The solution is, of course, to recognize that you are not your country and actually internalize that.
People under bourgeois dictatorship: "I can't change anything materially, but I can post woke tumblr memes to change peoples minds"
Having read Marx, I can now see The Marketplace of Ideas is liberal bullshit, but I'll just keep acting like it's real anyway.
I hate the phrase western left because the definition is highly subjective, but people then choose the definition of who consititutes the western left that maximizes how many takes they can get angry at and not the subset of people who range from ok to good who organize
Like sure if you count an r/vaushv user who has never done anything political in the real world as the western left this meme tracks
Like sure if you count an r/vaushv user who has never done anything political in the real world as the western left this meme tracks
tbf a lot of r/vaushv users are only "against queerphobia" as long as it allows them to be chasers
That's probably true I was just trying to think of a place that claims to on the left, supports LGBTQ in some sense and also supports NATO
Honestly, aside from this site, I've been trying to find a leftist space that doesn't do that
I hate to break it to some folks, but the propaganda victory in regards to NATO has been total and complete this last year, I feel fully confident asserting 90% of self-identifying leftists in the west are pro-NATO (for the meantime)
We must conquer the queerphobic world in order to [checks notes] take their stuff? That can't be right...
The wotst part is when these kinds of "leftists" are anti-imperialost without understand it so they think China is imperialist, or support Ukraine even though its an imperial proxy war
This already got posted on /c/chapotraphouse3, which is problematic for a number of reasons, but now to see it again is just too much.
