I sometimes wonder how many liberals just assume modern Russia was an agreed-upon continuation of the USSR rather than a deeply resented change; you kind of have to assume that, otherwise this makes no sense
Also damn that shirt is giving me "yes, we're the space Nazis but we're the GOOD bad guys" vibes. Guess it matches the fuckin Darth Vader statue that replaced a Lenin statue
It's funny if you talk to liberals about something historical how much context they're usually missing. Funny and depressing.
Liberal history knowledge is on the level of "and then they taught the pilgrims how to grow corn and they were all friends"
Historical understanding is made completely redundant by idealist philosophies like liberalism. If you think the world is shaped by ideas, then none of that shit matters. The material conditions don't matter, understanding how they emerged doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is a grab basket of ideas which are tautologically good, having those ideas, and spreading those ideas. As long as you have voters voting, courts courting, journalists journaling, and legislatures legislating, and free makets freedoming, you can rest assured that all the problems will work themselves out in the end. For idealists, history serves little purpose other than trivia.
A lib friend unintentionally demonstrated this when he said that "North Korea shows that communism hasn't changed since Stalin"
I would be Gene Wilderfacing so hard at that I'd get a cease and desist from his grandchildren
I started reading Graeber's The Dawn of Everything, by which I mean over the last month I've read the first two chapters. But in those chapters the authors just completely destroy the version of the Enlightenment I remember being taught in high school (which was something like "some philosophers came up with some good ideas, so good in fact that people threw off the yolks of feudalism and religion and instead turned to liberal democratic freedoms and rationality.")
voters voting
In talking to libs I know, this seems to be the stumbling block in all political conversations. "Well, I get to vote so I'm free." But, like, you get to vote for a guy wearing a red tie or a blue tie or maybe even a green or a yellow tie and then... corporations write the laws and pay those politicians to pass those laws and what you want or need doesn't matter. Maybe it's a little uncharitable, but sometimes I think they know that, but don't know what to do because revolution seems impossible or unacceptable, and so they must handwave it away to themselves with a "they'll fix that someday."
100%? Otherwise I wouldn't keep seeing how much 'freedom' Yeltsin, and Gorby when he died, brought to Russia
You can't kill a man who has been fully incorporated into the Metaverse. Holo-Zelenskyy will command his loyal armies from beyond the grave.
DOMINATE OR DIE
okay so why are you mad at Russia for doing the thing you want to do
DAE le empire did nothing wrong? WHOLESOME EPIC CHUNGUS BACON NARWHAL REDDIT GAMING 100%
every single joke of that style, the 'such and such did nothing wrong' goes straight to the nazis.
Akchewallhy, the characters on the shirt are wearing Mandalorian armor. This is Death Watch, the paramilitary fascist force exiled to the Mandalorian moon during the Galactic Republic era. :very-intelligent:
ya but they call themselves the dark side... Was the Death Watch sith and Empire-aligned?
It's Clone Wars era stuff, so pre-Empire and the Sith are still in hiding. More or less they're space :frothingfash:. They end up allying with
spoiler
Darth Maul
(CW: nerd shit) https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Death_Watch
"We are the Death Watch, descendants of the true warrior faith all Mandalorians once knew. Now my people are living in exile because we will not abandon our heritage. Our people were warriors. Strong. Feared! Now they're ruled by the New Mandalorians who think that being a pacifist is a good thing. They've given away our honor and tradition for peace. Duchess Satine and her corrupt leadership are crushing our souls, destroying our identity. That is our struggle."
Pure concentrated :reddit-logo: power fantasy, up to and including the "we are dark exiles because we were too cool for the normies" thing.
Useful if you want the Russians to cringe themselves to death
i don't think anything could've prepared me for just how embarrassing that shirt would be
https://twitter.com/russiangid/status/1580531158848135169?s=20&t=Nzo0ttVk9SfNbyDLAgjl4g
:party-sicko:
