it is, quite famously, as a matter of explicit communist policy, the fact that the communist left refused to compromise with the social democrats (look up "social fascism") that allowed the *right* the space to bring hitler into power like this is all just straightforward lies

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More than a thousand non-American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, about one third of the coalition total. Adjusted for population, Denmark had more soldiers killed per capita than the United States.

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The most absurd part of the “antizionism is not antisemitism” catechism is that it’s invariably recited in anticipation of, or in response to, a Jewish person saying “that’s antisemitic” & any good-faith movement would respond by asking “how can we be antizionist w/out being antisemitic?”

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I’m old enough to remember when Trump was asked if he would disavow the Ku Klux Klan, and he wouldn’t.

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Public executions went out before the invention of television because people found the large crowds that gathered unseemly. It’s never been attempted in the mass media era and theres almost no public support for it.

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