PugJesus

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Just a meme scavenger, sir, doing my best to be entertaining!

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I searched for a version with the text not cut off, but I couldn't find it, which meant my only alternative was to change it myself.

That sounded too much like work

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Damn, sorry, I'm still adjusting to Piefed markup. !historymemes@lemmy.world

Does that work?

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Honestly, even moderating ~10 comms is a bit much. I couldn't imagine doing 25, much less 125.

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

For context, this was on a post about Uyghur genocide denial.

If one's first response on a post about Uyghur genocide denial is to deny the genocide and defend genocide denialists, walking it back when called out is not particularly believable.

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Denying genocide and then walking it back later, whilst defending genocide deniers does not inspire much confidence in the walking back.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Unruffled denying Uyghur genocide

Holodomor denial left up in a comm where the only two mods are dbzer0 admins, they both participated in the thread, the material was reported, it was specifically pointed out to one of them, and the comm regularly removes Zionist genocide apologia and denial under the (legitimate) justification that genocide denial is against the rules

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

"I feel the immense pain of how hard all victims are fighting for themselves because we know absolutely no one will fight for us. GOD BLESS ALL SURVIVORS."

Will she fight for them, or will her GOP affiliation win out?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. OnlyFans as-is struggles with accountability, appropriate age, and verifiable consent. Imagine that with a decentralized system of enforcement and accountability.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Yeah, don't fucking come here. Not now, not in the future. We can't be trusted again for a very long time - longer than just an election or two.

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

What’s the public mood? It’s a big country and everyone is affected differently. Those who joined army in '22 are drained because there is no end date to their service. Those who found themselves a job that has protection from mobilisation can live more or less normal live, except for sleepless nights due to shahed bombings. Those who are falling into mobilisation group are highly nervous and generally try to avoid going out of home unless needed.
Exhaustion is high, but what’s an alternative? I don’t see the will to accept surrender.

Understandable. Thank you for your insight into the matter.

All my hopes are for an eventual Ukrainian victory leading to a lasting and just peace.

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Roller skates, definitely

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Not to be rude but like, was your major in alt history? You clearly need a heavy refresher on the German revolution before you’re qualified to talk about this, so I’d suggest you start with that before responding. To be clear, I’ll downvote and move on if your next response isn’t at least mostly rooted in fact.

Sorry that you don't like your own source being quoted to contradict you?

Nope

Yep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wels

On 9 November 1918, the date of the proclamation of the republic in Germany, Wels spoke to the Naumburg rifle brigade at their request to explain the political situation following the collapse of the German Empire at the end of World War I. The brigade was one of the units considered especially loyal to Emperor Wilhelm II that had been brought into the city as reinforcements against revolutionary activity. Wels convinced the soldiers that to avoid a civil war they should not use their weapons. At the end of his speech, the brigade went over in a body to the side of the supporters of the German Revolution. Buoyed by his success, Wels spoke at other barracks so persuasively that he was credited with keeping the death toll that day to just fifteen.[4]
Also on 9 November, Wels became a member of the revolutionary Workers' and Soldiers' Council of Berlin. He advocated successfully for the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) – a more leftist and anti-war group that had broken away from the SPD in 1917 – to be represented equally with the SPD on the Council. The next day, he was made military commander of Berlin.[5]
The Volksmarinedivision was the revolution's main military unit in Berlin and as such under Wels' control. In December 1918, the Council of People's Deputies, Germany's temporary government, ordered the division to move outside Berlin and reduce the number of its soldiers. When they refused, Wels withheld their pay to force them to comply. During the week before Christmas, he attempted to negotiate with them, but when no progress was made, they detained and maltreated him.[6] Assaults on the division's locations at the Berlin Palace and Neuer Marstall by regular troops loyal to the government – the 1918 Christmas crisis – failed to dislodge the mutineers. Negotiations led to a compromise under which the Volksmarinedivision, in exchange for receiving its back pay and remaining a unit, vacated the Palace and Marstall and freed Wels, who was forced to step down from his position as city commander.[7]

No “coup” (“revolution” makes a lot more sense as a label) yet.

"It's a revolution because I like this attempt to prevent democratic elections"

The army thing is referring to this:

As mentioned and quoted above, it's not "a dispute over backpay"

Eichhorn would be subsequently dismissed, not for anything you stated but because he wouldn’t “reliably” immediately resort to deadly force against fellow leftists.

"It's okay if a police chief approves of military forces taking politicians hostages if I really agree with them"

Because the people Ebert called the army on were the navy servicemen. They knew firsthand how ghoulish that asshole really was.

"Ghoulish is when the civilian government doesn't allow the military to make its own orders and take hostages whenever it likes"

If you think my position is unnecessarily prejudiced against the uprising and not worth responding to, that's fine. But I think you're really downplaying the connection between the Bolsheviks and the thinking of the leadership of the Spartacist Uprising.

PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

We can't expect God to do all the cooming

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Compromise left rather than rightward. If they could work with literal fascists, they could’ve seen what the KPD had to say.

As you yourself admit, negotiations were had. They saw what the KPD had to say - and one of their core demands was to restore to power someone who had taken leftist politicians hostage for being insufficiently leftist.

Also, not using the army to attack their supposed allies

Their supposed allies who were attempting a coup? This leads back around to the idea that the SPD should've rolled over and fucking died.

Fuckin wonder why.

Because the navy was extremely left-wing at the time?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 9mo ago

They defended the recruitment of the Freikorps for the violent suppression of the uprising, which is also a shity turbolib take but not really the same thing.

It was a questionable decision by the SPD, but also raises the question of what should they have done in their position.

With few independent paramilitaries, and with the army gutted by the armistice, what immediate forces did they have to call upon to prevent the coup attempt? Even with the call for the Freikorps, the Weimar government's forces numbered only ~3,000 troops during the uprising's suppression - and this after the navy servicemen had proven unwilling to engage the putschists.