“me at 3am thinking of ways to destroy the russian state and collapse any semblance of order within it, leading to endless violence and living conditions worse than that of the 90’s, because i love imagining dead russians”
in all seriousness, these people really prove the point that all europe and amerika ever wanted to do was plunder russia into occupation zones rather than their supposed aims of “bringing democracy”. i can’t believe people say that american imperialism isn’t real and yet think thoughts like this are anything but overt fascism
Redditors–well, really most people in general–don’t really think that far ahead, about the economic and political consequences on a mass scale. Redditors have idealized concepts of what a country is. These types’s view of countries is the media they consume, which is video games and memes, unlike the media we consume, such as; historical evidence, economic data, political situations, detailed first hand accounts, human empathy, and a dialectical materialist outlook to top it off.
I am at a point now where I see states as, well, states with their own populations and political goals. When you are at a point where these Redditors are, your concept of the world is good and bad, great man theory, yada yada yada. Even last year I was around the same level of consciousness as these Redditors are, and I thought myself as being pretty aware (don’t laugh!).
The amount of just how engrained US imperialism is the public psyche, is absolutely terrifying. Of course there’s always a decent amount thats “critical” of the empire, but the knowledge of geopolitics and countries is so infantile. I remember having ideas like, the US is evil, we know that, but some how every other imperial core country was good (?).
Again this idea of entire countries being boiled down to individual characters instead of country with a living breathing population.
I realize there isn’t much point to this comment other than me confessing my sins as being a teenage boy in the Redditsphere, so take that as you will, lol.
I remember having ideas like, the US is evil, we know that, but some how every other imperial core country was good (?).
Ah the classic “Canada good” young lib? It’s okay, comrade. A lot of us were like that, I’m sure. The important part is that you have educated yourself and continue to learn
“me at 3am thinking of ways to destroy the russian state and collapse any semblance of order within it, leading to endless violence and living conditions worse than that of the 90’s, because i love imagining dead russians”
in all seriousness, these people really prove the point that all europe and amerika ever wanted to do was plunder russia into occupation zones rather than their supposed aims of “bringing democracy”. i can’t believe people say that american imperialism isn’t real and yet think thoughts like this are anything but overt fascism
Redditors–well, really most people in general–don’t really think that far ahead, about the economic and political consequences on a mass scale. Redditors have idealized concepts of what a country is. These types’s view of countries is the media they consume, which is video games and memes, unlike the media we consume, such as; historical evidence, economic data, political situations, detailed first hand accounts, human empathy, and a dialectical materialist outlook to top it off.
I am at a point now where I see states as, well, states with their own populations and political goals. When you are at a point where these Redditors are, your concept of the world is good and bad, great man theory, yada yada yada. Even last year I was around the same level of consciousness as these Redditors are, and I thought myself as being pretty aware (don’t laugh!).
The amount of just how engrained US imperialism is the public psyche, is absolutely terrifying. Of course there’s always a decent amount thats “critical” of the empire, but the knowledge of geopolitics and countries is so infantile. I remember having ideas like, the US is evil, we know that, but some how every other imperial core country was good (?).
Again this idea of entire countries being boiled down to individual characters instead of country with a living breathing population.
I realize there isn’t much point to this comment other than me confessing my sins as being a teenage boy in the Redditsphere, so take that as you will, lol.
Ah the classic “Canada good” young lib? It’s okay, comrade. A lot of us were like that, I’m sure. The important part is that you have educated yourself and continue to learn
How did you knowwwwwwwwwwww 😭
Crazy just how segmented the propaganda talking points are
And they still think themselves the good guys for it