CTHlurker [he/him]

Isn’t that what happened with Meloni in Italy? She was considered an unrepentant fascist and right winger, then got elected and suddenly she is just “right leaning” because she changed her tune on NATO and Ukraine.

A People Betrayed by Paul Preson. It details a long story of Spain and it’s politics from around the time of the Spanish-American War and until the fall of Franco I believe. The lead up to the civil war is incredibly long and detailed, and I think it’s about 300 pages before you even get to the civil war, and then 20 pages of war, before it goes deep into post-war politics under Franco. I’m not even halfway and it’s really good, albeit it’s REALLY fucking detailed, and it makes you hate everyone that has ever been a right winger with a burning passion, if you don’t already.

Edit: Should probably add, this book was recommended highly on GenZedong back when that sub was still pretty active, and it was recommended with the caveat that the author isn’t a socialist or a marxist, but he is still really good at understanding how structural contradictions drive society. Apparently the author isn’t all too charitable to the Spanish socialist movement, but all I’ve seen so far is the fact that he blames the Republican’s own infighting for the poor performance of the left/center in the civil war. Which isn’t too much of a stretch to argue, I would say.

Yeah, but like, I’m reading a long-ass book about Franco’s Spain, and one of the things that the Spanish Right would do in the leadup to the Civil War was just the Spanish oligarchs denouncing various people as jews. That author at least, didn’t make it sound like it “spanish right accuses others of being secret bolsheviks” but more liken “spanish right reinvents inquisition and accuses random catholics of secretly being jewish / jews”, with the implications that being jewish was the crime these people committed.

A hysterically funny thing to me personally is whenever I read about right wingers prior to 1945, they would always accuse other people of being jews. It comes out of nowhere every time and it sort of cracks me up, because I genuinely cannot imagine people doing that today. Granted, today they just use other words to amean the same thing, but it’s probably the bluntness that tickles me.

A hysterically funny thing to me personally is whenever I read about right wingers prior to 1945, they would always accuse other people of being jews. It comes out of nowhere every time and it sort of cracks me up, because I genuinely cannot imagine people doing that today. Granted, today they just use other words to amean the same thing, but it’s probably the bluntness that tickles me.

Danish millitary officers are every bit as imperialist as the rest of NATO, just a lot worse at their job. And the Danish Defense Academy is anti-imperialist sort in the same way that the F-35 is, i.e. it’s too bad at the job of being a tool for imperialism to be of any actual threat.

We all hope that is the case, but Liberals keep coming up with new and exiciting ways to deny reality. See for instance also the Finnish campaign to paint themselves as the winners of the Winter War and the deliberate exclusion of anything regarding the Continuation war.

I’ve sort of come around on the Danish Defense Academy. They seem to be one of the single most effective anti-imperialist organizations in the country, which is a good thing considering that even the Red-Greens have bend the knee to NATO, and now opposition to NATO is basically only a position held by very old social democrats, non of whom seem to have noticed the party all but kicking them out.

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I mean, it’s not likely that these mobilizations are going to be very effective, so it kinda feels like a repeat of their climate plan.

Denmark is currently having a culture war moment with a Square within the city, which by popular demand was to be named “Palestine Square”. Obviously the useless city government was against it for a while, with members of the county council going out and arguing that names for places in the city shouldn’t be used to make political statements.

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The problem is more for the rest of the world that the United States never stopped holding it hostage. So while the empire is behaving like a lunatic and destroying everything, the design of the empire also isolates it from the worst of their own behaviour and ensures that it takes most of the world with it, should things actually turn ugly.

LMAO, the Danish center-right party “The Moderates” has officially begun purging their employees. Wonderful shit coming out of Denmark and our deeply serious Scandinavian Democracy^tm. As has been described by SoyViking, the party is more or less just a cult of personality around our current foreign minister and former prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, who is famous for trying to turn his previous party into a slush fund for his personal expenses.

Rasmussen is also famous for appointing the queen of the far right Inger Støjberg to the post as Minister for Foreigners and Integration, which the danes on here rightfully refer to as the Racism Ministry, which put her in charge of our refugee policy, culminating in first Denmarks “Jewelry Law” which let the state confiscate jewelry from brown people who sought asylum here (said law was waived when the Ukrainians came, because obviously the law doesn’t actually apply to whites) and also the unconstitutional family separation policy, which ended up getting her impeached and kicked out of parliament back in 2023.

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I feel like we say that about Elon Musk about once every 2 weeks, and somehow he keeps getting worse.

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