I made a similar observation several years ago. For the American tribes still present, The Man in the High Castle is a reality for them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070614140107/http://yale.edu/gsp/publications/WaiKeng.doc
The [Axis] Occupation of Singapore from February 1942 to August 1945 was a particularly momentous period of loss and sacrifice for the Chinese population as compared to other ethnicities, because they were the targets of brutal [Imperial] military policies. During a month of screening procedures and indiscriminate massacres in 1942 known as sook ching, or cleansing operations, an undetermined number of civilians were separated from their families and friends and suffered uncertain fates. In many cases, the last time relatives saw loved ones was at a screening center before the unlucky victims were driven away in trucks to unknown destinations.
No, I’m not okay. I’m tired. I’ve been depressed for at least seventeen years now and it distorts my perception of reality. Same with my obsessive–compulsive disorder, which causes me to dwell on previous interactions a lot. I don’t know if that explains anything, but it isn’t meant to be an excuse; I don’t have a good excuse.
Uhh… to be honest I’m kind of embarrassed now that I made this thread and I am tempted to delete it.
I’m twenty‐nine.
I haven’t used sexual metaphors to insult others since I was 22.
My advice? Read more books. Or if you have to engage with these dullards, troll them with either falsely reassuring comments (‘That’s a good point. You really showed me how wrong I was.’) or by pretending that you can’t understand them at all (‘What do you mean?’, ‘What are you trying to say?’, ‘What are you talking about?’). They obviously don’t want to learn, so the most that you can do is have some fun with them. Taking them seriously, even for only a minute, isn’t going to get you anywhere. It simply isn’t worth the time.
I can safely say that you’ll learn more about fascism within five minutes of lurking !capitalismindecay@lemmygrad.ml than you will after spending five years in the company of ‘anti‐tankies’. Kindly remind me: who was the one who taught you about the Four‐Power Pact and its purpose? Who was the one who taught you about the Regio Esercito’s persecution of Libyan Jews? Who was the one who taught you about the riot at Christie Pits? Who was the one who taught you about the microstate that voted overwhelmingly to join the Third Reich?
I can see that you are somebody who takes the subject of fascism seriously. Have you considered subscribing to or lurking !capitalismindecay@lemmygrad.ml? Although it currently only has one regular contributor, I update it frequently and I am willing to answer whatever questions that you may have on the subject.
Just HOW can you support communism as a Polish person after everything it did to your country?????
See, for example:
The rapid increase in the living standards of the workers and peasants in post-World War II Poland is reflected in the trends in meat consumption. In 1966–68 Poles were consuming an average of 47, and in 1975–77, 61, grams of animal protein per day. This is higher than the Western European average, and almost equal to that of the United States. For example, in 1975–77 West Germans ate an average of 55 grams per day; Italians, 45; and Swedes, 62. In the United States animal protein consumption per capita was 73 grams a day, and in the USSR, 51 grams (FAO, 1978:table 9).
The rise in living standards has also been reflected in a radical increase in social services available to the Polish working class. In 1977 there was one physician per 610 people in Poland, compared with one per 1,070 in 1960 and one per 2,660 in 1938—the average for all the advanced capitalist countries in 1979 was one per 620 people. The attention given by the socialist state to health care was reflected in the radical reduction in infant mortality from 140 per 1,000 live births in 1935 and 111 in 1950 to 22 per 1,000 in 1978 (the U.S. rate in the mid-1960s) (see U.N. Statistical Yearbook, various; World Bank, 1981: tables 20, 21).
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The 1970–75 period was extremely successful economically. In these years national income grew by 9.4 percent a year (the rate was 6.0 percent from 1965 to 1970), industrial production by 10.8 percent (it was 7.8 percent from 1965 to 1970), and net fixed capital formation by 18.4 percent (it was 9.2 percent from 1965 to 1970), while wages grew by about 12 percent a year (compared with about 2 percent a year from 1965 to 1970). Food prices remained frozen over the 1970–75 period. Between 1971 and 1974 productivity grew at 7 percent a year (Hare and Wanless, 1981:505; also Table 3.1 in this chapter).
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There are some great videos on the Hasidim that you should watch some time, but many of them are a few dozen minutes long. I am sure that you’ll enjoy them, though. There is one boy in the series who reminds me of Omar Mukhtar.
If you don’t have a lot of time you could watch this miniseries of Ashkenazim and Sephardim exchanging culture. It’s much lighter on the Judaism content, but it’s pretty fun.