The amount of times I've been talking to some friends and I'll make a prediction or make an observation on what's going to happen in a political situation (or what to focus on), get disagreed with and called a tankie or pessimist or whatever, and then I'm correct 3 months later is driving me mad. Of course, they then start saying they need to protest against that or whatever. You would think at some point if someone is consistantly correct about stuff (that isn't hard to be correct on, I'm just like, the only theory reader and person who knows any real history in a group of americans) that you'd start to give them a little credit and maybe value their opinion a little higher, maybe even try to understand what's different between you and them????

Example: telling them ukraine has a nazi problem???? Why was this difficult.

It might just be me or something (likely) but it seems like it's a trend across the states.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    it's a national scale problem. all the people on the wrong side of the Iraq war still have media and political careers; all the people who were right were considered unserious and have disappeared. it is more important to "project seriousness" and be part of the club than to be right.

    editing to add: hardly anybody actually thinks about anything or tries to analyze current conditions on the basis of past events or ongoing trends. it's all just vibes, and materialist analysis has bummer vibes.