The Weimar Republic’s. Reprivatization was something that economists coined for the Third Reich.

Fascist Italy practised apartheid.

Palestine’s occupation has an advanced economy but the PRC does not. Good to know!

Anticommunists have been massacring us for a very long time. I know better than to expect them to care about their atrocities.

Usually they respond to this with ‘but I didn’t mention anything about gay people’ and explain that anybody acting obsequious to a dictator should be shameful.

My question is, why should anyone resort to a sexual metaphor to emphasise that someone is acting obsequious? The only implication that I can draw from that is that sex is supposed to be disgraceful, which is presumably not what these dullards intend but the metaphor makes no sense elsehow. Sex — even if it be with a ‘dictator’ — should be understood merely as a private affair instead of a disgrace.

I’d have an uneasy time fasting given my need to eat before taking my medication, and I don’t have enough faith to pray five times daily. The need to pray that many times a day sounds like it would be good for self-discipline, as does the need to fast for Ramadhan in addition to the other dietary restrictions, but I feel like I’d have a hard time handling those tasks. Besides, I don’t feel like there is a divine presence somewhere, and adhering to monotheistic practices when I’m atheist sounds dishonest.

Islam also shares some of the same problems as Orthodox Judaism, for instance, it mandates circumcision, which is a painful violation of children’s autonomy; I still get depressed when I think about my circumcision. Likewise, I am uncomfortable with compulsory dress codes, and segregating the sexes is a practice that makes me feel uneasy. I consider these (apart from mandatory circumcision) to be annoying inconveniences rather than serious problems, though.

I am not one of those Christopher Hitchens types who think that Islam is just barbarism and its ordinary adherents are violent savages. The work The Study of Islamic Origins notes striking similarities, if not outright borrowings, from Judaism (which is usually good). I have respect for many Muslims such as Omar Mukhtar, Malcolm X, and a certain Sephardic Muslim whom I know. I find various tenets in Islam, such as its rejection of ‘original sin’, to be more reasonable than some in mainstream Christianity. Lastly, I would say that ordinary Muslims are not vastly different from other Abrahamists, therefore I have little reason to be hostile to Islam.

Imperial America’s entry into World War II was not just.

Prime Minister David Ben‐Gurion opposed the establishment of a Holocaust memorial day and referred to the survivors as the “dust of human beings”.

Captain Obvious isn’t antisemitic, Herzlians.

Just because liberals voted for the Fascists in 1924, repeatedly praised Fascism in the press, applauded the Fascists for suppressing worker demonstrations, 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, suppressed militant antifascists regularly, 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 liberalism enables fascism or fascists.

Name one time that liberalism enabled fascism.

To very calmly and very politely express their disagreements with Stalin’s totalitarian government.

‘WE ZIONISTS ARE PERFECTLY NORMAL PEOPLE!’

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11237996

I thought about writing a note likening this to colonial powers despoiling indigenous populations, but I decided against it on the grounds that the similarities were too obvious. Perhaps that would have made my topic more interesting anyway, though. What do you think?

Thank you. I struggle with mental illness but I still have the decency to tell that supporting an apartheid régime is not in our best interest. The reasons that so many Yankees approve of it are fairly complex and can’t be boiled down to a disability.

Ke Dio bendiga a Palestina.

The Unknown Cultural Revolution, by Dongping Han.

Is it just me, or are we suffering more technical difficulties than usual?

For a while I could tolerate them, but now they’re slowly killing my interest in revisiting this network; I’d rather be replaying computer games.

Operation Paperclip was far more consequential than Operation Osoaviakhim. Not to mention that Operation Osoaviakhim was much more of a reparation than Operation Paperclip was. Contrary to what @Archangel1313@lemmy.ca thinks, the differences between these two programmes are not trivia worth overlooking.

I finished reading Azar Gat’s British Armour Theory and the Rise of the Panzer Arm: Revising the Revisionists yesterday. To be honest, I’m surprised that my thread linking British armor doctrine to the Third Reich was not more popular, given our low opinion of the British Empire. Oh well, I don’t make these threads only for the clicks, so a low score is not that important to me.

Good grief.

I once bit into a large chunk of plastic that somehow got in some fast-food that I was eating, but I never considered contacting a lawyer. In fact, when I returned days later I explicitly told the manager that I did not want him to fire anybody; I just wanted them to be more careful. Customer service and the manager both gave me discounts, and that was the end of that.