My only experiences are with “leftists” who are social progressive, economically variable, geopolitically completely co-opted. Best I have gotten to date was an unlabeled leftist who said she felt NATO had it’s part to play in the conflict. 99% the only people I’ve talked to with positive views (or willing to listen to positive views) of China, Russia, NK etc. are people in weird post-alt right/apolitical/center right spaces. If I ever met a real not-bigoted not-Andrew Tate-ified ML in real life at random and not some half-assed Maoist, Trot, leftcom, Russiaphobe etc. I would probably scream in joy. My expectations are not that high.

I would say people of all political persuasions say “based,” and unfortunately neither “Marxist,” “communist,” nor “Cuba” seems to guarantee they aren’t just a leftcom or similar adjacent variant.

If I say someone with a “death to amerikkka” shirt, I would push old grannies over to talk to them.

😂😂😂😂😂

I keep bringing up how much I deeply hate ads and the people I’ve talked to about it have been weirdly apathetic. I don’t know how they feel, but to me the omnipresent ads does more psychological damage to me than any other capitalist schemes to melt my brain.

Holy shit this is so ahistorical it hurts.

Gulag stories just all sound like a teenager trying really hard to write an edgy CreepyPasta

Reminds me of when a Finn told me about how the Soviets killed his grandad…and I was like…yeah? 😏 how come? 🥺🥺🥺

I’m sorry but you need to consider that you simply have been lied to about your own history.

Fairly criticizing the government in the USSR–just like in China, just like in North Korea, and so on–is not illegal.

What these countries do crack down on is when fascists, capitalist opportunists, and foreign intelligence agents work actively to try and destroy, divide, and sabotage them.

The vast majority of people the USSR killed or imprisoned (a number far smaller than what we are told), were actively trying to destroy the USSR, and all the lives of millions of common people who were benefitting from this new system. Why when capitalists kill whoever they see fit, they can call them “traitors”, “treasonous”, or “terrorists”, but when socialists do something far more restrained and humane they are seen as devils?

Well, because, capitalist propaganda has strangled the world discourse, especially the last 30 years. The United States and its allies have spent the last century not only trying to destroy every socialist state but to muddy the waters, lie, and character assassinate its enemies. Everything from gulags, the Holodomor, WW2 war doctrine, the Great Purge, and everything before and after has been radically distorted by capitalist and fascist liars.

I believe you that in your heart you are a socialist. So please listen to me when I say: do not trust the lies about your socialist brothers and sisters that were invented by capitalist and fascist snakes who want to destroy everything you would build.

I understand and respect this reasoning and becoming an ML definitely made me be less quiet about my already existing opinion that prostitution is a tragedy and refuse to let liberals wokescold me for being a “swerf” or whatever.

However…when this headline read “rapist,” it conjured a very, very different image in my head than “one who has hired prostitutes.” The two are seldom morally comparable. Similar to how while work under capitalism may be reasoned to be slavery, we don’t compare mom 'n pop store petite bourgeoisie to Jeff Bezos or to slave traders.

I don’t watch Hasan and have never been particularly interested to, he seems like a dunce in many ways to me, but additionally I will also say the guy is a great entrance into the ML radicalization funnel. He has always been further to the left than other mainstream “leftist” personalities and doesn’t push the same insane, damaging anticommunist “tankie” or otherwise anti-AES brainrot (at least as far as I’ve seen). I’ve had several IRL times where I was selling China or truth of the Ukraine war to “leftists,” and a solid 3 times that it actually worked (out of, like, 4 or 5), the person in question was a big Hasan fan. I would much rather him be the #1 political streamer on Twitch than any of these other ghouls, I think he softens up people who might be destined for anticommunism to our tendency.

No disrespect intended comrade, just disagreement.

ZE BIG SPOON

My life did not get better searching this

Wait, is Duterte decent? I thought he was a fascist? I know very little about the Phillipines so if this is just propaganda I heard excuse my ignorance.

