I feel like the left - and BLM specifically - is opening a pandora's box and they're not going to like where it leads.
The DAs are just a symptom of the disease.
It's funny how when 17 year olds on the other side murder, they're out on the streets by 18.
I hate to be that guy, but Russia is one of the most fertile breeding grounds for groups with fascist ideology in the world. There is an intense attraction among younger Russians towards elements of it. Not to mention, Putinism isn't too far off.
Not to mention, there's an intense attraction towards 'White Russian' sentiments, or neo-Monarchism, and that too has elements of fascism.
So although you have good intentions, what you are saying is basically nonsense.
Nazism is something else entirely, btw.
Ah. You're not quite correct here. Beria was outright Georgian Orthodox (with a famously devout mother) and Yagoda was a nihilistic atheist from 14. But for real. It's not worth arguing about. Because fuck em all, anyways.
You're right. That was a pretty worthless comment left in a vacuum.
I suppose my point is that the global nature of Judeo-Bolshevism has a lot to do with Stalin persecuting all of the Mensheviks,Trotskyists and even Leninists who stayed in Russia, forcing them to scatter in a worldwide diaspora.
In fact, he eviscerated the Comintern by killing so many Communists from other countries, that they (like Tito) began to fear returning to Moscow. Tito ascribed his survival as an international communist during the 30s by avoiding Russia and Spain, where the NKVD was active.
The International Brigades in Spain were also a hotbed of Trotskyists.
I could go on, but rather than bore you, I think those two phenomenas are mostly responsible for the seeding of bolshevism around the world, as they set up Trotskyist publishing houses everywhere, and were mired in secrecy, paranoia and victim complexes from being murdered left and right by the NKVD.
Stalin despised the Jews.
The man was talking about Hitler, not the Wehrmacht. I gave a more comprehensive reply, regarding what you just mentioned, below.
It's a little more complex than that, even though the people downvoting you are schmucks.
Hitler began with high hopes for a unified Protestant church, but he encountered a lot of opposition. He eventually became disenchanted with religion as a unifying agent for society, and began to feel that Germany would be better off as an entirely atheistic state down the road.
This is all richly attended to in his dinner conversations, which were faithfully transcripted and edited by his own adherents. Furthermore, there is an immense body of historical literature of other Nazis, like Speer or Manstein, who had recollections of Hitler's thoughts on the subject.
At the same time, these were Hitler's private thoughts and musings for the future, and came after he was bitterly disappointed by the uncooperative nature of the Protestant denominations and the ongoing resistance by the Catholic Church in Bavaria.
As of 1941, the launching of Barbarossa, Hitler did refer to God in his letter that was distributed to the troops to go with them.
But there is no evidence that Hitler was ever a believer, and in all likelihood - as has been reported by others - he lost whatever faith he had in the trenches of WW1.
We shouldn't portray someone as a hero for basically doing what Bergdahl did on a greater scale, and then being lionized for it by a fawning, virulently anti-American European establishment for almost a decade.
It might incentive people to repeat Snowden's performance, or disincentive and discourage real heroes.
Snowden has been venerated in antifa circles since the very start.
His hagiography didn't begin in earnest though until around ~2015, in the leftist European media (around the time that Trump said Snowden should be 'executed' if caught).
The tragedy of Snowden is that he COULD have performed a great and heroic service. He could have.
Instead, he went about it in a way - whether by design or accident - that harmed us the most (and didn't do ANYTHING to get rid of the corrupt actors like Brennan, since Snowden discredited himself by agreeing to go to Moscow), and helped our enemies the most.
Snowden is a tragedy. And the mere fact of a silver lining doesn't excuse it.
Beyond that - again - venerating him is a bedrock eurotrash antifa meme.
You're not wrong. But as I said elsewhere, it's important to realize that the 'Snowden is a hero virus' began in the anti-American European media.
Antifa serves as a major conduit for leftist eurotrash media, which is how it filtered over here.
Those on the alt right only began to try and re-imagine Snowden as a hero (someone Trump said should be 'executed') because of like you said, all the FBI corruption.
But Snowden remains an antifa icon, and those who celebrate him are America's enemies.
That's why his fanboying needs to be squashed when it pops up here. We shouldn't cross pollinate with Antifa memes.
But that's not to say his treason/idiocy didn't expose other stuff going on. He just exposed it in the way that would hurt us most and help Russia/China the most.
