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@purplewaves7 @Aspen1921 I'd support the Mujahideen tbh. Nothing much good came out of the Soviet defeat for Afghanistan in the 1990s but at least the country was no longer facing genocide. Also the Communist regime had already murdered 100k ppl in purges even before the Soviets invaded

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@notelpmeTy_A @tooslick2230267 @CentristMadness @l0lwhyD0ITRY Don’t know what you’re even trying to suggest by “worst elements”. Do you think a child starving to death in Leningrad is worse than one being gassed at Auschwitz? My point is that the Holocaust is not “incomparably worse” than other genocides by objective criteria

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@notelpmeTy_A @tooslick2230267 @CentristMadness @l0lwhyD0ITRY Not a competition obviously, but the emphasis on the ontological uniqueness of the Holocaust is misguided imo, and bad for historical analysis

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@notelpmeTy_A @tooslick2230267 @CentristMadness @l0lwhyD0ITRY Obviously there were unique aspects to the Shoah, But the California genocide involved the murder of a higher percentage of the population. The wider genocide of Soviet civilians involved more total victims, and the genocide of Vietnamese in Cambodia had stricter victim criteria

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If you know any WWII vets or have any in your family, collect their stories and learn from them. When I was a kid in the early-mid 2000s they were everywhere, my childhood pediatrician got the Bronze Star and Purple Heart in Italy. In 15 years they’ll be all gone. As a generation they had their problems, but they still threw down with fascism and should be honored. They saved the world. The call will come again. Hopefully our generation can measure up to the heroes of Normandy, Stalingrad, Berlin, and Iwo Jima.

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@purplewaves7 Ppl just wanna invoke anti-Imperialism against designated enemy states, but would never support anti-Imperialism wrt their own countries

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@ConservaMuse @mattyglesias https://t.co/GwNoLK7S1N
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@ConservaMuse @mattyglesias Southern Whites did become Republican at the Presidential level in the 1960s, with the exception of Wallace 1968. Even Carter lost the Southern White vote in Alabama in 1976 despite being a Southerner. Nixon did far better among Southern Whites than the general white electorate

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@SipOfKoKo ?? I mean BDS exists

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@North_Forebilth @ThatchEffendi I'd agree that was definitely the most comparable

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@North_Forebilth @KazuyaProta @ThatchEffendi Well the Baltic Germans already predominated under the Russian Empire so I don’t think that would’ve been that different. But even then, there was no plan to exterminate the Baltic intelligentsia/urban population like the Nazis. That was a pretty clear radicalization in thinking.

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@KazuyaProta @ThatchEffendi This seems like an exaggeration. The mainstream Imperial German thinking involved a string of quasi independent protectorates that would both serve as a buffer against a weakened Russia and a form of continental self sufficiency. It was not genocide all Ukrainians, Latvians, etc

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@KazuyaProta @ThatchEffendi …which involved turning all the lands to West Siberia into a settler colony, exterminating the entire urban population and intelligentsia, and ethnically cleansing 30 million people for German settlers.

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@KazuyaProta @ThatchEffendi But more broadly speaking the ethos of Brest-Litovsk was creating a string of German aligned protectorate states among Russias western minorities was way more moderate than Nazi thinking

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@midnight_b65055 Somewhere in btwn yes and mixed feelings. Assads are the biggest mass murderers in modern MENA history, so I'm happy the regime is gone and there's a chance to rebuild. However, there's still obviously a lot of instability, and a long way for Syria to be prosperous

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@DerekPederson3 @ArabMulberry More like 250k by recent estimates, or around 3% of Israel's Jewish population. Similar to the number of Japanese settlers resettled after WW2. Never gonna happen unless Israel is faced with a serious military defeat

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@PredebutVTuber @RefrmDemocracy @lilbabygandhi No one was sanctioning Russia until they invaded Ukraine. Russians brought that one on themselves. Ironically though, Russia's pre-2014 strategy was actually aimed at suppressing Ukraine's economy by preventing their economic integration with Europe

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@adamjohnsonCHI @keithdorejel Tbh I think it was a bit of both. The decline had already started in the late 2010s but then continued into the mid 2020s