I'm built different [incorrectly]
We're only permitted to critique one bourgeois warmonger at a time? How convenient for the US empire lol. Your "lesser evil" is a mass murderer and imperialist like every other Western leader. This man oversaw the droning of thousands, including countless civilians and children, across multiple sovereign nations, the destruction of Libya and Syria in 2011, plunging the countries into chaos from which they never recovered to this day, the bailing out of the banks that crashed the global economy while leaving the working class to drown in foreclosures and debt, the expansion of the surveillance state that has only grown since then.. and that's only the beginning, really.
Class war isn't a team sport between two reactionary parties, and nor is it "good cop vs bad cop". One manages imperialism and the exploitation of its own working class with a smile and "inclusive" rhetoric, the other doesn't.
Liberals will always find excuses to bootlick the very oligarchs which provide them this "freedom" (or "entrepreneurs", the label capitalism deifies them under)
Fuck that war criminal, and fuck the ruling class he served that still exists today
Feel you. Average Westerners are the most indoctrinated people on the planet and incapable of critical thinking for a reason, like parrots for the US state department. Most of them have liberal ideology (which can turn to fascism unless they're educated) planted in their minds the moment they become able to absorb information beyond basic verbal protocols really, and it's all subconscious. They're not taught to question, they're not taught nuance, they're not taught analysis, instead they're taught dogma and adherence to the religion of market capitalism and neoliberalism. The objectively and scientifically superior alternative, socialism and its aim, communism, is smeared by their bourgeois propaganda education and media from which they absorb their entire worldview. They're not judging nor assessing a single thing on their own, they're regurgitating lies planted in their minds by media owned by a small handful of oligarchs who are all war profiteers and would rather die than see a threat to capitalism, and these people are unknowingly having this exact view forced upon them. And it isn't just media and education that shapes and maintains their liberal ideology, it's practically being reproduced pathologically in Western society because it has simply become the "default" despite being diametrically opposed to the interests of the working class.
It's what Louis Althusser calls "Ideological State Apparatus", which under capitalism includes practially every major institution that you can think of. Basically by simply living in Western liberal society you're eating out of the trash can of ideology without even knowing it, and it becomes part of their core identity - hence these people, when their internalized bullshit and ideological defense mechanisms their ruling class taught them are debunked, they shut down with cognitive dissonance. Capitalism today also uses mass consumer culture and comfort media to lull people as well which has a reproductive effect.
All these insufferable liberals get on my nerves too, and they might still remain a majority in the West for a long time and rather see the world in flames before waking up and finding out that every single thing they ever believed about their countries, governments, and societies were nothing but lies. But then again it's important to remember that there are people in the imperial core who ARE gaining class consciousness (even if bite-sized), who ARE aware that something is wrong (even if they don't attribute it to capitalism yet), who ARE aware that they were lied to about e.g. China with the clear evidence now, who ARE disillusioned with their facade of a "democracy", who even are beginning to pick up the works of Marx, etc. Think of all the activists on the Sumud flotilla, of all the Palestine protests, of the increasing amount of Americans who despise their government and imperialist foreign policy - and them even moreso than Europeans, those being even more hopeless despite also living lives in red tape bureaucracy and surveillance. The US is the heart of the beast, and its working class, were it class conscious and formed a vanguard, would alone be able to tip the global scale and bring imperialism and neoliberalism to their graves could they carry out a revolution. That's exactly why the US ruling class uses propaganda and indoctrination as a literal LIFELINE, producing all these liberals who all think the same like an assembly line.
They fear nothing more than an organized domestic working class - more than they fear China, Iran, Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela. Outside of all these shitty cesspit platforms that are for example X, Reddit.. there are people educating themselves and people out in the streets right now, people seeing their material conditions worsen as all their country's wealth, surplus value that THEY produce, is being siphoned off to oligarchs and imperialist wars, and youths working 3 jobs and barely surviving. Those people are the West's future, not all these docile shitlibs - the multipolar world and revolutionary future will pass them by as if they never existed. It will remember them as docile and gullible fools.
