Blakey [he/him]

The vast majority of the Wehrmacht were politically aligned with, and agreed with the goals of, the NSDAP. They participated in the crimes of the NSDAP. It is extremely common to call such people “Nazis” and always has been, and you know this perfectly well. The distinction you are trying to make is one that was only ever popular within the Reich. I do not feel any obligation to talk about Nazi Germany the way Hitler would prefer I do, but apparently that’s an important consideration for you.

That many “rank and file” Nazis were not prosecuted at Nuremberg is a miscarriage of justice, not proof that the Nuremberg defense was valid for them.

The mod log mostly tells us exactly what you said in your own words, the mods cannot modify what you said, only remove it - which is generally not done on hexbear for transparency’s sake. The only “smear” is the shit you willingly wiped all over yourself. People are reading the comments you had deleted, not just what the mods have to say about it.

uh huh.

I’m not saying the US is good

Just that everything it says about its geopolitical rivals can be assumed to be true.

So, free and fair elections. Well, now we’re back to square one, and pretty much describing how Western democracies work.

Consider Australia: all of the major political parties nakedly serve the interests of capital, and decide who can and cannot run in their elections. This is the case in all of the liberal “democracies”. They aren’t “free and fair” elections by any reasonable definition.

Normally I don’t respond to low level comments like this, but the intellectual laziness here is mind boggling. Dictionaries exist for a reason.

…I really, really hope that you are being deliberately obtuse here in refusing to acknowledge that they are asking what you mean by the term to further the conversation. The other option is that you think there’s some context where asking a person you disagree with for some kind of objective definition makes sense, and that really, really doesn’t speak highly of your reasoning ability. Different people have wildly different understandings of “authoritarian”.

False, that is the result of capitalism when it goes unchecked, not the definition. And different countries have different levels of checks on capitalism.

…you don’t think that the existence of a capitalist ruling class is part of the definition of capitalism? Why are liberals always so happy to lecture people on the basis of What I Reckon Sounds About Right Probably…

Destroying Israeli universities wouldn’t actually advance Iran’s cause but could well lose them some of the small amount of international support they’re enjoying. I’m not saying they should be any more scrupulous than anyone else, or than they’re currently being, but they should, and presumably would prefer to, concentrate their efforts on targets that could actually impact their enemy’s ability to harm them.

That’s… You’re literally describing capitalism though. Capitalism is defined by a capitalist ruling class which means that government can be expected to use its power in the interests of that class… Such as by bailing out corporations.

Russia is fully thirty-five fucking years into its life as a neoliberal hellhole.

The constitution explicitly, openly vests power exclusively in wealthy and/or slave holding men. Are you seriously claiming that wasn’t “intentional”?! Your founding fathers overwhelmingly WERE wealthy slave owning white men, they “extracted” those concessions FROM THEMSELVES.

weird how his neck just did that

I don’t know a single soldier who served in Afghanistan or Iraq that feels we served any noble purpose by being there

I’m sure this is a great comfort to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq

I also felt like taking Israel back after such a long time and driving out the inhabitants is difficult to defend.

Yikes. It’s not just “difficult to defend”, it’s indefensible. Israel was founded by the brutal expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. That alone is enough to make the foundation of the modern state of Israel an act of evil and a crime against humanity. The erasure of Palestinian history, though, is also disgusting. Palestinians are not Arabs. Just like the Romans didn’t displace the people of Britain in the classical period and the Normans didn’t displace them in the mediaeval, the arab conquest of Palestine didn’t displace the previous inhabitants. Modern Palestinians are largely descended from ancient Palestinians (and therefore Jews) who converted during/after the conquest.

Now that absolutely does not matter. The fact is that Palestinians were living in the region and had a right to their homes that was breached during the creation of Israel - whether their ancestors had been there for 200 or 2000 years doesn’t matter. They were the legitimate inhabitants and were unlawfully ejected, that’s what matters. But painting them as a separate population who somehow “replaced” the “real” inhabitants is not cool. The idea that anyone but Israel are at fault when the entire nation was founded in an enormous act of ethnic cleansing is just revolting. Even if Arabs had in fact “ejected” the original inhabitants during the conquest it still wouldn’t be acceptable to eject their inhabitants from their homeland of the last ~1400 years, but that isn’t even true and modern Palestinians literally are the descendants of ancient /classical era Jews.

Israel wasn’t “taken back”. It wasn’t “recreated”. Zionists have no connection to the land they have stolen and the modern state of Israel has absolutely no continuity with any ancient states. In fact the only people who can meaningfully claim to be the inheritors of the ancient state of Israel are the Palestinians who were ejected by <drumroll> a bunch of white people with German, other central European, and american accents in the late 1940s. Just the idea of “enforcing” a contract which literally just said “you give us all the best land in your country, and in return we get all the best land in your country” (the partition plan, which Britain had absolutely no moral right to force on anyone in the first place) is mask off, unapologetic, Hitlerian Nazi rhetoric, and it’s not more acceptable just because the beneficiaries are Jewish.

God Denazification was a pathetic failure. Just look at you talking about how Palestinians are partially responsible for the genocide and ethnic cleansing being visited upon them… Because they didn’t agree to be ethnically cleansed “peacefully”. Just truly, honestly sickening and evil.

Sure, but Germans are usually fully on board with literally anything Israel does. Denazification was a pathetic failure and Germans, as a group, mostly think that the problem with the holocaust is that the victims were Jewish. If even the German public is turning against Israel they’re probably running out of time.