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The USSR never allied with the Germans, it was a non-aggression pact, made after the USSR failed to get Britain, France, or Poland to support them in invading Germany in response to Czechoslovakia. Instead Britain, France, and Poland signed the Munich Agreement, dividing Czechoslovakia between Germany and Poland.

To be clear, even after the invasion of Poland in 1940, the western powers intended to support Germany against the USSR, Britain even tried to send troops to support Germany's ally, Finland in the winter war, after the invasion of Poland, and was only prevented when it ended too quickly.

Here's a work going through every major liberal philosopher and what liberalism meant to them, and how they dealt with the contradictions. It's the same definition used in every serious work for the last 200 years or so.

This confuses a lot of Americans whose political understanding is largely dictated by cable news, because since 1980 or so, conservatives started using liberal to mean "far left" as a pejorative due to Reagan calling Carter's policy too liberal. Later on, the American "left", social democrats, started using it to mean the same thing, but in a positive context.

Let me simplify this for you: Shooting communist protesters trying to reform the system is bad. Shooting fascists lynching people in the street is good and necessary.

The purpose of buying jets from someone other than America is to reduce America's influence over Canada, why would China sabotage that?

Edit: Why is this controversial? Do you think America tampers with the weapons we send to Taiwan?

Yeah, that is why it was justified to shoot protesters

If that's what you think I'm suggesting, you need to work on your reading comprehension.

There were protesters protesting for a change in government, there were organizers setting up alternative structures to compensate for the government's failure, there were also fascists lynching government officials in the streets.

Are you suggesting it would have been better to just let the fascists seize power?

A lot of governments built monuments to Nazi collaborteurs. That doesn’t mean jack shit

Oh lmao.

weren’t those protests by-and-large made up of parents?

Yes and no, a number of universities had pro-segregation actions by students including protests

History is always more complicated and nuanced than any narrative would lead you to believe.

China is Canada's second biggest trade partner, unless they're planning to follow America to war with China, what's the problem? Especially because it's for a military that was designed for the singular purpose of defending itself from an American invasion over the last 70 years.

Canada could do the funniest thing rn by buying J-35s at half the price.

When has the CIA ever financed a communist coup?

lmao. Musk is defunding imperialism, not out of any moral compulsion, but because he's just that dumb.

I will be genuinely surprised if this actually goes through.

The Young Turk movement started with medical students.

There were quite a few pro-segregation protests when schools were desegregated.

There's also a lot of cases where students with real grievances and positive intentions are coopted; most of the students protesting in the early 90s in eastern europe didn't intend to do a color revolution and have their countries stripped for parts.

The guy you're responding to is a liberal doing a piss-poor satire of a ML.

The students protests was quickly co-opted by nazi collaborators entirely unaffiliated with the students, it'd be like if Jan 6 happened during the 2020 protests.

The government vindicating those protestors also built monuments to nazi collaborators.

It's a complex issue, the students had genuine issues the government was failing to address, but if the soviets didn't step in, things would have been far, far worse. For comparison, here's what tended to happen in countries that failed to stop the counterrevolution around that time.

Good catch, I have edited it accordingly. Real "giving the nobel peace prize to Henry Kissinger and the guys he is currently dropping chemical weapons on" vibes.

Also: Holy shit, Chiang Kai-Shek is there for 1937.

Right political ideology says the class that owns and controls your workplace, land, and government, billionaires, should own and control your workplace, house, and government.

Left political ideology says we should control our workplace, land, and government.

What exactly do you think right vs left refers to?

Why do they all run straight for hundreds of miles? None of the other deserts are like that.

What's with blob of parallel watersheds in the middle of Australia?

I checked on google maps, it's the Simpson Desert, it kinda looks like that. Anyone know why?

They were selling weapons to both sides. GM controlled Opel until the 1940s, they built a lot of the nazi war machine (using forced labor), the Ford-Werke factory in Germany produced V2 rocket turbines among other parts, and US strategic bombers were specifically told to avoid bombing it because it was owned by an american, Exxon and Dow licensed patents for synthetic rubber and other war materials Germany lacked, Chase provided loans necessary for the rearmament, IBM sold the nazis the computers they used to carry out the holocaust.

The capitalist class looked at fascism as the savior of capitalism; they'd been terrified of a revolution in Germany and Hitler had just shown them an alternative. There's a reason he was Time's man of the year in 1938.

When they fled to XHS:

No, it's fine, i just... i didnt think it would be chinese.

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