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seeing full on radlibs in turbolib spaces asking why they see two women holding hands in Guangzhou without getting arrested or why they're getting makeup tips from a super fabulous dude who isn't censored is turning into them just actively ignoring the scolding of the "adults in the room centrists who have a 'friend' from the mainland". it's beautiful and i hope it continues

i was against federation from the beginning and remain locals only. i only see non-locals if non bears come to our local places and unfortunately it's usually to shit the place up. grad is ok

yeah I stream of consciousnessed that but essentially where the greater political sophistication of the italian blocs during the years of lead required the actual physical manifestation of the strategy of tension in the form consistent low-level violence, the american political landscape requires significantly less effort. the state has already successfully neutralized any nascent organization with any promise. now, a constant conflict between largely incoherent parties is waged across media, and any left-wing attempt to point to the material reality of things is easily dismissed either as fantasy or conspiracy respectively by the predominant "sides" of the captured discourse.

considering "it's chinese" is liberal for "it's bad", yeah I would say so

They're not really trying to because a lot of that comes from in-house and isn't seen as a threat to the state. Something like ivermectin disinfo isn't perceived as a threat to the state but too many Luigi memes are. "Protecting US citizens" is not a priority. US censorship regimes on social media however, absolutely do exist but they take the form or cooperation of the business with the state to deprioritize certain content.

exactly this, a lot of the crystal mom ivermectin flat earth secret chinese training grounds shit juxtaposed with conspiracy theorist as pejorative encourages an ideological years of lead dynamic that contributes to the political incoherence of the average disinterested american which is very much to the benefit of the military-industrial complex. as you said, the only perceived threats in this mind melting discourse are those which accurately point to capital as complicit in the average person's lack of well-being

100% agree, all very good points and wrt Europe/USA that is definitely a very interesting perspective on the interplay and I think it has legs

yes? though i'm additionally saying that the rest of the imperial bloc is often also playing at absolution from responsibility in working against systems from which they also benefit, which put charitably is disingenuous. western europe isn't solely 'envious', they actively benefit from imperialism -right now-, as do the other anglo settler colonies besides the US.

worst person great point etc

even being an empoc and trans hostage of this hellstate i can't really fault the global south for feeling this way and wouldn't care to argue about it. that said i am absolutely discounting it when it comes from eurolibs in the imperial bloc (this includes canada and au/nz) and self-flagellating americans, that shit is goofy as hell.

one of my favorite fun facts is that kansas is in fact flatter than a pancake mathematically speaking

"Whats the difference? The speed of technological advancement isn't nearly as important as short term quarterly gains." - Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine [S4E7].