The greatest evidence that Snowden has provided in his own defense, is a clip given by Deputy Director Inglis, years after his retirement, when interviewed at a convention, saying that he personally didn't think Snowden was a Russian or Chinese agent prior to fleeing the country, and didn't intend to wind up in Moscow.
And for the record? I believe that as well.
But it also seems pretty clear that he was coerced, duped and basically incompetent afterwards. (Indeed, the same video that Snowden posted where Inglis said he didn't think Snowden was a Russian plant, also described his flight as poorly planned).
What separates him from Bergdahl is that he became a darling golden boy of the anti-American european media. Their hagiography of Snowden first filtered into the eurotrash Antifa, who communicated it to American antifa.
It was only years later, when bad actors in the intelligence services was exposed (those who gained power during the Obama years), that some alt right podcasters decided to re-imagine Snowden as a hero. Trump himself said that Snowden should be 'executed'.
No one is 100% sure - because we've never been able to recover Edward Snowden himself. But there is a broad consensus, outside of the average alt right or alt left podcast that he helped bring great harm to our foreign assets.
He's been caught in many lies. It is now widely believed that he either willingly gave the Chinese more than he claimed, or they coerced/duped him into it, during his stopover.
It is known now that the Chinese acquired access to everything that Snowden stole, since there's been enough time to see the consequences play out.
As I've said before, and I'll repeat here: It is legitimately true that it remains an unanswered question as to whether Snowden was malicious, foolish (i.e, deceived) or incompetent. We'll never know until we get our hands on him.
But he remains a traitor, who is no more deserving of sympathy than Bergdahl. And it should alarm Pedes to know that Snowden is practically a saint among Antifa who have also adopted and projected upon him their various fantasy narratives.
Regardless. Snowden holds no more claim to sympathy than Bergdahl. Both lied. Both got better people killed. But Snowden was flipped by two enemy services, whereas Bergdahl only betrayed us to the Taliban.
It's sad that the bad actors of those who wormed their way to the top of the FBI food chain during the 8 years of the Obama presidency, have lead pedes to build a fantasy narrative that incorporates Snowden as a hero.
The US Intelligence agencies need a house cleaning. But they're still light years better than the Chinese or Russians.
This article is a decent summary, and was written around the last time anyone took the notion of a Snowden pardon seriously: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fable-of-edward-snowden-1483143143
Since then it's been a settled question, kept alive only by the crackpot fringe, extremists of which have adopted him on both the left and the right.
Because people like you are spamming this forum fanboying a traitor. So no, fuck you good sir. Fuck you. I will speak up since there might be pedes reading this board who mistakenly believe that pro-Snowden is a Trump thing.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fable-of-edward-snowden-1483143143
Any Trump supporter should be ashamed of themselves to rally behind an incompetent coward who was flipped by not one, but TWO enemy intelligence services.
Because Snowden doesn't have your back either. He's a traitor, whose treason only coincidentally coincided during Obama's term. If he meant well, he was incompetent. Otherwise, he was malicious. He got better and braver people killed.
Supporting him, is no different from being an antifag. But it's worse, because you're writing fan fiction in your head to try and paint him as a hero, when he wasn't.
That has to be the most cliche and trite response. I am embarrassed for you. But you know. Go fanboy your traitor somewhere else. You're as harmful to this country as antifa.
Are you autistic?
I'm not trying to rule people.
I am pushing back against a toxic myth that is perpetuated on these forums by pedes that have constructed an elaborate fantasy narrative, simply because Snowden's treason happened to coincide during Obama's term.
It is inappropriate for Trump supporters to also support a traitor who was flipped by both the Russians and the Chinese.
Hardly. But go on continuing to live in your bizarre bubble, rooting for a traitor, because you constructed an elaborate fantasy world where he was somehow doing it to oppose Obama - when the truth is that it was simply a coincidence that he committed treason during Obama's term.
The only intelligence agencies that would be served by Snowden being pardoned are the Russian or Chinese intelligence services who flipped Snowden.
Although, it is true that no one knows if they duped him, threatened him, or if Snowden is simply an idiot. it was in all likelihood a mix of all three.
Suffice to say, campaigning for him on this forum is both embarrassing and inappropriate, given that whatever Snowden is, he's certainly not a patriot.
If even 1% of the country had Kyle's courage and conviction, America's glory would be assured for all time.