You don’t need to be a liberal to be against authoritarianism and the tankies that defend it.
Liberals are authoritarian too, but by rhetorical sleight of hand they call it rules-based international order or market forces
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Landlord evicts single mother rendering her homeless: Just the way the economy works
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Maoist peasants rise up against landlords: Horrifying authoritarianism
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name one time when liberals ever defeated fascists lol
Because nonduality is totally alien to Westerners, good luck understanding dialectics when the world only exists in rigid boxes, and the only dialectics understood is Fichtean triplicity that doesn’t show the whole picture. Ignorance makes it all easier to divide us.
Dialectics is hard… but god everything makes more sense through it. To not even have a basic idea of anything besides black and white duality… I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be like that and try to understand the world.
liberals defeat fascists
Pretty bold to call Stalin a liberal.
All those liberals who put a stop to the Palestinian genocide, and definitely didn’t smugly support it
All of the examples are just clips of people saying they don’t like liberals. What is the observation to be taken here? These two political positions are opposed to ours and therefore the same?
Liberals are mush brained. Put me in the screenshot. Make sure to keep the justification out.
Both tankies and conservatives are making fun of me for shitting my pants, they must be exactly the same
The crushing burden of being ontologically correct is almost too much to bear
A large number of Americans genuinely believe politics is a one-dimensional axis which runs from infinity Conservative to infinity Liberal. Therefore, if you are shitting on Liberals you must be right-wing. This is pretty deeply baked in. Political polling institutions which are ostensibly staffed by political scientists often frame the left simply as “very liberal.” Television political coverage does more or less the same thing. Orgs like DSA, if mentioned, are portrayed as very liberal. Communism is used only as an epithet, but is functionally interchangeable with Liberalism. Non-affiliated voters are universally described as “independents,” which are universally assumed to be somewhere in-between Liberal and Conservative (never outside). This is also why the solution to every political issue is framed in terms of dialog and meeting in the middle. This is the only thing which is even possible under this paradigm. To resist compromise is to be divisive. Division is bad, against the rules, and means you want to destroy The System (“Democracy,” which is good).
Then you have the smart-asses who learned about the Political Compass website sometime after 9-11 and think they’re Machiavelli because they understand there are actually two axes (with Margaret Thatcher and Joseph Stalin in the same corner).
Our political education is really fucking bad.