Just more cope and projection from Trump in all of his statements. Imperialists know nothing more than to coerce through economic warfare when faced with a threat to their interests such as this one, with China's restrictions on rare earth mineral exports leading to possible shortages in the US military industrial complex - unsurprisingly stocks of weapons companies like Palantir, General Dynamics, Boeing and Lockheed Martin have declined slightly following the news. Watch the US economy and industry crumble even further now and the standard of living become worse than ever with these increased tarrifs. Learn to cooperate and realize that you no longer control the affairs of the world with your pathetic bullying tactics, or be swept into the dust bin - your choice, Western ruling classes. They're nothing without China, and deep down they know it.
Absolutely. All the time wasted on this stupid internet comfort media bullshit gossip could be spent on educating ourselves, reading theory, organizing, engaging analytically with fellow leftists (as we generally do here).. hell, just investing in ourselves and our mental health and hobbies + well-being.
This is laughable even by the logic of bourgeois economics. The profits enjoyed by said restaurants would just be diverted towards supermarkets selling produce that become ingredients in their lunch - much of which shares the same supply chains said restaurants use. I guess this is a "both sides-ism" but for capitalists themselves lol
I don't watch that guy and I don't know that much about him, but this makes me so happy that I don't follow this entire internet drama scene lol. We don't need the opinions nor thoughts of all these liberals and other reactionaries nor their genocide apologia, they exist solely on the internet at this point or in Western family dinners. Ignorant parasites who know nothing about the world as they sit in the comfort of their Western suburban homes. They wouldn't know what genuine injustice meant if it sat on their faces.
Based. Shame that Amerikkkan schools would throw whoever wrote this in a juvenile detention centre.
It's possible to already begin enrolling in the ESU program (Extended Security Update) for Win10 users, and even better, I believe there are still scripts that allow for an entirely free non-official approach - just for those who aren't yet interested in learning an entirely new system from scratch or switching to the nightmarish, AI-infested Windows 11. Personally thinking of switching to Linux tho, another middle finger to the imperialist surveillance of silicon valley
Facts, comrade. If we divert off-topic a little further and focus on anthropology, honestly, this comparison can be drawn in general between "superior whites" (Celto-Germanics) and the "non-whites" (including European Mediterraneans, at least historically). The ethno-nationalists claim to be so "superior" yet prefer the food of the "inferiors", appropriate the cultural traditions and teachings of the "inferiors", and even try to steal the history of the "inferiors", by claiming it as their own or by attempting to sever the continuity between ancient civilizations they find fascinating and the modern populations, which are their descendants, to paint those as "inferiors". This is a veeeery common trick in the playbook of aforementioned Anglo intellectuals, and the Fr*nch too.
This is partially how the entire myth of "Western civilization" emerged, which is little more than a Eurocentric term for what became the political imperialist bloc we know today, rooted in the same narratives that gave us "civilizing mission", "savages" and other nonsense - which are today recycled into the neocon language's "spreading democracy", "terrorists", etc.
Economic disparity in Italy following industrialization, between North and South, which continues to this day, undoubtedly could be a factor. Italy is also a very extroverted culture with a collectivist, outgoing tradition that even today opposes social atomization that capitalism creates (think of movements like Cittaslow and Slowfood), but this can be said about so many other cultures in just the Mediterranean basin alone - Italy has just been part of the imperial core, meaning higher literacy rates and thus "capacity" to produce such prominent Marxist thinkers. Italy also saw fascism, which perhaps could have made class consciousness amongst intellectuals skyrocket?
And confirmation bias? Maybe, but it's a fun thought experiment regardless because we as Marxists are materialists in the first place, so we know that this isn't just an "inherent genetic trait", or "random", as liberal idealism would propose.
Britain [although in the latter’s case, their intellectuals are so endlessly insufferable im genuinely considering calling for a ban on all publications from the god forsaken island]
not just their intellectuals are insufferable lmao, that's too generous when speaking of that "civilization"
They're going to give Benjamin Netanyahu one of these stupid prizes if he actually abides by the latest ceasefire I bet, oh and Zelensky of course - and why not Trump? This should be renamed the War Criminal & U.S. Lackey Prize. We need a prize that's actually given to people who are on the right side of history, of which there are plenty. From doctors in Gaza, to brave activists, and so, so many revolutionaries and heroes of the past who have been swept under by the same Western narrative which props up this disease of a "prize" in the first place. It's nothing but a symbol of how the imperialists control the narrative, even if that narrative is fading now. I hate it, i fucking hate it so much. We need to ignore it completely.
