John Brown killed 50 gorillion people after eating up all the grain in Kansas with his big spoon stalin-comical-spoon JB-shining-aggro

This guy is semi-notable on Twitter. He’s best known for being kicked off a somewhat successful podcast for being a creep.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Blaming revolutionaries for reactionaries’ responses to their actions inevitably ignores the fact that the reactionaries were already doing and would continue to do the horrible acts in question. 200 people being lynched barely qualifies as an average Tuesday under chattel slavery, but anti-cracker-aktion here acts like it was an unexpected event that could only happen if the slaves dared to demand their freedom at gunpoint.

    • VHS [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The Nazis would also regularly engage in mass killing of civilians in reprisal for resistance actions in the area. Most people seem to have the good sense not to condemn anti-Fascist militancy though

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        They absolutely condemn anti-fascist action. They do it in the moment and do what they can to punish the antifascists while also comforting the fascists. After a few decades, however, they will claim they were the antifascists and were the ones fighting for what is right…