Agreed. I know that the original poster isn’t siding with the Herzlians, but this is still in questionable taste.

Tut‐tut, I see that Clinton’s electoral failure in spite of winning the popular vote hasn’t moved somebody’s faith in the pseudodemocracy. Let’s briefly review the circumstances, shall we?

Starting with the national elections of 2000:

• Democrats have received more popular votes in 4 out of the past 5 presidential elections, yet only gained office 2 times. Despite winning the popular vote only once in the past 5 elections, a Republican has taken office 3 times.
• Democrats have received 24 million more votes for Senate than Republicans, yet have held a majority in the Senate in only 3 out of the last 9 sessions, while Republicans have had a majority in 4 out of the past 9 sessions.
• Democrats have received over 500,000 more votes for seats in the House of Representatives, yet have held a majority in that body for only 3 out of the past 9 sessions, while Republicans have held a majority in 6 of those sessions.

(Source and more evidence here.)

Trust me, an overglorified public opinion poll isn’t going to stop neofascism should the ruling class deem its institutionalization necessary. The Fascists ascended to power in the Kingdom of Italy and the Weimar Republic in spite of their want of votes.

https://hexbear.net/post/2409833

Whatever. China’s economy is by far the worst in the world and their ‘country’ going to collapse extremely soon. In fact, it’s going to collapse so soon that it will be on the exact same microsecond that Russia loses the war. That is how soon it’s going to collapse. All Israel has to do is defeat Hamas tomorrow, and it’s all over for Xi and Putin.

Finland.

In spite of the decision taken on December 19, 1934 prohibiting members of Jewish youth movements from wearing their traditional uniforms, on April 13, 1935 the Bavarian police, Himmler and Heydrich’s true domain, permitted an exception for one these movements’ adherents to continue wearing theirs: ‘There’s no reason to inhibit by decree Zionist activity in Germany, since Zionism doesn’t contradict the [Fascist] programme,’ wrote leading Zionists to the Minister of the Interior.

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Just because liberals voted for the Fascists in 1924, repeatedly praised Fascism in the press, suppressed militant antifascists regularly, trained dozens of Fascist cadets, elected politicians sympathetic to Fascism, repeatedly overlooked or trivialized Fascist oppression, chanted “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!” alongside Fascists in German government chambers, signed a naval pact with Fascists, extended credit to Fascists, signed military alliances with the Fascists, partitioned Czechoslovakia for the Fascists, tolerated businesses that marketed products (including oil and nickel) to Fascists, became economically critical to the Axis war machine, provided bank accounts for Fascists, bailed out Axis businessmen, held more Axis POWs than Jewish refugees, collaborated with self‐identified fascists, directly incorporated former Axis intelligence into the state, started Operation Paperclip and kept the employés, started Operation Bloodstone, appointed former Axis leaders to high ranks within the NATO, accepted surviving Axis collaborators as party members, endorsed an underground network of neofascists, allow monuments to Axis collaborators, martyrize Axis collaborators, and contribute to neofascism in Ukraine, doesn’t mean that they enable fascism and fascists.

There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever for your utterly ridiculous claim that ‘liberals are enablers of fascism’. None. Zero. Either show me the evidence or stop making crap up.

How is it?

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https://lemmy.ml/post/836264

Just out of curiosity, are you somebody who lurks /c/capitalismindecay?

Have you heard of capital letters and punctuation? That’s too hard to read.

Capital letters and punctuation are not going to help with your reading woes, I’m afraid.

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Descriptions of crucifix violation by Jews are always depicted in the Hebrew chronicles as a reaction to the evil destruction of their Torah scrolls by the crusaders. During the First and Second Crusades, crusaders attacked the most holy object of the Jews, so the Jews in response are depicted as attacking the main symbol of Christianity and the crusading movement. In the First Crusade, the tearing of sacred Torah scrolls was part of almost every attack.⁹⁵ There are nine descriptions of Torah desecration in the four chronicles.⁹⁶

