The more that I learn about the Crusades, the more similarities that I see between them and the Herzlian occupation of Palestine. The parallels are almost shocking.

In embarking on the First Crusade, Pope Urban II aimed for the displacement of all Turks, pagans (including Muslims), and non-Latin Christians. The stated purpose of such mass displacement was to purify the Holy Land and make it suitable for Latin stewardship.⁴⁴ Perhaps given the spiritual significance of the Holy Land, this policy’s overtly sectarian nature was not condemned as forced conversion unlike Castilian settlement. Despite no universal policy of either ethnic cleansing or mass conversion, both did occur in the Latin Kingdom on a localized scale.⁴⁵

Major cities along the Syrian and Palestinian coast were often the sights of devastating massacres, where crusaders targeted Muslims and Jews specifically. Jews and Muslims were also forbidden from residing in Jerusalem during Frankish rule. Much like Castilian settlement, Frankish rural settlements were also established in depopulated areas, though this displacement was the result of locals fleeing violence during wartime rather than a concerted, organized effort after the fact.

The deficit of European settlement in the Latin Kingdom necessitated the preservation of local populations where possible, however settlements in depopulated areas were nevertheless established.

(Emphasis added. Source.)

states that pretended to try communism

When did they claim this?

People take grave robbing extremely seriously, as in it is the worst possible form of theft that anyone can commit.

What is it that you think would motivate a lower-class Westerner to sympathize with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China?

Having nothing better to do?

Socialism isn’t the absence of private property

Heh.

If I had access to all of the televisions and radios in Imperial America, I would get somebody famous like Zohran Mamdani to read a paper detailing how the upper classes not only facilitated the rise of Fascism in Europe, but also profited from the Axis’s war crimes and survived the twentieth century almost completely unpunished. At the end, he would say something like ‘As I speak, hundreds of thousands of workers are going to seek and despoil the upper classes with the understanding that there is no other way to make them pay for their crimes, and that this course of action is far more preferable to leaving them unpunished.’

I suspect that few people, if any, would take action.

The Palestinians are almost entirely descended from ancient Jews.

I should have noticed it earlier, but seeing that photograph comparison made me realize that Herzlians deny the extermination of Gazans despite its overwhelming evidence whereas they completely believe in the Uygur genocide conspiracy theory despite its utter lack of evidence.

It comes with Shoah distortion, too.

The feds.

‘I am no messenger… but I will give you a message: the message of death!’

breaking the law

Since when was that illegal?

Name one time a capitalist state has done anything illegal.

I am not joking when I say that I have seen evidence of the Ukrainian government wanting to destroy the Russian Federation than I have seen evidence of the Kremlin wanting to destroy Ukraine.

I miss the days when antisemitism was accusing Jews of being avaricious, dishonest conspirators responsible for nearly every bad thing that happens. Now it’s all boring stuff like saying ‘from the river to the sea’, ‘ceasefire now’, and ‘maybe sending children to a military detention center isn’t a good idea’.

Such is the nature of left antisemitism: you must always read between the lines.

For example, a user by the name of Anarcho-Bolshevik once commented ‘Every Jew is like a precious lamb to me. (Except for Netanyahu and anybody who supports him… those people are awful.)’

You shall see, gentlemen, that this is, without question, the single most antisemitic comment ever written, for a few simple reasons:

• Calling Jews ‘precious’, which puts a price on them, so she or he is actually saying that all Jews are commodities. Strike one.
• Comparing Jews to animals frequently intended for consumption, thereby implying that she or he wants to eat all Jews, as anybody could logically deduce from that. Strike two.
• Saying that anybody who supports Netanyahu is awful, but supporting the war on Gaza supports Netanyahu, and 99.99% of Jews are Zionists, which means that they support the war on Gaza, so she or he is really saying that all Jews are awful. Strike three.

Now you will understand the reasons which have led countries to persecute and isolate those leftists marked by the stigma of their antisemitism. The domination of such leftists within society is disturbing and dangerous for the destiny of the nation.

Gay Russians are like a former head of the NKVD who allowed massive, unfounded arrests of innocents?

Interesting analogy.

Oh. I never thought about that before. That is a good point. I wish that I were as smart as you.

Thalmann and the communists were going with accelerationism and straight up wanted Hitler to win, so they blocked every coalition they could.

That’s… not how the situation unfolded.

To further understand the position taken by the KPD against the SPD, Ernst Thälmann’s 1932 speech “The SPD and NSDAP are Twins” reveals how the KPD leadership envisioned its struggle against fascism in all forms. Thälmann’s incendiary speech declared that “joint negotiations between the KPD and the SPD… there are none! There will be none!”¹³

This was not to say that the KPD did not recognize the [Fascist] threat, as Thälmann articulated that “KPD strategy directs the main blow against social democracy, without thereby weakening the struggle against […] fascism; [KPD] strategy creates the very preconditions of an effective opposition to […] fascism precisely in its direction of the main blow against social democracy.”¹⁴

It is imperative to recognize, though, that the KPD only advocated the blow against the SPD leadership. As Thälmann argued, The KPD’s policy envisioned, the creation of a “revolutionary United Front policy… [that mobilized the masses from below through] the systematic, patient and comradely persuasion of the Social Democratic, Christian and even National Socialist workers to forsake their traitorous leaders.”¹⁵

(Source herein.)