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wnylib

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4. Hard to be cheerful when WE are on the wrong side.

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 03:05 PM

Jun 29

But it's important to keep our spirits up while we continue resisting fascism.

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Germany and Japan Are Rearming Again, 80 Years After World War II [View all] Coventina Jun 29 OP

Be of good cheer. It's still a democracy-fascism split, but everyone's switched sides. /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 29 #1

Hard to be cheerful when WE are on the wrong side. wnylib Jun 29 #4

Britain and Canada might beg to differ about "everyone" (nt) muriel_volestrangler Jun 29 #7

Noted, I paint with too broad a brush bucolic_frolic Jun 29 #11

With the REPUBLICANS in power I can NOT blame them to rearm. dave99 Jun 29 #2

They have no choice. dalton99a Jun 29 #3

It is a bit misleading to say they are "rearming" sarisataka Jun 29 #5

Certainly in Japan's case...but Germany had allowed rot to set in with low budgets EX500rider Jun 29 #6

That is why I included arguably sarisataka Jun 29 #10

"Bound by mutual opposition to the United States" DavidDvorkin Jun 29 #8

I do not blame them at all. ("I, for one, welcome our new overlords.") QueerDuck Jun 29 #9

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