• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    Shoot the lock to escape the room, and save the other bullet for whoever locked you up in there.

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    the lib gives the gun to the fascist the fascist shoots the lib in the back of the head twice, the fasicst then gaslights the marxist into believing the lib committed self harm

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    Throw the gun away and beat thw shit out of the fascist with the other two would be my choice. That hurts more than a gunshot.

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    While the conservative that planned this insane and illegal real life thought experiment jerked off into a dirty sock while wearing a trump mask and somehow, despite not even touching the gun, still shot themselves in the foot.

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      This one, at least as applies to liberals in government in the USA, is a lot more accurate.

      Oh and also they need some money for medical bills now. They’ll be sure to send you some texts about it.

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    A Marxist is stuck in a room with a liberal, a fascist, and an anarchist. The Marxist has one gun and two bullets. What does the Marxist do? Shoot the liberal and the anarchist.

    (Based off actual historical events.)

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      The Soviet Union did more to stop the fascists than anyone else, and 27 million people in the Soviet Union were killed in the fight.

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        Yeah, but that’s after they made an alliance with Nazi Germany. An alliance Germany broke, not the USSR.

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          A non-aggression pact is not so much of an alliance. Nazis are the ones who broke it anyway. US armed/financed German military-industrial complex.

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            It was not just a pact of non aggression. They attacked Poland together, and shared its territory. It was an alliance.

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          The USSR first sought an alliance with Britain and France which was rejected, so they signed a non-aggression pact with Germany. Britain and France also signed a non-aggression pact with Germany, betraying one of their allies (Czechoslovakia) in exchange.

          Should we take the fact that the US and USSR fought on the same side in WWII to say that they were always close friends and ideologically aligned, completely ignoring everything else? Because if anything that would be more reasonable to assert, because it never escalated to a hot war between the two.

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            It wasn’t just a pact of non-aggression. They divided Poland between themselves! France and Britain abandoned Czechoslovakia to avoid a war, USSR made an alliance with Nazi Germany to begin one.

            And USSR and the US were on the same side because they were attacked by allied countries (Germany and Japan), they didn’t chose one another. Stop your historical revisionism.

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              I won’t defend all of the USSR’s actions, but it’s absurd to suggest they were motivated by any sort of ideological alignment with the Nazis as opposed to self-interest and circumstance, in the same way that the US and USSR were motivated by a common interest rather than ideological alignment.

              At basically every other moment in history, all across the globe, Marxists and fascists have been at each other’s throats.

              Nothing I’ve said is in the least bit “historical revisionism.”

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                Still, the USSR considered that an alliance with Nazi Germany was ideologically acceptable, even if they were not aligned. Because the only true ideology of USSR was to maintain its leaders in power, Marxism was just a facade. And that’s will always ultimately the case with authoritarian governments.

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                  Of course self-preservation was a priority for the USSR, as it is with any nation. Failure to achieve self-preservation would have meant being ruled by the Nazis.

                  Not sure how that in any way indicates that “Marxism was a facade.”

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            The Soviet Union was not entitled to an alliance with partners they were at war with only a decade prior. Britain and France were at war with the entity that would become the Soviet Union until 1922, There was no reason to Trust an alliance from a state that was ideologically opposed to them and wanted to destroy their way of life.

            But the Victim complex from the Russians is a venerable beast, it was as relevant in 1925 as it was in 2025.

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              I’m not sure how it’s relevant whether or not the Soviets were “entitled” to an alliance. What matters is the fact that they attempted to negotiate one there first.

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                I can ask for a cup of sugar from the neighbor who I wrecked the car of last month. that neighbor is still within his reasonable rights to tell me to fuck off

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                  Again, not relevant. The point is not how Britain and France responded, the point is that the Soviets chose to go to them first.

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        Which the Red Army made up for by murdering untold thousands of German citizens on the way to Berlin. Let’s not pretend the Soviets weren’t huge pieces of shit, the only reason they didn’t start WW2 was because they were too busy shitting in buckets and starving to death.

        The only people you idiot .ml users are fooling is yourselves, so I don’t know why you bother with this revisionist bullshit.

