Beat_da_Rich @ Beat_da_Rich @lemmygrad.ml

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The fetishization of the second amendment by white reactionaries reveals the true intention, not as a check against a "tyrannical" government as its propagandized to be, but as a securing of settler dominance against Black and Native populations.

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

I came of age at the tail end of the Great Recession. I like to refer to my trajectory as the "Yes We Can --> Fuck Obama" pathway.

I was always a "socialist" since the beginning of becoming politically conscious. And by that, I mean a progressive liberal who still thought the system was reformable. Even canvassed and volunteered for Bernie Sanders a few times.

Worked shit jobs my whole life. Finally worked my way into some good opportunities but lost all of them from the 2020 COVID shutdown (and thus my hopes of ever purchasing a house). Also, participating heavily in BLM actions the same year, and witnessing both parties scapegoat minorities and leftists for the US's economic woes pushed me to be more disciplined in reading theory and developing a material analysis of politics.

The US is a mafia state coercing all of its citizens, vassals, and slaves to participate in its criminal enterprise.

Or Falcon and the Winter soldier.

Black Captain America takes down leftist refugee group. He agrees with their ideas but not their "methods." See? Amerikkka's top cop faces racism too!

The only thing studying up on propaganda has really ruined for me are Marvel movies. As far as war and action movies that revolve around American machismo, I didn't engage with those anyway.

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.

I'm surprised Western press isn't burying this.

It's also to chain people to their jobs. Plenty of Americans understand that their jobs are pointless, coercive, exploitative and only intended to increase the wealth of their bosses. No one would work at these places if it weren't for the health insurance.

Russia literally tried lmao.

Liberals and being historically illiterate. Name a more common duo.

I feel you. Maybe I'm too biased because, without doxing myself, I live in a pretty radical area where that can and does happen. Not enough, but it's happening more often. But again, huge structural barriers and heavy repression by the state is a large reason why it doesn't happen more. It's not that people don't care. People are pissed but they're also terrified and have too much to lose. Job, families, healthcare, etc. In ATL people are being charged with 35 years in prison for simply handing out flyers. We can't ignore just how much coercion there is from multiple angles keeping the people immobile.

Not only that, but the generation that has been the dominant foece in politics for over half a century is literally in their hospice years. The current younger generations are the most explicitly anticapitalist generations in our history. There's tons of learning to do, but it's gonna take a little time to overcome the decades of McCarthyism.

If it helps, I have had the same conversation in my head and have also heavily considered my exit plan. Anything can happen, but it will eventually be clear whether the left has any hope of challenging the resurfaced wave of white nationalism within US politics.

There is a lot more hope for leftism in America than other imperialist countries. The culture that is projected is reactionary af and there is obviously still a lot of liberal propaganda embedded in people's heads, but that is changing.

I understand the frustration and contempt people outside of this country have for Americans, I do. But the right wing does not enjoy mass popular support. The conservative politics of the US, especially in red states, is not just an indication of what a minority of Americans endorse, but an indication of how repressed the majority of Americans are.

There will be nothing good that comes from wanting to see working Americans suffer more than we are (and we are). The people here are not hopeless. There are a lot of barriers here that are put in place structurally that is not reflective of where most people's hearts are.

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.

Speaking as someone who has been part of highly ineffective ML parties and orgs in the past and became frustrated/burnt out with them, go where you are most effective in your area, ML or not. There are non-ML parties that do effective work and you can still spread class consciousness within them.

I barely had patience for liberals at the start of the conflict. There's a certain amount of grace to give when a major event happens and people are trying to piece out the background after not paying attention for years. Now? That doesn't exist anymore. Liberals are simply choosing to remain ignorant at this point when it comes to Russia-Ukraine.

This book is such a game changer for leftist education in the West.

Liberals: "Nuh uh"

These stupid crackers think we're all Chinese anyway. Even if they made the distinction mentally they wouldn't actually conduct their hate crimes with any accuracy.

COVID hate crimes targeted Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, etc.