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reality-detective · 2 months
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"If you control the food, you control the people. That's ultimately the end goal."
All around the world, unelected globalist bodies like the WEF and UN are waging war against farmers, in an attempt to seize control of the global food supply, under the banner of UN Agenda 2030—as detailed in a must-watch new documentary titled 'No Farmers, No Food: Will You Eat The Bugs?' 🤔
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sunder-the-gold · 4 months
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Who truly believes in the Right to Repair?
The Far Left thinks that ‘Right to Repair’ is a left-wing issue.
But it is completely incompatible with their desire to nationalize every industry and give the government totalitarian control over every aspect of private life.
“You will own nothing and you will be happy” is the complete antithesis of ‘Right to Repair’.
Relatedly, the push for a Central Bank Digital Currency is predicated on the government’s desire for a form of money that citizens are not permitted to own. Effectively denying “right to repair” down to the very level of currency.
A currency that cannot be spent on things disapproved by the government, and which must be spent rather than saved. All the better to keep the government’s favored industries artificially propped up, and to starve dissidents.
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odinsblog · 20 days
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“This brutal war is not only mass murder of people and destruction of the infrastructure, economy, and cultural sites of Ukraine, but also a severe blow to the future of Russia, a country that is now pushed back into totalitarianism, but this time into a fascist totalitarianism.
We are being punished for daring to criticize authority.” —Oleg Orlov
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shotofstress · 4 months
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Se suma otro país a la miseria de la extrema derecha y la anti democracia en Sur América. Brasil, Chile, Perú, etc y ahora Argentina. Esto es como Operación Condor 2.0
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troythecatfish · 10 days
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commonsensecommentary · 6 months
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“Currently, fewer than two-in-ten Americans say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (1%) or “most of the time” (15%). This is among the lowest trust measures in nearly seven decades of polling.”
(Not a surprise, is it?)
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quotesfrommyreading · 10 months
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In the terrible winter of 1932–33, brigades of Communist Party activists went house to house in the Ukrainian countryside, looking for food. The brigades were from Moscow, Kyiv, and Kharkiv, as well as villages down the road. They dug up gardens, broke open walls, and used long rods to poke up chimneys, searching for hidden grain. They watched for smoke coming from chimneys, because that might mean a family had hidden flour and was baking bread. They led away farm animals and confiscated tomato seedlings. After they left, Ukrainian peasants, deprived of food, ate rats, frogs, and boiled grass. They gnawed on tree bark and leather. Many resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. Some 4 million died of starvation.
At the time, the activists felt no guilt. Soviet propaganda had repeatedly told them that supposedly wealthy peasants, whom they called kulaks, were saboteurs and enemies—rich, stubborn landowners who were preventing the Soviet proletariat from achieving the utopia that its leaders had promised. The kulaks should be swept away, crushed like parasites or flies. Their food should be given to the workers in the cities, who deserved it more than they did. Years later, the Ukrainian-born Soviet defector Viktor Kravchenko wrote about what it was like to be part of one of those brigades. “To spare yourself mental agony you veil unpleasant truths from view by half-closing your eyes—and your mind,” he explained. “You make panicky excuses and shrug off knowledge with words like exaggeration and hysteria.”
He also described how political jargon and euphemisms helped camouflage the reality of what they were doing. His team spoke of the “peasant front” and the “kulak menace,” “village socialism” and “class resistance,” to avoid giving humanity to the people whose food they were stealing. Lev Kopelev, another Soviet writer who as a young man had served in an activist brigade in the countryside (later he spent years in the Gulag), had very similar reflections. He too had found that clichés and ideological language helped him hide what he was doing, even from himself:
I persuaded myself, explained to myself. I mustn’t give in to debilitating pity. We were realizing historical necessity. We were performing our revolutionary duty. We were obtaining grain for the socialist fatherland. For the five-year plan.
There was no need to feel sympathy for the peasants. They did not deserve to exist. Their rural riches would soon be the property of all.
