Lmao everyone is a fucking brick wall and misrepresents every word I said. They have a voice in their heads that just repeats “troopsbadtroopsbadtroopsbad” and getting through that voice to reason with them on the nuance of the topic is fucking infuriating.
I mean, it’s imperialism we’re talking about. As a SEA comrade, I’ll tell you straight up that there are days when I give up on imperial core comrades and just say, “I will take the collapse of the US, even if comrades in the US, no matter what gender, race, etc have to suffer/die as a result.”
On that note though, I wish comrades would stop using ACAB or ATAB and start using WSAYO (Which Side Are You On). I don’t really mean this, but I hope you get the sentiment.
I get it and I like it, though not necessarily for cops to be honest.
I won’t judge people for being uninformed though. The machine is a monster, not its victims. This is extremely important, I completely agree with the fact imperialism is the primary issue however. I will let go of some of the anti-troop sentiment but it gets personal for me when people aren’t taking into account just how fucked up the lives of these trans people that join the military are.
In addition to that they’re honestly the most likely candidates in the military to be our allies and if we ever get more leaks there is a solid chance it will be from another trans comrade who radicalises while still in the military.
Why not for cops? Do the bourgeoisie not need to be oppressed in socialist society?
In addition to that they’re honestly the most likely candidates in the military to be our allies and if we ever get more leaks there is a solid chance it will be from another trans comrade who radicalises while still in the military.
You can understand though, why this is utterly unconvincing to a GS comrade. It’s like waiting on a coin toss while millions die and even then nobody fucking knows if enough people will radicalize for it to make an impact. Better to take a collapse than brave those odds if you’re in the GS. Just as you know, it’s materialist to expect trans people to enter the military out of desperation, so too is it for us in wishing for collapse out of desperation.
Way I see it, you cater to one side, you alienate the other. You cater to US military folks, you alienate GS folks. You cater to GS folks, you alienate the US military folks. How would you solve this contradiction?
Because I think cops generally refers to a group of people who are all entirely frontline and if those people continue to be cops after seeing what they do then they have transitioned from being ignorant to being willing participants.
Military personnel signup for a set time and can’t get out of it if they do see or figure out the horror of what they do. The people outside the frontline literally never will physically see it and their ignorance to the fact they’re doing great evil is simply a material demonstration of how weak we are at informing the population at this point in time.
As for your initial question about the bourgeoisie needing to be oppressed, of course, but you’re talking about a proletarian police force now which is a completely different police force to a bourgeoise one. The class character matters.
I don’t think the GS people are idealist enough to get alienated by it, they’re more materialist. They can understand when you explain that “all troops bad” does not have a material effect on the military’s ability to hurt the GS. They get the value in turning them instead of engaging in gesture bullshit with no material effect… At least the ones that you would call comrade do. The general population I simply wouldn’t engage in a conversation with or consider anything to do with troops an area of debate beyond “please stop bombing us and get out of our country”. That has to be targeted at the top though for a material outcome, not the troops themselves.
As for your initial question about the bourgeoisie needing to be oppressed, of course, but you’re talking about a proletarian police force now which is a completely different police force to a bourgeoise one. The class character matters.
Yeah, which was why I said I wanted people to use ‘Which Side Are You On’.
I don’t think the GS people are idealist enough to get alienated by it, they’re more materialist.
Did you not just alienate the person from Mexico (I think?) you were arguing with, along with a bunch of other comrades who downvoted you? I’m referring to those people. Even I, whose family is completely intact btw, am barely tolerating it but that’s cos you’re probably one of my favourite chapo posters. You defended my ancestral homeland, the PRC. You have demonstrated solidarity and so you get a pass. Now, if you were instead one of those Vaush anti-PRC types, I would’ve told you to fuck off this site. I’m sorry, but after all the sinophobic nonsense this year, you’ll forgive me if I’m not particularly charitable to the western left.
Aww you flatter me. I’m just a trans person that refuses to throw them under the bus and understands that we need troops anyway really. Everything I say is built on that foundation so my thought process leans in on personal experiences and really “getting” the hopeless lack of choice situation, I was homeless once and am lucky to be alive now.
I might have upset our GS friend in our interactions but I don’t think it turns them away from continued struggle. I do think throwing trans people under the bus for doing this will make more trans people into contrapoints liberals and I do think failure to be strategic in our messaging with troops will result in never making inroads with them though.
