ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

As a ritual performance before they ignore you anyway

No no, we had to put twelve thousand people in camps over forty years of martial law to stop the authoritarians!

A non “authoritarian” country is a contradiction in terms. A government is an instrument of class control. Can anyone name a government that doesn’t use authority?

ok, best of luck with your…organizing outside of the left?

So what you’re saying is that a bad situation does not always and inevitably lead to victory, and that there are certain material conditions that need to be fufilled? Cool, not sure why you needed 3 paragraphs to say it

Revolutions never start from the poor

Lol

insular dirtbag leftists with an outcast attitude.

I’m sensing the presence of some personal beef I’m not privvy to and don’t care about.

No, it really is just the nature of socialist struggle that you’re getting stomped on for the first 90% of it. Every successful revolution started from some of the worst and most squalid conditions with the worst odds imaginable: illiterate, starving, under the thumb of theocrats and warlords, war-torn, hyperexploited. You seem to think I said that bad situations always and inevitably lead to victory, which…???. History is pretty clear about the conditions that need to be met for success, and they’re not “moral” ones.

1: Because it’s historically been the nature of these causes that they’re losing right up until the moment they win. Seems impossible till it’s done, journey of a thousand miles, single step and all that.

2: pure spite towards the smug, arrogant and cruel status quo supporters. I will.never give them the satisfaction of falling into despair, from hell’s heart I stab at them

By that standard PragerU is not propaganda because it originates from private funding. Do you wanna go back and think about that one, maybr try again?

Literal medieval peasant brain, believes in good and evil and assumes anyone who doesnt must just be lying about it. Like how a thief thinks everyone is out to steal from them. Sad.

You’ve spent this interaction running though every cope and deflection in the book, because on some level you recognize that you’re so far out of your depth you’re at risk of barotrauma.

Having this pointed out will not deter you, because your ego is too fragile to let you walk away.

1.5 billion people, roughly one fifth of all currently living human beings

Lol you think advancing beyond a Marvel movie-based worldview for children is “galaxy brain” shit

Imperialism is when standardized paperwork

In our view it’s not that western liberals are victims of propaganda, but that propaganda grants them permission to be continue being ignorant:

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

From the essay Masses, Elites and Rebels: the Theory of “Brainwashing”

school, you should try it

What did you learn in school?

It’s easy to feel smart when you keep correctly predicting the outcome of wars and shit

Liberals projecting their supremacist and childlike Good Guy/Bad Guy worldview onto communists is like a deep sea tube worm trying to explain flight to a bird.

“Ah fuck I’m still here”

The USA has been a fascist dictatorship for some time depending on who you are, the fascism just wasn’t evenly distributed: immigrants, prisoners and brown people got the brunt of it before, now it’s coming for the rest. Luckily, between that and the external resistance struggles throughout the world, there are many people who know how to resist this, who have been resisting it for decades and can teach us.

I would absolutely prefer to be something else