1mo ago

Department Of War

Wars and proxy wars since 1776.

EDIT: The post is not an endorsement of the USSR. You can now stop fighting for your "team" and start defending the anti-war values you claim to uphold.

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If you think the USSR wasn't, then you're not actually smarter for thinking that, you've just fallen for another country's propaganda.
- Republican-style whataboutism. Nice. I never defended the USSR and this still doesn't change U.S. history.
  
  If you unironically look at this image and do not understand how it is perceived as in support of the USSR, then the school system is worse off than even I realized.
  Yes, you did not explicitly say it. But the natural inference is that these guys on the right, the USSR and the anarchists, are correct. To shamelessly sit there with your hands folded over like "well I'm only suggesting they're right about this one specific thing, no one else should ever make any deeper inferences or assumptions, and it's their fault if they do," is either incredibly dishonest, or incredibly stupid.
  
  You literally put a Soviet flag in your meme. You could've made your point without that, so yeah, don't complain when people point out the obvious implication.
- The USSR was not communism. Even if you protest and hold ground that it was communist, it does not represent communism and was objectively separate from anarchism. You argument is akin to saying that the USA is democracy.
  
  Well said.
  
  Communism is to the USSR is what freedom is the United States. If you squint a lot they kinda almost had it.
- They’re not wrong in this specific case though.
Da, unlike peaceful soviet socialists who only use peaceful tanks to bring unity, whether or not other nations know they need to be unified. Or Anarchists who merely seek to gently dismantle society and bring harmony to the world by cleansing all threats to that harmony.
The first half is fine, but the left side is some unhinged 1984 doublethink. "Our imperialism is the good kind. The other side is the bad imperialists."
- where does anyone say “our imperialism is the good kind?”
  
  What's the purpose of that Soviet flag?
  
  Also who are these anarchists cleansing dissidents?
- What anarchists talk about cleansing? Are you referring to the dictatorship of the proletariat in Leninism?
  You can't just make things up about an ideology and then argue like the thing you made up is true and well known. That makes you exactly like the meme you're making fun of.
  
  A lot of anarchists do seem to want a big purge. I’m not saying that’s inherently part of the ideology as a whole—I’m fairly sympathetic to anarchist ideals. But I’m not as sympathetic to terminally online weirdos who just want an outlet for their impotent rage. And a lot of such people do call themselves anarchists.
- Using violent tactics is not synonymous with war mongering. Maybe a definition helps to differentiate the difference "A warmonger is someone strongly pro-war. Warmongers favor war above all other options."
The down voters need to take a closer look at what the USA was doing in all their wars
- The military industrial complex is pretty well known at this point. I suspect they agree with the message, but don't like that it's coming from someone further left than Democrats.
  
  You can go further left than the Democrats without pandering for another warmongering, imperialist nation.
Stupid Americans. Fight wars like the like Britain, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy. Good honest colonial powers who only ever fought on the good side of just wars and never created massacres.
- Why choose other imperialist powers as though this is a representative sample? Unless you're arguing that every country is equally bad--thereby excusing the US from its war crimes--its unclear what these examples are meant to prove.
Dod sounded like a Dutch man saying death. Which is also funny.

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