Here’s the original link in lemmy.ml if you want to see lemmy.world loser ledditors coping: https://lemmy.ml/post/17384440

Denial is the first stage of grief, but don’t worry, it’ll pass soon.

Trump didn’t bother answering the question and just went off topic lol

Whoops, I meant TSMC. Thanks for the correction.

Damn, I guess you like authoritarianism but only when it’s authoritarianism that your side is doing.

The high point of Taiwanese separatism was in 2019 when Tsai Ing-wen, despite being unpopular and almost getting primaried by the current Taiwanese president, was able to ride on the fears of the Hong Kong protests to win the presidency in 2020. After that, separatists have eaten nothing but L’s since then.

1. They got BTFO in the 2022 local elections, topping it off with Chiang Kai-shek’s bastard great-grandson getting elected as mayor of Taipei. This also means he has presidential ambitions, so a funny outcome would be Taiwan having a third president from the Chiang family.

2. They ate shit in the 2024 legislative elections and don’t have a majority in the Yuan.

3. They got their president elected with a crappy plurality made worse by all the 16-17 year old TPP supporters who can’t vote because they’re too young, meaning his popularity is even weaker than it looks.

4. Taiwanese zoomers, basically the people who are of conscript age, are voting for TPP instead, which ruins the DPP’s plan of replacing the KMT through age demographic changes. Just because the KMT is going to be the party of irrelevant boomers doesn’t mean your party will get the zoomers.

5. The ROC military has openly displays signs of disloyalty including a retired general saying they should simply coup the DPP and various officers repeatedly getting bribed by the PRC to lay down their arms. It turns out accusing the KMT, of which the ROC military is politically, culturally, and historically aligned with, of selling out to the PRC in order to win votes for your presidential election has far-reaching consequences.

6. The combination of the Taiwanese economy stagnating and the dumpster fire with TSMC attempting to build a factory in Arizona is forcing Taiwanese business to push harder towards the status quo, where they can get favorable trade deals with the PRC.

Yes, the DPP is authoritarian for shutting down Taiwanese news stations that refuse to toe a pro-separatist line and must be overthrown in order for democracy to flourish. DPP politicians should fear for their lives.

That fake anarchist zine didn’t even bother shitting on the CPUSA. I can see why.

The fundamental flaw of liberal realist analysis like Mearsheimer is they don’t or refuse to understand class struggle, so a lot of their analysis boils down to conceptualizing countries on a map as differently colored geometric shapes fighting against each other. They have no way of properly analyzing internal contradictions within a given society outside of ethnoreligious divides, which they mostly do so by dividing a geometric shape into smaller geometric shapes and understanding ethnoreligious tensions through the interactions of those geometric shapes.

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Daily reminder the world will never know peace until “Germany” is rightfully partitioned into thousands of feuding principalities.

Yes but crucially I think there were a lot more smart nazis than there are today. The fascist movements across europe had festered for many decades and they had organised and organised and organised, very much in the open and without being taboo.

Yes, that makes sense. I think in general, socialists and other progressive elements have learned from their past mistakes while reactionaries have gotten worse. Zionism then and now is an illustrative comparison. Labor Zionism was completely insidious to the point of even fooling Stalin while modern Kahanists think bioengineering a red heifer will bring about the Messiah.

I think it would just be a complex interplay between the smart Nazis, the imperial fascists, and the CEOs. The smart Nazis might be small in number, but if they can make their case before various crucial members of the bourgeoisie, the reins of state power will be handed to them and everyone else will either do or forced to do as they’re told. I guess the key factor would be whether those CEOs are ideologically sympathetic enough towards their ideology in order to look past their small numbers.

A lot of the rise to power of the original Nazis boils down to various German industrialists and bankers thinking Nazis will be champions to their class. It had little to do with the Nazis being alleged brilliant political strategists. Obviously, liberal historians don’t like to focus on this since it’s an indictment of liberalism and capitalism that they’ll decay to fascism, so they tunnelvision on Hitler being a charismatic speaker or Goebbels being able to brainwash people with propaganda.

The smart nazis, educated and on par with marxists but evil fucks. Dangerous.

These will be the people in charge of a successful fascist movement since they actually have some degree of materialist analysis and can broker alliances and blocs between the other groups.

The dumb nazis, death cultists.

These will be the shock troopers and Freikorp-turned-concentration guard. Death cultists commanded by smart fascists capable of strategic thought are a lethal combo.

The imperial fascists. They’re ideologically aligned with the nazis but they have an aversion to mass death and clash with the death cult and smart nazis over it.

They are the ones most likely to be a political threat to the smart Nazis since they are operating under a different fascist ideology and aren’t stupid enough to be content with being ordered around like an expendable grunt. There’s a decent chance the smart Nazis would attempt to liquidate the imperial fascists who refuse to flip in order to consolidate power, and even if there’s a united front between smart Nazis and imperial fascists, they are the weakest link.

The patriotic dumbasses. They’re dumb as shit but some of them have inherited money. Most are failsons and they genuinely don’t have any coherence or good political analysis at all.

These are just cannon fodder who will do as they’re told like good little Eichmanns.

The CEOs. They’re in it for self enrichment. Mostly networking.

They are just members of the bourgeoisie who are willing to make a Faustian bargain with fascists, which usually turns out well for them if we’re being perfectly honest. Smart Nazis and imperial fascists will try to court them while they will not be spared if dumb Nazis are in control. Smart Nazis will use this to their advantage to make a case that they’re the only ones who can muzzle the dumb Nazis.

No coincidence the color revolution happened during/immediately after Gorbachev’s visit, which was the official end to the Sino-Soviet split. With the official reconciliation of the PRC and USSR, the US pivoted back to treating China as the enemy and conspired to overthrow the CPC.

鼻屎 = bíshǐ = boogers (lit nose shit)
耳屎 = ěrshǐ = earwax (lit ear shit)
眼屎 = yǎnshǐ = the dried eye mucus that you have when you wake up (lit eye shit)
牙屎 = yáshǐ = plaque (lit teeth shit)

Translation from rage comics to wojak:

Malding soyjak: Get in the teacup now

Waterchad facing the soyjak: No

Ringslord: Ringlike Fellowship

Ringslord: Bitowers

Ringslord: Kingly Return

Pea brained: Using ad hominem because you have no real argument.

Normal brained: Insulting your opponent once you realize ad hominem aren’t insults.

Galaxy brained: Using ad hominem because informal fallacies aren’t actually logical fallacies.

Hexbear is far too treatbrained to be poverty fetishists lmao

Because Gaza is ruled by Hamas under a state apparatus, Gaza is imperialist

Broke: Gaza is a vassal of Iranian imperialism

Woke: Gaza is an imperialist power