Tattoo defends both the Czar Nicholas and the Communists who overthrew him
Posted Jul 29, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC · locked
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This is the holy grail of "your average woke centrist" LOL
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Centrist extremism.
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Give it time.
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It's sort of already a thing.
People who are so extreme about being centrist that they wind up voting for extreme political positions just because they refuse to align with one side more than the other.
It's the same sort of thing that tells us the right answers on the true or false test can't be all false or true, even if we know all the right answers, we refuse to believe them given context.
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They typically align with the radical right, let’s be honest.
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Slam your head against any hard surface ad nauseam, until you can't do times tables.
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More like horseshoe theory, lol. This guy is literally embracing authoritarians on both the left and the right.
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“I’m playing both sides, so that I always come out on top."
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i would hardly call either of those two top but ok
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Whatever about the design this is some top quality tattoo art
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That's what made me think it was a fit for this sub.
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Oh absolutely.
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That nipple placement is extraordinary
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yeah that's kinda the point of the sub
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Just all about Russian autocracy, the details don’t matter
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Ya as long as he has a strong man to worship he’s happy. Kinda kinky.
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Russians don’t care about government type or it’s ideology as long as it is ruthless and authoritarian.
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Too true 😢 why did they have to give Russians pizza hut 😭 they weren't prepared for the taste of that much freedom 😭😭
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nipple buttons
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Cannot unsee.
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😂😂
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I really thought the guy on the left was James Flint from Black Sails
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When you get to the end of the Nicholas II documentary you’re basically “yeah… I saw that coming”.
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Ewan McGregor lookin fine as always
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That's Jude Law
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Gimme one side an inbred hemophiliac and the other side a short sociopath that made all decisions based off of childhood trauma. Art!
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The Communists didn't overthrow the Tsar though...
Nicholas II abdicated the throne for himself and his son as a result of the February Revolution* which led to a democratic government being formed from the already established Duma. The October (Communist) Revolution was the one led by Lenin, which overthrew democracy in Russia and led to a civil war between the Reds and the Whites.
The Tsar and his family were held by the Reds until it seemed like they might be rescued by a monarchist faction within the Whites. Only then were they executed.
*Or March Revolution depending on whether you use the Julian or Gregorian calendar.
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At least he's got them on the correct sides, lol.
I've been reading about Russia under Putin and apparently there's a movement supported by him, who are deeply religious and somehow believe Stalin was sent by God to defeat Hitler and put Russia on its true and devine path.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, counterculture movements/cults, that were inverse to the west's (bikers and "hippies" advocating for religion and capitalism) sort of developed this ideology.
I can't remember all the details, but it's wild what people will make themselves believe.
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Radical Centrism go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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No one is talking about Stalin?
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Ahh yes good old unadulterated nationalism. Wait till you see where the Putin one is.
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His sweaty taint?
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Why are they calling Stalin a rightist?
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"Because he was evil, so he had to have been on the other side "
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'I have no strong feelings, one way or the other.'
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fuck nicholas but what happened to the romanov family as a whole was incredibly fucked up
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The Russian Civil war resulted in over 7 million deaths, there were far more tragic things that came as a result of the war than the deaths of half a dozen inbreds
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Nice looking tattoo imo
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Nice looking tattoo imo
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I can’t understand how anyone would admire Nicholas II, he was a terrible leader. Just an absolute failure in every respect. He’s the Michael Scott of czars.
But he wore a little sailor boy costume as a kid! That's cute as hell!
He also wore it until he was in his low 20s 🤣
He also had dragon tattoo he got in japan
Ra ra rasputin 🤣
Yeah, even if you thought Imperial Russia was the way to go, Nicholas II is not someone to admire.
When 2000+ people are crushed to death at your coronation scrambling for swag bags, your czaring is probably off to a bad start.
As a history professor, I'm formally informing you that I am stealing this description.
As something other than a history professor, I'm now considering becoming one so that I may steal this description.
But the beer was almost gone!!!
And pretzels 🥨
Whereas Stalin was a great leader??
Stalin was a terrible person but infinitely more competent as a despot than Nicholas II was at being a Tsar. Stalin helped the Allies defeat the Nazis. Nicholas II basically lost his entire navy through his sheer incompetence. Stalin went into coma and people were too afraid to govern out of of fear of him waking up and killing them. By comparison Nicholas II was so bad at his job that he got his whole family slaughtered in a basement just to make sure none of his inbred spawn ever came to power again.
He helped the Allies defeat the nazis? More like the Allies were being destroyed until Stalin began to push them back into Berlin. It was the Soviets who took Berlin. It was the Soviets who resisted and managed to counterattack the biggest invasion in human history.
28 million soviets died vs 400.000 Americans. More Soviets died defending their country than the rest of the armies combined.
So, no, Stalin did not "help" the allies. He and the Soviets won the war and defeated nazism while Americans were sitting on their asses for most of the war.
Ah but Hollywood is the one telling the story, that's what matters.
Who supplied them with the aircraft to win said war? The US and UK. The Nazis needed to kill around half of all tanks they saw to win the tank war. They were killing more than half of all tanks period on the eastern front. Not only that, but the soviets we're beyond tired before they even reached German home territory. Believe it or not, the Germans would have won the Russo-German war of 1941 if it weren't part of WWII as a whole.
Two words. Lend Lease.
No, but he wasn’t old taint nick.
Stalin was horrible, but he was an intelligent person, and didn’t make mistakes constantly. Tsar Nicholas did stuff like banning the sale of vodka during WW1, which was a major source of revenue for the state when they needed it most, but also kept the expensive alcohols only elites drank like wine legal that made the lower classes even more pissed off. He prevented liberals from organizing pro-war movements and gave out military contracts to extremely and obviously corrupt firms that sucked up to him.
Say what you will of Stalin(seriously, there's a lot to say), but he did oversee a host of programs that directly led to most Soviet citizens having a quality of life on par with and sometimes better than most Americans. Even more amazing considering Russia was a feudal kingdom with no industry just a few years before.
I would have liked to see what Trotsky could have helped the people accomplish, though.
He had a fantastic ass. Seriously, there's a photo.
Source? Please
Here you are.
As a straight male even i gotta say that is a fine specimen of a human
The entire idea is just cringe. There's zero reason to idolise old wrinkly buastards that all they've done was mess up a bunch of prep people's lives all so that they can live comforts comfortably. I wanna see how much these people would admire Stalin once their family disappears one night for the terrible crime of saying something their neighbours didn't like...