They had a choice. They chose money over principles.
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On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.
- 1984, George Orwell
In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.
Available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html
All they’ve got is Diamonds And Rust
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas
Capitalism most certainly has everything to do with this.
Capitalism robs the workers of most of their value and siphons it up to the owners. We then end up with, those who have far far more than they need, and those with not enough.
The internet allows us to communicate and see these injustices easier than ever before and the Arab Spring brought home to those in power just how powerful the internet can be. It is now aggressively being used against us to promote ultra capitalism and fascism in an attempt to prevent communism/socialism proliferating. And frustratingly, so far, it appears to be working.
I can see the Labour Party coming to power in the next election - maybe, maybe not - who knows? But it doesn’t really make a difference who’s in power - the State remains the same, the structure is still there, they just tinker with it a little here and there.
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah
136 upvotes to 6 downvotes for a piece of shit like The Telegraph and a bullshit divisionary piece? I thought Lemmy was better than this
The cruelty is the point
What you were hoping for was no change in your life. You gave a scenario and a solution was provided to you. You’re taking no responsibility, and want no change in convenience. How can you expect the ignorant to move off of WhatsApp if even the informed won’t do it?
I did the method suggested above and the vast majority of my contacts eventually moved to Signal, those that didn’t switched to old fashioned SMS to contact me. You are not missing out by not being a part of one specific messaging app, there are many out there.
He lost, it’s been generating power since 2018! 😄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre#Objections
Not totalitarian you say?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
My experience in Azerbaijan also included tales of when they were children passing curds to starving prisoners through chain fences in Kazakh gulags. The Soviet Union did more harm than good to the leftist movement and is used as the scary example every single time someone begins to think twice about the capitalist system they live under. Socialism is forever tainted by the USSR and severely struggles to remove that image. Fuck the USSR.
What do you mean provide credible sources? dO yOUr OWn reSeArcH!1!
Out of a population of over 300 million…
What does this mean?
Originally I thought you meant 2 million out of 15 million people but Turkey’s population is 86 million
Too fucking right, but I don’t understand the video, is there some context missing, what did orange hat do to deserve that?
Random violence isn’t punk. Might is right isn’t punk.
Punk is anarchist and DIY
Germany’s military industry was also trash at the time. Buying time for Britain’s defence also bought time for Germany’s offence.
If France, Britain, etc did something sooner rather than later a lot of bloodshed would have been avoided.
The World At War is an incredible documentary that covers it quite well.
“Since the French spurned any notion of taking the offensive, the Maginot Line ironically protected Germany better than it protected France.” Narrator, 8:10
“A few French divisions advanced 5 miles. But they didn’t even try to penetrate the Siegfried Line, at that time still unfinished. And while Poland fought on, there were no German tanks at all on the Western Front.” Narrator, 12:40
“If ze French Army would have attacked in beginning of September wiz zere very strong superiority in division in armoured cars well act all armoured cars in ze Western Front at zat time. In artillery, in air force, we ze German forces in the so called Western Front could stand no more than 1 or 2 weeks.” General Siegfried Westphal, Staff Officer Western Front, 14:05
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