Exactly, but also consider the market as the media sees it. A lot of folks are much more comfortable with discussing a reflecting pool or the east wing of the white house simply because the stakes are lower than the economy, war, and child rape.

Family friendly ragebait gets wider audiences. Easy dollar.

But now? People buy foreign propaganda because domestic propaganda is unbelievable.

A children’s show host expressed the notion that kids shouldn’t starve, and has been continuously attacked as an antisemite.

Hell, some consider passive criticism of the Epstein class as a pro-russian narrative.

Ebert would’ve preferred a return to monarchy. His version of democracy and the party was the one that existed within the Prussian Kingdom and the German Empire.

While the Freikorps were the proto-nazis, in Ebert’s time they were still mostly just monarchists and military aristocracy who opposed the republic. They all hated the Nazis for being peasants, but agreed with their policies nonetheless.

What I mean is the way tankie is used as a pejorative isn’t really about defining a tangible political group so much as saddling socialists with answering for, or plain being, nazbols.

This is usually how users that use the ‘tankie’ as a pejorative out themselves as anti-leftist or just plain uninformed. There’s already a term for those who support that kind of fascistic rhetoric: Nazbols.

Either they don’t know the term, or they do and choose not to. The former owns up quick, the latter digs in and keeps on a grudge about it.

No surprises here.

I mean that’s still probably not the population of California.

If only it were limited to mutes and bans. They wanted users purged from their comment trees anywhere they go.

We are operating from a position of strength!

The idea that it is a discretionary war of conquest is disputed, so calling it that will be considered misinformation. Same works on the inverse where not calling it a discretionary war of conquest is also considered misinformation.

It mostly just turns a landlord into a slumlord and gets you into homelessness with a summary judgement in a civil case for damages.

Lift toes and feet, kick heels out as hard as you can. Hold.

Doesn’t always stop it, but can help considerably if you start before it fully fires off.

Vibes, probably. Admins might not have liked a username made of text followed by numbers. It’s the kind of stuff the folks running it scrutinize.

Consider the context that World War 1’s conclusion left multiple imperial monarchies in ashes. The kind of government in question is one that is directly being sanctioned by aristocratic monarchy. The bourgeioise were and were working with kings and noble families as a matter of status quo, who had just spent years sending entire townships to the meatgrinder.

Yes, but at a time when social democratic parties in europe hadn’t quite formally formed or split into discernable socialist factions. The Social Democrats in Germany were in active coalition with monarchist anti-republic paramilitaries and had inherited the government from the abdicating kaiser. The KPD didn’t exist yet, and this was technically an internal critique of the Social Democratic Party of which she was a member.

At the same time, the Social Democrats in Russia included Lenin.

At any rate it isn’t worth giving the freikorps a pass by omission when unearthing conflicts about the SPD.

Is this something on the Fediverse?

It’s a liminal interface.

The investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing.

It kinda boils down to chucking rocks in the river alone vs chucking rocks in the river with friends.

The whole ‘run government like a business’ idea usually entails running it into the ground. It’s just a more diplomatic way to express wanting to remove social services from people.

I am really glad you wrote this, since it dovetails perfectly into my conclusion for anyone else reading. Thanks.