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Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, just a brainless virtue signal.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

What are you talking about? I already established what they meant, and I'm not using them incorrectly.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

It looks like you don't even know what authoritarianism means, so we're starting from square one.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

I already did, and no I'm not.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

I try to be very explicit. I consider you as bad as fascists.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

I'm saying my guess is that's what Pakman was referring to. I thought the red scare podcast *used to be* left-wing, so if he saw the same random stream clip of them talking to Fuentes as I did, that could've been what caused him to make this tweet. A mistake on his part.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

And no, the SocDems didn't side with Nazis. They were getting attacked by both Nazis and by Communists, the duo of totalitarians who were aligned in their goal to destroy the republic. Communists hate democracy more than they hate fascism.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 8h

Luxemburg was the betrayer. She supported an open rebellion that was trying to destroy a democratic government. She would've dragged Germany into totalitarianism if she could. You may as well ask me to shed tears for the Nazis Hitler purged in 1933.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

No, I'm obviously not referring to the Mensheviks. Have you ever stopped and wondered why the Bolsheviks couldn't gain or keep power in a democracy? Why they had to never hold elections again? You just support dictatorship, sorry.

And stop posturing. I know the history better than you do.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

You switched from talking about m4a to linking about vague questions about the role of government in healthcare. Then after realizing you were wrong, you resorted to this completely vacuous rhetoric. Later, dumbfuck.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

The country that deserves the most credit for beating Nazism is undoubtedly Britain. But even if the Red Army helped, what credit do I owe them? They were just as bad as fascists, and they took the Nazis' place after the war. The US and UK liberated, the USSR conquered.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

That's right, pretend you did something.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

I'd sound way more like you two if my goal were just being popular. It seems way easier than what I do.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

The Tsar had already abdicated his position. The Bolsheviks created their dictatorship by coup against a fledgling democracy where more moderate reformists were winning. Then a similar thing played out in Germany. The original "Antifa" fought socdems harder than Nazism. Why? Common enemies.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

You didn't identify any hypocrisy.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

If you change the question, the percentage of people who say yes changes. A public option is obviously less unpopular than the m4a leftists were dreaming about, which was a more extreme proposal than most other developed countries have.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

Hello there, bot-like malcontent who helps the right win.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. And? I am being careful. Are you trying to say something?

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

Liberals were right to think Communism was evil.

Historically and today, Communism and Nazism is aligned against democracy. They care more about fighting Democrats than Trump. In 1930, they cared more about fighting Social Democrats than Hitler.

Distrust totalitarians.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 9h

Is that what you think I just wrote?

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

KSA has made considerable improvements over the last decade and is trying to enable their people having more access or exposure to Western culture. In the big picture they're moving in the right direction and this festival was one piece of that movement. We just don't see it the same way.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

Every Thanksgiving here in Canada, I remember that, by odd coincidence, it's also Columbus Day in America, because the rule is the same (each holiday is the second Monday in October).

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

Columbus's voyage is easily in consideration for one of the most world-consequential things to happen in human history.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

Your username is funny.

Iris @perennialforces.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, the Saudi government probably hoped this would help their reputation, which is an understandable goal considering their reputation in America is pretty bad.