Beat_da_Rich @ Beat_da_Rich @lemmygrad.ml

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We should just start calling liberals "drones"

I don't even think it's that with many of them. Most libs in my personal sphere at least don't think that deeply about anything.

These people just wanna be popular.

So they give the most milquetoast, soggy cracker response to any event that ever happens. It just so happens that because the dominant ideological sphere they are supports genocidal violence, they are blissfully unaware that they are supporting that too.

Reminding everyone to take care of your mental health. I know we all can't help but get emotionally involved in major events, but there is a limit to that.

You are absolutely correct.

The colonist militias did heinous shit. They massacred entire indiginous tribes "just in case" they were on the British side.

Absolute trash

Like any individual she has blind spots in her analysis. Also, people can engage and view the world through a Marxist lens without formally subscribing to an ideology. She obviously is versed in leftist theory, given the general reasoning and the conclusions she comes to in her writing.

She echoes so much of what the M-L left is already saying. Her writing is useful to us in that way that it's accessible to non-communists as well.

To your "blue collar or working class" question...

That is basically the whole conception of whiteness and race. During the pre-industrial European settling of Turtle Island, there was not really a shared "white" identity. Instead, you had Portugese, Spanish, British, French, German, etc. migrant laborers who all had significant differences with each other and eventually started to see that they had common interest with the enslaved African population. Look up Bacon's Rebellion if you're not familiar with it yet. While sadly an anti-indigenous partnership between settler and slave, it still was notable for the solidarity between the two laboring classes and resulted in the ruling government of Virginia to strengthen and solidify the racial caste system through legislation.

Racism was very much imposed on and ingrained into the working class from the emergence of capitalism and we continue to deal with our collective hangover from it.

Considering his notable role in the Gujarat pogrom, it's a horrific tragedy that he even got elected to head of state to begin with.

Even if we were to entertain that there were sections of the German military that weren't explicitly or consciously ideological, it doesn't change the fact that they are working overtime to defend a man who happily volunteered to massacre Jews, Roman's, and Soviet citizens and the Canadian politicians who celebrated him.

Absolutely surreal in the worst ways to see a major world conflict being fought in part with smug social media dunks.

"Doublethink"

Orwell was a shitty socialist, but he was completely on point with the terms he coined to describe thought manipulation and the effects of propaganda.

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They play to the myth that the Nazis were socialists. Their base believes it because to them liberals are socialists.

I just spit my drink out

Most of them knew and are backtracking. There is no way an entire parliament was duped into giving a literal Nazi applause. This could likely be a stunt to see if the general public would even notice/care enough to call them out on it.

Western press is already pulling the "it's complicated" angle

Very much agree. We've come a long way as human beings just in the past 100 years or so. Our self-awareness as a collective species is really just beginning. With all the flaws contemporary tech and society, the one amazing advancement is that we are much more socially connected on a global level. It is much much harder to dehumanize entire populations and categories of people. I sincerely believe that people do have a lot more empathy for each other than in the past.

It's one thing if we're just lol'ing over memes, but some communists in their defense of past socialist projects sincerely border on romanticizing the brutality that occured in the 20th century.. It's not a great look. We gotta remember that the past is littered with mistakes and we can absolutely aim for better.

American here. A big reason as well is the military can't even successfully bribe people anymore. It's pretty widely understood, even among the dumbest and most indoctrinated here, that the US military leaves its veterans in the dust.