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        The Soviet Union. Or more accuratley, RUSSIA was one of the two aggressors that Started the second world war.

        Furthermore, they were not an ally, but a co-belligerent. Why else did the free world go from a period of direct confrontation and war in the 20s, to Cold war in the 30s. to temporary truce for 4 years from 1941 to 1945. right back to Cold war with Moscow from 1945 till 1991? (and then another temporary truce from 1991 until about 2008) right back to more or less being de facto at war with each other again since 2014

        And you can’t pin tens of millions of your own people, with Purges, Pogroms, Mentally handicapped suicidal orders. And general paranoid hysterical incompetnece. and blame those on the germans.

        especially when large percentages of those people were colonized nations that wanted nothing to do with the Bolshevik Russian Imperial rule (Belarusians, Ukrainians, Poles, Balts etc and were just used like buffers and meat shields)

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          to temporary truce for 4 years from 1941 to 1945.

          Do nations typically put aside differences to make temporary truces with co-belligerents of the nations they’re at war with?

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            I dont know. you tell me. Outside of the thunderdome in the middle east. whens the last time there was a major conflict with dozens of nations and more than two major ideoligies at play.

            If you’re asking in good faith. World War II’s situation was largely unprecedented.
            Unlike WWI Where Imperial Russia and France were allied. Soviet Russia was not allied with France, Britain, or western Europe.

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              The point is that the US put aside ideological differences because the USSR was fighting against the Nazis, they were not “co-belligerents.”

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                for four years. a temporary matter. they went right back to being in a hostile competition for spheres of influence a few weeks or months after V-E day however.

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                  Well, that’s twice as long as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact lasted before the Nazis and Communists went right back to killing each other, not just in a “hostile competition” but in a large scale, total war that left tens of millions of people dead.

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          Did you forget how all the MLs were rooting for Putin and performing apologetics about how Russia had “national trauma from its interactions with the west”? (actual quote, btw.) They pointed out how there were some factions in the military that were antisemitic and ignored the openly fascist policies of the Kremlin.

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            JFC… Russia needs to neutralize Ukraine for self defense from demonic NATO intentions to diminish it. Disinformation blaming Russia just allows your rulers and oligarchs corruption profits while your own countries are diminished instead. Pretending that all of your evil benefits Ukrainian people is by far the worst outcome of your hate.

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        The Spanish Civil War is actually slightly inaccurate. The Communist Party were sided with the Liberal Republicans instead of the revolutionaries - like the anarchists, and other socialists - and later prosecuted those revolutionaries and accused them of being fascists while a lot of them were still in the frontlines fighting actual fascists. The Communist Party were just serving the interests of the USSR, which at that point wanted a liberal government in Spain (due to their relation to France, if I recall correctly) and not a workers’ revolution.

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          This is why campism is the biggest pitfall on the left. It’s tempting to let others do your thinking for you, but this is where it leads.

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      Surely giving the gun to the fascist is a better decision. They’ll just shoot themselves in the foot… Right?

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        They eventually do. Fascism encourages corruption and incompetence, social division and the fragmentation of non-governmental movements, local dissidents and autonomies. Mussolini was so incompetent that not only was Italy eventually invaded by the Allies and lost its sovereignty to the German Reich, but Benito himself was imprisoned, despite his escape he didn’t make it to Switzerland and was hanged by Communist partisans. Hitler, on the other hand, also encouraged corruption and division within his own structures to prevent people from allying against him or creating opposition. Hitler himself was an incompetent idiot who interfered in the work of his generals. To the end, Adolf believed he could win the war, and when he realised the shit he had created, he shot himself. Fascists aren’t smart or competent enough, they often rely heavily on people who can do things and who are bribed by the fascists to work with them. Hitler often used Göring’s upper class position and connections with prominent aristocrats to get his ideas through, as Hitler himself was just a peasant born in a village with little education and was even homeless for a time. Hitler relied heavily on people more competent than him in important positions to get what he wanted, because he could do shit on his own.

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      The Marxist was the only one who gave the anarchist guns, tanks, and planes. But no, they’re surely a bigger threat than the liberal and fascist.

