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  • lemmy.world is a joke, unbelievable how thin skinned they are

    • Their admins are not thin-skinned, or at least that's not why they do these things. They're cynical and fascist. This is why they lie and fail to show receipts: if they grounded their claims in examples, they'd have to show the political decisions they're making around what counts as "hate speech" (treating Palestinians as humans deserving liberation, for example) and what does not (calls for genocide against Palestinians).

  • Oh no, it appears we are now in a 'circle-jerk' and are 'cloistering ourselves from reality on the internet', whatever will we do now without the insightful knowledge of "Um have you considered that maybe both sides are bad?" or "How can you blame liberals for this, its not like the President of the U.S. just gave the go-ahead for genocide, even going as far as to give them more and bigger bombs to do so?"

  • The funny thing about the iron curtain is that NATO started it and pretended in hindsight it was the USSR's idea. Churchill gave his "iron curtain" speech in 1946. Stalin replied to it.

    Question: How do you appraise Mr. Churchill’s latest speech in the United States of America?

    Answer: I appraise it as a dangerous act, calculated to sow the seeds of dissension among the Allied States and impede their collaboration.

    Question: Can it be considered that Mr. Churchill’s speech is prejudicial to the cause of peace and security?

    Answer: Yes, unquestionably. As a matter of fact, Mr. Churchill now takes the stand of the warmongers, and in this Mr. Churchill is not alone. He has friends not only in Britain but in the United States of America as well.

    [. . .] later in the interview

    Mr. Churchill would like Poland to be administered by Sosnkowski and Anders, Yugoslavia by Mikhailovich and Pavelich, Rumania by Prince Stirbey and Radescu, Hungary and Austria by some King of the House of Hapsburg, and so on. Mr. Churchill wants to assure us that these gentlemen from the Fascist backyard can ensure true democracy. Such is the β€œdemocracy” of Mr. Churchill.

    NATO formed 6 years before the warsaw pact in 1949. They rejected the USSR joining NATO for collective security in 1954. They let West Germany in 1955 only 10 years after the holocaust, when chancellor Adenauer laughably declared that denazification was complete. The US was already couping countries for being too close to the USSR or trying to develop independently of the imperial core as early as 1953 (Mossadegh) and 1954 (Arbenz).

    There you have it. Who is really responsible for the erection of the so-called "iron curtain?" Who is really responsible for the divisions that caused the cold war?

    not the USSR, and not stalin

  • defederated lemmy.world = reddit

    i guess that's what they want but seems like it would be easier to just go back to reddit

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