It’s fascinating to me how the same people who like to do purity tests for China or Vietnam claiming they’re not actually communist are also the ones who’ll defend places like US or Canada saying yeah it’s not perfect, but it’s the ideal of the system that matters.
It’s such an incredible example of cognitive dissonance. These people able to recognize that their own system doesn’t live up to the ideal they have in their heads, but still treat it as a valid interpretation of the idea, but when it comes to a system they dislike then the same logic doesn’t apply all of a sudden.
I’ve taken to telling reformist liberals that I have literally no reason to want to see the state that murders people like me in the streets routinely perpetuating. Like, telling me that “it could be the end of our democracy” is threatening me with a good time, bc frankly, don’t no one in the hood live in a democracy. They’re out here criminalizing New Afrikans for so many things that it can genuinely be umbrella’d under “existing while Black”, and it’s an even 50/50 as to whether or not your ass gets sent to the morgue because of that criminalization; so why should I care for a nation that won’t change? That won’t humor the first inklings of accountability or reparation?