WideningGyro

Friedrich was a fantastic artist. It's not his fault the Nazi's broken ass clock approach to art was right once or twice.

unapologetic, but peaceful and harmless Japan

Japan is part of the West and by no means "harmless"

There is something to be said for being openly and unashamedly dumb. I feel like us Europeans have this holier-than-thou superiority complex while still being dumb and horrible as shit. But then again, could also be my bias speaking. I would still rather live here than in the US for material reasons.

As a Dane, please note that while I am bound by blood to hate the Swede, any differences have long since been washed out and we suck as much as, if not more, than them. Just the other day I had a fellow Dane on tell me that they would happily starve for a while if it meant we could keep giving funds to Ukraine..

I see a lot of hate for generic three stripe designs, but I feel like my people needs some hate to - the Danish and Swedish "two colors and a cross" designs suck ass.

Angola, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Mozambique. Guess I have a thing for red, yellow and black designs

Che loved chess, if memory serves. It's a good game when removed from the established sport. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Always hated the neo-reactionary thing in US culture of hating hippies. Sure, some of them are new-age crackpots, but most are more open, fun and interesting than the majority of people.

The infamous "House of Terror" in Budapest is definitely the kind of thing you are describing. It's been a while since I went, but I recall it as like one room with Hungarian Nazi uniforms and then an endless labyrinth of tv screens showing teary-eyed accounts of how the kulaks were beaten by the soviets... BEATEN!

This is really the point to hammer home. Back in my lib days, I started hanging out with a dude who was much cooler than me, and his anarchist friends. We once got to talking about how our town used to have a pretty substantial neo-nazi presence, in the 80s-90s. I said something to the effect of "good thing people are smarter today!" and he and his friends got really animated and saying how "they didn't just go away one day, we fucking chased them out of here!"

While at first I just didn't like getting yelled at, it eventually dawned upon me that that he was right. I, and everyone I had ever talked to about it (other libs), just assumed that that whole unpleasant nazi thing just went away, through the magic of progress, presumably. It was just a thing that was there once, now wasn't. People like him and his friends (and I've since met many more) were the actual people who went out and risked life and limb to oppose the nazis everywhere the went, to vandalize their posters and stickers the moment they went up, to show up in numbers every time there was a demonstration. To do everything to make life as shitty as possible for these pieces of shit until it just wasn't really viable to be a nazi in our town anymore.

That whole realization did a lot to cure me of my "we can't sink to their level"/freezepeach brainworms.

Yeah, clearly the Soviet, Chinese and Cuban workers had completely different interests than being raised out of poverty and squalor. Damn those dastardly political parties and their... diligent work towards eradictaing poverty while promoting actual, decentralized democracy.

And I assume by "dictatorial regimes" you mean any actually existing socialist country, right?

Do you agree with this meme and consider yourself part of "the Left"? Just curious