I was shocked when I discovered it was him in the car in Waking Life

Everyone is collaborating with nazis and whatever, except the ones literally shaking hands, taking pictures, and doing military parades and dividing new conquered territories with the nazis. Brainwashing party propaganda is really something.
I’m sorry dude, I can’t really do anything for you, it’s pathetic that you never cared to look at the history of the CNT-FAI, to believe it was the Soviets arming and training militias. They only armed and trained their puppet party and used it to destabilize that antifascist resistance amidst the fight against fascists… You had a fascist regime in your country until 1978 and you spout bullshit like “they saved Europe from fascism” lol
I’m disengaging here. But I hope one day you really do read anything beyond the pathetic party propaganda. Burnett Bolloten was a journalist aligned with the PCE living in Barcelona during the Civil War; he actually supported the PCE until he saw what it was doing, but I know the party cult tells everyone that doesn’t repeat everything the party cult says is a CIA agent, so it’s up to you to become critical or just blindly follow the cult. Augustin Souchy and Emma Goldman were also there at the time and wrote extensively about the subject, and those weren’t even CNT-FAI members but only supporters.

The fact is that everywhere a non-Bolshevik-aligned antifascist revolutionary force arose, the bolsheviks spent their resources crushing it instead of fighting the fascists.

I honestly have no idea what numbers you are asking for, I said that in the middle of a fight against actual fascists, the antifascists had secured Barcelona and most of Catalonia, and the Moscow-backed party was ordered to fight the antifascists instead of the fascists… it wasn’t just the anarchists, there were several marxist organizations as well, they were outlawed by the Soviets and their leaders arrested or killed, and you can find it even in your party-approved documents because those are historical facts… I’m really sorry that they don’t sound so cool and glorious as all the party propaganda. I’m gonna change what I said, it’s not sad that you don’t know the history of antifascist resistance in your on country. It’s pathetic.

Yes yes, you got me, the CNT-FAI was made up by me.
As I said, it’s just sad that you don’t know the history of socialism in your own country. Hopefully, one day you will learn socialism beyond what the party wants you to know.

by whom

lol, despite the name, bolcheviks were a minority party of the Revolution, even the mencheviks had more people and influence… but sure, it was the vanguard-boy that did everything. Never skip your propaganda for breakfast.

Are you saying the nazis would have killed the anarchists and other Ukrainian communist organizations anyway, so the bolcheviks did the right thing by killing them first? (while actively protecting German interests and telling people to just accept they belonged to Germany now… someone has to pay for that secure train, right?)

If you are Spanish and don’t know the history of the CNT-FAI, the largest revolutionary organization you ever had, and how Moscow preferred to fight it instead of the fascists, that’s simply sad.

couldawouldashoulda, what Stalin actually did in the real world, instead of the speculative one, was to take the best deal. The other European countries didn’t want to hand him Poland so he accepted dividing with the nazis, and didn’t move against the nazis until he was attacked… he couldawouldashoulda various theoretical things, but the material reality is a bit different. I’m sorry it doesn’t sound so glorious as “The Great Patriotic War” propaganda piece.

Yeah… the working class kicked the Tzar out while the vanguard-boy was chilling in Switzerland though, then after being sponsored by Germany he just gave them a whole country as reward, and when that country organized itself to fight off the Germans and practice what the vanguard-boy himself had previously called “right to self-determination” they just went there and crushed that organization, famously inviting peasant leaders to meetings that were just traps to kill them… while fascism was rising, the Comintern doctrine was to oppose every anti-fascist organization that wasn’t submitted to the vanguard, the KPD even supported a literal Nazi-backed referendum just to oppose social democrats, who they’d call fascists while ignoring the actual fascists. In Spain the vanguard went on to outlaw and actively fight, kill and imprison leaders of every anti-fascist organization that were actually fighting off a fascist regime that lasted until 1978… the vanguard did an amazing job destroying anti-fascist resistance in Europe while fascism was on the rise, then the vanguard that became the “socialism in one country” held a beautiful Nazi-Soviet parade in Brest-Litovsk and didn’t move a finger against fascism until they were directly attacked, and then they rewrite history to pretend they were fighting against it all along.

Like when they start stuff like “vanguardism”?

Short, concise and precise, pretty much gold standard for a title… everyone accusing of clickbait, what?

• yes, he is going to prison for building a privacy tool, I’m sorry that you have read actual clickbait titles before, but he was not charged with money laundering, he wasn’t even charged of being involved with any money laundering scheme, the sole reason he was arrested was for building a tool that can be used for illegal activity. Let’s hope they don’t go after the Tor Project and Tails OS with such claims too.
• yes, OP could have made a short description in the post like saying who, what tool, what charge, etc.

What clickbait title did you read to believe he took part in any money laundering? He isn’t even being accused of that.

The phrasing of this title implies that the creation of a privacy tool is what the creator got arrested for

That’s LITERALLY what happened.

No, he wasn’t accused of using it for money laundering at all, he was actually accused of “conspiracy” to money laundering, claiming that his tool facilitates it, HOWEVER, the prosecution itself knew their charges had absolutely no legal basis and kept it a secret, and when the defense made a motion to dismiss it was denied by the judge without even being heard and the judge gave no reason for it (I guess being on record that the trial is a farce wouldn’t look good). In front of an openly hostile judge and a trial that has no intention of following laws, legal costs in the millions piling up, he made a deal for 5 years in prison instead of the 25 they were going to give him.

Again, he wasn’t even charged with money laundering, he was arrested for creating a tool that can be used for that. The title is telling the truth - therefore, it’s not malicious.

I agree that OP could have post a summary with the video, but clickbait would be “He built a privacy tool, and you won’t believe what happened next” or something that doesn’t inform of the content of the video. Here it’s pretty clear, he built a privacy tool and was arrested for it, all the info is contained in the title.

Despite their name, the Bolsheviks weren’t the majority of the revolution. But there was a group that indeed took up arms against the Socialist State, it was the Bolsheviks, which represented only about 13% of the delegates for all the other socialist parties had way more people and support. After staging a coup and taking the control, every other group became a “terrorist cell”. It’s easy to be the majority when you murder the rest.

of non-bolsheviks*
They outlawed every communist/socialist/anarchist organization that wasn’t them, and then, when there was no other party to kill, they started killing their own, but you are probably in the wrong instance to bring that up.