There are some great videos on the Hasidim that you should watch some time, but many of them are a few dozen minutes long. I am sure that you’ll enjoy them, though. There is one boy in the series who reminds me of Omar Mukhtar.

If you don’t have a lot of time you could watch this miniseries of Ashkenazim and Sephardim exchanging culture. It’s much lighter on the Judaism content, but it’s pretty fun.

I made a similar observation several years ago. For the American tribes still present, The Man in the High Castle is a reality for them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070614140107/http://yale.edu/gsp/publications/WaiKeng.doc

The [Axis] Occupation of Singapore from February 1942 to August 1945 was a particularly momentous period of loss and sacrifice for the Chinese population as compared to other ethnicities, because they were the targets of brutal [Imperial] military policies. During a month of screening procedures and indiscriminate massacres in 1942 known as sook ching, or cleansing operations, an undetermined number of civilians were separated from their families and friends and suffered uncertain fates. In many cases, the last time relatives saw loved ones was at a screening center before the unlucky victims were driven away in trucks to unknown destinations.

Do you enjoy learning about Judaism?

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=s01ZO13Jq5M

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No, I’m not okay. I’m tired. I’ve been depressed for at least seventeen years now and it distorts my perception of reality. Same with my obsessive–compulsive disorder, which causes me to dwell on previous interactions a lot. I don’t know if that explains anything, but it isn’t meant to be an excuse; I don’t have a good excuse.

Uhh… to be honest I’m kind of embarrassed now that I made this thread and I am tempted to delete it.

I’m twenty‐nine.

I haven’t used sexual metaphors to insult others since I was 22.

My advice? Read more books. Or if you have to engage with these dullards, troll them with either falsely reassuring comments (‘That’s a good point. You really showed me how wrong I was.’) or by pretending that you can’t understand them at all (‘What do you mean?’, ‘What are you trying to say?’, ‘What are you talking about?’). They obviously don’t want to learn, so the most that you can do is have some fun with them. Taking them seriously, even for only a minute, isn’t going to get you anywhere. It simply isn’t worth the time.

I can safely say that you’ll learn more about fascism within five minutes of lurking !capitalismindecay@lemmygrad.ml than you will after spending five years in the company of ‘anti‐tankies’. Kindly remind me: who was the one who taught you about the Four‐Power Pact and its purpose? Who was the one who taught you about the Regio Esercito’s persecution of Libyan Jews? Who was the one who taught you about the riot at Christie Pits? Who was the one who taught you about the microstate that voted overwhelmingly to join the Third Reich?

I can see that you are somebody who takes the subject of fascism seriously. Have you considered subscribing to or lurking !capitalismindecay@lemmygrad.ml? Although it currently only has one regular contributor, I update it frequently and I am willing to answer whatever questions that you may have on the subject.

‘a girl is not a boy a boy is a man born as a boy not a woman or a girl thinking hes a lady a boy is a boy and there are two genders and males are boys thats just science.’

Just HOW can you support communism as a Polish person after everything it did to your country?????

See, for example:

The rapid increase in the living standards of the workers and peasants in post-World War II Poland is reflected in the trends in meat consumption. In 1966–68 Poles were consuming an average of 47, and in 1975–77, 61, grams of animal protein per day. This is higher than the Western European average, and almost equal to that of the United States. For example, in 1975–77 West Germans ate an average of 55 grams per day; Italians, 45; and Swedes, 62. In the United States animal protein consumption per capita was 73 grams a day, and in the USSR, 51 grams (FAO, 1978:table 9).

The rise in living standards has also been reflected in a radical increase in social services available to the Polish working class. In 1977 there was one physician per 610 people in Poland, compared with one per 1,070 in 1960 and one per 2,660 in 1938—the average for all the advanced capitalist countries in 1979 was one per 620 people. The attention given by the socialist state to health care was reflected in the radical reduction in infant mortality from 140 per 1,000 live births in 1935 and 111 in 1950 to 22 per 1,000 in 1978 (the U.S. rate in the mid-1960s) (see U.N. Statistical Yearbook, various; World Bank, 1981: tables 20, 21).

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The 1970–75 period was extremely successful economically. In these years national income grew by 9.4 percent a year (the rate was 6.0 percent from 1965 to 1970), industrial production by 10.8 percent (it was 7.8 percent from 1965 to 1970), and net fixed capital formation by 18.4 percent (it was 9.2 percent from 1965 to 1970), while wages grew by about 12 percent a year (compared with about 2 percent a year from 1965 to 1970). Food prices remained frozen over the 1970–75 period. Between 1971 and 1974 productivity grew at 7 percent a year (Hare and Wanless, 1981:505; also Table 3.1 in this chapter).

(Source.)

