Nobody is willing to even entertain the idea that West isn't Best. Suggesting that whitey shouldn't rule the world is received as if you'd advocated cannibalism, and you will be condescended to and treated like an ignorant child even as they make it clear they know much less than you do about the subject at hand, if not outright ejected from the community. It's not just bots and manufacturing consent, either - it happens to me in real life just as easily as it happens online.
Anyone who isn't unconditionally anti-NATO and anti-American hegemony is a white supremacist. No exceptions.
Love this place, though. I think I'd go crazy if it wasn't for you guys. Glad I have somewhere to get this off my chest :soviet-heart:
That's where I am unless people directly ask me my opinions, then I don't hide it. I call myself a communist when asked and it seems to work so far because other people either think I'm joking or they have no idea what a communist is.
I don't hop into things anymore though, it just makes pointless arguments happen and most people don't feel strongly enough to care anyway. I just nod and go "Yeah." Like the other day a coworker asked me why I don't move to Canada if I like socialism, then I did joke saying Canada's too communist for me. He nodded and said "Yeah, they're even worse than communists there. They're like Democrats."
that's around the level most people are at
Correct, but probably not for the reasons he thinks.