Link - https://www.reddit.com/r/VaushV/comments/way9nt/gravel_institute_barely_focuses_on_national_issues/

Some cool comments.

Because they are fucking Tankies funded by Russian interest groups. Their agenda is to sow discontent and distrust in America. Divide and conquer.. They should be removed from YouTube for their Ukraine coverage. We need a purge.

Dirt? No? But it’s plain to see. They produced a video justifying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They also only really focus on how America was terrible in the past, and all the crimes they’ve done and other bad shit. Yet refuse to focus on the modern problems that we face.

I miss the 2020 primaries when leftist conversations were dominated by domestic policy. I hate foreign policy with a burning passion

  • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I find it funny since other types of reactionaries also say "why can't they talk about issues that average Americans care about?" and then explicitly exclude things like trans issues from the list. "Average American" is just code for "people like me". It's also fucking hilarious to be concern trolling about not paying enough attention to trans rights on the sub for a transphobic chaser.

    Incidentally, of the last five videos, three are contemporary domestic/semi-domestic American issues:

    The bombing of Laos (old, foreign policy)

    Oil companies scamming Americans (current, semi-domestic)

    Minimum wage myths (current, domestic)

    CPC history (old, foreign)

    The environment and EVs (current, domestic)

    Also, Gravel's whole fucking platform was anti-imperialism. He was like the inverse of Bernie. What do these assholes expect?

    I hate foreign policy with a burning passion

    You're American, shut the fuck up. Your country has always founded its existence on robbing other countries, you have no right to just plug your ears to the subject.

    • LibsEatPoop [any]
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      2 years ago

      You’re American, shut the fuck up. Your country has always founded its existence on robbing other countries, you have no right to just plug your ears to the subject.

      I’m finding it more and more that certain americans (maybe most ii dunno) are just unable to comprehend that other countries suffer because of amerika. Especially the older folk.

      • TrashCompact [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Absolutely, though I would mostly frame it as refusing to comprehend. The basic ideas are mostly pretty simple, but they can be uncomfortable for some people, the quoted fellow probably included.

        For some others though, it's more of a psychopathic lack of caring about who gets victimized, only being interested in how it effects your treat budget. This is, as the other commenter observed, social democracy being objectively the moderate wing of fascism.