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soldier101@:
--- Quote from: mod-man on December 13, 2021, 11:36:27 AM ---id like to think one day people will realize "far-right memes" are actually the truth
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maybe half of them, but the other half of "far right memes" (and "far left memes" mind you) are just absolute crap.
mod-man:
--- Quote from: soldier101@ on December 13, 2021, 03:07:40 PM ---maybe half of them, but the other half of "far right memes" (and "far left memes" mind you) are just absolute crap.
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yknow i dont think ive ever once seen an article/news/social media post blame or label anything as a far left meme.
statistically that phenomena definitely has to exist somewhere, im just trying to recall and i cant think of a single example. even saying "far left meme" out loud doesn't sound right lol
Aide33:
--- Quote from: mod-man on December 13, 2021, 03:46:01 PM ---yknow i dont think ive ever once seen an article/news/social media post blame or label anything as a far left meme.
statistically that phenomena definitely has to exist somewhere, im just trying to recall and i cant think of a single example. even saying "far left meme" out loud doesn't sound right lol
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because there is barely any coverage of that stuff at all in the usa
anything remotely far left is immediately purged from discussion because of the brain rot in everyone that is left over from the red scare during the cold war. theres a reason that there was forgettons of trade unionists and communists during the 1920s but then suddenly anything left of Reagan became socially unacceptable in the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
for literally a century, everything and anything relating to social reforms has been said to be communism, whether its race mixing or covid.
what you are referring to is the historical lack of any real "left" in the usa at all
Master Matthew²:
Newsflash
There are no "Far-Left Memes" because stuffing a forgetton of text into an image and posting it on reddit doesn't make it a meme, it makes it an NFT.
The reason there are ""Far right memes"" are because there aren't and dipstuffs just label it far right.
Actual far right memes that try to convey their love of Riddler or whatever insane tribal bs they came up with have the same issue as actual far left memes.
Rewriting Mein Kampf or The Communist Manifesto into a 240p compressed jpeg isn't a meme. It's just stuff.
--- Quote from: Aide33 on December 13, 2021, 05:18:38 PM ---because there is barely any coverage of that stuff at all in the usa
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If you're talking about what you see on the TV? No stuff.
The TV has a very niche and specific narrative that involves none of us in any way.
Unless we're in the big club, which we're not.
--- Quote from: Aide33 on December 13, 2021, 05:18:38 PM ---anything remotely far left is immediately purged from discussion because of the brain rot in everyone that is left over from the red scare during the cold war.
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We don't accept communists for the same reason we don't accept national socialists. They started rounding people up and shoving them into either death camps
or forcing them into unlivable habitats.
--- Quote from: Aide33 on December 13, 2021, 05:18:38 PM ---theres a reason that there was forgettons of trade unionists and communists during the 1920s but then suddenly anything left of Reagan became socially unacceptable in the USA
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Where in the forget are you getting this from? You literally pulled that "anything left of Reagan became socially unacceptable" out of your ass.
--- Quote from: Aide33 on December 13, 2021, 05:18:38 PM ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
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Yes, witch hunts are bad. McCarthy did more for communism than
Stalin, Marx and Mao could have ever hoped to achieve.
Communists thrive on using outsiders and the disenfranchised, and
McCarthy made outsiders of thousands if not millions of people by
the end of his witch hunt.
--- Quote from: Aide33 on December 13, 2021, 05:18:38 PM ---for literally a century, everything and anything relating to social reforms has been said to be communism, whether its race mixing or covid.
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And also everything an anything related to not just allowing people to pour over the border into the US, or
not printing money by the millions is considered fascist.
People will always use "the other" as an excuse to stifle people's rights.
--- Quote from: Aide33 on December 13, 2021, 05:18:38 PM ---what you are referring to is the historical lack of any real "left" in the usa at all
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Lets put it in the most extreme form of left possible. Since the farthest, of farthest left
from today, would have to be non-existent for there to be a possibility there was
no "real left" in the us as far back as the 1700s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA
Been around since 1920, right around the rise of Communism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America
Been around since 1901, spawned the party listed prior.
Going down the history of where it started, brings you to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Railway_Union
Because political leanings overwhelmingly shifted leftward over the past two centuries, it's fair to say, there was a moderate left
LONG before 1893.
Aide33:
literally all of those organizations have shrunk to a size that is incredibly small compared to literally the hundreds of media organizations and think tanks dedicated to and fueling literally right-wing policy in the usa. The entire GOP is literally a slush fund for every single business imaginable.
There is like 3 self described socialists in the democratic party, the entire rest of then are literally all big business democrats like biden. the economic policy of the united states literally has literally always been right wing.
--- Quote from: Master Matthew² on December 13, 2021, 05:52:52 PM ---
We don't accept communists for the same reason we don't accept national socialists. They started rounding people up and shoving them into either death camps
or forcing them into unlivable habitats.
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this is just completely wrong, the united states has overthrown at least 35 democratically elected governments to install fascist military governments. The entire cold war was literally just them supported everything that was anti-communist, no matter how bad the dictatorship was. Here is a sample of the countries the USA has promoted fascism in:
- 1980 Afghanistan (funded religious extremists that tore the country apart for 30 years)
- 1949 and 1953 Tried to overthrow Albania with the help of 743 fascist war criminals that where recruited after WW2
- 1976 They backed the military junta of Argentina which assassinated 30,000 people
- 1964 The CIA provided support for a brutal military dictatorship that lasted 20 years in Brazil
- 1970 Overthrew the government of Salvador Allende and installed the Pinochet dictatorship to privatize the entirety of the Chilean economy
- 1960 The USA supported and backed the slave-owning Bautista dictatorship in Cuba which was responsible for the death of 20,000 people
- 1980 The government forces that brutaly disappeared and murdered over 70,000 people were almost entirely established, trained, armed and supervised by the CIA.
- 1966 Ghana was overthrown in a CIA-backed military coup.
- 1944 The greek communist government was overthrown by a combo of US and UK backing, 3,000 where executed.
- 1967 Greece was coup'ed again by the CIA this time, installing another military dictatorship
- 1954 The CIA coup in Guatemala started off a 40 year civil war, killing 200,000 people. The Reagan administration was aware and supported the indigenous genocide perpetrated by the military government.
- 1991 and 2004 The CIA staged a coup in Haiti to remove the president.
- 2009 A coup in Honduras had the aftermath dictated by the USA. The government put in place after was involved in severe repression of trade unionists and death squads where sent to union organizers.
ETC??
I'm literally bored of writing these now but you get the idea, the US government has the longest history in the world of promoting fascist military governments under the guise of "anti-communism". i dont think the usa has ever supported any kind of left wing government in its history
literally just read this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
^ the page is massive
--- Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Doctrine ---Historian Eric Foner writes that the Doctrine "set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist regimes throughout the world, no matter how undemocratic, and for the creation of a set of global military alliances directed against the Soviet Union."
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