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  • Not to mention the vast majority of those poor caravan migrants are coming from capitalist central American countries that the US directly lords over and exploits. Maybe whoever made this meme should explain why the vast majority of poor migrants come from capitalist countries?



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    I don’t know if it’s exactly what you’re talking about but I remember being on Reddit years ago and the watchpeopledie and other types of subs were obsessed with the infamous “Russian dash cam footage”, I’m pretty sure there is/was a sub dedicated to it. Everytime there was dashcam footage of someone brutally dying or getting hurt people would joke in the comments about Russians and their dashcam deaths. It’s pretty gross, especially considering the US is dedicated to killing hundreds of thousands every year to car accidents and encouraging it by proceeding to build more highway infrastructure and build increasingly larger and more dangerous vehicles.

    IMO, I don’t think most of it is a deliberate effort, but most western white people are just genuinely incredibly racist, and seeing videos of non-whites or “non-civilized whites” dying and getting hurt gets a more visceral reaction that they’re more okay with seeing. I mean just look at the different responses you get from people when it’s a video about a white westerner dying or getting hurt, there’s much more sympathy, less people blaming them and calling them stupid, more people expressing disgust in the comments.

    If you really want to lose faith in humanity, visit the Darwin awards sub. 90% of content there is of non-white or poor people getting hurt/killed and people in the comments laughing and saying they deserve it because they’re untermensch.





  • I just don’t think balkanization can work at this point for the US, there aren’t enough national contradictions for any sort of balkanization project to last. Yes, there is a possibility for separate native states, but they would be quite small and unable to defend themselves against a larger US. A new afrika type state could exist, and would be quite large, but again wouldn’t be able to drift away from greater US influence. There aren’t much clear divides in the US where you can draw clear borders for new states. The US national project has already been mostly successful, most of the country has been “americanized” and sees itself as part of the greater project. If you were to just create separate states, those states would just see themselves as heirs to a greater national project and attempt to unify against the contradiction that people of the same nationality also exist in the other breakaway states. The country would plunge into perpetual civil war till one state unifies into the greater US. Much like how warlord era china eventually resulted in the KMT attempting unification and then the PRC completing it, because the contradiction that all these separate warlord states existed yet still held the same Chinese nationality couldn’t last.

    The closest we got to an actual divide and fracture in the US national project was the civil war, where Dixie, the south, truly did try and have a different national identity then the Yankee dominated north due to the domination of a slave owner elite and an economy almost entirely dependant on slave labor and cash crops. But that national identity is as good as gone now. Yes, people in the south still fly Confederate flags, but they do so because they’re racist, not because they hate America or don’t see themselves as American.

    I just don’t see balkanization working unless a greater power intervenes constantly to make sure the bickering warlord states don’t eventually unify, which would be an incredibly costly endeavor. Didn’t work out well for the Japanese for example.






  • Stalin oppressed the poles by restoring their borders to a state not seen since the early medieval ages and deported German settlers from the country. Ah but of course, the polish conquests of Belarusian, Lithuanian and ukrainian territory were “rightful polish clay” though right? These guys have no understanding of history whatsoever.

    Bonus points for equating the Holocaust with the holodomor and the great leap forward (?). No one denies that people died during the holodomor, the argument is that there isn’t any evidence it was an intentional genocide of ukranians. Nazis argue that literally no one died during the Holocaust, it was all fake, the camps, the mass graves, everything.




  • Everything they said is complete projection. Full stop. The idea that the US state isn’t corrupt because there exists separate departments is utterly ridiculous. The US state feeds off corruption, it’s the primary motivator of policy, corruption is literally completely legal in the US. Also, does this person think there aren’t separate departments of state in china? Even a wiki page will tell you otherwise.

    The US is a police state. Much more so than china. You don’t hold a quarter of the worlds prison population despite being a tiny percent of the global population without being one. US police are amongst the heaviest armed in the world, the NYPD alone is better equiped in military gear than most militaries in the world. Police operate with near full impunity in this country because of corrupt local governments and police unions. Police brutality resulting in the death on innocents is almost a weekly occurance. I don’t ever want to here libs say china is a police state when they live in and vouch for the biggest police state on the planet. Infuriating argument.

