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I had the same thought when I saw it. It’s silly of course but this kind of normalization (along with Squid Game, Grimes reading the Communist Manifesto, and a lot of other things) may actually impede attempts by reactionaries for a brutal new red scare crackdown, which is always a good thing. I’m sure the exposure to people like Hasan helps too. I’m pretty sure no one in the US mainstream has openly called themselves a socialist since the 1940s at least, so this is progress.
The more normalised something becomes the more not-scary it becomes. The biggest problem with communism IS aesthetic to begin with. Red scare is aesthetic fear of something people do not understand, do not know, do not see.
The more people see communism, and the people that support it being mundane and not-at-all-scary everyday people including hyper-popular people, the better. Fucking put it everywhere, on everything. Make it VISIBLE.
The more visible and backed by people that are obviously not dangerous it is, the harder fighting it as some scary unknown becomes. We need to become visible, in all hobbies, in all things. We need to dominate niche hobbies, consumer shit, online shit, we need to be seen.
I had the same thought when I saw it. It’s silly of course but this kind of normalization (along with Squid Game, Grimes reading the Communist Manifesto, and a lot of other things) may actually impede attempts by reactionaries for a brutal new red scare crackdown, which is always a good thing. I’m sure the exposure to people like Hasan helps too. I’m pretty sure no one in the US mainstream has openly called themselves a socialist since the 1940s at least, so this is progress.
Exactly.
The more normalised something becomes the more not-scary it becomes. The biggest problem with communism IS aesthetic to begin with. Red scare is aesthetic fear of something people do not understand, do not know, do not see.
The more people see communism, and the people that support it being mundane and not-at-all-scary everyday people including hyper-popular people, the better. Fucking put it everywhere, on everything. Make it VISIBLE.
The more visible and backed by people that are obviously not dangerous it is, the harder fighting it as some scary unknown becomes. We need to become visible, in all hobbies, in all things. We need to dominate niche hobbies, consumer shit, online shit, we need to be seen.