Fuck the Nobel Imperialist Prize. Henry KISSINGER received this shit. Shouldn't that tell you everything?
Nothing of value lost, fuck that illegal puppet state. Can it just collapse already?
Mutual dialogue! Two-state solution! Every opinion matters and is equal! Social Darwinism is a valid philosophy! We all need to work together as a nation! Freedom, democracy, civil society and human rights! We're helping all these poor people around the world! Unemployed people are just lazy and don't want to work and contribute to society! Capitalism offers wages as a rewards system, how motivating! We're spoiled rotten! Poverty is a personal responsibility that the individual must take action to combat!
Plus, their path towards total outsourcing of domestic industry and talent to the imperial periphery, as far as manual labour is concerned, all for the goal of profit maximization through cheap labour exploitation is backfiring massively - not just economically, but also on Western society. The Western labour aristocratic population is hopeless. Just look at how consumerism is eroding the "handyman" and driving its kind to extinction, with everyone instead buying new commodities at a higher rate than ever, creating unnecessary waste and dependence on monopolizing firms. "Unnecessary waste" being a highly ironic key phrase given all the stupid greenwashing propaganda we see nowadays - watch this get co-opted by ecofascists by mass exporting future e-waste to "green transition" the "untermenschen" of the Global South once it gets discarded.
In the West, people literally cry about e.g. a 20 year old car being "too expensive to maintain and not worth it!" (artificial scarcity is a thing, yes - but it can be overcome!), whereas in Cuba for example, they drive old Soviet cars and American classics from the Batista era maintained through sheer ingenuity and improvised, collective craftsmanship. It completely defies these consumerist myths of "obsolescence" realized under late stage capitalism. Classic example of Gramscian cultural hegemony. It has left them with a useless FIRE economy. Basically, even imperialism struggles to offset the contradictions of the plague that is capitalism at this point. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
Trump says Israel and Hamas have 'both signed off' in first phase of Gaza ceasefire plan
You are you, and there's nothing and no one in the entire world who can replace you. You're beautiful the way you are, you're unique, you're wonderful, you're self-aware, and you deserve so much love, friendship and of course comradeship! You don't need to fit in an artificial box, you don't need to be arbitrarily categorized on terms that aren't your own. None of us need to abide by such "rules" that don't actually benefit us or anyone else. Because no one but yourself, and nothing but yourself, has any right to claim what you are and what you aren't, or what you "should" be and "shouldn't" be. Identity is one of the most valuable qualities that we have as humans, and it's something that evolves throughout life.
I think that bringing into question and considering things like BPD, ADHD, and gender dysphoria, does not make you wrong or less valid than anyone else, because they're not "bad" qualities, it's you wanting to understand yourself and become the best version of yourself by wishing to turn it all into strength! If you do decide to seek counseling or medication, make sure it's something that's on your terms and you genuinely feel would make a positive difference in your life, no matter what anyone says. This concerns you entirely and you're the master of your own personal affairs!
Screw "normal", and screw stigma and bigotry. This is exactly what we as communists need to do away with! Let me just say this: Were Marx and Engels normal? Was Lenin normal? Was Stalin normal? Was Mao normal? Were Fidel and Che normal? Was Thomas Sankara normal? Was Ho Chi Minh normal? Was Amílcar Cabral normal? Was Muammar Gadaffi normal? Was Patrice Lumumba normal? ..and countless others
Nope, they were not normal. They were like us, people who saw the contradictions, people who didn't want to be caged in, revolutionary figures spat on by the same people who want to convince you that you are "wrong" for not fitting into their false "neurotypical" category or any other dogma. Yet history absolved them because they were following their inner convictions and principles, unbent by any reactionary force. "Normal" people are not the ones who find genuine self-fulfillment on their own, "normal" people are not the ones who build a better world. It's no different from figuring out who you are.
Wish you the best, seriously!