slowly radicalizing me and I don't like it

:sicko-blur:

Can't wait for all my leftist friends that I managed to convince electoralism works rubberband back into tankies bc moderates are massive bitches

:sicko-beaming:

this is literally half my friend group rn and I'm running out of counters

:sicko-crowd:

  • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
    ·
    3 years ago

    And? Communist sentiment hasn't been this popular here in like a hundred years.

    fifty years ago. they’re still fuckin learning? they ain’t learning shit.

    The whole point is that in increasing numbers people aren't believing that lesser evil crap anymore.

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Communist sentiment is less popular than it was during the Cold War, knock it off. These are a bunch of kids being trendy and edgy with labels, they don't know and single fucking thing and will immediately be brought back to being good Dems come election time.

      • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
        ·
        3 years ago

        I seriously doubt they will run back to the Dems because back in the Cold War they actually were willing to bribe them with stuff. They aren't anymore, so there isn't even any perceived gain from flipping like that.

        It's now the popular perception that the Democrat government doesn't do anything but sit around and talk about maybe thinking about doing something eventually, some day. There is no trust they will do even the bare minimum anymore.

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Lol, that's not true at all. Hell, the left is more ideologically coherent than it's been in America for a long time. It's not alot still, but compared to the Bush and Obama years, there is a way more active media sphere of people who are all becoming connected and radicalized.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
      ·
      3 years ago

      I'd like to echo this sentiment, as well as @TreadOnMe and @furryanarchy. During the time @garbage is discussing, Capitalism still seemed to be on the rise. We laugh at how fucking absurd the quote is now, but Fukayama's "end of history" line was not seen as absurd at the time. People really thought that communism/socialism was demonstrably unworkable, that China would inevitably liberalize, and that capitalism would lift the world out of poverty and solve all our problems. That's clearly not the hegemonic thought anymore, and history has proven those predictions false. We're in very different material conditions than we were when Thompson wrote that. Gotta focus on the material analysis rather than only look at the arguments as the words themselves.