the revolving backdoor

Libs were the real authoritarian tankies all along. Ask any country the US has invaded since WW2.

The Ukrainian one is infuriating. OOOOOOOOOOH THEY HAD A SINGLE JEWISH PRESIDENT ONCE THEREFORE NO NAZIS. yeah I'm sure that argument works for white supremacy in the US under Obama. let me get out my amnesia ray gun and forget all about Poroshenko granting nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera "hero" status and integrating nazi gangs and militias into the military in the 5 years of civil war leading up to Zelensky getting elected, with a majority of Zelensky's votes coming from the Russian speaking separatist regions that were getting bombed.

It would be sick if we actually judged Capitalism as a mode of production by the Late Victorian genocides committed by England, Belgium, and other Capitalist/Colonialist powers, but we know that will never happen.

Really good point; I'll start putting it that way as well when I actually get that far into it (I usually don't)

Great addition, thanks!

yes and I wouldn't really say nazi germany was a "choice" for an ally, or even an "ally," the soviets were, again, stalling, buying time, and pretty much knew germany was eventually going to invade them, since hitler had spent the previous 19 years screeching into microphones about "judeobolshevism" and "the slavic untermensch" and the need for "lebensraum"

(yeah I'm posting wikipedia, I don't feel like spending the rest of my sunday night hunting down the specific books on libgen that are cited on each page, suffice it to say these are events which did occur, and even English Wikipedia doesn't deny them, the problem with a lot of these pacts is that they are named different things by different countries)

Four-Power Pact (worth noting france did not ratify)

Hitler Pilsudski Pact

Anglo German Naval Agreement

Anti Comintern Pact since this was between Japan/Germany there's less amnesia about it

German/British and German/French 1938 non aggression pacts are usually just called the Munich Agreement in English language sources to obfuscate what was happening

German Romanian Economical Treaty March 1939

German Ultimatum to Lithuania in March 1939 seems a bit unfair to characterize as a treaty tbh

"Pact of Steel" with Italy 1939 Now THIS is actually a military alliance pact, which is what people keep characterizing molotov-ribbentrop as

Danish-German non aggression pact May 1939 this one isn't wikipedia

Germany Estonia N-A-Pact June 7th 1939

German-Latvian N-A-Pact June 7th 1939

Molotov Ribbentrop Pact

Also it's worth noting that even though the USA never signed a non aggression pact with nazi germany, american capitalists were quite fond of funding nazis, doing trade with nazis, and even hosting nazi party rallies in the United States (such as one in madison square garden in 1939). And there was even a fascist attempt at a coup against FDR, that was thwarted by smedley butler being a whistleblower.

What makes people freak out about molotov ribbentrop is the agreement to partition states. the reason for this is because the USSR needed time to deconstruct factories and move them east before the luftwaffe could bomb them. The USSR made a calculated risk that by dividing poland they could move the future war front far west of where it would otherwise be if they refused a non aggression pact and just got invaded right away, and at the same time, move their war industry far east of the war front. Of course by making this calculated risk they gave an easy propaganda victory to all bourgeois nations who experience collective amnesia about every other non aggression pact, as well as their categorical refusal to enter into collective security against fascism with the "bolshevik menace" in the 1930s. It is somewhat similar to how USSR tried to join NATO in the 50s and was refused. The bourgeois nations never wanted collective security or peace with the USSR, even when it was on the table. In particular the USSR only invaded finland because it was the most convenient route to invade the USSR, and the Finnish (a future axis power) wouldn't sell them the land that the nazis eventually used to invade.

from the comments

Quick question, who formed an alliance with Hitler? Stalin or Roosevelt?

The answer to this question is "Mussolini and Tojo". Several European countries signed a "Non Aggression Pact" before the USSR, and then the USSR signed a "Non Aggression Pact" to buy time because they knew an invasion was inevitable.

(Mods pls make a bot that posts this any time r/neoliberal is brought up)

Reminder that r/neoliberal was created by and is astroturfed by a fossil fuel think tank called the Progressive Policy Institute, as part of their "Neoliberal Project"

PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here. They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.

it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economics and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.

The creator of r/neoliberal, Colin Mortimer, is the Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI, which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."

PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. [Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here.](https://archive.is/4Voil#selection-595.0-597.270) They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.

it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economics and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.

The creator of r/neoliberal, [Colin Mortimer](https://twitter.com/Colinmort), is the [Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI](https://archive.is/Jq2sO), which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."

just manufacturing consent for the future most destructive war in human history, no big deal

long off topic monologues

the sad thing is this is indistinguishable from something a wrecker or a cop would do, but I could also see it being completely sincere behavior. Perhaps institute some kind of time limit.

That's true, space could be ruled by giant bats

Funny joke but consider:

thesis: I should organize and lead because the world needs a white savior

antithesis: I should grill because the world is tired of my kkkrakkka shit

synthesis: I should organize in a non-leadership role because the world is tired of my kkkrakkka shit

yeah, "workers of the world, unite" should not have fine print

CW: Discussion of transphobia

This is a very pop-cultural explanation that looks specifically at a few random bourgeois actors and their interactions with traditional and social media. I think a better explanation for why TERF island is so transphobic has less to do with New Atheism (i.e. Dawkins et al.) and JK Rowling (who are symptoms of the underlying problem rather than the source). It has to do with the fact that the UK is fundamentally a dethroned world superpower. The UK lost all its colonies and became a vassal of the United States, and for a while was just an appendage of the EU. The same thing that is behind British transphobia is the same thing behind Brexit. It's the same old reactionary "we used to be a REAL country. We used to be an EMPIRE. But now we have FALLEN FROM GRACE and we need a nonconformist scapegoat to blame for our current geopolitical irrelevancy!" And what better scapegoat than trans people, who have been undergoing a civil rights struggle similar to the struggles of other marginalized groups. When a marginalized group is actively undergoing a civil rights struggle in a dethroned empire like the UK, they become a convenient scapegoat for why the country is no longer powerful. This is especially true of trans women, who are seen through a transphobic lens as "biological men who refused the call to be masculine revanchist imperialists."

TL;DR transphobia is just another genre of "the west has fallen, billions must die"

EDIT: Not "just" since transphobia exists outside of empire, but it takes on that flavor in the imperial core

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSnA2FdDYfk

skip to 5:51

Some commentary: Would a dyson sphere really appear "dark" and only be visible in infrared? Wouldn't a civilization manipulating a dyson sphere still want to be able to see what they're doing outside of the sphere? Wouldn't they have tons of light pollution from their advanced civilization existing around their dyson sphere? Unless they've somehow evolved past the need to see things, it seems like a dyson sphere is an unlikely explanation for these 7 stars

It's another episode of Socialism is when the government does stuff

It's another episode of confusing social democratic with democratic socialist

It's another episode of Americans doing Great Man Theory of history harder than any "authoritarian tankie" ever could

Let me not spend an hour writing an effort posts on all the other critiques I could make of this image, such as the failure to understand that anti-trust just fetishizes competition between small producers and intends to reintroduce an earlier stage of capitalism rather than simply nationalizing the monopolies, or how FDR used social democracy to save Capitalism from collapsing and postpone revolutionary conditions by decades, or how Dwight Eisenhower felt about Cuba and DPRK, or how Lyndon "Forgorn Leghorn" Johnson said this or how Bernie bent the knee to Genocide Joe... I'm barely scratching the surface here.

Social Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. And I don't care if Stalin retracted that quote. He was being polite.