191301845392#m or https://nitter.net/DevanaUkraine/status/1706748191301845392#m
i'm pretty sure this is a real person
edit: not that i'm saying that all people of the UA are nazis.
tbh this meme refers to the recent hunka debacle with how suddenly there was a massive influx of liberals in my country trying to blur the line, stating that the 14 waffen SS were simply fighting the USSR and how hitler was a "lesser evil".
i don't get why you feel this would be immediately modern Russian propaganda, this is literally a ww2 unit lmao.
not mine i just found it amusing that eventually we'll probably see some unironic post stating that "Hitler just wanted to solve the housing crisis, it was a difficult time, it was complicated, he was in a rock and a hard place, tough decisions were made"
excerpt context: after the UA government had decided to add to the list the 110th birthday of nazi collaborator bandera to the list of days worthy of commemoration.
“Glorifying the person whose men committed countless heinous crimes is an insult to the victims and an unthinkable distortion of the history of the world’s most horrific genocide," said Dr. Zuroff.
“Unfortunately in recent years, Ukraine has been one of the major propagators of a distorted version of Holocaust history which seeks to hide or minimize crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists,” he added.
Weitzman added, "It is clear that Ukraine is choosing to rehabilitate antisemitism and to censor history.” He noted that, along with the Bandera national holiday, the Ukrainian region of Lviv announced that 2019 would be “Stepan Bandera Year” and that a book exploring the antisemitic actions of politician Simon Petlura, who led 1919 pogroms against Jews, was banned.
“By joining with other countries that are rewriting history Ukraine is showing how little it has learned from the tragedies of the past. These actions are a disgraceful affirmation of Ukraine’s darkest past and an absolute rejection of democratic values,” Weitzman concluded.
mind you there are streets named him. You aren't even slightly suspicious that maybe the narrative we're being told on MSM is fabricated?
Today: the clean SS Tomorrow:
edit: i should make explicit. this meme is prodding at liberals humanizing the soldier of the 14th Waffen SS (1st Galicia) recently honoured in the canadian house of commons. this meme is showing off a ww2 ukrainian nazi unit in a fashion similarly done with the "brave soldiers of afghanistan" who would later become the taliban.
the joke is, we would eventually glorify and humanize them as well with enough time
We all knew in truth that as never an option, as the age old saying goes "do not trust the liberals, they will betray you".
We (leftists, socialist, communists) are out organized.
Pierre just wants the reigns he doesn't actually give a shit, nobody has said anything about the ss monuments or Jack, they're all equally spineless, the way I see it is PP tjust wants the position and is smearing him trying to pin it to JT.
Really, you can’t think of any examples of fascism growing in Canada? The giant trucker anti-vax movement?
I refuse to dismiss the entirety of the trucker protests off as an "anti-vax movement" as i have shamefully in the past, while i agree their leaders were fucked, pat king w/ his superior race comments, and the MOU stating they only recognize the federal government as as the governor general and senate. not to mention that an stupid amount of money in the gofundme leaks came from foreign shores.
They were the only option (from a lack of proper leftist organization) available for Canadians who have been suffering from rising costs of food, gas, rent, utilities, who are angry, confused and, probably misinformed especially as the government was doing a rather insufficient pandemic (an ongoing one mind you) response for the people as small shops closed down, and seemingly more focused on the corporations. it was a good mix of reactionaries and legitimate people with legitimate concerns, we should learn from our mistakes and do a better job of explaining to the people on a more intimate person to person level and at doing government policies.
if you are willing to entertain a socialist view on this (they are god damn trots though), but yeah you're right in being aware it was a fair split of reactionaries, crypto-fascists, and people with genuine concerns (kind of like right now)
Poilievre’s fringe party and conservative attacks on trans rights, women’s rights, and people’s access to healthcare?
you are absolutely right that the assaults on trans rights, women rights and, the privatization of public health care is concerning, this again i imagine has most likely been a mix of reactionaries and crypto-fascists who again have sus backgrounds leading people who most likely have valid concerns that were never addressed and mislead immensely (but when you live next to the massive American media machine and their capital is magnitudes more than that of any leftist creator, it's an uphill battle all the way).
You might just want to look a little harder, because this just looks weak
i hope we both understand that poilievre is an "economic liberal/ neo liberal" and that most parties in canada a "liberal democracy" can be said to be "liberal".
i should make no illusion to the idea that poilievre is using the hunka debacle to garner more votes, my disdain extends to him as well, mind you he has been careful with his words and not use the word "nazi" because he too wants the Ukrainian diaspora votes, and the fact is, a non negligible amount of ukrainians consider the 14 waffen ss and their ilk to be heros abroad (not an annual national holiday, nation wide commemoration of the 110th birthday of the collaborator, which is jan 1) and at home
edit: when i said clear cut i hope to express that i doubt most people will know of hitlers policies towards transpeople, but the gradual progression of:
letting nazis in country < nazis accidentally honoured by country's gov < nazis honoured by msm country's news paper
is a progression most unread people will understand, a progression most people will find concerning because... i do nazi them nazi-ng it lol
they live we sleep
i really didn't want to have clear cut examples of fascism grow in my country to this meme, but i guess here we are.
