This was fun last time, leggo again
I'll start with: libertarians have solid takes ~40-50% of the time and many of them just need to be pushed a step further in their thinking to turn against capitalist oppression along with state oppression. The libright-to-leftist pipeline is stronger than most seem to think it is.
Believing the CIA is behind everything you don't like is no braver or smarter than the r/conspiracy people blaming the Jews for everything they don't like. Often it's also an excuse to not do anything, in fact.
This is very true! Many people blamed the cia for my interim presidency of Venezuela. I can assure you it was not their fault. They were very generous, but it was my idea.
Your mistake, Mr President, was not declaring yourself head of the CIA and President at the same time!
Sounds exactly like what the CIA would say :rolling on the floor laughing:
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I have no idea what about my senior year semester abroad in Iran photographing many culturally significant spots like Bushehr airport, the scenic beauty of the Khark Island oil terminal, or the gorgeous mountains around Chalus would suggest that to you!
Yeah at least 25% of what the CIA is accused of they were only sort of involved in
Only unpopular here, completely cold take everywhere else: online "tankies" are seriously off-putting and almost as obnoxious as neo-libs. Yes 90% of what everyone knows about North Korea and China is racist propaganda, but forming your entire identity around defending Huawei from US economic imperialism is just cringe and profoundly confused imo. The worst part is how condescending they are to everyone else and how they act like their third eye is opened. As an anarchist I'm ultimately entirely okay with American world hegemony being broken up by the Chinese and hoping whatever takes its place is better. I know "tankies" can get behind that too but for some reason they're obsessed with calling us rad-libs and imperialists apologists
It's a confusion between "ideologically rigorous" and "simple contrariness", masquerading as galaxy brain thought.
Maybe I am in an unusually sympathetic group of people. I feel like in my friend group talking shit like, "the USSR was pretty cool the stuff we all know about it is CIA lies" has had better results than, " well actually Stalin was bad but the ideas he had could be used for good."
I realize anecdote isn't evidence, I feel like we have seen the Right go pedal to the metal and shift the overton window successfully. I think it can work for us. For sure people will complain, however I don't think that proves it isn't working
And they post memes about murdering anarchists "ironically" and just be like "haha just some gentle ribbing, right? Haha we wouldn't totally murder anarchists given the opportunity, it's a joke!"
Nicolas Maduro is a very bad man who does not want the best for the Venezuelan people of Venezuela.
Mr. President this is a very popular opinion shared by many people who stand with you against the tyranny of social safety nets!
Slightly unpopular opinions: -Breadtube is cool and good, just because you've moved past it doesn't mean people who need introduction to leftist spaces don't exist.
-Making fun of neolibs for "people were mean to me on twitter so i'm against healthcare" is just stupid. You have 2 choices: Either you gain people for the movement, or you have fun by scolding people on twitter. You can do both against different sets of people, but not the same people.
-Related to previous point, people will be turned off by leftists being assholes and "dirtbags". Being nice doesn't guarantee turning them over to our side, but being a dickhead guarantees they won't.
-Misogyny, racism etc. exist in left spaces. It might be to a lesser extent compared to libs or conservatives, but it still does.
-Posting screenshots of random people on twitter is stupid. Stop angerjerking, it's unhealthy and has no use. Use that energy to organize or reading.
Actually unpopular opinion: -It's valid to make fun of Stalin and/or Mao or any leftists leader for making stupid ass decisions.
ALWAYS defend muslims under attack from islamophobes and racists, but do not forget that religion is never an ally.
A communist revolution is near impossible without significant sympathy and support among rank and file soldiers, in fact having that support is the difference between forming a Red Army that can resoundingly defeat reactionary forces, and getting murdered by Freikorps.
If you're an ML who flatly rejects the idea that all efforts should be extended to bring troops into any communist movement, while also believing that communism is solely achievable through revolution, you're not pragmatic at all, but rather more Utopian then even the most extreme "DemSocs" or "Anarkiddie" caricature.
Why do people who always assume the soldiers are necessary compare them to the Red Army, as if the US military and the Imperial Russian Army are remotely comparable? The Kerensky government literally could not ship soldiers to the front faster than they were deserting and the Petrograd garrisons rebelled specifically because they did not want to be sent out. Almost the entire Imperial military were conscripts who were in some of the worst conditions soldiers have ever seen. If we ever get to a situation where the average US soldier is an unwilling conscript looking at something akin to slowly dying of gangrene in a freezing cold trench to carry out an imperialist war on behalf of a self appointed government that doesn't even offer them anything for their service then yeah, reach out to the soldiers, engage in Trench Bolshevism. However, as long as the troops have air conditioning and 3 meals a day they will serve the bourgeoisie.
