The key historical milestones of Western decline. Which do you think is the most important?

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[–]PeddaKondappa 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

In modern history, the defeat of Nazi Germany was obviously the most important. With Nazi Germany died the last serious movement in the West to challenge Enlightenment principles. After 1945 the modern world was ushered in, which is based on the founding myth of the of the HolocaustTM with Adolf Hitler as the archetypal Big Bad Man. All modern people are required to believe in this founding myth as an article of faith, and anyone who questions this founding myth or expresses any sort of sympathy towards the Nazis is immediately branded as a heretic and excommunicated from society. The Cold War was relatively unimportant compared to WWI and WWII, because Communism and Liberalism are actually quite similar to each other and are both anti-traditional, post-Enlightenment ideologies. What made the Soviet Union dangerous was the fact that it was Russian and non-Western, not the fact that it was Communist. Russia today, which is non-Communist, is still viewed with hostility by liberals (even more so than the old Soviet Union was).

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

didnt you used to rock the hammer and sickle on debatefascism years ago?

[–]PeddaKondappa 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, but even back then I wasn't a communist, more of a NazBol. The main reason I used the hammer and sickle was because I was a Russophile and to trigger boomers whose brains were stuck in the 80s.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

based