Uncritical support to this rich guy funding places that enrage the patsocs
https://unofficialbird.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1663677883972452352#m
Haz tweet of same thing
https://unofficialbird.com/InfraHaz/status/1663631883647713281#m
For non Jackson context he's given the people's forum and tricontinental insitute around $15 million each, he was the son of some sort of communist and made it big in tech and is married to one of the codepink co founders and his son works at tricontinental
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Roy_Singham
The people's forum have a tweet if you look for it where they say it was him that gave them the money
And as someone who has known about this for years its very funny that they found this out from an extremely liberal daily beast article about it https://www.thedailybeast.com/neville-singham-funded-breakthrough-news-is-pushing-moscow-beijing-propaganda
where they ripped the picture from, the daily beast has got to be one of their biggest enemies lmao
Because not every place is like the USA, the USA is not the entire world. It is extremely American centric to think that left wing automatically equals socially progressive. This is the sad reality unfortunately, you can find many communists outside the west repeating socially regressive ideology, especially if they are older. And in many cases, social progressiveness, outside of combatting blatant racism or ethnic division, is seen as part of liberal or centre right economic ideology. Or even western colonialism. It is very stupid I know. Boomer thought is unfortunately a worldwide phenomenon. It has nothing to do with the deep state making young communists, or communists in the west woke. Basically the inverse of how it is seen in the US.
I know because I've met people like this many times. The younger generation is much more hopeful, thankfully.
I totally agree, but I will say this for many of the socially conservative commies I've met over the decades; they tend to still be more open to social change (even if it sweeps it with them, rather than them actually supporting it) than other boomers despite the bunker mindset. The libs still think it's the end of history and the right is trying to hop a time machine back to a utopia that never existed.
I remember talking to the father of my partner who worked in Soviet embassies for most of his life about trans-rights, gay marriage, and inclusive language well over a decade ago. We'd probably had too much Rakia and while he listened, he basically wouldn't budge on his social conservatism. But he did say something like "Change will happen no matter what I think. When I worked around the world people thought we were mad or just complained. But we did it anyway and we were mostly right." I wish I had been sober enough to remember it exactly.
Yeah they tend not to be the types to disown their children or anything, unlike other boomers
Yeah, or in this case just accepting the fact that change happens and sometimes it's good despite making people uncomfortable.
Honestly gets frustrating since pretty much the main reason I’m here is because I thought socialist movements were the best way to escape American social norms. I‘ve never been able to take social values and norms seriously, and never got how people could.
Cosplaying the whole social norms stuff is a bit infuriating yeah. Like I hate tying up my long hair and putting a suit on, but I'll do it so I can get a job and participate in society:society:. And don't get me started about gender norms and all that. In school all the boys had to have short hair, shave, wear uniform, etc. Girls had a bit more freedom as far as hair goes, but always had to wear the uniform dress or skirt, even during winter. That was long ago, but we were still part of the post 1994 generation, and all that nonsense stayed after that. I'm just tired folks. As a bi dude I just feel like I'm constantly struggling to fit in and keep up with all the social conventions.
I will say some social norms are good though, like personal hygiene and being courteous in public. But others are just about conformity.
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