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Kamala has now the odor of the unsuspecting ornamental doormat-style "yes man" second in command who suddenly & seeminly accidentally took power & changed the political course:
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) July 23, 2024
Sadat, Deng, Putin, Stalin, and of course, Claudius.
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!historychads is kamala
Stalin/Deng levels now?!?
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All of the historical figures he mentioned were second-in-command who deviated from their predecessors after taking over.
He's saying Kamala could be one of them.
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Did Stalin deviate from Lenin? I always thought that was Trotskyist cope
!commies !historychads
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In many ways yes, Lenin detested personality cult while Stalin enforced it. Lenin also thought his NEP should last at least a couple of decades while Stalin ditched it completely and implemented collectivization and the First Five-Year-Plan. Stalin was also much more socially conservative than Lenin banning homosexuality and abortion later on.
Trotsky was even more insane than Stalin and Lenin and I'm glad he got exiled and hammered
!anticommunists
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Trotsky winning would have been a good thing, the USSR would have broken up way earlier
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Too much of a big gamble.
The Soviets could crush Weimar Germany and 1920s France was not strong enough to resist them. The possibility of the Reds taking over continental Europe wasn't worth the risk.
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Even if they did it would last like 5 years because trotsky would have gone full r-slur and basically dismantled all important state organs immediately, and replaced them with more ineffective r-slurred versions, and central/eastern europe would escape the iron curtain
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Now that's some accelerationism I could get behind
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1. anything bad happening to germany is good by definition
2. there still was Poland and shit in the way
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btw both of these guys were failed revolutionaries and exiled from Russia.
Trotsky tried and failed a revolution and was exiled, then mysterious benefactors put him up in New York living well beyond his means. He was an known exilee and revolutionary and when he went back too Russia out of New York was stopped in Canada and ID'd but given passage by the Crown.
Lenin was exiled in Switzerland iirc and Germany sent him by armored train right back into Russia. As we all know it was Jewish forces pulling the strings and Communism is a Jewish psy-op
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black lives matter
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!jannies i caught a chud! Do I get a cookie?
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ur the best
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:( capy will never say this to me
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!jidf DA JOOOOOOOOOOOZ
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There's a fricking reason leninists and stalinists use said words to refer to eachother, derisively.
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Lenin may have had an actual plan too follow and Trotsky too Stalin just did whatever was convenient for him and maintaining power. He wasn't a true believer like them
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His description of Deng is shit, he was never a yes-man. That is why he was purged like 3 separate times. He also effectively couped the leftist factions.
Bad comparison
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To be fair, Mao and Stalin purged "yes-men" all the time
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I don't see how Stalin is anyone's idea of a yes-man, unless it's "More slaughter? Yes!"
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Before rising to power Stalin was Lenin's yes-man, he served in a humble position as "General Secretary" of the Party central committee keeping a "low profile". After Lenin's death there was a power struggle with Trotsky which he won and you know the rest.
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So she's Stalin
I fricking 
knew it
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