• Lumiluz@slrpnk.net
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    A lot of people here thinking the USA is speed running fascism here.

    No, the USA was always an inspiration to fascism (just ask the remaining Native Americans as an example).

    That’s why it was able to adopt into it so quick. Not that hard to change a car to gasoline if it was already running on diesel.

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      Not that hard to change a car to gasoline if it was already running on diesel.

      Is almost a good analogy, but that’s not so easy 😅

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        Frying fat would have been better, because most older diesels run on it out of the box.

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        just have to replace the engine, how hard could it be? /s

        better analogy would be converting a (relatively modern) gas engine to E85, it’s simpler, from what i understand

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        Well it did take awhile, but it’s definitely easier than turning a horse into an electric car

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      Before WW2 broke out, the New York Times LOVED Mussolini. They kept pumping out articles about how much of a cool guy he was.

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      What if we called the original people Americans, and the newcomers immigrant Americans?

      Clarity: Native American -> American

      American -> Immigrant American

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          Not really. Those are human made concepts, so you must start from the inception of the concept of immigration. Good luck finding the exact date, since it predates written language :/

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            Well since dates are human concepts as well we can just state it is immigration date 00/00/0000. Are the months or days first? That’s up to you, haha. You make a good point, but you understand what I mean. If we consider immigration only being the integration into another state permanently then we would have to say we had mostly open immigration into the U.S. until the later parts of the 1800s. The first 99 years there were no real immigration laws here. (So roughly 40% of our history had no immigration restrictions for the most part)

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    6 hours ago

    Everything they accuse china and the opposition of doing it something they do or want to do themselves.

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    13 hours ago

    It’s a problem that the purge of those offended by nazis/oligarchs hinting too close to naziism is this early.

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      12 hours ago

      The Nazi speedrun all around the world scares me. It’s like they are competing with climate change, for who gets to kill us first.

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      Had to do some memeological research; that’s Yeon-mi Park, a North Korean defector on the Joe Rogan Podcast saying “in North Korea …”

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    They really are speedrunning fascism this time around. They did have plenty of time to prepare out in the open and gained public support with no long term repercussions.

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      Oof… just because the Russians are our enemies now, doesn’t mean they were Nazis during world war II. They fought the Nazi a lot longer than America did for sure.

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        Yeah they fought the Nazis - but first they made a deal with the Nazis to divide eastern Europe and going on a campaign of rape and plunder. You should look into the atrocities committed by the USSR during the 20th century - Germany paid a heavy price for their evils. Russia never did.

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          The Soviet Union lost 27 million people fighting the Nazis, wtf is this Nazi apologia?

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            How many millions of that 27 million were shot by their own commissar for retreating, or from being used as cannon fodder in mass human wave attacks, where the hope was the Germans would run out of ammo?

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        doesn’t mean they were Nazis during world war II.

        Tell this to anyone in Eastern Europe who is not a Russian ;)

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      This comment has so many levels of unintended irony and missing the point that it is genuinely making me laugh my ass off.

      Behold, the least propagandized people in the world.

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        It was a cheekey comment, you are reading too much into it.

        I am aware how our dearest regime disposes of wrong think…