But the kulaks were not rich; they were starving. The countryside was not wealthy; it was a wasteland. This is how Kravchenko described it in his memoirs, written many years later:
Large quantities of implements and machinery, which had once been cared for like so many jewels by their private owners, now lay scattered under the open skies, dirty, rusting and out of repair. Emaciated cows and horses, crusted with manure, wandered through the yard. Chickens, geese and ducks were digging in flocks in the unthreshed grain.
That reality, a reality he had seen with his own eyes, was strong enough to remain in his memory. But at the time he experienced it, he was able to convince himself of the opposite. Vasily Grossman, another Soviet writer, gives these words to a character in his novel Everything Flows:
I’m no longer under a spell, I can see now that the kulaks were human beings. But why was my heart so frozen at the time? When such terrible things were being done, when such suffering was going on all around me? And the truth is that I truly didn’t think of them as human beings. “They’re not human beings, they’re kulak trash”—that’s what I heard again and again, that’s what everyone kept repeating.
  —  Ukraine and the Words That Lead to Mass Murder
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british-vaushite · 8 months
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I hate tankies
Good god I hate tankies. Like bro, why are you goose stepping with a thin layer of red paint for and calling yourself a leftist. Like you know how many genocides where done under Stalin; not to mention after Stalin the soviet union became a state capitalist. But when you point it out to these 14 year olds who wear ushankas and fingerless gloves to school (and think they are edgy when they blast the USSR anthem bass boosted from the back of the bus), they accuse you of being a fake leftist.
TLDR; totalitarianism bad lmao
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philosophybits · 11 months
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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blackswaneuroparedux · 10 months
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I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
- Christopher Hitchens
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tendie-defender · 1 year
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Corruption and Envy.
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little-catholic-diva · 6 months
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We all know that they label anyone who doesn't go along with their insanity "MAGA". Welcome to the U.S.S.A.
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
[Poetic Outlaws]
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Holodomor Commemoration Day (26.11.2022). Infographic by Euromaidan Press
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banalityofambiguity · 2 months
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I feel like all a certain sect of the online left needs to become a proper totalitarian movement is a leader. They already have the blatant disregard of reality, the utterly unshakeable belief that truth does not matter, only the power it can bring. The absolute commitment to an ideological premise through which all of the world is understood to operate, and to which the only reaction can be to slam on the gas pedal and make the “inevitable” victory become real. They’re unfocused, but the structure of such a movement is emerging.
The onion-layered radicalism that shields the innermost believers from what normal people believe because their understanding of the “unenlightened” are, in fact, just people slightly less radical than they are. The maintenance of the collective illusion is a moral duty to them, built upon a distrust for the “establishment” elevated to a level where the mere existence of information which contradicts what they wish to be true is understood as propaganda. I’ve seen people confidently assert that the American empire is “on the verge of collapse”, which is a position only possible if you believe that all evidence that doesn’t tell you what you want to hear is fake. It’s the same reason why they deny genocides, or make up statistics (and in doing so downplay the actual horror of the crimes they claim to be against, because now the death toll is “only” tens of thousands instead of millions). Because reality exists to be warped to prove what they already believe.
And while I know that these people are, in fact, a bunch of terminally-online maniacs, they have a damaging effect on the rest of the left because they produce disinformation which is then spread by well-intentioned people. This has a radicalizing effect, and the potential to do real-world damage to the actual ability of the left to get anything done. And sabotaging the left is in-line with the fictitious movement-reality that these online actors are creating, because one of their core beliefs, upon which their entire worldview is premised, is that any amount of positive change via normal means is impossible, that political democracy is not merely flawed, but outright nonexistent. They are, like all totalitarians, primarily focused on bringing actual reality in line with the fiction they live in. Sabotaging all efforts at concrete improvement, not even just voting, proves them correct.
These people terrify me, they bring out the specters of the most pessimistic political futures I can imagine, and frankly I’m not sure what to do other than hope that they don’t do too much damage.
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kafkasapartment · 3 months
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“Fascism is a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints, with the goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
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