The Hebrew chroniclers first emphasized the holiness and beauty of the Torah, how it was honored by a particular Jewish community, and how terrible it was that the uncircumcised contaminated it. According to Eliezer bar Nathan, the crusaders trampled the Torah scrolls in the mud in Worms: “The enemies and oppressors set upon the Jews who were in their homes, pillaging, and murdering men, women, and children, young and old. They destroyed the houses and pulled down the stairways, looting and plundering; and they took the holy Torah, trampled it in the mud of the streets, and tore it and desecrated it amidst ridicule and laughter.”⁹⁷

The Mainz Anonymous depicts the grief of the Jewish women who saw the Torah as it was torn in the Mainz synagogue in 1098: “There was also a Torah scroll in the room; the errant ones came into the room, found it, and tore it to shreds. When the holy and pure women, daughters of kings, saw that the Torah had been torn, they called in a loud voice to their husbands: ‘Look, see, the Holy Torah—it is being torn by the enemy!’ And they all said, men and women together: ‘Alas, the Holy Torah, the perfection of beauty, the delight of our eyes, to which we used to bow in the synagogue, kissing and honoring it. How has it now fallen into the hands of the impure uncircumcised ones?’”⁹⁸

Furthermore, according to Solomon bar Simson, the Torah scrolls were trampled underfoot in Trier: “At that time the people of the community of Trier took their Torah scrolls and placed them in a sturdy building. When the enemy became aware of this, they went there while it was still day and broke the roof above; they took all the mantles and the silver adorning the rollers of the Torah, and threw the Torah Scrolls on the ground, and tore them and trod upon them with their feet.”⁹⁹

(Emphasis added. Source.)

Am I philosemitic? Well, I have Jewish friends, donate regularly to Never Again Action, speak Ladino, have reattended a Synagogue, wish Judaists good holidays, verbally defend Jews, read Jewish literature regularly, speak regularly on Jewish achievements, Jewish suffering, and related topics… I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

The heroic students at Columbia and elsewhere have shown that no matter the verbal abuse and physical repression hurled their way, the deeper will be their resolve to continue their campaigns until the genocide stops once and for all, and Palestinians inevitably kick out their [neo]colonial oppressors in order to reclaim their land, resources and their freedom. This is what real solidarity looks like.

I really doubt that Moscow deported women and children out of either collective punishment or misidentification. It’s more reasonable that it was simply Soviet policy to keep families together as much as possible.

Of course, if Moscow did separate the relatives, then antisocialists would go from griping about ‘collective punishment’ to griping about ‘separating loved ones’ instead. In any case, antisocialists rarely attempt to understand their opponents’ motives, especially in detail. All that you need to know is that the Soviets committed atrocities against innocents and that’s it. They did it just ’cause.

‘The policy of intervention in economic life is characteristic neither of free, nor of despotic, nor of oligarchical, nor of democratic Governments. All Governments in all periods have intervened, more or less thoroughly, in the economic life of their countries, if by no other fact than that they have built roads, imposed taxes, and issued currency. Whether capitalists or proletarians, men are not favourable in an absolute sense either to laissez‐faire or State intervention. They invoke such intervention when they expect to profit by it, and they repulse it when they foresee no advantage or fear a positive injury from its action.’

— Gaetano Salvemini, 1936

The Fascist economies did not minimize, let alone dispose of, elementary features as wage labour, generalized commodity production, capital, private ownership over the means of production, and other phenomena that propertarians have no interest in abolishing. Even economies with freer markets still contributed to Fascism. Hence, the free market purists who content theirselves with the trivia that the Fascist states intervened in their economies, as usual only miss the point.

he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks.

I vaguely remember somebody telling me that Ronald Reagan claimed that black Americans did not want their concessions. The principle here is identical: claiming that the oppressed are consenting to their oppression. Asking for proof of consent strikes me as standard procedure, but apparently nobody expects anticommies to substantiate any of their extraordinary claims, so nobody ever asks.

I still remember visiting a casual dining restaurant in Texas decades ago and seeing a prepubescent child doing janitorial work. I’m guessing that it was only a part‐time job, but I was still disturbed seeing it. Maybe somebody can argue that kids taking part‐time jobs is okay if it’s only to afford luxuries (rather than something more serious like supporting a family), but an impatient desire for luxuries could easily reflect a need for coping mechanisms.