As recently as this morning I was wishing that I could shoot my brains out because I still obsess over how I disgraced myself in public nearly one year ago, and months earlier when I told a couple of friends about this they did basically absolutely nothing to help. Dwelling on their interactions has only made me want to stay away from them, so I haven’t talked to anybody on Discord in almost one month. I’m lonely, but I feel like if I try reinteracting with them, they’ll only disappoint me again, so it’s better to stay alone.

There are still a few things that prevent me from taking my life: 1) I don’t want my stepdad to feel guilty, 2) I have enough reasonability to recognize that I’ll feel less suicidal later, 3) my medications help me somewhat, and 4) I have a feeling that even if I really tried to kill myself I’d only fuck up again, like the bullet would only incapacitate me mentally without killing me. Usually when I try something for the first time, something goes wrong, so that would be pretty typical.

My standard of living isn’t even particularly awful. It’s okay, but the trade‐off is that I have to live with a severe depression that stays with me like cancer.

Illegal unilateral restrictions.

Yeah, but… you can’t just expect a capitalist empire to simply not illegally sanction somebody. Not only does that make absolutely no sense, but it is completely, outrageously unfair. I mean, do you have any idea how much effort that would take? To not sanction somebody?

The sanctions on Russia, Haiti, Cuba, N. Korea, and dozens of others are completely their responsibility and expecting them to be the ones to lift the sanctions is perfectly logical. In fact, they’re basically all sanctioning themselves. If anything, America is the real victim in this situation!

the Headquarter of the Arrow Cross Party, today the House of Terror

(Source.)

The House of Terror museum in Budapest, “which restricts the Holocaust to a couple of rooms while devoting the rest of its ample space to communist crimes,”⁷⁵ meticulously lists Jews among the communist perpetrators but not among the victims of the Stalinist system.⁷⁶

For Randolph Braham, the House of Terror attempts to turn [the Third Reich’s] last ally into its last victim,⁷⁷ an attempt furthered in 2014 with the inauguration of Budapest’s Memorial to the Victims of the German Invasion depicting Hungary as [its] victim, but ignoring Hungary’s responsibility and collaboration with the [Third Reich] in exterminating Jews.⁷⁸

As I have shown elsewhere, this memorial is an amalgam between Deflective Negationism, Double Genocide and Holocaust Obfuscation.⁷⁹

(Source.)

The narration of its permanent exhibition draws no distinction between the policies of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, which held power from October 1944 to April 1945, and the [people’s republic], which held power between 1948 and 1989.

By linking the reign of terror carried out under Hungary’s brand of [fascism] with the subsequent terror experienced under Communism, this museum drew a parallel between the two régimes and, what’s more, declared a continuity between the two kinds of terror.

With this, it aligned itself with that controversial, revisionist school of historical thought that regards the human devastation wreaked by these two types of dictatorship, and the régimes themselves, as of essentially the same nature.

Since the history of Communism is depicted only in part, the exhibit hardly can be called comprehensive. Not that this was the intention. As the museum director herself publicly has stressed, the institution aims to display terror in all its sensational aspects, to invite visitors to an historical “happening”.

The House of Terror creates a historical narrative that paints a picture of Hungarians as the victims of both Nazism and Communism. In this narrative, the Communist terror persists well beyond the actual fall of Communism — if not to this very day

(Emphasis added in all cases. Source.)

Oh, and a funny thing: Karl Marx’s use of the phrase ‘House of Terror’ actually predates the anticommunists’ use of it, only he used it to refer to a kind of workhouse wherein the capitalists expected the poor to work for them for about one dozen hours a day.

I guessed

1. $1 billion
2. $459 billion

I checked the answer and I was really close.

I smiled at first, but the more that I stare at this, the less funny that it is…

What the fuck? I swear that this is at least the second time now that I’ve seen a Polish antisocialist downplay German Fascism. Is their knowledge of their own country’s history really so bareboned that they can’t even name the atrocious policies that the Fascist colonizers regularly enforced?

I feel condescending for saying this, but I’m afraid that sooner or later I am going to have to make a thread overviewing the Third Reich’s atrocities against Poles. I thought that these were already common knowledge but now I guess not.

There is something that I want to nip in the bud before anybody brings it up. A counterargument that some anticommunists like to repeat is that all of Soviet space exploration was based on the work of Axis scientists, ergo the ‘Mongol hordes’ never really invented anything. I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll still repeat it:

When the Allies reclaimed Nordhausen it was the anticommunists, not the Soviets, who ended up with the larger share of the scientific materials.

The remaining Axis scientists that the Soviets did capture still had to live in unglamorous conditions: on some projects the Soviet authorities limited the rôle of the Axis specialists merely to consultation and practical training.

Finally, three anticommunist rocket experts confirmed that by 1952 the U.S.S.R. had sent most of these Axis scientists back home, and that the Soviets (obviously) made major strides on their own.

The DPRK forces people to not be homeless.