medrenace1818 [he/him]

The entire lifestyle of American anti-communists/reactionaries is squaring the circle. It's extremely contradictory, but effective. Their interests are generally in line with those of the "global elite" and the police, but unlike many liberals (who seem to have an infallible love for technocracy and its institutions), they try to distance themselves from those entities when it benefits them. Alex Jones and his followers know there's something wrong with American capitalism, but because they are vehement anti-communists and can't think materially, they go right back around to thinking the problems inherent in capitalist society are the plot of MArXiSt BiLLiOnAiReS. Of course, when they see their enemies (leftists) get beaten by the cops, they cheer it on. They don't necessarily always love the cops, (see Waco, the Bundy ranch), but when the interests of the police state align with theirs (which is most of the time), they are going to cheer it on.

And this is why pointing out the hypocrisy/brainworms in these people doesn't work. It's like the Republicans and their appointment of court justices. They will be against appointing a justice in an election year under a Democrat, but will rush to appoint one under a Republican. They don't give a shit about hypocrisy or logic, they care about getting/maintaining political power. And it's effective. Which is why its so funny to see liberals struggle with these people, because they think the solution is to "outsmart" or "outwit" the reactionaries by pointing out how illogical and uncivil they're being, rather than try to achieve political power of their own.

Wait, so what is the actual reason libs hate BJG so much? Every time I went on r/ESS or r/neoliberal and she was mentioned, they talked about her like she was satan incarnate. They really seem to hate her. Idk anything about her really, I guess I listened to a couple episodes of the Bad Faith podcast and I've seen her twitter, but she seems like a really wholesome Star Trek nerd who liked Bernie and isn't 100% worshipping Biden. Is that it? Like has she done anything besides be on the (now completely irrelevant) Bernie campaign?

The right-wing coup in Bolivia might be coming to an end. Anez (the US backed coup leader) is dropping out of the Fall elections because she has 5% support and MAS (Evo's party Movement for Socialism) is polling at first place with about 40%, and all the reactionary scum candidates are a ways behind them. Assuming all goes well, Evo's party can have full control again and continue to make strides for the Bolivian people.