You're not knocking down propaganda, you're just being selectively gullible and letting absurd weirdos control your beliefs without investigating them. Adrian Zenz, breathless and inconsistent BBC videos, "medua bias fact check" that's a ridiculous politically one-dimensional "centrism is facts" website with no consistent methodology by people you should have no reason to trust.

Personally, I try to not unquestioningly accept state department propaganda directed at a perceived enemy state from 3 years ago, and then when challenged hastily google until my biases are confirmed, but you do you.

Most coherent liberal

Sounds like I was right lol

I guarantee you that it is blatantly rooted in orientalism and treating 1 billion Asian people as either agencyless victims or buffoonish idiots, and it's never questioned that crackers "joking" about him a yellow cartoon character would be a problem. This is a longstanding trope with roots in Western "race science".

You can also find it in the ethnic rhetoric used against Russians at the moment - "savages", "hordes", "orcs", and the classic false trope of sending masses to die as an attritional strategy (the last one also being literally Nazi rhetoric). You also saw it in the anti-brown islamophobia after 9/12.

When the US wants to target an enemy, they have very little trouble playing on the unquestioned racism of their audience. They often don't even think it's racism at the time - or even afterwards unless sufficiently embarrassed.

FDR was a communist,

I'm actually implying that he was an anticommunist and that The New Deal was an attempt to mollify more radical elements, including militant labor.

If communism is so fucking great why does it fail all the fucking time hey?

Communist countries, i.e. those run by a communist party, have consistently punched above their weight, particularly considering the relentless attacks they face.

For example, compare the struggles of Haiti to those of Cuba. Haiti has suffered under neocolonialism and with basically zero counterweight to the constant imperialism directed at them, including still being forced to pay debts to France for their own liberation from a slave colony and undergoing several Western-supported coups, on top of the constant drain of resources and underpaid labor that come with the territory of exploitation by international capital.

Cuba, despite blanket sanctions and constant targeting by the global seat of capital for over half a century, provides massively better lives for its people, with better literacy and infant mortality than the US. It's still a poor country, understandably, but it teaches a simple lesson about how international capital actually functions for imperialized countries.

Happy to answer more questions.

Sure but that's no excuse to not make fun of these babies. Their reaction is very funny.

Yes, of course I think that. Even self-proclaimed Marxists have often barely read Marx, let alone liberals that speak entirely in vagaries.

At best, someone claiming to have "read Marx" has skimmed and misunderstood The Communist Manifesto. That is, incidentally, not a book, more like a slightly extended pamphlet.

I'm guessing you don't talk to people, and haven't read Marx beyond the above description.

Tantrum noted, accepted, and appropriately celebrated.

Sorry but I just learned that sarcasm and jokes are disingenuous so I think I'm gonna spend my time getting upset about things I've never tried to understand instead.

It's 100% my thread, lol. Nothing even remotely threatening, just tantrums and liberals telling on themselves. And all I have to do is ask nicely whether someone has read the basics to have their opinions. The answer is always no, because having opinions is clearly much more valuable than doing anything to earn them.

This works out great for me.

Is reading scary?

It sounds like you get the dumb joke that is my username. Congratulations! With that in mind, perhaps you'd like to take a third try at answering a simple and relevant question?

Have you read Karl Marx's books? Which is your favorite?

Excuse me, officer. I'd like you to arrest this person for JESTING in my thread.

You said yes but didn't answer my question! You've read my books? Which is your favorite?

Hope they do it with the exact same energy: pedantic and cowardly.

This is why all political discussion is banned at lemmy.world. In fact, there is only one community on lemmy.world and it's about playing checkers (but without saying "king me" because kings are political).

Hexbear disabled downvoting because it was being used by transphobes to bully trans users. They'd wait for a trans user to post and then pile on with downvotes so that their comments would always begin in the negative.

lemmy.world can't even be bothered to ban transphobes.

Did you have an opinion on the killings in the Donbas from 2014-2022? People getting locked in a union hall that was set on fire? The promotion of neo-Nazis to "handle" the ethnic Russians there?

Or did you only begin caring about Ukrainian lives when it was 24/7 on Western media, acting like Russia's invasion had no background, like Minsk II never existed, etc?

A follow-up: have you opposed the US-backed Saudi genocide in Yemen with the same ferocity? That one doesn't get as much play in the media, but a child dies there every minute or so due to the US-backed blockade, preventing basics like food from getting to the population.

Some conspiracies are real, and are some of the most harmful things on the planet. They're both evil and banal, and they look like petrochemical consortia trying out some new PR firms or Victoria Nuland casually talking about who should be put in political leadership in Ukraine post-Euromaidan.

The people who are best-informed get pretty invested in opposing those harms and wonder why (some) others are so viciously opposed to learning about them.

Let me tell you about how calling a Chinese guy a yellow bear is the funniest thing ever and definitely not an unconsciously racist thought-terminating cliché.