they're right. refusing to acknowledge reality serves no one but our enemies.
pretty much. i was less tankie before the whole xinjiang thing. even though im from a family of commies. just said 'whatever works, works'. now i realize how much propaganda effects people, its a powerful tool that absolutely must be used by a principled socialist party and all capitalist opposition must be suppressed.
ive just learned over time that my grandma is a genius and that i should hang on her every word lmfao. she was like 'told you kid' the entire time i learned about socialism more. though these days she has learned more from me i guess. did i tell yall that i ran :feinberg-sicko: through google translate and handed her a czech translation of their biggest stuff :lenin-shining: grandma was like 'oh i really appreciate this socialist trans angle it really lines up everything'
she honestly doesnt look her age at all i think she'll live to 120 lol
actually knowing things about america makes you a “commie traitor”
:yes-comm:
Yeah, I guess I’m just disappointed at how vehemently family members I used to look up to for teaching me to seek out justice and be a good, empathetic person, now turn on me now that I am somewhat well read and informed on large scale systemic injustices and analyses of the roots of injustice, now they scream at me for being too emotional and caring too much about it. It has shown me just how limited the liberal mindset is, how tragically, despite being a family of third world immigrants, my family has completely bought into American exceptionalism and imperialism and western chauvinist propaganda.
It makes me wonder what did they really mean about “caring about injustice”? Did they mean for the sake of aesthetics, performatively recognizing that injustice exists? What they get mad at me for is my understanding (built through study of socialist theory) of the roots of these injustices.
And apparently I care too much, and yes I did start crying in indignation talking about how barbaric it is that companies are, as expected, choosing profits over vaccinating the periphery, and our government actively supports that. They’re mad at me for not believing in electoralism and incremental change. I just asked WHO CAN I FUCKING VOTE FOR TO GET PEOPLE IN OUR MOTHER COUNTRY THE FUCKING VACCINE FORMULAS? They have no answer but getting mad at me for being a “conspiracy theorist” because I point out that our government is run by bourgeois interests. God it’s just disappointing that family members I looked up to, our family my parents generation was dirt poor in a third world Asian country, for their sense of justice turned out to be brainwashed democratic party liberals, and my mom said I was as bad as a Trump supporter (to liberals that is the ultimate trashing of your politics) and my mom thinks I’m brainwashed by Chinese propaganda and victim to MISINFORMATION holy fuck
They have no answer but getting mad at me for being a “conspiracy theorist”
Bruh I hate being called this because 99% of the "conspiracies" (aka just talking about the brutality of the Cold War) I am into are out in the fucking open. Like the CIA/STATE DEPT LITERALLY HAS (ENTHUSIASTICALLY IN SOME CASES) ADMITTED TO THIS SHIT LMAO IT'S NOT EVEN A CONSPIRACY
That's not even getting into FOIA requests and what not....
It's me. I am a xaddi xi stan.
I am am fine becauze someone needs to carry that Overton window.
I am mad that waumo got to be the word. We shoudl have mixed china and weeb so we were cheebs. Whereabou is a good portmanteau and we should keep thr system going.
Not tired of it so much as constantly needing to readjust my impression of how propagandized the population is and how likely they are to support incredible aggressive war despite Iraq and Afghanistan. Thought I couldn't get more disappointed in my neighbors but they keep proving me wrong.
One positive: they're so ridiculous about it that it's very easy to dunk irl.
