Another day, another lazy horseshoe theorist meme raking in thousands of updoots.

This is a perfect example of why I rarely pay attention to these topics anymore. Both the OP’s point and the comments therebelow follow the same script, and it is rare for anybody to show up citing scientific journals, interesting-sounding history books, or even amateur investigators like Moss Robeson.

I can understand other communists being angry at threads like that, but after you’ve seen them so many times you become desensitized and too exhausted to be angry. They’re all so boring.

Can’t we all just get along?

wait seriously?

Yes. Seriously.

Trolling antisocialists is ridiculously easy. In 2019, I used one my prank caller accounts on Reddit to trick dozens of them into upvoting two sets of deliberately miscaptioned photographs. Some antisocialists have such ridiculously broad definitions of socialism that it is only a mild exaggeration to summarize their understandings as ‘capitalism = good things; socialism = bad things’.

Manipulating them into agreeing with fascists is not too difficult either. I am not referring to mundane, generic conclusions like ‘always follow your heart’ or ‘brushing your teeth is good for you’. I mean unambiguously political statements, like ‘Bolshevism could maintain its social illusion only because its deceived population lacked any opportunity for comparison.’

I remember ChapoTrapHouse, when it still existed on Reddit, ignorantly upvoting an anticommunist quote misattributed to a communist thinker, but if I remember correctly it was just some generic, inspirational crap that had little to do with politics. Sure, it was still careless of CTH to upvote that without researching, but it was much less impressive than the prankster thought that it was.

Creepy. It’s a good thing that I rarely download applications on my telephone, and the few that I do have seem to be unaffiliated with the apartheid state.

You know, The Shivah, that PC/cellphone adventure game that anybody can beat in only a couple hours… that’s done more for Jewish people, and the rest of the world, than all of these applications put together have… I’m just saying.

What’s the third thing?

wtf I love the Republican Party now

Well, this comment could have aged better.

This is a bait account, right? Neofascists don’t make it a secret that they fucking hate transgender people (just like the Fascists did). Transgender communists are notoriously easy to find online too, and you can find transgender Jews and Muslims as well. Who is gullible enough to take this shit seriously?

I want to bet that this is a prank caller, but we know that the Yankee military (barely) allows transgender people to serve, so I can’t rush to conclude that this isn’t another petty bourgeois leatherneck either. In any event, I would not spend too much time monitoring this dork.

LGBT+

Trump chump

Whooooa, can’t have it both ways there, little buddy!

Serbo-Croatian. Apparently.

Clickbait title. This is what the data really say:

More than half of Ukrainians support finding compromise in war are Russian trolls who just want Putin to win the war, annex Ukraine, and then genocide millions of European people with blue eyes and blond hair, 20% support continuing the fight

I promise that Russia will lose the war tomorrow.

Today I am thirty-one years old.

Herzlians will be more offended by this comment—likening their régime to the Third Reich—than they’ll be offended by the indisputable evidence of the IOF exterminating civilians.

The weird thing is that this guy could be a nontrinitarian Christian:

Asked whether he was ever victimized by a Christian, he replied no, and said his family is Christian and that he had a good childhood.

He could be a Judaist, but the issue is that murder is one of the three cardinal sins that Judaists must never commit, even at risk of death, and even if the victim’s beliefs are totally at odds with Judaism. This does not eliminate the possibility, though. In any case, I can imagine this news leading to a growth in anti-Judaism.

Feliz aniversário! Nasceste a três dias de mim!

But at what cost?

If there was any shame or contrition on the part of the [Fascists] it was well hidden; on the contrary, as noted earlier, the Blackshirts, regulars and civilians were often smiling when photographs of atrocities were taken, suggesting that they were proud of what they had done, and were keen to project a posture of arrogance and a position of absolute power.

(Emphasis added. Source.)

As early on in the Occupation as 5 June 1936, by which time many Ethiopian soldiers, lacking radio and telegraph, would not even have been aware that Addis Ababa had been taken, Mussolini was instructing Graziani, ‘All rebels taken prisoner must be shot.’⁴⁹

The Viceroy’s liberal interpretation of what constituted a rebel meant that he gave himself carte blanche to kill almost any Ethiopians he desired—whether military or civilian—for the flimsiest of reasons.

(Emphasis added. Source.)

The feds.