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Merry Christmas to all you fine people. As a great big thank you to everyone who has, is, and possibly will be so kind as to support History Impossible, I have released the newest (and longest) episode of the "Muslim Nazis" series for paid supporters before the new year. Links👇
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Reposting this banger from @ContraPoints.
Leftists overestimate themselves massively. They're not nearly as eclectically well-read as they think they are.
Replying to @iamjourjean
I’m a liberal and I’ve read Marx, Engels, Mises, Hayek, Schumpeter etc. I’ve never met a socialist who has read the last three.
I’m torn between my usual desire to roll my eyes at any attempt to diagnose the Third Reich as “left” or “right” since it literally accomplishes nothing, and my desire to applaud this summary for actually being clear-eyed and 100% correct in its details.
I think the takeaway one should always have about fascism and National Socialism is that they share the same DNA of communism as forms of collectivism. Anyone trying to connect modern western conservatism of the pro-free market variety to Nazism is being disingenuous at worst or just plain stupid at best. One can make the case—and I think probably should—that the JD Vance wing of the GOP is lurching toward a, shall we say, “nationalist form of socialism” but it’s still not the same.
That’s also why Elon trotting out the 2010-era Glenn Beck Boomer-brained talking point about the Nazis being “far left socialists” is equally stupid. It’s not accurate in a historical or even really ideological sense but what’s more annoying is that it doesn’t even matter. It reveals nothing about National Socialism to look at it as “left” or “right.” It was a historically contingent ideology that embraced collectivism—LIKE the far left socialists of the time—but its project was one of perverse national “rebirth” that placed a Jewish scapegoat at its center (along with weird esoteric racial-spiritual nonsense that was the style of the time).
Replying to @ChuckieFFS
You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks.
Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine.
What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support.
Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner.
Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture.
Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
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Can’t stop won’t stop.
.@VivekGRamaswamy (R-OH) on ad against opponent Amy Acton (D-OH): "The irony is they're lying about an ad that is about lying... It had nothing to do with childhood abuse."
Also worth mentioning Ebert gave Fight Club two stars and Usual Suspects one and a half stars. He had some good takes and some bad ones. I still think he was a good critic. Better than most we’re stuck with today.
Roger Ebert's zero stars review of The Devils
rogerebert.com/reviews/the-d…
Roger also gave zero stars to:
Texas Chainsaw
I Spit On Your Grave
The Hitcher
Police Academy
Death Wish 2
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
he gave 1 star to Blue Velvet & The Thing & half a star to Hellraiser
HBO's @LastWeekTonight has a long track record of citing social science findings without the appropriate context, massaging them to support whatever point @iamjohnoliver is trying to make.
John Oliver Warned Against Cherry-Picked Studies
Then he cherry-picked his own.
Finally saw Backrooms. It’s not just the most overrated film of the year but also probably the worst. I guess it looked good, the cast was fine, but it has the depth of a folded piece of tissue paper (diD YOu knOw yOu hAVe trAUma?). Very obviously made by a 20 year old.
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For the Sally Rooney - Salman Rushdie parallel to work, a major Jewish leader would have had to call for her murder, gangs of marauding Jews would have had to burn down bookstores, and a Jewish extremist would have had to stab her eye out with a knife.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
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For fuck’s sake. The looters in Paris aren’t starving.
People are rushing to the comments to invoke the 12,000 Arabs from the Palestinian Mandate who fought for the British and the faction of anti-Zionist radicals like Hajj Amin al-Husseini alike who supported and aided the Third Reich. This simply reveals the complex nature of the Mandate during this time.
What truly matters is the legacy that was left behind. Pro-Palestinian movements are not the intellectual descendants of those 12,000 soldiers who fought for the Crown against the Axis, who are largely forgotten. All one has to do is look at the rhetoric crafted by Hajj Amin and the Arab section of the Third Reich's Foreign and Propaganda Offices. It laid the template for just about everything we hear today from these movements, particularly with the consistent blurring of "Zionists" and "Jews." This was all essentially lifted by the Soviets some decades later when they decided to be Third Worldists' golden goose, but that's a different story.
The point is, if you study intellectual history, you come to understand that you can't pick and choose which ideas carry more weight today based on what you want to believe about your own cause. Intellectual heritage is mappable, and there is zero doubt for anyone that actually studies history that the Third Reich's Islamophilia, opportunistic propaganda strategies, and allyship with the most genocidal faction of the Palestinian nationalist movement (who continued selling land to Jews and selling out their supposed fellow countrymen, but again, that's a different story) is the historical nexus point for what became Palestinianism.
Wait till this precious genius learns about the National Socialist German Students’ League.
A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
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Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
britannica.com/topic/Red-Guar…
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
aei.org/education/actu…
(And learns how the Nazis weren’t exactly fans of the Weimar ruling class, since apparently that qualifier matters so much).
Replying to @_itzsammy
Funny how everyone angry about this skipped the second qualifier. 'Opposing students AND siding with the ruling class.' Both parts. Read it again.
This managed to make me not think the character development of Anakin in the prequels was utter dogshit by masterfully taking a much-needed dump on Gen Z. This is no small feat 👏👏👏
The prideful, stupid narcissist is easily corrupted, cucked and radicalised by a cynical old politician playing on his ego— the only character who shows an ounce of intelligence.
Like all children, he is told he is special. Like too many children today, he refuses to grow up.
He blames systems he does not understand. He is too self-absorbed to contemplate a single way they might be redeemed.
He is too fragile to sustain loss or misfortune. He believes he alone has a right to not be failed.
He embraces moral relativism because he is selfish. Rather than use his prodigious talents for the good of others, he complains that he is not rewarded simply for being himself.
He loves his wife as his possession, and turns on her the moment he thinks she's anything more.
He murders children. He embodies what he creates: a lost generation.
He overthrows those old systems, and becomes an embittered tool of the new regime he stupidly believed he would rule.
He must eventually be redeemed by his son, who remembers the old virtues of charity, friendship, and self-sacrifice, and who fights - guided by his father's teachers - to rebuild what his father destroyed, as it should have been.
We need much more of Luke, and much less of Anakin.
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You: “Dude I really like this girl & she’s bringing some friends, just don’t be weird okay?”
Your friend after his 4th drink:
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The joke wasn’t really funny but the six days of mental anguish from Instagram weirdos with main character syndrome is something else.
Another ‘SNL’ alum trolls Shane Gillis’ controversial monologue as backlash against comedian rages on trib.al/4iCFXRB
This is subjective but… Name three PERFCT movies. No argument. No explanation. Just three flicks you think are perfect. Here goes:
1. Oldboy (Korean version)
2. There Will Be Blood
3. In Bruges



