Also, just a minor nitpick: the BLM protests were very peaceful, they weren’t the riots they were made out to be by the media. They even did a breakdown and found that 93% were 100% peaceful. Of the 7% that weren’t, the waters are very murky; many times the violence was purposefully provoked by militarized police and fascist groups, the latter of which often traveling from hundreds of miles away just to stir shit up and get a chance to get away with murder. There’s also a matter of opportunists–you would have a scenario where a protest would be happening, and while the whole city was pre-occupied some unaffiliated apolitical criminal would rob a gas station, or some unaffiliated kids would vandalize a wall, things like that…only then such acts would be pinned on the BLM protesters, regardless if the perpetrators were protesters or even if such crimes took place near the protests or not.

That being said, BLM was, of course, quickly co-opted by the neoliberal order, and, of course, we don’t even have an “unhealthy democracy” we don’t have a democracy whatsoever, we have an oligarchy with a facade of democracy to fool people.

It’s all a part of a massive, incredibly powerful campaign that’s been going on for a century with one goal: maintain the power of the capitalists.

There is layers to it, and people will get past Layer 1 and think they “made it” to “the truth” when in reality there is a half dozen more layers ready to catch their fall before they plummet irreversibly into communism.

Funnel this person into fascism. Funnel this person into drugs. Funnel this person into rise and grind bloomer techbro. Funnel this person into terminally online faux-leftist doomer. Funnel this person into the police. Funnel this person into music. Funnel this person into religion. Funnel this person into atheism.

I’m kind of ranting cuz im tired and in a weird life circumstance but yeah. It’s like exhales cloud of smoke all connected, mannn

Yeahhhh it’s unstructured rant time

Nah but fr it’s just like one of the biggest layers, a final powerful safety net, a Boss level false consciousness, this Synth Left. The Wokeism too. These things are trendy. Sexy. They fit perfectly with the preexisting American capitalistic values ingrained in these people. The apathy, the smug condescension, the dunking. The hatred. Imagine not having to change a thing about how you think or feel or act but getting to feel so powerfully intellectually and morally righteous. The world is doomed, duh, but at least YOU WERE RIGHT. They genuinely believe there is no hope, they are Orientalists who think China is a barbaric brutalist hellscape where everyone eats their pets works for pennies and constantly attempts suicide. Americans are victims of the greatest brainwashing the human race has ever seen.

It’s all just aesthetics. It’s just a cool thing to put in a bio. They attack XYZ bigotry because they have been taught to but happily would mock someone for being ugly or their clothes or a not-famous mental illness or being poor because they don’t like people. They want to be cruel, but they want to be worshipped. They realize they can’t be cruel to Woke protected peoples so they instead channel their cruelty to the “deserving,” the filthy lumpenproles. Only. They’re lowkey scared of them. The Trump dads LARPing with ARs. These synths are (no hate) weaksauce. I have met them in real life: confrontation makes them cringe and stutter and malfunction. They aren’t Real™. They are overwhelmingly middle to upper middle class spoiled, squishy white suburbanites who think the worst thing that can happen to you is getting ratioed or having bad music taste. They’re scared of MAGA maggots so they instead take this cruelty and project it onto the vulnerable.

They don’t know the depths of real suffering. Death isn’t really on the table for them. Reading about it is one thing, truly believing it in your gut is another. They’ve never been hit, physically. They’ve never been hurt, severely. They don’t hide it because they don’t fear any reprisal. It doesn’t occur to them that if they were a serious threat to the system that they would be getting clubbed by fascists or suicided by feds or (at the very least) suppressed in every facet of society instead of lauded with their politics in media (oh, great, more fuel for Nazi conspiracy). It’s just a hobby. A social club. One day we’ll get an epic wokelord anarchist into office and they’ll make all the stinky Trump poopyheads go away and I can work 2 hours a week at a record store for $5000 an hour and I’ll donate it to some African food drive and Everybody Will Like Me.

The divide between the “REAAALLL” leftists and the nasty redfash genocidal tankies (ew, gross) has been purposefully stoked by CIA and friends for decades. They want us to be bogged down in academic gridlock. They want us picking each other apart to pieces, endlessly criticizing and reacting. They want us to hate the lumpenproles instead of appreciating how we are all victims of brainwashing. They want the Revolution™ to be ill defined and for this to be taken for granted. A vague idealistic idea. The world starts and ends with your following online. It’s all just the path of least resistance.

I would apologize for this but…you’re the one who read it. You fool.