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  • This is usually how users that use the ‘tankie’ as a pejorative out themselves as anti-leftist or just plain uninformed. There’s already a term for those who support that kind of fascistic rhetoric: Nazbols.

    Either they don’t know the term, or they do and choose not to. The former owns up quick, the latter digs in and keeps on a grudge about it.

    No surprises here.






  • Consider the context that World War 1’s conclusion left multiple imperial monarchies in ashes. The kind of government in question is one that is directly being sanctioned by aristocratic monarchy. The bourgeioise were and were working with kings and noble families as a matter of status quo, who had just spent years sending entire townships to the meatgrinder.


  • Yes, but at a time when social democratic parties in europe hadn’t quite formally formed or split into discernable socialist factions. The Social Democrats in Germany were in active coalition with monarchist anti-republic paramilitaries and had inherited the government from the abdicating kaiser. The KPD didn’t exist yet, and this was technically an internal critique of the Social Democratic Party of which she was a member.

    At the same time, the Social Democrats in Russia included Lenin.

    At any rate it isn’t worth giving the freikorps a pass by omission when unearthing conflicts about the SPD.



  • It really kind of is. The bar is so low.

    But without disputing who he is: his net worth is around the same (Stated as under $165k) as the median American ($125k). He’s categorically not a part of the wealth class, and he at least seems to know it.

    That kind of class consciousness on the American national stage from a white man veteran? I think that’s relatable to a giant swath of otherwise apolitical or even chuddy Americans.

    If he can stick to his principles on policy in Congress and even just be the new Bernie, he’s going to resonate strongly with the post-9/11 military community. If that faction can even so much as look at the left outside their crosshairs, it’ll be a significant shift.

    He’s worth the shot in Maine, I think.