imperialism dwarfs any domestic concerns you have

if you disagree with this then youve got american leftist brainworms

people who have shitty or bizarre domestic policy opinions but are active anti-imperialists, not in the fake "no more intervention because brown people dont deserve my help" libertarian fasc way, but in the real "hey the us empire should end" way and actually take steps to disrupt that empire are more important and helpful to the world than people who have demsoc or even leftist domestic opinions but standard or null foreign policy (this includes AOC etc)

u can do both, but one of them is required to even be passably useful

  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    So what are you going to do about it and how are you going to get the average working class citizen on your side? Just sit here and post "death to AmeriKKKKKKKKKKA" over and over?

    Most Americans are overworked. They work 40+ hours living pay check to pay check struggling to put food on the table for themselves and their families. They don't have time to worry about what is going on overseas. None of this counting the actual domestic problems that are hurting them like lack of healthcare, out of control police brutality, and debt.

    These kind of posts are exactly what is wrong with the left. Instead of looking to relate with your fellow man, just sow divisions and infighting over stuff completely out of your own control and everyone else's control. None of us are in a position to do anything about US imperialism and again, the average person don't fixate on it cause they're already overburdened with their own problems.

    • Bob [he/him,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      telling AOC to have good foreign policy positions (or any at all) en masse isn't the same as telling your union friend that he's a dumbass for not knowing the difference between trotsky and stalin

      also i agree that if youre walking up to random people and screaming about the Truth About Syria then youre probably not helping but if youre getting on the case of comfortable "progressives" (especially the ones who are in office!!!) to actually have a foreign scope to us policy then you are probably are helping

      what you do about it on an individual level, if youre in the US which im not, is the same thing you do about anything else in the US that affects the federal level. the same levers of power you have to affect what the fed does about your life are the same levers of power you have to affect what the fed does to millions of other people around the world.

      strikes, unions, rioting, etc all can apply pressure to stop homelessness as well as genocide

      you can relate to your fellow man in the same way the student protestors did in the 70s, since your fellow man if he's worth a damn probably doesn't want to kill 3 million people in se asia either