I don't think people understand the why of "critical support" here.
When people say "critical support of Assad", they are not saying "I want to live under the Assad regime" or "I agree with Assad's politics".
They are saying there is no alternative to Assad that is capable of resisting American imperialism to the same degree AND has good politics.
Copying another comment from elsewhere:
Nobody who is doing critical support for Putin is saying “America should be ruled like Russia”.
The groups you mention in their political context do not have alternatives that exhibit the following traits:
- The strength to defend against imperialism to the same degree
- Socialist politics
Political context matters.
Yes there are different standards for the imperial core than there are for the periphery. The imperial core should be held to a higher standard because it is the source of woe that it sows across the periphery.
Copying my other comment buried in this thread:
As ostensibly a “left unity” site, the problem is that tailism means two things at once:
Beyond that it’s very much ML specific language that most people here don’t actually understand.
The Lion of Damascus is the best opthamologist in Moscow.
Critical support of Assad has critically collapsed now that he's a nonplayer. So it goes.
My friend's mom also gets me Mao shit every time she comes back from China, because her DIL is a HK Lib and won't let her read red book to baby.
I've recommended she sue for grandparents rights.
I was a Maoist at 26.
Yeah this is the biggest example of why the "pro-Luigi" adventurists are wrong. The biggest moron in Congress agrees with your theory of change. Take a good look in the mirror.
In this case you should write a retort to Being and Nothingness. There's no further point to this discussion, you've thoroughly defeated all the practical concerns of online moderation and all the "pseudo-philosophical" ones as well with a well rounded argument of "nuh uhhhh cuz I can ;)".
Don't remember the emoji guide so you'll have to imagine it:
Posting Online - Drake No
Literally Posting IRL - Drake Yes
It is that, a shitposting site, but it is also more than that. There are many of us here who, for better or worse, spend a lot of time and energy on this site. We care about the community that makes it up and we care about the direction it’s headed.
This is your actual argument. This all boils down to a "No Exit" argument. You are mad that the mods are "the look" in the Camus sense. You want the mods to recognize the subjectivity in your person, rather than seeing you as an objective collection of posts. That is an unrealistic demand for an online site. Given the history of philosophy and general human history it's a bit of an unrealistic demand on real-life people too.
Time is a limited resource, at the end of the day your only real option in any community is to care about the community in an egoless way otherwise you'll only feel burned and be jaded.
Yeah eventually, and I really mean "eventually".
One of the main things that turned me from an MLM to an ancomm is that we tend to read the inevitability of the JDPON in the same way that Darwinian Liberals read "survival of the fittest". Inevitable doesn't mean easy, pain free, nice, straightforward, optimal or enjoyable. Just like "survival of the fittest" doesn't mean any of those things either. The niceties are superimposed by our minds because of the flowery language surrounding the idea. The technicals are where the brutal difficulty of the task (whether survival or enacting JDPON) tend to reside. Our inevitability in practice also caps at the point where life is no longer sustainable on this planet. There's a lot to learn from ML/M but the context under which those revolutions were won and the contexts in which they've been betrayed in are all expired and are not our context. Ancomm as an ideology is a study in the general problem.
A lot of Americans substitute the "just vote" that the liberal class mollifies them with, with an emotional adoration of violence mainly based on the individual gratification and catharsis of "being right". This isn't the recipe for revolution (in any realistic leftist sense), it's the recipe for revanchism. It's quite literally, as Mr. 1984 says, the future of humanity is a boot stomping on a human face over and over again forever. The paragraph preceding that quote isn't about evil scifi ultra totalitarianism, it's about a simple recipe for never ending emotional revanchism.
Sorry. I'm old I don't know what the kids are into.
See you're saying entirely too much: it's cool that a health insurance CEO got shot end of story.
It's actually incredibly strange because this is quite literally the easiest country in the world to dome someone important in, our firearms laws are part of our neocolonialism scheme that we force on our neighbors (Mexico).
Americans have all the means to do this, they simply do not because the control scheme is too powerful. It ultimately doesn't matter what leftist framework you take broadly whether it's anarchism or ML. A successful strategy looks roughly the same and its ideological underpinnings are roughly the same.
At the end of the day the position is quite literally to wage a war the rest is just tactics.
It's your take buddy not mine.
So your line is that typical American crypto-fash is ok, but aesthetic Nazis are bad? Maybe this line is aesthetic for you but it's not for me
There's another post outside this one that compares him to Willem van Spronsen, an actual anarchist, who as part of his attack laid out the clear anarchist principles that lead him to firebomb the ICE Detention center in Tacoma in 2019. Literal brainworms.
All hugboxes are "fake hugboxes" in that way. There's no such thing as pure objectivity.
So if the next guy is a literal Nazi instead of an typical American crypto-fash you're gonna be like damn that's my national icon?
Sus.
The prerequisite for lionization is approving of someone on the whole. In the Stalin example you must excuse Lysenkoism in some way in order to do that.