

What is it that you think would motivate a lower-class Westerner to sympathize with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China?
Having nothing better to do?
‘Lemmygrad’s resident expert on fascism’ — GrainEater, 2024
‘The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970


What is it that you think would motivate a lower-class Westerner to sympathize with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China?
Having nothing better to do?


Socialism isn’t the absence of private property
Heh.


…oh really?? Why don’t you move to North Korea then?


If I had access to all of the televisions and radios in Imperial America, I would get somebody famous like Zohran Mamdani to read a paper detailing how the upper classes not only facilitated the rise of Fascism in Europe, but also profited from the Axis’s war crimes and survived the twentieth century almost completely unpunished. At the end, he would say something like ‘As I speak, hundreds of thousands of workers are going to seek and despoil the upper classes with the understanding that there is no other way to make them pay for their crimes, and that this course of action is far more preferable to leaving them unpunished.’
I suspect that few people, if any, would take action.


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No, there is an endless supply of evidence that Joseph Stalin willingly starved millions of Ukrainians out of his extreme hatred for the White race. Furthermore, Ukraine never experienced a famine in the millennia before Stalin forced communism on everyone, and there was not a single instance of drought, plant disease or vermin activity either. All of this is well documented, universally agreed upon by good historians, and I can give you all the proof in the world. All that you have to do is solve this CAPTCHA to prove that you are not a robot:

Whatever. The point is that Kim Jong Un sits around oppressing innocent people all day simply because he has nothing better to do with his time. That is a fact, and if you disagree, then you are probably some shill who is on his payroll, just like how anybody who opposes the Ukrainian government must be a Russian troll that the Kremlin ‘secretly’ employs.


But he did say that Jews who distance themself [sic] from the war in Gaza are welcome to have a coffee as well, and he has ‘nothing against them’.
Then why the hell didn’t he write ‘No Zionists’ or maybe ‘No IDF’? Is he some kind of bonehead? Or was he only trying to make us look bad?
Somehow I get the strangest feeling that the reporters aren’t telling us something.
She didn’t ask to have a medical condition. Keep your perverted insensitivity to yourself.


You should contact @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml about that.


Was it intended for /c/fuckcars?


“Everybody is saying that my Cossacks slaughtered peaceful residents, women, and children. This is nonsense! According to my orders, they only fought Bolsheviks. I gave a command to root out Bolsheviks. If Jewish women, children, and the elderly are Bolsheviks, it is their fault, not mine.”⁶⁴
The blame for the violence, Semosenko continued, lay with the city council for having failed to stop the Bolshevik uprising and with the Jews for their Bolshevism.
(Source.)
Not that different from how Herzlians talk about Palestinians.


