i was analyzing and describing with my friend neo-nazism among people who obviously the nazi ideology was not for in relation to nationalism and how a non materialist view of the world contorts your understanding so horrifically based on an image of a neonazi pamphlet from mexican mercenaries in ukraine and i cant tell if theyll accept it which is fair because neither can i. ended up sharing similar article about similar phenomena by guardian to further substantiate my point but the text in that thing would really work

i remember someone had a repository of bourgeois news articles pre2022 about the fascism in ukraine when they were somewhat allowed to acknowledge it. fuhh

with a war as complicated and (to at least westerners) surprisingly opaque on the ground as ukraine (as they’re obfuscating the. obvious) i want to send friends resources, though i don’t know any they won’t automatically reject.

your articles are always a pleasure to read when i can spare the time. curious, somewhat innocuous or not complicated factoids that also are thought provoking enough they encourage me to read up further, which is an incredible balance to strike.

the focus on language here is very interesting, i like you illuminating methods of propaganda or disseminating fascist ideology because it obviously is fairly easy to make relevant modern comparisons. “treachery to the German struggle for freedom”, however, was the most striking bit to me. as of recently, seeing other neo-nazi or fascist texts (one from mexico on another post here) also coopt the language of “Freedom” or of the sort of liberal ideas (french revolution adjacent?) is very interesting especially as it intersects with racial superiority/ultranationalism against a racial enemy/moral evil.

i also like the part about the gendered rhetoric of fascists

an analogy that’s stuck with me since i read it.

we have been discussing ukraine war and ussr dissolution in class recently and i find it so difficult to describe the feelings of history’s noise (how we are billions of distinct individuals) that still move in measurable generalizations (analysis of a gas using generalizations = diamat analysis) and then also its confluence of misinfo which obfuscates actual complexity in situations.

i will probably use this with people who have no initiation into anything to do with ml ideas or diamat. this comment goes into my treasured “starred” tab on lemmygrad

just saw a video about USA scientists going missing, 200k views but otherwise not extremely sensational or explicitly conspiratorial thumbnail, scoured comments, saw one remarking how midway through the video he starts referencing alien abduction. #okay.

the two options you have for ‘mainstream’ news if you’re anglosphere and not unpacking or ever questioning anti-communism:

Fox News

• proud
• rabid
• nakedly stupid
• newest headline: “IMMINENT CHINESE COLLAPSE?” three guys who have never been, two of whom are on a little coke, are yelling at each other incoherently, one is saying it’ll be tomorrow, the other makes a sly comment about how it could’ve happened yesterday, the reasonable one ends the segment saying “Beijing has not confirmed or denied” whatever nonsense thing they’re blowing out of proportion

Jim Bunsen or whatever name here

• online pundit who’s now Independent in that he’s not officially hired by RFA anymore, so everything he says online must obviously have been rigorously verified.
• says a few ‘contrary’ things to ‘mainstream’ view (maybe acknowledging the Palestinian genocide mildly in a few videos, while always somewhat implying it’s fair due to October 7 being just as bad)
• edits and speaks with an NPR style or cadence
• newest video, number 3 on trending on youtube, despite him constantly framing himself as an oasis of ‘free thinking’ in the press: “China’s Silent Apocalpyse.” with a photo of a recently constructed apartment building, color graded to be grey, red arrow in the background of a stock ticker, Subtle and Artful. your coworker sent this and is now acting snidely in the group chat

https://theonion.com/america-defeats-america/

the thing about the onion is it can pull off a good satire until it comes time to satirize the basic principles of ‘liberalism’, but then it pulls it off so well on accident because it’s still arguing we SHOULD preserve the status quo of liberal democracy and the ideals of electoralism.

i think about this article all the time when thinking about DOTPs

legitimately the way they think ‘leader been in power a long time’ is unfailingly bad is so fucking funny. REAL government is when everyone’s mediocre to bad, so you have to shuffle him out, and you have to always select between two poor options even though the entire premise is that it’s only good if the leaders are competitive to earn your vote by working for you

well they’ll call you a mindless, stupid drone, a subhuman orc, someone whose geography consigns you to misery (and imply something about genetics probably as well), but that’s not racist because you’re Slavic so all those things are actually justified and even true and don’t qualify as Actual Racism

/sarc

(last part is not me being like “ohhh my god other racialized groups just have victim complexes they’re not actually having problems” whatsoever)

i believe in it working for you as well. you are steadily improving and in any case nothing will ever make that mean less, even if you have temporary regression in the future. me saying that doesnt really add much but . I believe in you

oh yes i forgot, we are all russians, either paid handsomely as real people typing away in fluent english (even referencing niche internet jokes), or bots (carefully and meticulously trained) yapping away for the sole purpose of (???), as Lemmygrad is a prime place to recruit hapless non-communists!

(do they still think the russian government’s goal is spreading communism…?)

yeah (cant even verbalize how resonant this is)

“”””””””””””left-wing””””””””””””””””” (doesnt mean shit btw) creators repackaging anti-communism/anti-AES propaganda for the modern day, especially when trying to legitimize fabricated atrocities like xinjiang/xizang (even equivalencies between TAIWAN and PALESTINE saying PRC??? is ‘ISRAEL’???) are unfailingly more annoying than their joe rogan equivalent

people severely underestimate the astroturfing of internet but also have really hilarious ideas of russian infiltration yeah i’m sure this user is actually a russian operative in lemmygrad of all places. ??? if they have a seed bomb why throw it in an already ideal garden

one thing i’ve gotten in the habit of at the tail end of my schooling is just unashamedly clocking out and stopping my work when it’s late and i don’t care anymore. i wish you could do that all the time everywhere i think it’s your human right to rest because it makes you more functional but when has this system ever cared about being welcoming to humans

not having sleep really makes you a different person i caught myself caring about anglosphere social media sentiment and literally paused and went “that’s so stupid” and now i’m going to nap. i love sleep

waow it’s fresh out the oven

genuine question for those who deal with intrusive thoughts:

i used to get really really bad episodes where i had intrusive thoughts or undesirable thoughts and then hate myself/be angry and sad and spiral rest of day about myself for having them.

and then one day i think i saw a post explaining how many of these undesirable thoughts in the first place are tests by your brain and you not acting on them itself is a success that proves you will not do these things. and then also criticisms about just sort of idealist views about sin and ‘evil thoughts’ when it’s not really a fair thing to think about since any of your ‘good’ isn’t in your brain it’s ultimately your action + other things about really finally thinking of your brain as just an organ rather than spirit or Soul something fictional like that.

and i hate to be like someone saying there’s one easy trick but it really drastically dramatically changed my mental health. has anyone else found a sort of shift in the way they think about their thoughts to be super alleviating?

best explanation here

the social darwinism in fascism is to me like racism between a ‘moderate’ and a KKK member. one at the least admits it and is transparently awful. the other is quiet and ‘polite’ about it, or even packages the hatred in a way more ‘logical’ to many others. repulsive both ways.