When an egg is cracked from within it is new life bursting forth. When an egg is cracked from without, it is someone's meal.

Social progress can only come organically from within a society, from the progressive forces of that society. It cannot be imposed from without, and those who claim they are doing so are lying cynically because they wish to feast on everything within. The "white man's burden" to bring "civilizing values" to the "savages". The need to "spread democracy" and "topple authoritarian regimes" and be "welcomed as liberators". Sound familiar?

It all comes back to optimality theory, doesn't it?

Also, while I get where you're coming from, please try to refrain from casual ableism towards ID people.

and in this case holding internationalism and socialism through anti-imperialism as a priority above sexuality or gender-identity.

Even that might be giving these libs too much room. There's no liberation for queer people under the occupation, under Israeli bombs, or as a US colony except for the very richest of them. Israel has killed more queer people in the last couple of years than Hamas has since its election and its not even close, and the development of the imperial periphery will inevitably lead to the loosening of the grip of theocracy (on average) and rights for many minority groups.

But you don't get it, why would I support any physically existing movement or materially existing organization, when I can instead be a moral purist who doesn't engage with reality and just criticises "both sides" therefore maintaining the status quo that benefits my western Imperialism?

As long as the independent life of a nation is suppressed by a foreign conqueror it inevitably directs all its strength, all its efforts and all its energy against the external enemy; during this time, therefore, its inner life remains paralysed; it is incapable of working for social emancipation.

Engels sniping these reactionary cockroaches from a century-and-half away

Damn that's a strong quote. Engels really doesn't get his due.

I can't tell you how often I have encountered the viewpoint that "Tankies only support Putin because they think he is a socialist."

And if you say something like "I have literally never met any 'tankie' that believes this and I meet a lot of them," they will just ignore you. No rebuttal, no insult, usually not even a cursory dismissal. They just act like you didnt say anything

PJ is a social fascist powermod, I consider their comments and posts to be low-hanging fruit.

In their minds, China is a place where any instance of wrongthink gets you quietly disappeared into the night, never to be heard of again.

Obviously a strawman, but libs crave for the world to behave like a Marvel movie with clear good and bad guys. In order to believe we (the collective west) are not the bad guys, we have to pretend our enemies' societies are exhausting hell holes of repression and anguish. In their minds, there is no way they simply have a more hospitable society towards the downtrodden, it must be because they are simply taken out back and dumped in a river.

You can tell because their accusations always match some real shit that occurs in the west, but dialed up to 11.

Evil Chyna hides their homeless people inside affordable homes!1!!

These evil commies much be stopped! (With a bombing campaign).

For those who don't know transitioning in Iran is covered by the state healthcare. That's not to say trans people don't suffer from some intense social pressures and repressions and so on. But legally they are afforded certain healthcare rights we don't even have in America. Iran is a bit of a stand-out in the Muslim world in this regard.

Yep. They want to make even considering the "Hexbear position" a sinful act, they want people to self-flagellate for thoughtcrimes. Libs do this shit all the time, like the Russia-Ukraine war, even considering the why of the war beyond "Putin Bad Man" is treated as a full on sinful act that invites anger and blind rage in these people. Just thinking about and seeking to understand things that could contradict their worldview is the biggest sin of all.

Mandatory support? More like "man, da tory support is strong on hexbear!"

Of course! Why else would it be called, "Mandatory Palestine?"

Mandatory support!

Mandatory support

Stalin saved the world from fascism

mandalorian spork

Also fuck some loser using SV victims to make a point. Let those SV victims speak for themselves. As one myself it drives me up the fucking wall when people bring this shit up for political slapfights online.

Cost of living is very important to trans people, as we are often making less due to discrimination.

Also usually having to pay for our own medical care

Oh hey, they noticed you.

Reactionary ideologies including transphobia have a tailwind in bad economic conditions

China really proved through their economic policies in Xinjiang that it really does reduce chuddery. Within 10 years a hotbed of fundamentalism (funded by America) was effectively eliminated through good public policy and raising the standard of living for millions of people. It's why the state department is so mad and called it a "genocide" they can't fathom helping people, they can only think in terms of bombing people.

