• nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I've said this before, but I'm getting the sense that the US has entered the Habsburg chin phase of decaying empire. The halls of power and security agencies are filled with generational bureaucrats -- the failsons of failsons.

      Meritocracy is a lie, and the main traits being selected for are family connections, sociopathy, and boundless ambition. I expect that we'll see more and more ham-fisted and ultimately failed attempts to hold on to the glory days of the imperial past.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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        3 years ago

        Yep, the ruse is up. America is no longer the shining city on the hill for anyone but Americans.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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            3 years ago

            Also yes, most people I know hate this fucking country. There are a bunch that still tacitly accept the propaganda, but if you can get them to take their hatred of the country and apply it critically to the that propaganda it's actually easy to convince them they're wrong.

            Like I did a Stalin apologia today and it worked lol. We were taking about how the Nazis got all their ideas from America and they said something about 13million people Stalin killed that "America covered up because they were our allies" and I asked them where they heard that and that said they didn't know, then I told them about the black book and how it was written by Americans dusting to cold war to try and use the deaths of Nazis as a "humanitarian" cudgel against the people who actually liberated the concentration camps and for once got a good response.

            People are kinda waking up...

            (This was in person btw, online tends to be way off from what actual working people believe)

              • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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                3 years ago

                Confront your friends and random strangers, when you're in person they can't cherry pick sources and most people rely on "common knowledge" that every single person here can easily debunk in 2 seconds.

                Agitate and educate in your communities people. Go to divebars and places proles go when they get off their shifts and help educate them while having a good time. People are more likely to listen to you if you're nice and cool to talk to, it's not that bad comrades.