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    A leftist is stuck in a room with another leftist and a fascist.

    The leftist has one gun and two bullets, and they must be used.

    What does the leftist do?

    Shoot the other leftist twice.

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      … then claim the other leftist making an edgy joke at the age of 14 is a proof they were the real fascist.

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        I use my two bullets to shoot the concept of this political thought experimentp. Let me out now puzzle master, we had a deal you can’t keep

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      Based off of current goings-on, this is factual. Constant internal battles about who’s the true leftist while ignoring the real enemy

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        The only ones ignoring the real enemy are the liberals, actually helping them to fight the leftists.

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            Damn that was fast! USA is not yet full fascist that liberals are already rewriting history!

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                By pretending that liberals didn’t push the fascists to power. And instead blaming the left, as always. The only enemy of liberals are the leftists. It always has been, and it’ll always be apparently.

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                  This is a myopic analysis of why the fascists are in power. The left as a whole is responsible for pushing the fascists to power because of their inability to settle on a common agenda. Some leftists are more concerned with social justice, some with the worries of the working class and some with capitalism entirely.

                  This blaming of one particular ideological group for why the right were able to usurp power is part of the problem. Looking for who to blame instead of looking for a solution that all leftists can agree on.

                  Note: When i refer to the left, I’m talking about liberals, progressives, social democrats and the far left ideologies.

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    Of course they started with 6 bullets but the liberal and the fascist liked to pass the gun around and take pot shots at the marxist every so often so the marxist couldn’t ever influence or overpower them. This is just the moment the liberal realized there were only two bullets left.

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      Historically speaking, the Nazis literally first built the camps to put Marxists in.

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        ah yes, the holocaust was checks notes started to persecute commies

        mods, can we get a ban for him being a right-wing nutjob?

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          First they came for the Communists

          And I did not speak out

          Because I was not a Communist

          Then they came for the Socialists

          And I did not speak out

          Because I was not a Socialist

          Then they came for the trade unionists

          And I did not speak out

          Because I was not a trade unionist

          Then they came for the Jews

          And I did not speak out

          Because I was not a Jew

          Then they came for me

          And there was no one left

          To speak out for me

          The Holocaust started with elimination of political opponents, namely the communists.

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          Nazi Germany persecuted a wide variety of people. While the Holocaust specifically refers to the atrocities committed against the Jews, there were up to 5 million more Slavs, Roma, LGBT, disabled, communists, and political disadents of any kind who were killed.

          Particularly leading up to the Nazis sizing power, much of their initial rhetoric was absolutely targeted at Jews, but much of their initial action was targeted at communists, since they were political rivals.

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          Yes, in fact.

          The concentration camp system arose in the following months due to the desire to suppress tens of thousands of Nazi opponents in Germany. The Reichstag fire in February 1933 was the pretext for mass arrests; the Reichstag Fire Decree eliminated the right to personal freedom enshrined in the Weimar Constitution.

          Eighty percent of prisoners were Communists and ten percent Social Democrats; the remaining ten percent were affiliated with a different party, were trade union activists, or had no connection to a political party.

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                Which history? I’m actually curious, I need to know what Kremlin approved literature I should be reading to get the “real” history.

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                  I already linked you Wikipedia, but I guess that’s controlled by the Kremlin. How about the Holocaust Encyclopedia, is that controlled by the Kremlin too?

                  As soon as the Nazis rose to power, they began targeting communists, both inside and outside Germany. In 1933, the first concentration camp opened at Dachau to hold political prisoners. The first prisoners were all communists.

                  You are objectively wrong about this and if you ask literally any historian, regardless of their political views, they will tell you so. I can hunt down more sources for you if you like, but I have a feeling you’ve dug in your heels enough that it literally doesn’t matter who or what I cite.

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                  Is Wikipedia “Kremlin approved literature”?

                  The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Initially, most prisoners were members of the Communist Party of Germany, but as time went on different groups were arrested, including “habitual criminals”, “asocials”, and Jews.

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    Fuck that shit answer. I’d shoot myself twice.

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        If the Marxist is Russian, I’m pretty confident I’d be able to shoot myself twice in the head in that room.