don't forget the nazis and communists were allies during ww2 and would've remained allies if hitler hadn't betrayed stalin. the two ideologies are not opposites.

for many people, especially those who suffered under the Soviet Union (or Soviet backed communist puppet regimes) or the descendants of those people, seeing a hammer and sickle on someone’s blog or t shirt can feel as bad as seeing a swastika. especially since many people in eastern Europe suffered under both the communists and the Nazis and were the victims of the Nazi-Soviet alliance. Not to mention the many Jews who had family murdered in Soviet pogroms and other family murdered by the Nazis.

Actual liberals and progressives who value human rights would care about this. But the far left is neither liberal nor progressive. They are a pro-authoritarian hate movement fueled by Russian and Chinese propaganda. That’s why they’re against Ukraine and don’t care about the genocide in Xinjiang, and why they constantly prop up MAGA and undermine Democrats.

The thing is a lot of internet communism isn’t about how to utilize the philosophy of Marx or whatever, it’s an edge lord’s attempt at filling a how void. Many of these people are ex-alt righters, and instead of deconstructing, they just kinda replaced the old radicalization with the new one.

And the new radicalization is not that different. Far left and far right or both fascism with only very tiny differences. There’s a reason the Soviet Union and the Nazi Third Reich were natural allies and worked well together to invade and divide up Eastern Europe while committing horrific war crimes and would’ve continued to work together if Hitler hadn’t betrayed Stalin.

#from what i've seen most self-described internet leftists#are just social conservatives that aren't christian-enough to hang with maga#they still want misogyny and racism and authoritarianism -- they just want it to be based on marx instead of the bible via @sick-sad-little-world

Sometimes a guy in a fanfiction has the ability to read someone's gaze with the same level of detail a wine taster can taste the wine

"He glared at him with anger in his eyes, but behind that longing and sorrow over things left unsaid, a subtle but desperate yearning for things to be different, and with just a hint of roasted nuts right at the end."

we've all heard about the male gaze in media, but we've yet to explore the equally important sommelier gaze

the only fun addition to this post

Captain America's huge dick is contentious among gamers.

This was 100% for real in the actual game but they have since toned down the dick. Cowards.

There's lots of problems with USA public education but also a lot of you were just drawing Naruto characters kissing while your history teacher tried to tell you about the Scramble for Africa

Excited for the posts today about how democrats need to reclaim the flag as if that wasn't a centerpiece of the Harris campaign but people didn't care because only white men are Effective Messengers

Exactly why don't you burn the flag instead if you want to be seen as meaningfully different from republicans because that flag means war and desolation for the third world you lot ignore

I don’t call the gulf of mexico ‘the gulf of america’ or the department of defense ‘the department of war’ either. erdoğan isn’t special. I’ll ignore any inconsequential request from any world leader I don’t respect.

Gonna be so funny when Trump dies of heat stroke in the middle of his 4th of July speech and topples off the podium with a sad little thud

i'm getting the sense some of you are not actually forklift certified.

well damn . egg on my face

Update: I took a certification class in shipboard Material Handling Equipment at my federal job. *now* I'm forklift certified, but only on ships and piers and only for this company, but also rated to forklift explosives and hazardous materials. Also I'm a woman now.