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from an oss manual, circa 1943.
Yup.
I’ve got no problem with using those tactics on nazis.
The problem is that the CIA and FBI used those tactics on everyone who wasn’t a capitalist. For seventy years.
I think this was my first overt call for revolution on BB:
Saw the need for it the second that Gorsuch was appointed, though.
Why the Democrats are an ex-party:
I think those tactics are more likely to make fascists more rabid and numerous. Punching nazis in honest daily intercourse is one thing, confirming their “special” status with special meaures… is the wrong message. These are dumbfucks who have their dumbfuck mentality fed by gigantically rich dumbfucks.
Punch the brown-shirts when you have to. Punch the money when you can.
https://twitter.com/lanadelraytheon/status/914030567712284672
https://mobile.twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/914032856007106560
1942 Europe was a bit of a special case. No holds barred.
Remember what I said about People4Bernie being a DSA front?
This is creepy as fuck:
My neighbours are having a garden party, with a loud sound system set up.
And they’re playing 1930’s German oompah music.
War was seen then as honest discourse, which delegitimized fascism’s moral authority. We called their bluff. Before the war, appeasement had been a kind of special measure in promoting a solid defense against stalinism and communism.
Appeasement’s legacy was to note both how it aimed at the wrong target (socialist movements in Europe) while avoiding dealing directly with the european industrialists who were fighting against democracy.
More lib-friendly than I would have gone for, but they’re pitching to a fairly moderate audience.