A lot of Americans sadly think that rich = communist, or pretty much anything bad = communist. If you browse places (don't for the sake of your mental health) like that patriots site, various conspiracy places like glp, etc they are always going on about the communists. They know inherently not to trust their government, yet when it comes to communism and racial dog whistles they have full faith, its really an interesting break in logic but a rather exploitable one. A really good trojan into the mind of the chuds is Russia and anti-imperialism if you do ever encounter them in the wild and its safe to banter.
Online you're not deprogramming anyone, but irl its fun to shock them into seeing they 80% agree with the evil bad communists. Never gets old irl, managed to get a few reading.
ask a capitalist what they hate about communism and they'll describe capitalism and so on.
pretty much anything bad = communist
You ask a random American what communism is, 70% chance they're gonna tell you it's when you have a dictator.
A lot of Americans sadly think that rich = communist, or pretty much anything bad = communist.
"Socialism for the Rich" was intended to highlight how socialism is beneficial to the participants and a strategy adopted to "win" the economic game.
Instead, it looks like "Socialism is how rich people hurt me! I demand more capitalism!" is the view that's managed to emerge.
They know inherently not to trust their government, yet when it comes to communism and racial dog whistles they have full faith, its really an interesting break in logic but a rather exploitable one.
It's not really about trusting/distrusting the government. It's about trusting folks on your team and distrusting folks on The Other Team.
Capitalist media has successfully Other'd "Socialism" on both sides of the fence. That's made it more easy to vilify and more difficult to promote.
As someone who has spent a stupid amount of time watching fs1 and espn trust me when I say jason whitlock is one of the dumbest sports journalists possibly ever. Like it's one of the few things all sports fans in america agree with.
Whitlock is great. Whatever he suggests, just do the opposite and you'll do great.
Also, I only ever learned who this dude is because he kept writing "bring back my friend Jeff George as a NFL starter" columns even after George was well into his 40s, and those columns would get posted to a forum I read for people to mock.
Whatever he suggests, just do the opposite and you’ll do great.
So I take it he's the Ayn Rand of sports?
His brain is the perfectly smooth sphere physicists keep going on about wanting for experiments. They just need a frictionless surface to accompany it and Nobels galore will result.
:aus-delenda-est: :kanada:pretty bad too, but you arnt wrong
The elites of the Russian empire were famously pro communism. They liked it so much they died actually.
Yes, LeBron is protecting communist China because he criticized a MIT Sloan graduate and all his billionaire friends in Hong Kong lol
Communism is when someone is not enthusiastically and openly enabling far right racism.
Someone tell that Chinese egg monopoly heir lady that "millionaire elites are protected by communism."
He's a shitty sports commentator that is now pivoting to the right wing grift because bad sports takes are no longer profitable
DuBois' idea of a Talented Tenth never even referred to millionaires or the rich, as he wrote in the 1940s "my own panacea of an earlier day was a flight of class from mass through the development of the Talented Tenth; but the power of this aristocracy of talent was to lie in its knowledge and character, not in its wealth."
