You love your country.

Bad things about your country are foreign lies.

"Please stop supporting genocide"

"Biden has called for a ceasefire!"

"Okay, but please stop supporting genocide"

"You're moving the goalposts!"

Shit like this keeps happening and Iran just shows incredible amounts of restraint.

Meanwhile, the "only democracy in the Middle East" is allowed to act like a rabid dog.

The collapse of the USSR created major economic shocks and hardships for the member countries. This obviously creates political turmoil.

With the collapse, many of the countries were faced with a choice:

A. Try to maintain socialism as a single country and face the full might of the west who is no longer focused on the USSR as a whole.

B. Privatize your national economy and sell off your social safety nets for dirt cheap. Accept foreign investment in order to get absorbed into the western sphere in hopes of alleviating the pain.

Most chose B.

If you have political turmoil, economic hardship, and wide scale rapid privatization, well... You get fascism.

While the book isn't exclusively about this phenomenon, Parenti covers it in Blackshirts and Reds.

Also, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise gives a very in depth look at the dissolution of the GDR and Germany's turn to liberalism.

Oh, I'd vote for Biden if he was putting conservatives in camps.

Eh, it's all aesthetics.

"Slamming a cold one into the capital", monster trucks, and the "dudes will see this image and say hell yeah" type of dudebro humor is really just one degree away from early 2000's "epic bacon" style comedy. If you're guy and don't like these things, you pretty much just politely get told you're gay because even innocuous forms of masculinity demand compliance.

On the other hand, calling it "redneck shit" is just naked classism. While I also don't find a truck with big wheels to be rad, arguing about it is just a platform to be condescending.

I don't even know why I wrote this out. I was gonna stop reading after I saw "look, he's probably fascist, BUT..."

Older generations are such bootlickers.

The boomer above me at work can't understand why we can't find new staff, to which I always reply, "we don't pay enough, so they can get a better deal somewhere else easily"

She always replies, "well, we don't want to find people who are only in it for the money"

Lmao, good luck with that. Every workplace is a shithole, so the idea of "company loyalty" is just a means for workers to put up with more for less. Younger people aren't falling for it.

I tell her nobody under 50 thinks that way, and she's not having it.

Yeah, my sister.

She lives in an "upper middle class" yuppie suburb where we grew up, but I moved away years ago.

She gives me updates on what it's like, and she describes it like it's mad max now. She says there are bands of roving weirdos, and there are now no-go zones that the police have declared lawless.

I ask my brother what she's on about, and he has no idea. I went to visit recently and it seemed same as it ever was lol

Conservative media really do be melting brains

I'm so sick of these dumbass conspiracy theorists ruining public health for sane people.

Anyone with half a brain knows this was caused by 5G

Even monarchists are more historically literate that liberals because of all the family lines they have to memorize

I, too, would like to know how the caloric intake of the average Soviet citizen was equal to that of American citizens when the soviets were depriving food from stores

That really sucks.

Whenever I bring up commie shit in real life, people are generally just really surprised because they haven't ever heard those ideas or perspectives before. Sure they argue sometimes, but they can't just kick you out of a place.

Online though? You get the boot real fast. None of these people would have the guts to treat you that way in real life.