Title: Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election
Only in communist countries do they politically brainwash their soldiers.
Title: Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election
Only in communist countries do they politically brainwash their soldiers.
My dad has a PHD in philosophy of education and he is the most lib of all libs. Very lucky in that he's antiracist and completely supportive of the LGBTQ+ community, but holy shit his opinions of communism come straight from the CIA (he was born in the late 40s so that all tracks), and he's not very well read on anything Marxist or Marxist adjacent. I know I've posted this before, but when I came out as an ML to my folks, he tried to point to Putin's Russia as "why communism didnt work" and I just laughed and said his shit was revisionist and reactionary.
when they think Russia is still communist and think they can condescend to you on your ignorance, just grinds my fuckin gears so hard
He tried to open a dialogue with me about Marxism, but his ramblings were so bad I said "lets put a pin in this, I'll reply to your shit point by point later" and I've just never gotten around to it.
Don't get me wrong, my dad has the most amazingly shitty politics, but he knows a lot and has introduced me to a logical way of thinking that I'm really grateful for.
My dad is a great example of how intelligent people can arrive at batshit crazy beliefs. He is reading Marx and despises rich people and neoliberalism but he also believes in cold-war anti-communist propaganda, right-wing culture war bullshit including Islamophobic "great replacement" conspiracies. He hates modern succdems for their obvious betrayals but thinks that they are different from the "real" succdems who created the welfare state. Ideally he would like to live in a 1950's succdem welfare state without any post-1970 technology, LGBT or brown people.
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