Russia invading was really the best thing for hawks. It’s only gonna get harder to argue for anti-imperialism now, even smarter people I know see the USA as the lesser of two evils. It doesn’t help that a lot of the people opposed to the US right now are legit ghouls who there isn’t much nice to say about besides that they oppose to the US. No amount of nuance or intelligent arguing is gonna convince anyone now, the US were the good guys against the big evil Putin.
The US is getting more and more regressive on LGBT issues but on classic American style they’re doing it slowly and regionally enough that it doesn’t seem like a sudden regressive take over, so most LGBT people I know still see the USA as a generally progressive state with some regressive enclaves, unlike the “backwards” nations in the developing world.
The hope pilling about China is seeming more and more like cope to me. Even if they are really building socialism I think they maybe too late. Besides it seems to only be socialism for China, they’re not planning on exporting anything.
Anti-communist propaganda as worked. Failures of past socialist movements along with the almost scientific methods of modern propagandists means really only an aesthetic meme version of the idea is gaining any meaningful popularity.
Frankly I’m just fed up. I don’t think anyone else in the west can be talked into socialism at this point, the propagandists won. People say that we shouldn’t be doomer even if we are doomed, but NGL having hope just seems exhausting and obnoxious right now. It being over seems like the best fate because at least then we don’t have to deal with people telling us how wrong we were.
I refuse to give up hope. Leftists are spending too much time arguing about which side is worse or better, whether Putin is justified in invading a neighboring country or if NATO encroachment is not a big deal. I don't give a fuck. The fact of the matter is the left has abandoned any agency, it has disappeared entirely on a global scale. The infrastructure to enact worldwide socialism is non-existant and time is running out. We need to mobilize right now and set ourselves up to take a hold of the power vacuum that is inevitably going to arise as these two sides bicker over nationalist bullshit. The west has spent almost a century fighting communism and Putin has aided and abetted that effort, spending time bickering with libs about Putin's justified grievances against the west are fucking stupid.
:this:. Material reality is what matters, not the discourse about NATO or Russia that we're currently surrounded by. Everybody on every side of this war will propagandize to their citizens that they have won and the enemy has lost. The left must rebuild itself. I won't succumb to the easy path of doomerism and surrender my agency while there's still work to be done.
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