Excited to find the western chauvinists in this community.
Edit: Wow apparently the only people on chapo dot chat are whitees unaffected by and benefiting from their imperialism confidently declaring how the perpetrators are to be treated.
Y'all have some nerve
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ITT If you shoot a black kid in the back in downtown Baltimore I want nothing to do with you. If you perfarate an entire back family in Mogadischu or Baghdad that's ok, you did growth and spaces.
This tweet is right but the comments are going to be filled to the brim with shit takes because the majority of the users of this website live in the USA or another NATO country.
Edit: yep lol
Most of the comments aren't even responding to/acknowledging the tweet either
Aren't you a white South African
Yeah but I'm trying to be aware of my privilege, and I think you can count the number of white people in South Africa that moved to the country post 1994 and live in what is considered an "informal settlement" (I really don't like calling towns that, but anyways) on less than 400USD a month on one hand.
If you want my take on the military issue, I think leftists should mass organise to join the military for training if they are interested in that, unless they start banning communists or something. I'm not going to tell people in the USA how to do leftism or anything, as that would be extremely arrogant and ignorant as I don't live there and have little understdanding of how things are on the ground. So just discard my opinion if it's irrelevant. But please let me make fun of the goons that trained and supplied the apartheid troops, it's all I have left.
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Joke at the end there, I'm putting this here because I suck at posting
I don't hold grudges too much, it's all good. I just thought it was funny that you were calling out Amerikkkans when white South Africans are probably the only people in the world that are on the whole more reactionary than white Americans. It's kind of a cope, like we can say "well at least in not some Afrikaaner trying to start an ethnostate in Orania
Yeah your average white South African makes chuds look like saints in comparison, I learned that at during high school, it involved a few apartheid flag burnings (Yes some racist afrikaaners still hang them in their house or garage). Also I had to visit an orania compound (yes there is more than one now, it's an organisation) for work reasons a while ago, never felt more uncomfortable in my life. Best part was that they had POC security guards guarding the compound.
Top three worst humans: Israelis, White South Africans, White Amerikkkans
Israel gave the apartheid government fighter jets and guns, and helped them test and create 16 nuclear weapons if I remember correctly, so checks out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_incident
This is the worst thread I have seen in a long time.
Reading the comments in this thread is going to unironically turn me into a third world Maoist
History should have done that to you 30 years ago.
I'm not even 30 years old, give it time, I'm going to make Stalin look like a fucking liberal by the time I hit 30 :stalin-shining:
We really are this anglocentric, are we?
Yes
It's wild how we used to have that "braver than the troops" thing but now look at this thread, like fuck man
I think cucking the troops was a funny one too
This one is a classic right here lol
Hate to plug myself but: https://hexbear.net/post/18720
(First troop struggle session on chapo.chat)
I just don't get how being critical of soldiers and vets is wrecker divisive liberal shit now. When did this heel turn happen?
But in the grand scheme of things pffhayvadhbppp and actually the Russians aqhbrcrcdkeosddg you can't allienate propagandized troops by kjuheejedewyvtvrvqjwpxf. In conclusion, disliking imperialist troops ➡️ no communism.
lol damn did I just get owned???
Yes, liberal.
Ok, imperialist lapdogs and their stooges can join the vanguard now TuT
My personal theory: there's been a big push recently of the "those poor troops are just joining for college/stability, they had no choice" narrative though popular media and the news, even though troops come from richer families than the average American. I think this is to try get the liberals and left leaning people to support the troops, as there was really a big hatred of them, even from libs, post Bush. We're seeing the results now. Again I'm not American so I'm 99% likely to be wrong, and please discard this if I am
At this point, I don't even trust Americans with their ability to perceive themselves. It's just manufactured consent and invented reality all the way down. You'd expect that we of all people would be at least somewhat critical of this notion of a benevolent soldier/vet and where it came from but here we are.
This tweet got a laugh out of me too lol
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Yeah... that is exactly the thing I was doing a parody of...
But also quoting LeninsRage comment above:
From an individualist perspective it makes sense to join the army. But that does not change anything. Imperialism has always made sense from an individualist perspective.
What is end goal of a left wing movement in your view
Also curious to see this answer.