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Death to america (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by CommieKhinkali@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Everyone should just give up on america at this point. Its a rotten place that wont reform for the good. Its people are so docile that they wont do anything unless you turn off their porn. Ameircans found out about epstein class and did nothing about it. Their protests are just peaceful parades that dont do anything. Theyre general strikes are just 1 hour long. Its a horrible country which daily terrorizes other countries for fun and its population is so depressed that they dont give a shit about any of that and they dont even care whats happening to each other and they dont care if pedophiles are ruling over them, they dont care about being lied to since they where born, theyd rather go to brunch or just watch some netflix garbage. Maybe im being pessimistic, but idk i think im being realistic and i feel justifies having this kind of attitude towards the empire and the people who live in it.

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[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Brian Thompson, healthcare CEO shot and killed 12/24, replaced by another of the same cloth a month later. Charlie Kirk, conservative Internet personality shot and killed 09/25, had a WWE pay-per-view grade memorial service the same month and is now the next generation Confederate war memorial with statues, roads, and textbooks rewriting his myth. Plus he got replaced by what is arguably a more intelligent and dangerous demagogue than he himself ever was.

[–] cenarius@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Okay, well to go back over this, I think you have something backwards about how to attack reactionary thought. Imperial financial system's not simply an ideological project that people uphold due to bigotry. It's more like short-sighted gambling addiction + self-interest. Attacking the ideology by showing people the harm they cause won't cure them. White supremacy is malleable, it comes in many forms, & similar structures are created wherever capital needs to make minor concessions to minority groups to keep Eurocentrism intact as a mosaic, e.g. Ukrainian supremacy, Jewish supremacy, Japanese + Taiwanese + R.o.K. nationalism, Indonesia's Islamic conservatives, ISIS + Gulf state monarchies' fundamentalism fused with libertarianism.

This is why I see generalizations made to western workers about how "communism can improve living conditions [for them]" as potentially harmful. They read this backwards to mean "communism = welfare policies for me before global economic restructuring"—the climate is collapsing bruh. Don't lie to these people, their lifestyle, chiefly its attachment to a parasitic economic system (not just their behaviors & consumption habits, the waste underlying it) needs to change before they can get the goods.