• Satanic_Mills [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Cuba and Venezuela are non-threatening.

    It's like the leftists who proclaim support for Vietnam and denounce China despite Vietnam being arguably more revisionist.

    • Tervell [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, fair enough. This also reminds me of Zizek, he was on a Chapo episode a while back shilling his new book, and simultaneously praising Luis Arce and shitting on China and Venezuela, two countries which Bolivia under MAS is pretty friendly with.

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Same thing with loudly supporting East Germany; yeah it sounds edgy and cool bc of all the narratives about it being a Stasi police state, but it doesn't hit the same as, say, upholding the DPRK or China which are being similarly propagandized, but in the modern day

      • Satanic_Mills [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Not listened to KJB, but good on Devon.

        Was mostly thinking of TF where any mention of China automatically gets 'state capitalism' slotted in afterwards and was explicitly called reactionary in a recent episode.

          • Satanic_Mills [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            TF is still a. very funny and b. very good at analysing (for someone finance illiterate like me) the nature of the economy in the west and why and how it produces the morbidities we are seeing.

            They're just still western leftists.