includes a translation of Putin’s entire speech from yesterday Jun 14

  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    It obviously isn’t, seen by the widespread usage of the term across the political spectrum

    The attempted rebranding of globalist into jew is a very recent fringe phenomena. Globalism has been the explicitly stated ideology of Liberals for decades, they self-proclaim as such

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      11 months ago

      I repeat, show me anti-globalist leftist lit pre-2016, I’ve never heard the term used leftistly. It was alex jones fodder for decades, not sure why we should use it instead of imperialism/liberalism.

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      11 months ago

      We should start using swastikas too, since those were used before Nazis.

      I’ve literally never heard the word globalist before fascists started using it, so it can’t have been that common.

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        11 months ago

        Liberals often talk about “globalization” in the economic neoliberal capitalist sense, and in the 90s it was very common to be pro-globalization and anti-globalization. It was what the famous Seattle protesting WTO was all about, the anti-globalist vs. pro-globalist split in the new post soviet left