This is why I have the adage that:‘‘All comrades are beautiful’’
What American cultural hegemony does to a motherfucker. Right now, we have people in India, in South Africa, in Perú, in China talking about ‘‘woke’’. Where did that come from? The US. Why are people with cultures so different from the gringos all talking about the same shit? Because US cultural hegemony has spread through social media, or the internet to be more specific. It’s their crap that gets viewed the most, that gets liked the most, that gets commented about if you wanna be ‘‘hip’’, it’s what everybody else around the world copies, and that’s how you end up with a bazillion channels all talking about goddamned ‘‘woke’’. The US has single-handedly dumbed down the entire world.
Yeah, he’s the most American thing happening Americanly in America.
Current political discourse format be like:
You got the critical support guy, the chud, the lib, formerly critical support guy demoted to lib, and then you got one on the precipice of understanding.
Hahaha, yeah, me too. I used to rent it as a kid from the local videostore. You actually made me wanna replay it, so I’ve been at it this afternoon. 😄
It took me 3 days, but I finally remembered where I think I’ve seen this lovely chap, it was as the first form of the ‘‘reptile’’ in Chapter 3 in E.V.O.-Search for Eden, one of my favorite games.
Nah, comrade, you’re cool.
I basically asked them: Why would I vote for Harris? How would that improve the situation in the US and abroad? I’m not too familiar with her, but her politics don’t seem too appealing, especially her support for Palestine and her incarceration background.
I think they misread this as applying to the lib rather than to Kamala.
I think it stems from the civility nonsense. The idea of ‘‘bipartisanship’’, where 2 parties ‘‘agree to disagree’’ but we all know that they work hand in glove, and that is what must be preserved overall, the continuity of liberal democracy.
NATO’s so-called ‘‘peace’’ would be the peace of the sepulchers, ‘‘la paz de los sepulcros’’, an expression in Spanish to mean the absence of resistance, namely socialists and anything that looks like them, like our poor, black, indigenous, and brown families.
Hahahaha, the ‘‘roflcopter’’, I’d forgotten that one.
A Greek statue pfp spoke.
I’m probably the only sane person using them for what they mean: laughter. Guess I’ll go back to ‘‘Hahaha’’, cause I never got used to ‘‘lol’’ or ‘‘lmao’’.
“Who pays for the guns? The ammo? Pennington says guardians can use the stipend to buy firearms.”
Come the fuck on, that guy’s name is ‘‘Pennington’’ and he’s penny-pinching.
Alright, we need to shut down Angloid naming conventions until we figure out what the hell is going on.
Yeah, youth is a very vulnerable time. I used to be that kid, too, that thought at 17 he had figured out most of what life was about. Thankfully, like you, I wasn’t as bad as this lad, but still, it sure is embarrassing to think back on.
This is a wee off topic but the ongoing coup in Venezuela has been very illustrative. On the 29th, after an uneventful election day on the 28th, riots began to form in small groups around the country, and these were mostly kids, and literal shitheads, as in criminals. It was very similar to the HK riots, where droves of youth were misled thanks to their British colonial education and social media. Old folks from Hong Kong knew better because they either lived through the Brit bullshit or had direct family that did. The same happens in Venezuela to an extent, the old people are aware of what the 4th Republic was and the rights they fought for that led to the Bolivarian Revolution. This is very common in post-socialist or AES countries, where kids can be misled easily, because all they’ve known has been life under socialist governments or have grown in a post-socialist landscape where socialism is blamed for everything. Our Eastern European comrades can attest to that. This is of course, on top of the capitalist propaganda we’re subjected to.
So, as with Milei, the youth were central to his election, and the youth have been the focus of fascist rhetoric through social media for quite some time. Without a revolutionary education to channel the energy of youth, it will decay into reaction against everything they’ve known. It is this misdirection that we broke with. But thanks, I wanted an excuse to develop that angle of how important social media is in indoctrinating youth.