This week I was posting something about post World War 2 and how multiple imperialist powers gave up their overseas holdings, and I very nearly typed about how all of these countries just voluntarily did it. But I was posting about France and Algeria, so I knew that couldn't be true, so I looked up the process of decolonization and of course I had basically just about regurgitated some weak ass History Channel noble white folk nonsense about how the magnanimous West just let Asia and Africa roam free after WW2.
What stupid shit have you caught yourself doing or saying recently?
I do self-criticism constantly because I’m trapped in a Maoist cult where comrades (white terrorists) criticize me mercilessly for having a fascist credit card (VISA Silver Signature Rewards)
They won’t let me order vegan pizza anymore because the phone is fascist and “summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app” is “bad vibes”
This is precisely the kind of gourmet, multilayered leftist ironic shitposting I come here for.
They’re making me walk to the pizza place and use cash. I wish I had never gotten tricked into Communism
You joke but there is a literal “Maoist” cult in my city, they came in and beat up an old man at the dsa
They also had to have the police help them put the safety on their guns at a demonstration once lmao
Maybe that nice old man who was a dang war hero from the DSA actually struck one of the female Maoists first and then got his ass handed to him.
I only want to escape but online leftists keep telling me to “read Marx” and when I tell them I did they tell me to read Lenin. I am Lenin, I cry
often cause of quarantine i've been thinking "this is a waste of time" when i've been doing something i enjoy. the idea of wasting time is a capitalist invention, if you aren't taking part in the capitalist machine you are wasting your time.
I literally have to track the time I spend working down to 6-minute increments and it amplifies this feeling so much for me
Yeah, I fucking hate that one. Take a day off? Sorry, how much money are you making?
not if you are working on something that is personally fulfilling, its okay to view social media etc. as a time waste if there are things you could spend your time on that make you happier in the long run
Would you ever give your paintings away? Just as a thought, sharing the love might help you get the warm good feelings that you're doing something Good.
Like I know i’m an idiot amateur who doesn’t know what he’s doing
All the more reason to give paintings away to people or teach others to paint. It will build joy in your heart.
I feel like this a uniquely american thing? I can't remember ever meeting anyone here in europe with that kind of mindset.
despite my parents' best efforts, i don't have that mindset either. and i'm american.
We're probably going to do it for the rest of our lives. But thank you, and you as well!
It's fascinating how much harder it is to deprogram this western chavinist propaganda even among people who have rejected the religions they grew up with or other random cultural norms.
western chavinist
You wot mate?! Western culture's fookin superior innit?! I'll bas ye fookin ead in i swear on me mum!
Two years ago when I was way more of a dumb lib, I said the Xi/ winnie the pooh joke to my girlfriend's cousin, while we were visiting Taiwan.
I cringe every day.
I'd probably fall off a cliff after that, you are a far stronger person than I.
Lol I'm pretty sure a lot of Taiwanese people hate Xi and make similar jokes
Absolutely, which is what I was banking on at the time, but looking back I feel like it was kind of a classic dumb american thing to say.
Stupid shit i've done lately? Oh, probably wasting the last 5+ years of my life with stupid bullshit.
Jokes on you my brain is so hyped up on communism that the non-communist parts have rotted completely away to the point where I will never have a chauvinist thought ever again but I constantly forget to turn off lights and lock doors and I never leave a store without forgetting at least one item.
Karl Lennon or whatever replaced all my object permanence! What the heck
still trying to deal with the neverending anxiety. like i transitioned and i think my anxiety got worse.
the constant bombardment of what the 'ideal' woman looks like. ive been told i look like im cis / like a model, and it really bothers me because then it makes me compare to models and shit which is obviously unhealthy because i dont have a team of people making me look nice. ive yet to get used to the creepy looks and comments. ive been groped in public before, actually around six times, had drunk dudes follow me and friends around. weird shit like that. makes me very nervous to go outside, though i do know its dumb because most of the time people are very nice so idk.
i also hate how i get in cycles of neverending anxiety and beating myself up. like if i have an anxious breakdown and dont leave the place for weeks and drop everything, i get in a cycle of how useless i am by capitalist standards and i should be out doing xyz, getting surgeries, or getting a house with that money. you know, things that should be a given in any just society.
Oof. Yeah I imagine transitioning both heightens your anxiety while relieving gender dysphoria so that's its own kick in the face.
Made a dumb comment about aesthetics are important to liberals, therefore we could benefit from using political dynasties. Then realized i was the liberal i was talking about because deep down i wanted to keep the obamas, and their hokey saccharine shit. ive been listening to more theory to cure me of this brain poisoning
Oh shit that was your comment! I thought it was more of a benign thing, I didn't realize it was serious. Funny thing is, I can see where you're coming from.
read noam chomsky
and like other people here, internalize the "waste of time" rhetoric, always focused on finishing/completing something even if its mundane or pointless.
What, you mean the French Algeria that was the subject of "Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon? You mean that transition wasn't peaceful? I don't believe you.
The stupidest part is that I knew that one wasn't peaceful, but I naively assumed others were.
Literally until a couple weeks ago it did not compute that we fought the American War in Vietnam because they had a successful socialist revolution and are still a socialist nation. I feel like such a rube.
Not only recently, I guess it'll be with me for quite some time, but I realized I suffer from a terminal respectability and nuance fetish.
I always qualify too much or acknowledge that "both sides are not perfect" when it comes to imperialism.
I just don't want to be seen as "radical", beacause thats not "pragmatic" and therefore not to be taken seriously...
Pragmatic is just a code for not moving the needle. That's why they hope you'll be pragmatic.