Everyone wants to pretend that revolution in the imperial core will be bloodless, or that we'll just be getting rid of the fascists, and it will be as quick as October. This is utopian. It's going to look a lot more like China after the fall of the Qing except probably even worse. Once the US military ceases to be the 'US' military because the US ceases to be 'United' then maybe the soldiers can be radicalized.
Warlord Era US with giant mad max-style truck convoys and youtuber milita leaders would truly be a worthy sequel to the psychotic freakshow generals and armored train warfare of the Chinese Warlord Era
No, bro, my meme plan to withdraw to the Everglades with the rest of my Maoist cell to launch a protracted people's war will totally end up in capitalism being destroyed, not in us eating raw snakes for dinner and then calling mom to come pick us up!
Privileged White activists don’t understand how to be allies to poc a lot of the time. Police reform protestors went to the most dangerous neighborhood in Chicago and protested outside of the police station there. They got flamed by locals for not letting the community know and for the possibility of inciting police violence who would have came down on the predominantly black residents. One dude called them out for not being there after “babies get shot”. As much as we hate the police and their role, some people who live in dangerous neighborhoods want more police and I think we should listen in that regard.
You can’t just storm into an area you haven’t worked with and expect to be welcomed. Organizing requires dirty work too like delivering groceries, outreach with youth, volunteer, etc.
New Atheism did more to stop religion than any communist ever did. I have heard so many horror stories from kids during that time and their insane religious parents and those forms and r/Atheism provided a fantastic spot for kids to rant. Still fuck the intellectuals behind it as the Islamophobia poisoned the movement.
We talk about radicalizing libs but with half the posts on the front page praising Maduro, Stalin and the DPRK we're more likely to scary them off lmao
Yeah. When I was much more liberal, I used to come to the subreddit, and then abruptly leave whenever I saw something like that.
perhaps this is an unpopular opinion: outside of fighting fascism, Stalin sucked
Unpopular opinion: I don’t come here to convince any of you libs, and I couldn’t care less about the political landscape of the US or trying to change it with an irrelevant message board.
We should probably unironically support the Maduro regime, but there needs to be more room for criticism of socialist leaders.
I'll admit to being very ignorant on Maduro. Outside of being anti-American imperialism what else is there to support about him?
Well being not too enough to make the U.S want to overthrow him so bad. But again the reason the U.S like to overthrow regimes that differ in the sloghtest from what the U.S want them to be is because they just can overthrow them. They get very pissed when they can't regime change a dissdent country lol
imagine what the average white American thinks about
I recommend not to use this as a scale of what opinions to hold or how to think.
What? "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" doesn't apply to the young'uns?
world will probably be unhabitable before we get to any sort of real left society
The only thing that could make Earth totally uninhabitable to humans is nuclear Armageddon or asteroid impact. Global warming or whatever else can only at worst cause the breakdown of modern civilization. Nbd
I mean sure, 7 billion people could die and there would still be plenty of humans left. Still sounds like a terrible time
Idk dude, crop failure and the degradation of energy infrastructure to create and deliver foodstuffs is very fucking perilous. Like the only human society that could exist past something like that until the earth normalizes would be an underground vault like in Fallout.
Nah, because the reality is places like Canada and Russia will suddenly become enormous swathes of rather productive farmland. The Earth has been much hotter in the past, and the planet even having permanent ice caps is a relative rarity.
The problem is going to be the enormous change in what areas are habitable and productive and the creation of billions of climate refugees.
I agree, it does really suck how much of the Earth's land mass isnt towards the poles. Also that Australia is already a desert. Earth's geography just sucks is that a hot enough take?
Those fossil fuels we're burning now all used to be gases in the atmosphere. In the Cretaceous, the temperature was 10 degrees Celsius hotter than today. There was probably some snow in the winter, but there was no permanent ice anywhere on the planet, including the poles and mountain peaks. Take a look at the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous#Climate
Human-induced climate change is going to be absolutely disastrous for the people of the world today. We need to be taking dramatic, global action and completely restructuring society. But it certainly won't make the planet uninhabitable and I very, very seriously doubt it will cause human extinction.
Socialism is inevitable if you count the last two people sharing the last scrap of food as socialism.
Look at india. Lots of places there look like the kinda post global warming wasteland america will turn into. Yeah, we will all die, but somebody will do just fine. In the perfect black pill world the goal is to make sure whoever ends up left has a copy of the manifesto in a language they can read you know? It likely won't be that bad, just really really bad.
China probably had to use questionable measures to detain Uighur's. The situation needs to be investigated WITHOUT weird evangelicals.
nah, maybe on the internet. I refuse to believe anyone who isn't supremely insecure will hear "all men are trash" and think that the Natzis were right. They say it, but really they were worse than they were willing to admit to start.
