• bort_simp_son [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, just straight up suggesting being more Asian and less Euoropean means being more war-mongery, uncivilized, and evil. Jfc.

      • OfficialBenGarrison [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        How little self awareness does an anglo rag have to have if that they are pushing the "less white means more warlike and uncivilized."

        To most of the world, the anglos are the "evil invading hordes" and you see 4chan and BAP absolutely embrace that.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Is there a YouTube video from Mauzer with that title yet? :che-laugh: :lenin-laugh:

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    3 years ago

    besides the racist Nazi "asiatic horde" theme here this is also so fucking stupid. One of the foundations Russian national identity is the historic throwing off the "mongol yoke" (they still call it that even now). A bunch of different Russian-speaking petty kingdoms united to liberate their people from the mongol empire. Don't think Putin is going to be inspired by the guy who historically conquered and oppressed his homeland. You know what empire he does take a lot of influence from tho? The fucking Russian Empire, you know the one with the Tsars and the Ukraine??. Guess that explanation doesn't have enough race baiting for the wall street journal though.

    • Animasta [any]
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      3 years ago

      It's not just mongol yoke, it's tatar-mongol yoke which probably contributed to all the shit tatars had to endure in Russia.

  • Husski_Heresy [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    not that it excuses the ASIATIC HORDES'ing but isn't this article from like 2018?

  • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I have a theory for why liberals are being even weirder than usual about Russia/Ukraine. It's impossible for them to say plainly "it's evil to start wars of aggression and kill civilians," because that raises hard questions about the US government's foreign policy. So, they have to distract from the cognitive dissonance with batshit insane takes and invent weird racist reasons why Putin is actually different

    • luceneon [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Or if they’re slightly more left leaning they’ll say “two countries can be bad at the same time”

      Ok why aren’t you calling for crippling sanctions against the USA, Saudi Arabia or Israel and boycotting all their goods?

  • pooh [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Even aside from the racism, this is an absolutely bizarre headline. I mean, who the hell has Genghis Khan nostalgia? What does that even mean?

    • Thomas_Dankara [any,comrade/them]
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      Even aside from the racism, this is an absolutely bizarre headline. I mean, who the hell has Genghis Khan nostalgia?

      a lot of conservative and fascist people in Mongolia do. Mongolia even has a neo-nazi party called Tsagaan Khas. Here's a picture of a Mongolian neo-nazi with a bust of Genghis Khan on his desk.

      rant about genghis khan

      Even among non-fascist Mongolians there is veneration and respect for Genghis Khan as a semi-mythological figure, the same way there is respect for figures like Barbarossa in German culture, and Alexander Nevsky in Russian culture. Bands like The Hu, who admittedly slap, have made many songs venerating Lord Temujin. Batzorig Vaanchig has a traditional mongol song venerating Temujin that has 13 million views. Which also admittedly slaps. Veneration of Genghis Khan in Soviet era Mongolia was treated as reactionary and somewhat discouraged (some say "banned" but I'm not sure), however, from what I understand, traditional attitudes towards Temujin (Genghis Khan) inside of Mongolia view him as sort of a founding father figure and ignore a lot of the violence he perpetrated. They focus on his early life where his father was assassinated, and his family was abandoned by a larger tribe and he and his mother and brothers were left alone to fend for themselves in the wilderness. He was kidnapped and taken as a slave, but then escaped. Then he married into a richer tribe but his first wife Bortei was kidnapped. He rescued his first wife Bortei, and then met up with his childhood friend Jamukha. He and Jamukha worked together to unite the tribes into a larger confederation, but became enemies. Temujin defeated Jamukha and became Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan then expanded the Mongol empire after uniting all the mongol tribes that had previously been separate from one another. He reformed military practices and created a "meritocratic" hierarchy where people without noble blood could be promoted, which was considered "progressive" for 12th century Mongolia. Looted wealth of victim nations was also redistributed amongst the Mongolian military, rather than simply going to the top, creating a strong incentive to enlist and stay loyal. Also he "rescued" Uyghur Muslims from Jin Dynasty rule (lol) and integrated them into his empire, and got Uyghur scribes to develop a system of Mongolian writing, since Mongolia prior to Temujin didn't have a system of writing. He also got them to write his biography, which was kept secret for many generations after his death. Also his empire was somewhat tolerant of religious diversity and did not force Temujin's traditional Mongolian religion Tengrism onto others. But yeah. He also looted and raped and pillaged and took sex slaves and catapulted diseased bodies into besieged cities. So not a good guy. Conservative and fascist Mongolians whitewash the bad parts and emphasize the "good" parts, like fascist Americans do with their founding fathers.

      but i seriously doubt the people who wrote that headline had any of this in mind

  • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    This is only better than the stalin and hitler comparisons in that it’s clear about being fucking stupid and racist.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      it's mask-off hitlerism. the exact same asiatic hordes argument the nazis used for exterminating slavs.

  • Omega_Haxors [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    We can only hope that relying on Communist China would change his material interests towards not being a crony capitalist, but we all know that if anything happens at all, it's going to go the other way.

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