https://twitter.com/FernandoAmandi/status/1320528153182425088?s=19

For you to shout mean things at the ghouls advocating for fascism over the results of democracy.

  • RalphGrenader [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I do not get how people lived during Reagan, saw his direct damage to the very fabric of our lives, and think "Gommunism bad, it cause all bad tings to happen". But then, I don't get how people like Joe.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        People in the core have absolutely no mental connection between the political legislation and the material changes in their lives. They literally do not connect the two properly.

        I can only put this down to the fact the people are so heavily alienated by capitalism that they are also alienated from the political acts and their effects themselves. It is a drama on tv with two teams. Their effects are largely meaningless to the vast majority of people. The only thing they pay attention to are the dramatic bits and the elections themselves, none of the in between.

        This is an environment purposefully created by a combination of sucking the energy and time out of people and the entertainment we are provided as a distraction for what little time we have left.

      • anthm17 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        and it worked. Now a democrat can brag that he would be a moderate reagan era republican and a popular (lol) "progressive" was a reagan era republican.

        It's fucked.

      • read_freire [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I know a ton of radlibs/libs that hate Reagan but also think communism's badevil

        that's the peak brainworms

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        he got shot two months into his first term, pretty good timing for him

      • Nakoichi [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Same feeling being in highschool when 9/11 happened, I was like oh fuck we're somehow gonna use this to go to war in Iraq again while everyone around me was like "we should nuke those sand n***ers".

          • Nakoichi [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah I vaguely remember watching live footage of the first Iraq invasion on TV with people in the living room at my dad's friend's house cheering it on like it was a fucking football game.

              • Nakoichi [they/them]
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                4 years ago

                Capitalism itself is very reminiscent of that sort of cosmic horror; A vast uncaring and indifferent entity that simply seeks to consume all that it encounters, its machinations unable to be grasped by the majority that come into contact with it instead absorbing them into its horrifying designs and those of us that do glimpse the total scope of its being are almost ubiquitously driven mad with the knowledge of all that horror and human suffering.

    • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      its because reagan has a cult of personality were his failures are ignore by the doupoly and he is praised as deity by the elite, you now what they accused of china of doing with Mao