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  • Or, you know, you check the sourcing and realize:

    according to a report by the Dharamshala-based independent radio station Voice of Tibet (VoT).

    And so you check their about us page and find:

    It was founded by three Norwegian NGOs; The Norwegian Human Rights House, The Norwegian Tibet Committee and Worldview Rights. The project has been funded through donations from supportive organizations and private individuals.

    … and start to wonder, as this dosn‘t seem very homegrown, why‘s the west involved here? So you check Wikipedia and find:

    It receives funds from the United States National Endowment for Democracy.

    And you might wonder, oh what‘s that and you check them out and realize, that the NED is a known CIA operation being directly funded by the US government and exists:

    with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide and countering communist influence abroad by promoting political and economic institutions, such as political groups, business groups, trade unions, and free markets.

    🦅 Hurr Durr! Democracy! Freedom! 🦅

    Extra source, but be careful, it‘s from the evil Chinese government: Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy

    Ya, you just got rage baited by US propaganda to be more angry at China. GJ, be proud! Keep on hating on the evil leftists from ML, lol.

    Maybe, also avoid @[email protected] posts, because they keep posting exactly this kind of shit.




  • Volant Media is strongly biased towards the west and not a trustworthy source.

    The world’s leading news networks on Iran and Afghanistan

    From our studios in London and Washington, and supported by a global correspondent network, we deliver editorially independent news and analysis. We cover breaking news, finance, sports, and documentaries, reaching over 100 million viewers.

    They‘re also absolutely intransparent in regards to their funding.

    The channel is backed by a Saudi-British investor with ties to the Saudi government, According to The Guardian, Saudi Arabia has provided a 250-million-dollar fund for Iran International in 2018, but Iran International’s management claims the independence of its editorial operation and denies a link to any government.




  • Stop making stuff up, it’s time to bring the receipts. Where exactly does “Eco’s version assumes Stalin’s regime is one of primary fascist regimes in the first place”?

    Eco treated Stalinism as a seperate, parallel example of totalitarianism, explicitedly not labeling it fascist.

    You gotta leave your confused reactionary, red fascism narrative and anti-communism stance behind, if you actually want to understand the world. Maybe start by not being so dishonest.


    Some passages from Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism:

    If by totalitarianism one means a regime that subordinates every act of the individual to the state and to its ideology, then both Nazism and Stalinism were true totalitarian regimes.

    It was Italian fascism that convinced many European liberal leaders that the new regime was carrying out interesting social reform, and that it was providing a mildly revolutionary alternative to the Communist threat.

    Nevertheless, historical priority does not seem to me a sufficient reason to explain why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements. This is not because fascism contained in itself, so to speak in their quintessential state, all the elements of any later form of totalitarianism. On the contrary, fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions.



  • Oh, the historical fascisms such as under Stalin and Pol Pot, right.

    it’s in principle undetermined in ideology

    Correct in so far, as it‘s determined by economic system. Which happens to align with left/right ideology.

    But the only principles really important for any kind of fascism are violence, anti-rationalism and amorphous ideology.

    You’re making shit up depending on how your tummy feels, don‘t you?

    Please stop using the internet.




  • Hint: not a double standard.

    The imperialist West is scrambling to remain the world‘s hegemonic superpower, with the US as the big dog and the EU as its ideological vassal.

    Using Ukraine to overexploit their resources and as a battleground to weaken Russia. Using Venezuela to overexploit their resources and to weaken resource-access for China. Using Israel as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in West Asia towards China. Using Taiwan as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in South-East Asia directly off the coast of China.

    The only double standard is the cognitive dissonance in our propagandized heads.


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    Thanks, I prefer my shitty take over your scrubby narrative rehash without actual grounding in reality. Not sure how it helps calling everyone with dissenting perspectives a tankie makes any sense. Surely only, if you’re actively trying to remain ignorant and keep your indoctrinated mind at ease.