Legit one has signature and case no.
https://reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/12bwp6n/discussionquestion_thread/jzxjy7g/
Might be fake no case number
morality be damned history has a funny way of rhyming
i dunno man the last time someone attacked some dudes boats in dock - they ended getting nuked twice, i wouldn't say it's unjustifiable
piece by piece
I don’t know if this is hollow, corny cheerleading, but I think it’s important to remind myself and others. Sometimes a shitty future seems inevitable; it’s easy to imagine capitalism and oppression consuming more and more of our planet and our humanity. The momentum of these forces is so great that they can seem unsurmountable, but we must always remember the truth: there is no power greater than the people.
from: fuckcapitalism2020
They're one
“It reminds us of John Dewey's claim that, "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."
In the US, the two-party political system has proven extremely effective in this regard. Aside from differences on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as socioeconomic issues like unemployment insurance and public assistance, both parties ultimately embrace capitalist/corporatist interests in that they both serve as facilitators for the dominant classes: The Republican Party in its role as forerunner, pushing the limits of the capitalist model to the brink of fascism; and the Democratic Party in its role as governor, providing intermittent degrees of slack and pull against this inevitable move towards a "corporate-fascistic state of being." — “Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era: Equilibrium, Superstructure, and the Pull Towards a Corporate-Fascistic Model” Colin Jenkins
https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/calibrating-the-capitalist-state-in-the-neoliberal-era-equilibrium-superstructure-and-the-pull-towards-a-corporate-fascistic-model
from fuckcapitalism2020
United
alt text: beginning of the chess game, however the pawns have now been swapped all to one side of the board - unified against those who have previously out classed them
women hold up half the sky
A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE REVOLUTION FROM FUCKCAPITALISM2020
image desc: woman holds whip as chaotic battle of a slave revolt occurs behind her
damn these letters got hands
letters can be found here: https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/9371/soviet-time-capsules-comrades-1967-2017-russian-revolution-centenery
alt text: woman says "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me!" a person off screen says "letters from soviet time capsules." the woman in the panel retches over, darkness and despair engulfs the backdrop as she comes to be reminded of the letters from past times imagining utopian socialist republics from the now dissolved Union of Socialist Council Republics [USSR].
credit to sarah andersen
modus operandi
"debt is a form of social control."
alt text: bunny says "question: what motivates people? is it a sense of purpose? a desire to improve yourself? a desire to improve the word? a woman smiles plainly, the next panel shows her to continue to smile under duress as she answers "fear. it's definitely fear." A knife is held at her throat by an individual who captioned as hunger, debt, evicition.
credit to sarah andersen for comic.
1939
image description: soldier seen protecting sleeping child from falling knives and missiles.
alt text: missiles and knifes are described as "nazis" soldier is described as "Soviet actions through the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact" 1,750,000 polish jews described as sleeping child
source: https://www.jta.org/1943/07/02/archive/russia-helped-1750000-jews-to-escape-nazis-says-james-n-rosenberg
196
alt text: unlimited [REDACTED] on the first world first emperor of china is seen casting fire on two towers. below image of american soldiers posing with ww2 SS flag. text under first emperor says: our day is coming
text under all of the images say, long live the qinism-lin-biaoism
99%
#lenin #ussr #marxism #communism #ленин #ссср #kazakhmarxist #meme
no soup, only dupe
Growing wealth inequality is not an accident, it is a logical consequence of capitalism. If profits (surplus value created by labor) is given to shareholders (capitalists), and the rich run the government and the media — what else can you expect?
alt text: 1940's vintage american ad style with a woman with a smile, piercing blue eyes, and red polished nails w/ matching lipstick holds a soup can. on the soup can, the text reads "capitalism condenses wealth distribution."
from: https://www.instagram.com/fuckcapitalism2020/
don't let your politiks die online
alt text: @yugopnik • Jul 12 There are 2 dudes in a One of them calls himself a Social Democrat. The other calls himself a Communist. Neither of them actually do anything to push their ideas forward. Then, are they any different?
Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
alt text: woman asks man "a penny for your thoughts?" man says "sure." a penny is put in his palm. the man's eyes goes white, the backdrop darkens, his facial features display traits ominous features. the man says "Poverty is not caused by men and women getting married; it's not caused by machinery; it's not caused by "over-production"; it's not caused by drink or laziness; and it's not caused by "over-population".
It's caused by Private Monopoly. That is the present system. They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe.
And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air - or of the money to buy it - even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it's right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: "It's Their Land," "It's Their Water," "It's Their Coal," "It's Their Iron," so you would say "It's Their Air," "These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?"
And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on "Christian Duty" in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of th gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you'll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to "justice" in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble."
The woman takes the penny out of the the man's palm, the back drop lightens, the man's facial features return to normal.
memer's note: this text is an excerpt from Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,