Laughable. Europe outside of Constantinople was a backwards shithole that needed to purchase all its manufactured goods from the superior civilizations of India and China. Absolutely nothing before colonialism.
Redbolshevik2
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Can you cite a passage? The only relevant thing I can see is talking about maintaining relations with post-coup Chile.
You are not the real world, you are a walled garden of privilege.
Waaaaahhhhh only 99% of everything I interact with is geared toward my Liberal Anti-Communist sensibilities waaaaahhhhh waaaaahhhhh why can't it be 100%
Why are you here
Stuff like this is, I think, a good demonstration of the thesis that Roderic Day advances: Westerners aren't anti-Communists because of the dastardly propaganda, it's the other way around: they believe this plainly absurd shit because they want to.
They are good little Roman citizens, always ready to believe that Rome is killing bad guys because that conquest is how they got their material abundance in the first place.
You're telling me this rich person who doesn't actually work for a living and has no personal stakes in anything believes self-serving bullshit?
Illustrative of his ideology that he thinks Israel's behavior is aberrant and undesired by the US.
I hope they put up a giant spoon signed "Love, Stalin." Fuck Ukraine's victim narrative.
I think if you're a Liberal, it's extremely hard to write a story about how you defeat Fascism because of your ideological blinders. Fascism is an evil that results from a master plan, and when you defeat Hitler, you win and can now reform your way to an equitable society instead of organizing a new one.
One aspect I enjoyed was the presentation of a Fascist society from within that society. I think Triumph of the Will has so thoroughly made Fascism into this grand and serious thing when there were millions of Fascists who spent their days hanging out with their friends and having meals and making jokes. This predominant depiction of Nazis I think turns then into an alien force of things that look like humans but just goose-step and kill people (and the show utilizes that imagery when it depicts the Ishtvalan genocide).
That said, I think it undermines itself with the ending and turns Fascism back into an alien force imposed on humanity, but even then it shows how people can be easily taken in and corrupted by institutions and their propaganda.
Hell yes.
I am an empathetic, intelligent person worthy of dignity and I DO NOT pledge allegiance to the United States of America!