parkerfoxtrot.bsky.social
Bass player, normie, lives in Madison, likes books and cats, happily married
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There’s that Orwell quote about how eventually you come up against reality, usually on a battle field.
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One of my favorites.
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I feel like half of Congress couldn’t pass a high school civics test.
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Also Nazis are back and science is defunded
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Welcome back
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Are they reconning DEI to apply to metals of honor that were awarded in the 1960s?
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I am on Twitter a lot still. It’s a bad habit. I need to spend more time over here.
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This is terrifying
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I don’t know. I absolutely love the book, but I thought the TV show left a little bit to be desired.
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As of the first season, it might be my favorite TV show ever. It has so much potential. I hope it doesn’t pull a Game of Thrones.
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Never gets old
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Yeah they were total hypocrites
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For the Nazis, the idea was to take over other lands, kick all the locals out, and replace them with Germans. For the USSR, the idea was to take over other countries and incorporate the local populations into the Soviet Union. Against their will, but in theory, it was to liberate them.
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It was. It’s just that the ideology underlying that colonialism was diametrically opposed to that of, say, Nazi Germany.
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Yes, that’s true, but the ideological justification for it was more “international brotherhood of communists” than Russia must control other countries, even if the result was the same
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Sort of. Russia and the USSR had separate governments. Russia had its own president. The relationship of the USSR to Russia was sort of analogous to the relationship between the United States and California. But the USSR was headquartered in Moscow, so Russia was always first among equals.
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Well, no because Russia was only one of several countries inside the USSR. Stalin, for instance, was not Russian.
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The USSR was not nationalist, though. Famously communism was a global, international project.
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I like to remind myself that a non-zero percentage of leftist Twitter is just some dude at the internet research agency calling Kamala Harris a war criminal.
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Gives me hope