There’s probably no perfect solution here and we have to make a calculation we don’t want to make that is based on what we hope has the best material outcomes towards the goal.
Lmao everyone is a fucking brick wall and misrepresents every word I said. They have a voice in their heads that just repeats “troopsbadtroopsbadtroopsbad” and getting through that voice to reason with them on the nuance of the topic is fucking infuriating.
I mean, it’s imperialism we’re talking about. As a SEA comrade, I’ll tell you straight up that there are days when I give up on imperial core comrades and just say, “I will take the collapse of the US, even if comrades in the US, no matter what gender, race, etc have to suffer/die as a result.”
On that note though, I wish comrades would stop using ACAB or ATAB and start using WSAYO (Which Side Are You On). I don’t really mean this, but I hope you get the sentiment.
I get it and I like it, though not necessarily for cops to be honest.
I won’t judge people for being uninformed though. The machine is a monster, not its victims. This is extremely important, I completely agree with the fact imperialism is the primary issue however. I will let go of some of the anti-troop sentiment but it gets personal for me when people aren’t taking into account just how fucked up the lives of these trans people that join the military are.
In addition to that they’re honestly the most likely candidates in the military to be our allies and if we ever get more leaks there is a solid chance it will be from another trans comrade who radicalises while still in the military.
Why not for cops? Do the bourgeoisie not need to be oppressed in socialist society?
You can understand though, why this is utterly unconvincing to a GS comrade. It’s like waiting on a coin toss while millions die and even then nobody fucking knows if enough people will radicalize for it to make an impact. Better to take a collapse than brave those odds if you’re in the GS. Just as you know, it’s materialist to expect trans people to enter the military out of desperation, so too is it for us in wishing for collapse out of desperation.
Way I see it, you cater to one side, you alienate the other. You cater to US military folks, you alienate GS folks. You cater to GS folks, you alienate the US military folks. How would you solve this contradiction?
Because I think cops generally refers to a group of people who are all entirely frontline and if those people continue to be cops after seeing what they do then they have transitioned from being ignorant to being willing participants.
Military personnel signup for a set time and can’t get out of it if they do see or figure out the horror of what they do. The people outside the frontline literally never will physically see it and their ignorance to the fact they’re doing great evil is simply a material demonstration of how weak we are at informing the population at this point in time.
As for your initial question about the bourgeoisie needing to be oppressed, of course, but you’re talking about a proletarian police force now which is a completely different police force to a bourgeoise one. The class character matters.
I don’t think the GS people are idealist enough to get alienated by it, they’re more materialist. They can understand when you explain that “all troops bad” does not have a material effect on the military’s ability to hurt the GS. They get the value in turning them instead of engaging in gesture bullshit with no material effect… At least the ones that you would call comrade do. The general population I simply wouldn’t engage in a conversation with or consider anything to do with troops an area of debate beyond “please stop bombing us and get out of our country”. That has to be targeted at the top though for a material outcome, not the troops themselves.
Yeah, which was why I said I wanted people to use ‘Which Side Are You On’.
Did you not just alienate the person from Mexico (I think?) you were arguing with, along with a bunch of other comrades who downvoted you? I’m referring to those people. Even I, whose family is completely intact btw, am barely tolerating it but that’s cos you’re probably one of my favourite chapo posters. You defended my ancestral homeland, the PRC. You have demonstrated solidarity and so you get a pass. Now, if you were instead one of those Vaush anti-PRC types, I would’ve told you to fuck off this site. I’m sorry, but after all the sinophobic nonsense this year, you’ll forgive me if I’m not particularly charitable to the western left.
Aww you flatter me. I’m just a trans person that refuses to throw them under the bus and understands that we need troops anyway really. Everything I say is built on that foundation so my thought process leans in on personal experiences and really “getting” the hopeless lack of choice situation, I was homeless once and am lucky to be alive now.
I might have upset our GS friend in our interactions but I don’t think it turns them away from continued struggle. I do think throwing trans people under the bus for doing this will make more trans people into contrapoints liberals and I do think failure to be strategic in our messaging with troops will result in never making inroads with them though.
There’s probably no perfect solution here and we have to make a calculation we don’t want to make that is based on what we hope has the best material outcomes towards the goal.
Hopefully not. The western left does not have a good track record in staying united.
Haha UK right now… Splitting go brrrrrrrrrrr