I decided to look on Walmartipedia to see what trouble Butch Hartman has been causing lately. He is working at an explicitly Christian network titled Great American Pure Flix. I went to the search function and entered this:
‘Armenian’
Results:
We’re sorry. We are having trouble finding a match to your search.
…
Okay, so much for finding a film on the Meds Yeghern. How about the Shoah? Many Evangelicals at least pretend to care about the Shoah, and some of the victims were either Judeo-Christians or at least legally ‘Jewish’. We’ll have a higher chance finding something therein.
‘Holocaust’
Results:
We’re sorry. We are having trouble finding a match to your search.
Let’s try again.
‘Shoah’
Results:
We’re sorry. We are having trouble finding a match to your search.
Okay, we can’t go wrong with this next one!
‘Nazi’
Results:
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Sabina: Tortured for Christ
Hey, we got something! Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon has nothing to do with Christianity, but that other one should. Let’s look it up.
Sabina: Tortured for Christ, the Nazi Years is the story of how G-d’s love transformed an ambitious, worldly atheist into one of the greatest Christian women of the 20th century. The film opens with Sabina Wurmbrand risking her life to show Christ’s love to three Nazi soldiers. Why would a Christian from a Jewish background risk her life to help her enemies — members of the army that killed her entire family? Experience a true story of biblical love and forgiveness that has inspired millions around the world.
I quickly notice that this website is heavily targeted at churches. This would explain the film’s limited reach or niche appeal. The website features brief biographies on Sabina and her husband Richard, ‘who suffered under Nazi and Communist oppression’. Remember: merely suffering under Fascist oppression = Snoozeville. But suffering under Fascism and a people’s republic? Jackpot!
Anyway, I did some more research and was disturbed by what I found:
Voice of the Martyrs’ founder Richard Wurmbrand has his own story in Jesus Freaks, though it’s not clear who authored it. I was surprised to read that his first infraction—the act that supposedly put a target on his back and led to his arrest and torture by the Communist government—was kind of in opposition to other Christians.
It was a year after the Communists had seized power in Romania. The government had invited all religious leaders to attend a congress at the Parliament building over 4,000 attended. First, they chose Joseph Stalin as honorary president of the congress. Then the speeches began. It was absurd and horrible. Communism was dedicated to the destruction of religion, as had already been shown in Russia.
Yet bishops and pastors arose and declared that Communism and Christianity were fundamentally the same and could coexist. Out of fear, these men of G-d were filling the air with flattery and lies.
It was as if they spat in Jesus Christ’s face.
Sabina Wurmbrand could stand it no longer. She whispered to her husband, “Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ.”
Richard knew what would happen. “If I speak, you will lose your husband.”
Sabina replied, “I do not wish to have a coward for a husband.”
Pastor Wurmbrand took the stage. To everyone’s surprise, he began to preach. Immediately, a great silence fell on the hall.
“Delegates, it is our duty not to praise earthly powers that come and go, but to glorify G-d the Creator and Christ the Savior, who died for us on the cross.” […] The atmosphere began to change. The audience began to applaud. He was saying what they had all wanted to say, but were afraid to.
The book’s introduction claims that “Our culture understands heroism. But we don’t understand martyrs.” It’s true, there is something compelling about sacrifice, particularly if it is selfless. But this seems like an odd dichotomy—heroism versus martyrdom—for a book so hagiographically valorizing martyrs to set up.
“I do not wish to have a coward for a husband,” Wurmbrand’s wife prompts. These ideas of cowardice and bravery flatten the martyr just as the role of evil persecutor flattens the enemy, preventing any cooperation or coexistence.
Later in the story, after describing the tortures he faced while under arrest, Wurmbrand says that it was important for him to learn to pity and love his torturers—in fact, that he was divinely inspired to do so. “Only love can change the communist and the terrorist,” he says.
But when I look at these stories, I don’t see any love. I see loopholes, ways out—ways to politicize faith without saying it, and ways for aggressors to feel like victims.
If his tale about the SRR’s authorities torturing him is true (and who knows, maybe it is true) then I am unhappy that that happened. That being said, it was also unacceptable for him to tell his tale of oppression as if it were solely his Christianity that was to blame and not his anticommunism. I find that framing to be dishonest or at least highly misleading. Also, his wife sounded mean. ‘I do not wish to have a coward for a husband’…? Was that really the type of attitude that he needed from his wife of all people?
Here is some more information on Voice of the Martyrs:
VOM clearly distinguishes itself from its secular counterparts by working exclusively on behalf of Christians. Addressing the audience at Calvary Chapel in 2012, VOM board member Mark Shumaker explained, “We don’t let ourselves get off track by helping people who aren’t persecuted Christians.”
This is one of the many reasons that Christian conservatives get on my nerves: they (almost) always prioritise the others in their sect first and foremost; everybody who turns down the offer to join their sect—even if they do it as politely as possible—can literally go to Hell. There is very little biblical basis for this principle; we therefore cannot reductively blame it on ‘religion’, but this phenomenon’s prevalence despite its lack of biblical support remains an important reason that I tend to keep my expectations low when I hear ‘Christian’. No offense to @mathemachristian@hexbear.net.


Gaza is, by far, the safest and most well fed place on Earth. There is not a single civilian anywhere in there who feels the least bit peckish. I was in there yesterday and everybody told me that they were having nothing but the time of their lives, constantly eating all of their gourmet meals generously provided by the IDF. If given the choice between taking my family to either Disneyland or Gaza, I would choose Gaza without a second’s hesitation. Easily. No contest.
The only conceivable reason that the United Nations, the ICRC, The Lancet, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and more than one hundred other organizations would condemn the war on Hamas is that they want to exterminate the Jewish race, just like anybody who opposes the Ukrainian government is a Russian troll who wants Putin to annex Ukraine and genocide millions of European people with blond hair and blue eyes. If all of those thousands of so-called ‘experts’ and ‘scholars’ had my superior brain, they’d agree wholeheartedly.
The IDF are the most moral army in the world and are not oppressing anybody whatsoever in Gaza. I’m not saying that the IDF are perfect, but if you found evidence of the IDF committing war crimes, it wasn’t evidence of the IDF committing war crimes. So relax, keep calm and everything will be perfectly fine as long as you keep sending us those tax dollars. I promise.
Signed,
Benjamin Netanyahu
Not only is China indisputably persecuting Uyghurs, but we have far more proof for the genocide in the Xinjiang province than we do for the one in Gaza. Millions of scholars who are not at all associated with either Adrian Zenz or Uyghur separatists agree that the Uyghur genocide is the deadliest, most important, and best documented atrocity of all time. If you need links to the evidence, I can give you as many links as you want.
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