Also, even among countries and political organizations that are theocratically queerphobic, it is an exaggeration to call most of them pogromist in that way. The throwing people from rooftops for being gay is an ISIS thing that has just been projected on to every single heavily-Muslim group that liberals don't like. Yeah, Hamas is homophobic and has surely inflicted terrible violence on gay people when it's politically expedient for them, but they aren't hunting gays down to murder them like that because it's not politically expedient to do when you have the IOF trying to kill you (also they've become more secularized over time, but good luck persuading a lib of that).

Literally just Islamophobia but woke.

Radlibs don't realize that them allowing rainbow imperialism and repeating its narratives spreads reactionary anti-imperialism to oppose it. Every rainbow covered bomb they drop creates a new righteous homophobe yet they keep supporting it. Don’t they see how they are making a reactionary soup with their bullshit and lack of solidarity? Ceding the moral high ground for what? Feeling better about their imperialist nature?

Yeah but Putler is evil

The Chilcot report? What's that?

Because the New York Times apologizes when our cops do it, and vilifies when theirs do

It's because they don't want to fix their own backyard, because that takes actual effort.

Very ironic considering that a lot of these people are also likely the kind of people to say "Why are immigrants coming here? They should fix the problems in their own country instead!"

insert Redsails article on brainwashing doesn't exist because people seek out imperialist propaganda to justify their worldview

No see, America is special, so we get to judge them based on what people want America to be like, it wouldn't be fair to America to judge it based on the actions of the country or their people, but those other countries need to be judged based on the absolute worst members of their population and treated as if their most reprehensible people represent the average person's view.

They understand critical support when it's time to support nazis in Ukraine against the Russian hordes

Welp, nothing to be done about that except to mong war on that nation. Nothing says "peace loving" like bombing the shit out of a country, stealing their natural resources, and imposing a brutal dictator in place of theirs, but making sure he has even more troops and bombs than the old warmonger

If they genuinely sympathized with the innocent citizens of, say, Palestine, then they'd understand that the best thing for queer Palestinians is Palestinian liberation, not the defeat of Hamas, as once Palestine is free the wheels of social progress can turn as well. Crushing Palestine doesn't free the wheel, it destroys it. The same applies to all countries targeted by western imperialism that liberals attack on the basis of being socially reactionary.

these people make me want to eat glass

how brainwashed do you have to be to see people resisting a genocide and think they’re “equally as bad” as the ones doing the genocide “because violence”?

this really goes to show how delusional they are when they tell us in the imperial core to “protest peacefully”. you would think that any reasonable person agrees with protesting peacefully up until it no longer becomes an option, which is where we are in the west now. but think about this; our government could literally be killing us by the thousands daily like the zionist pigs do in palestine and these fuckers STILL think violent resistance makes you “just as bad”. i will never entertain someone talking about “peaceful protest”. even up to the point of and including being indiscriminately slaughtered isn’t enough to warrant retaliatory violence. just “be peaceful :)”

as if the palestinians didnt try that. as if the PEACEFUL march of return didnt just lead to more slaughter

these people are fucking useless

Yes, we should (checks notes) kill the Iranian government and (checks notes) install new leadership that is more closely aligned with US interests, something that went (checks notes) - sorry this part is really hard to read, there's so much scribbled out- looks like it says "great" last time we tried it.

Also, all nationalities are monoliths. There's no such thing as factions within a society.

https://psychologyfanatic.com/splitting/

And no mention ever of how horrid trans rights are in the UK especially and the west writ large. Whataboutism and all that

I believe there was some "study"/survey done by pew or some such like a decade ago and chuds/libs ran with it forever. I think it was interpreted by these people to mean "the majority of Muslims support radical fundamentalist groups". Libs/chuds genuinely believe every muslim supports every fundamentalist terror organization and their actions.

I mean if you ask a smug liberal from a coastal city if very right wing states like Louisiana or Alabama should be bombed or starved they'd probably say yes. Look at how they talk about the south whenever there's a bad hurricane or something.

The Stasi has reformed and constantly monitor all of your opinions. If they decide you are too reactionary, @CARCOSA@hexbear.net will ban you.

Whataboutism? What about deez nuts?

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