CicadaSpectre

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[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What is the name of the song?

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

PSL says "anticommunism is the unofficial religion of America" and it's true. Both major parties claim the other is communist, because to many Americans, communism is just the equivalent of Satanic.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What annoys me is how blatantly constructed the narrative is to try and convince Americans that Trump is a foreign and unique threat, and only by continuing arming Israel and Ukraine can you truly show your opposition to Trump and other "tyrants".

I looked into 50501 to try and get a feel for their platform, since these protests were suspiciously well-advertised and didn't seem to say much beyond "Trump bad". All I can find are the usual Democrat talking points: vague promises of civil rights and justice, punctuated by an explicit promise to arm Ukraine and Israel and support them no matter what. Well, Ukraine is explicitly mentioned, Israel is implied.

I've also noticed the narrative keeps trying to focus on the imagery of a military parade as "authoritarian", when it's not inherently so. Media, influencers, and protesters keep comparing Trump to Mao and Stalin, and the whole of the Democrats' messaging has been giving very big "what are we, a bunch of Asians?" energy.

Protestors, thankfully, aren’t really out there for 50501's platform; they're there in solidarity for immigrants and Palestine as well as being anti-Trump.

But yeah, they have been more insufferable than ever lately. Tbh, I've talked to Trump supporters whose heads aren’t as far up their asses.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago

But saying "No Clowns" will alienate our allies like Ukraine 😔

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only person put off by this. 50501 and the "No Kings" movement has been rubbing me the wrong way, and being unable to quite describe why had me second guessing myself.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Western history for sure, but I imagine Russia, China, and most of the world will recognize the truth. It just sucks for us stuck living in the empire.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Iirc, didn't Hitler also say something to the effect that if Germans lost to the USSR, they deserved to be killed wholesale? Fash really do expect total annihilation for one side or the other, and seem to take peace as an opportunity only to try again later. It's disgusting.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

The objective, I believe, is just to make it as grizzly, bloody, and awful as possible, because they have the full backing of Western media. The history books (in the West, anyway) will blame all of it on Russian aggression, and this narrative will be driven into everyone who will listen, in every region they can get their slimy tentacles into.

It's been their game plan all along, as we all know. From the very beginning they intentionally put artillery next to active schools, hid their soldiers in school buses and ambulances, and did everything in their power to maximize their own civilian death tolls, knowing Western media and audiences would blame Russia for every death that could have been easily avoided. These people are fighting for control of the region to remake it as they see fit, and for all their talk of nationalism and the Ukrainian people, they will gladly sacrifice the entire population if it lets them rule what's left to be "pure".

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 month ago

I remember about 5 years ago I saw a book titled Stalin's War in Barnes & Noble here in the U.S. Until that point, I'd only ever heard the "Stalin and the USSR were actually responsible for WWII, Hitler was a natural reaction to Bolshevism" from neo-Nazis. Then, there it was, as pop history available in a very public format, presented as historical fact, with no competing narratives. Every other "history" text they had there about socialist countries was the usual "communism is when bad", but this was the first time I'd seen it taken further than horseshoe theory or lesser of two evils.

All this to say we're not arriving at a new step. It's just they're finally rewriting reality more Westerners might be familiar with. Right-wing fringe has steadily been integrated into the mainstream for awhile now. Maybe even longer than I've noticed.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

That makes sense.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

True. I don't have any confidence in Trump's administration as peacemaker, though.

[–] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

God, reading that was painful. They really do try to spin the narrative in the most obnoxious ways. I'm not holding my breath a peace deal will be made based on how Ukraine and its backers are talking. Feels like more posturing by the West to try and paint Russia as unreasonable for not surrendering unconditionally while winning.

 

I'm an emergency certified teacher for geography in middle school in the US. Our textbooks are most odious propaganda I've ever had to witness, and I just can't deal with it. I managed to swing some alternative sources when we covered Eastern Europe and Western Russia, and when we covered China, but now we're going over Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Russia.

The textbook is just vile. Takes any opportunity to overrepresent every negative aspect of socialist countries in ways obvious to people like us, but innocuous to children. I've been struggling to balance my lessons in a way that teaches the regions, but isn't brainrot. Some of the stuff I can let slide and use the textbook for, but anything Soviet related is written in an insanely biased way.

We have to rush through the region to catch up to where other classes are, so I only need a few days' worth of material, but it's difficult to find things on YT that cover history of the region that's 1) easy for kids to understand, and 2) doesn't try and make the region out to be some kind of nightmare.

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