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To any younger people here wondering what the propaganda was like during the War on Terror, it was very similar to the shit happening now. Brace yourself. (hexbear.net)

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This is going to suck. Hard. I was just a kid when the War on Terror happened, but what I do remember is that even though tons of people were protesting Bush, calling him Hitler, etc, it did nothing. The imperialism went ahead anyway and the pro-imperialist propaganda machine was just as loud as the protesters.

You're going to feel very alone in a very wild world (if you don't already, its already been pretty wild) because it's going to ramp up.

I beg you to know you aren't alone, stay strong. At least this time, the US isn't at it peak power like it was back then. Maybe we can do something about it, but we're going to have to remember what didn't work last time. We have to learn from the past and adjust.

You aren't alone, and you aren't crazy.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't understand, which group did your neighbor say is taking jobs from him and the Mexicans? Jews? Muslims? Billionaires? ICE?

[–] GnomeGodsGnomeMasters@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Ah, yeah, sorry. Somalis. He just didn’t say it so kindly.

I just found it interesting that, despite being one of the most racist people I know personally, he lumped white/european amerikkkans in the same demographic as non-white Mexican Americans by perceiving both groups as victims of an influx of cheap Somali labor. The fact that he thought of Mexican-Americans at all as a group worth defending is a phenomenal leap towards class consciousness as far as this dude is concerned.

In a weird, perverted, roundabout way, the interaction gave me a small semblance of hope. To be clear, this dude is as white working class as it gets and he’s lived a ROUGH life. Sexual abuse survivor, recovering meth and heroin addict, and now single dad trying to do right by his baby while his baby mama is deep in the throes of addiction and just can’t clean herself up. Stuck in the perpetual cycle of poverty so many people are, he’s hurting and just hasn’t quite figured out that it’s capitalism that’s got a stranglehold on his and all our lives.

I stay as close with him as I can because, despite his hateful ideologies, he doesn’t mind that I push back against his racist rhetoric. More importantly, though, is he’s a mind worth changing and a life worth saving.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

The gamer word