My personal "favourite" comment
Just wanted to add, its ok to mourn the loss of a strong woman, even if the firm she represented and the work she did was wrong in so many ways. Rarely is any single person all good or all bad. She was a bad ass during WWII, doing work “girls” didn’t do up till then. She led a very disciplined life and worked tirelessly at her role. Unfortunately, the work she did, and so much of what she represented was painfully awful. Just goes to remind us that being a strong female is not enough if the way you live causes harm. My wish is that in her next go round at life she learns to take her strength and apply it for the good of other people.
Sitting at +133 upvotes lmao such revolutionaries on there.
This is the core contradiction of "progressivism" in the Imperial Core: profound chauvinism. It undergirds everything and when you recognize it, you'll see it everywhere.
These are the same same people who say "well do you think the Taliban is going to spend that money on the people?" when you bring up the US looting Afghanistan's Treasury, all while their own government fails to provide for their basic needs.
It doesn't take much work to imagine some 1930s German progressive, hearing about that terrible famine in the Soviet Union but refusing to send aid because "well do you think the Soviet government is going to spend that money on the people?"
Or, a decade later, mourning the loss of Eva Braun because she "meant so much to the German people."
It's just the key "nothing effects anything else" narrative that liberalism pushes. Everything exists in a vacuum, don't think about it too much and just do the next "right thing" mindset.
Decolonization? Oh that's right I support it. The queen dying? Oh ok that's sad, I'll mourn that. I'm just doing whatever feels right you see? Don't think about it too hard