    Add to this, the complete dismissal of any wrongdoing by the US towards political dissent as “conspiracy nonsense” is incredibly rich considering they believe there is currently happening a mass genocide of Uighurs of which the only “evidence” we have of happening is blurry satellite images and massive leaps in assumptions made from china putting more security in the region. Even on wikipedia, any western media really, they admit the US has participated in many cases of jailing, suppressing and murdering political dissenters. It’s not something that’s under wraps that we need to theorize on, it’s in the open and they openly admit to it. As socialists we can admit that socialist states have done bad things to dissenters that weren’t necessary at all, but when you point out that the US has done the same libs immediately jump into denial and call you crazy, it’s infuriating.

    The internet thing is silly. It’s very obvious that sites like reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc are completely dominated by Americans and American rhetoric. Ridiculous to claim that china not allowing those sites is somehow authoritarian, especially when the US doesn’t allow certain Chinese sites and has literally banned Chinese tech companies from selling or operating in the country.

    Overall it’s just impossible to argue with these types. They operate on the false premises that everything china says or anything coming out of china must be wrong and bad, no exceptions, and anything coming out of western press are the only resources you should care about. It’s china bad syndrome. The mere idea of china sparks a fear inside them that initiates a sort of fight or flight response where they either deny or deflect any information contrary to the narrative they believe in.


  • It’s really hard to suggest anything, you’re fucked either way, heavily depends on your current situation and circumstances. College gives you a bigger potential ceiling in terms of income but you’re taking a big risk and even after you get your degree you’re going to have to tolerate being stepped on and abused by your superiors when trying to climb up the ladder. Without college there’s not much easy options besides going into the service industry, which pays like garbage. I would say trades, but they’re really not that much better and come with the same issues, having to tolerate being paid like ass for a couple years before you get up in the ladder. My cousin is a plumber, he’s not going to school, but currently he isn’t paid nearly enough to move out of his parents house and is waiting to move up. He’s been a plumber for four years and nothing’s changed for him yet. It sucks. Also your location matters a lot to. I grew up and live in the south where right to work is king and there are barely any good union jobs, which makes going into the trades MUCH less appealing.

    Anyways, good luck, I hope you find something. I’m sorry I can’t really give you a specific answer.


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    Most of them are bots anyway. It’s all fake. I’m sure there are a good amount of rubes fooled into wasting their time “defending Ukraine” by participating in raids on their discord but almost certainly 80-90% of NAFO is just bots. So there’s no way they were able to crowdfund anything.




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    Your first problem is assuming people want all white people in America to go back to Europe. At most, it’s just an edgy comment people make in jest. There aren’t any actual real plans or policy that is anything like that.

    Land reform in the form of expanding reservations into autonomous regions that the federal government is still responsible for financing basic infrastructure for but the region is fully independent politically is the best recourse imo. The autonomous regions need to be enlarged and placed on land where natives can actually grow and be productive and economically prosperous, because the current location of reservations are deliberately placed so that the tribes can’t prosper, and can’t grow. For example, there aren’t any dedicated plans, more like mock ups, but in my home state of Florida we should move the current Miccosukee and Big Cypress reservations out of the everglades and into the Okeechobee area where they can actually use the land to farm, fish, and grow in anyway possible. And no, giving them their complete ancestral claims isn’t really possible, but saying because that isn’t possible we also shouldn’t give them anything at all is just as ridiculous. Obviously, there are white people living there, the state would have to reimburse them and pay them to move out of the area, and give them new land accomodations somewhere else.

    If you’re asking why the white people there should give up their land, why aren’t you asking why the natives are forced to live in the everglades? This goes into my other point. The US and Canadian genocide of the natives has been successful, but they’re still here, they still exist, and they’re still struggling for rights. Natives in the US and Canada today are still immensely suffering at the hands of the US and Canadian states, they’re still being actively oppressed. Part of their rights they should have and they’re fighting for is their right to their own land and their right to being able to teach their kids and community their own language and culture. They wouldn’t have that right if they were just assimilated into the rest of the country. Part of solving this problem, and solving this century long conflict is land reform. If some white people need to move out to reach this goal, so be it. It’s a very small price to pay compared to the brutal repression we’ve forced onto the natives in the past and right now in the present.