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Unheard of levels of :LIB:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/ozl8jb/i_dont_care_if_this_gets_me_permabanned_every/
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Hey don't hate on takies, they're fucking good especially fuego takies
Comments are so bad.
"Tankies can't build anything positive, they just take over our movements."
- it's a subreddit
- literally all AES
I only like it for the pics of dirks face getting smaller and smaller, treat reddit like youtube and don't look at the comments anymore
Gosh, replace "tankie" with "jew" and this becomes pretty misogynistic.
Everybody just go comment "the subreddit is good now actually"
Say it with me, kids: Re-educating terrorists potential terrorists does not a genocide make.
They call that "red fash genocide" but would never call the US carceral state genocide with the same fervor.
Pointing out hypocrisy is communism, and making me feel cognitive dissonance is Red Fash Tankyism
It's also of note that systematically murdering millions of brown people overseas under the guise of anti-terrorism does not count as genocide to these people.
Yeah, being against one (which you should be) without being pissed at the others is a thing.
Ask a liberal what's happening in Yemen and why, something that's pure Western imperialist interests, and they will have no idea or blame Saudi Arabia. Ask them about China and Uyghurs and they'll repeat some vaguely internally processed narrative about genocide.
The hypocrisy is annoying, for sure, but the effect is more directly concerning, imo. These liberals fail to oppose the much greater violence done in their name and with their tax dollars while pushing state department exaggerations that will drum up yet more violence against people in central Asia and undermine the economic success of China.
Though leftists aren't free of this tendency either, ha. Toxic Western Trotskyists are kinda notorious for doing that second half of the equation.
Liberals are not people. all knowledge position ideal is just aesthetic. What matters is position in the machine, and how well you can justify it.
Fuck, it's why I chose my user name; I was a gifted kid, I've always been clever, but I've been homeless and walked off from partuvipation most of my life because that was never what mattered, never an asset when trying to interact honestly with neoliberal society. It was always just about how willing I was to be part of these machines, thought up by idiots, usually long dead, who just bad lots of money, and how far you'll go to justify it.
Absolutely. The levers they give you are all compromised and most will only cause harm.
Though I'd push back on dehumanizing liberals, lol. Their thought process is unfortunately very human and driven by conditions + successful self-interested mechanics of propaganda. Their actions are sociopathic, though usually not so per their own judgement. We must target them for radicalization as well as reducing their influence.
Are, I've met sociopaths,and while none of the ones I've met are comrades, they're at least out for themselves, which is more than I can say for libs.
The real questiom re: lobs is how do you get them to reclaim their humanity when they've built their entire self and 'moral' framework around justifying shit that is?
Radicalization requires jostling. Personal jostling. Some people get there "on their own" by jostling themselves, but most require something that smacks them in the face.
Many of the impetuses that would do this are outside of our control, like losing their job, losing a loved one to privatized healthcare, seeing cops beat members of the press. For those cases, we can be loud and present and available to capitalize on their politically vulnerable state. Someone who wouldn't listen to anything you had to say about cops is suddenly ready to hear about defunding and abolition or maybe even the function of mass incarceration re: American capitalism.
The other is to do the jostling ourselves through agitation. To make the contradictions clear and obvious and to challenge them to reject the sociopathy implicit in their views that they usually cannot recognize. For example, I've had good luck radicalizing family members with frank discussions of the human consequences of imperial violence that's usually brushed under the rug. Some were mainstream libs that are now SocDems and some were SocDems that are now quasi-Marxist socialists that like Richard Wolff.
Other forms of agitation are also invaluable. Organizing boycott campaigns like BDS, organizing protests and sit-ins, presenting principled socialist candidates that know where to stick blame for the failures of liberalism, joining pickets, etc etc. It all helps.
I get nervous once people start making judgement calls about who is or is not human based on anything other than genus and species. They are just as human as you, even if they make bad decisions that hurt themselves and those around them.
Darn, TPUSA was one of the earlier things that pushed me farther left, I guess they were never explicitly commie but it would suck if they became more breadtube aligned
has openly supported the US against Idaho and Vermont
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