I tried using it only as a tool for hobbies, but anti-communism infects damn near everything. Couldn't go a week without some dumbass take about China randomly worming its way into just about anything. Glad I quit.

I could write a damn thesis on everything wrong with the ATLA comics and LOTR. Lake Laogai aside, the original series was pretty good, though. Except the "we shouldn't kill fascists" stuff at the end 🙄

It might help to use examples of some of what Zionists have done to Jewish people in order to demonstrate that it's not Jewish people that are the issue - it's a white settler state that happens to be majority European-Jewish trying to justify its colony while serving the interests of the US and Europe in the region. Anarcho-Bolshevik recently posted something about the Iron Dome misfire that has links to a number of shit Israel's done that's been harmful to Jewish people.

And if they somehow take that as a justification to hate Jewish people because a handful are exploiting their own people, then they're probably dumb (can't see that's what happens all across the world, throughout history, and isn't a racial or culturally exclusive thing), or just looking for something to justify their hate. In either case, it's probably a wasted effort to convince them, but by pointing out their flawed logic, you might convince others who are listening to the convo.

Part of it is to create and push a code of morality on your populace, then control the narrative so that way your side is always doing what's morally good, and the enemy is doing whatever is morally bad. That's why media control is so tight. Not just news, but every facet of entertainment reinforces our prescribed education of an artificial worldview. I could write a book on the anticommunist indoctrination put into children and family shows, and then those demographics start learning from one-sided history books, and then they're exposed to biased news and propagandic documentaries. And that's just the "neutral" liberal shit that's considered progressive or inclusive, enlightened, pacifist, etc. When you get into the hardcore shit like conservative media, military propaganda video games, etc., it's even more apparent.

I found the mask off racism with the Russia thing a shock, but I was expecting it with Palestine. I grew up with this shit during the Iraq War and War on Terror. I thought we'd learned, but the anti-China shit was obnoxious. Then with Russia. Then Iran. By the time it's gotten back to Palestine, I've come to realize that it's never about a specific group being targeted. It's about ensuring a specific group stays dominant, and cutting any others who dare oppose them down. They all pretend to care about human rights until the oppressed fight back, then they only care about colonizers and tyrants.

"Any member of the EU that doesn't hate Russians and blindly support the US waging a proxy war on our borders through Nazi terrorist orgs is obviously an active Russian agent." - the EU, apparent-fucking-ly

I'd add that it's not just a lack of quality scientific education, but an intentionally-taught distrust of academics and intellectuals. At least here in the US, there's a trend in politics and media to encourage distrust and contempt for scientists. Typically the ringleaders are Christian fundamentalists who dislike scientists whose research validates concepts that contradict their teachings, and believe that Christian "scientists" who concoct conspiracy theories are unfairly shunned and censored by a cabal of corrupt, godless scientists. Most of the anti-science crowd here supports older, discredited sciences that align with Christian theology - at least the racist, colonial-settler flavor of Christianity.

I figured that was probably the case, too. I don't really understand how people could think a Nazi unit would suddenly stop doing Nazi stuff during the war. Anything to pretend anti-communists are heroes, I guess.

If the US goes to war with a Chinese-supporting Mexico, I think it's time I put my money where my mouth is and defect...

Still, libs don't seem to care about fascists unless they punch first. At least here in the US, they only view the Nazis and Japanese negatively, and even then only barely. To them all that matters is who punched first (from their perspective) and who killed more people (from their metrics). On some level, they recognize Nazi's racism as exceptionally awful, but when they believe everybody has committed genocides in the tens of millions, it dilutes it horribly.

My Philosophy of Race professor once mentioned "soft denialism", not about this specifically, but the concept of diluting and undermining the severity of a crime against humanity by arguing that everyone is guilty of something similar.

As a citizen of the US, I feel a very similar pain and sympathize with you, my comrade to the north.

It's even wilder when you consider that the gap between the "left" and "right" in the US is closing despite partisanship being fiercer than ever. Both sides are virtually identical at this point, probably more so than any other point in history. Democrats may spout lip service to progressive causes, but don't lift a finger and consistently aid Republican causes. Both parties constantly claim election tampering and the democracy being corrupt, they just disagree on who's responsible. Both support war and corporate power. I'm sure historically the "progressive" party has always been a weak, lying power, but now it feels so bald-faced that I'm amazed anyone can still delude themselves.

The question is, is the US finally going to cross the line and just admit to what they are in some fascist coup, or will the "progressives" accomplish some meager win for human rights at the end and draw millions back into the illusion? I can't tell if it's always been like this and I'm just seeing it for the first time, or if it really is becoming more and more obvious, more unwieldy, closer to collapse.