Germans have only ever defended themselves from bolsheviks invading their home, but we're expected to see them as evil, the scary other. The Germans must be bad because they pose a threat to us. Oh, and because they're ugly.

At least in the first World War, the Russian soldiers are sympathetic because they are merely surviving a situation they didn't want to be in, put in peril by an empire sacrificing them for profit. Empires, not people, are the true villains of the war.

But in World War 2, our hero Stalin goes back to Germany with the Red Army to kick some German ass. While this is ostensibly a mission to save a group of Holocaust survivors, Stalin has no interest in a search-and-rescue mission. She only agrees on the condition that they go there to kill every last Nazi.

Stalin is more than willing to exterminate an entire ideology to save white people. In fact she still wants to genocide them even after winning Bagration!

Stalin: I say we invade Germany, it's the only way to be sure

Churchill: This is clearly an important industrial base we're dealing with, and I don't think that we have the right to arbitrarily exterminate them.

Stalin: Wrong!

be sure of what, Stalin? you can just fucking leave. Just don't go back to Germany with all the Nazis in it. seems pretty easy to me now of course it turns out that Burke doesn't actually care about the Nazis, he only wants to exploit them for profit. while this is keeping with the corporations=bad theme from the first war, now we're supposed to think corporations are bad for... not wanting to do genocide? because of course no good person would be against murdering an entire ideology for no reason, only a villain would propose such a thing.

Now I'm not saying you can't enjoy World War 2, it deserves its status as one of the best wars of all time, and I'd argue these problematic reactionary themes actually make it more interesting and morally complex, giving us much to analyze and critique, elevating it above an average popcorn movie. Just please don't take it at face value.

Stalin is no longer the hero, even if he is portrayed as one. In World War 1 he is the scratched liberal, and in World War 2 he is the fascist who bleeds. In a tragic turn, she has become the villain of the story. She reacts to her own trauma and loss of 27 million people with mass murder, by killing another nations babies right in front of them, and we're all supposed to clap and cheer, instead of asking why these humans are there in the first place.

They hecking kill a snake near its home! Jon Voight is in it!

If there is a 269-269 Electoral college tie (Biden losing just Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin from 2020 map) then the sitting senate would elect the vice president between Biden and Trumps VP nominee. 51-49 Democrats. Each state would have 1 vote to cast for president. Most states are not bound by the electoral votes, so it works out to a 26-22-2 split with a Republican majority.

We could have a scenario with a split ticket Republican president and democratic vice president ticket.

Trump-Harris ticket would be voted on by mid-December. The senate would then stamp and vote it in on Jan 6th, 2025. Overseen by none other than incumbent Kamala.

Because Biden wins the popular vote. Blue MAGA comes out for a march on the capital to defend “our democracy.” Red MAGA comes out to defend “our democracy”. Fights break out, or do they? The area is swarming with a giant army of newly drafted DC police who beat and detain hundreds of demonstrators. Tear gas used a dozen separate times.

No protestor gets close to the senate house. Barely near the capital building. The DC police were ready this time, they were funded.

All the while, Kamala oversees the electoral procession and continues her role of VP for Donald Trump. The Mainstream media applaud her defense of democracy and bipartisanship in such extreme circumstances and she is anointed as the new face of the Democratic Party.

Fear the monster

This song came out the year Reagan was elected. It marks the year everything got irreversibly shitty in the US.

The left in the US took major losses in the postwar period, but this man’s election ended any chance of a peaceful end to the Cold War or peace after the Cold War.

How the hell do you all effort post? I never go on internet on a computer/laptop. Are you guys the same? I don’t understand how someone could effort post with thumbs.

As long as the west funds Israeli military, or offers aid in every protracted conflict in Israel, the most belligerent aspects of Israeli society will prevail. Much like Apartheid South Africa, the house of cards will topple the moment the west removes the 💰 from the equation.

I know we are naturally oriented to care about internationalism, but we need to think of ways to shut off the money in a politically intelligent way. Unfortunately the westoids do not care about Palestinians, so this needs to be about spending the money at home. We can’t argue for them to stop killing Palestinians, but we could probably argue for them to spend the money on something else at home.

This would obviously take decades or longer, but just like climate change or veganism, I feel leftists are too involved in the actually compassionate arguments that move themselves, rather than the selfish arguments that motivate most westoids.