You’re right that there’s a difference between, say, Pinochet disappearing thousands of political opponents as a more-or-less open policy of internal repression and the level of police violence we’ve seen thus far in the U.S.
You’re wrong that Biden is going to do anything to help.
I’m not going to vote for someone giving full-throated endorsement and material support for genocide. If that isn’t a red line, nothing is.
Finland was moving close to Germany before the nazi rise because Russia was fueling a Civil War in finland. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
This you?
imminent domain
When you definitely know what you’re talking about
Obviously I’m not talking about the clearly objectionable misuses of eminent domain. If I say only chuds have a problem with seatbelt laws you wouldn’t start talking about how cops misuse seatbelt laws to pull over black people at a higher rate than white people; all laws can be abused. The point is that the concept behind the law is not some crazy government overreach.
Getting back to the discussion, a land swap is not something so objectionable that your country has an excuse to go running to the Nazis for help. Especially when the threat of the Nazis is the reason for the land swap in the first place.
Value judgments are pretty important when you’re talking about allying with Nazis.
That’s an enormous difference. “I’m going to take your house and you can pound sand” is much more objectionable than “I would like your house and will offer you fair compensation, which can implicitly be negotiated.”
Note that the latter is what governments around the world do with eminent domain, and only right-wing cranks think that’s a fighting matter.
It’s important to note that Nazi Germany mobilized something like 18 million people over the course of the war and saw over 5 million military deaths. When Stalin suggested that the Allies would need to execute 50,000 Nazis after the war, he was talking about a small sliver of Nazi leadership and those most directly culpable for atrocities.
Oh yes, the left has never protested against the crimes of the USA
You know, you’re right. A better version of this meme would be the first world leftists complaining about U.S. imperialism when it happens… then still lining up right behind the State Department when anyone fights back.
The pure (libertarian) socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.
It’s more that both parties support an imperialist foreign policy (even if they’ll quibble on the details), while there are real partisan differences on domestic issues.
What’s the deal with that instance? Linux stuff?
Havana hard time drawing a clock