I got one friend who will not shut up about the MIC (military industrial complex). He'll go on and on about how much it ruins shit and how much is influenced by it. But concepts like Imperialism and its relationship to capitalism is some how beyond him. Instead its just "humans who are the problem"
The thing that I'm reminded of constantly is that there is a language we all use but all the words mean different things.
- Capitalism
- Imperialism
- Fascism
- Authoritarianism
- Totalitarianism
I couldn't begin to tell you what I used to think these meant and what the people around me think they mean still. No one (save for one person in our group) would be bothered to read a book on the subject.
Like, the MIC comes from somewhere, if it pisses you off so much, wouldn't you want to understand it, so you can combat it?
/rant
They just wanna complain about something with other people to vibe out and build social bonds together. Most people don't really mean what they say. It's just about hanging out and having fun
Honestly I sympathize with him because when I bitch about something stupid in this world, there's a significant chance the communist I'm hanging out with will launch into a class conflict or labour value lecture for 15 minutes and it's like bruh, I know, I'm just trying to vibe and build comraderie by complaining about something we both agree on
Move on and agitate somebody/on something else. 99% of people are unreachable at this point with regard to American foreign policy