• ConcreteHalloween [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    281·
    13 days ago

    Okay, if I was gonna be as charitable as possible with Bernard is saying here, yeah I guess I get the point you’re trying to illustrate but Jesus fucking Christ there are better ways to get that point across Bernardo.

  • newacctidk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    181·
    13 days ago

    I hate him so much. I was checking my email the other day and noticed the title of an email from Sanders’ people on the date Maduro was kidnapped saying “I have great news and bad news”. Not even gonna touch that one but FUCK BERNIE.

  • whiskers165 [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    13 days ago

    This is off topic but with a little mutual aid group I do on Mondays I got into it with another member who was going off on “China bad, China = authoritarian” nonsense. Without getting into the weeds too much at one point she said that rather than China she would rather live in a socialist country like they have in Europe and I just about raged out. What no theory does to MFer. Western “leftists” libs really think social democracy is socialism and that socialism is fascism, she really called China fascist.

    How do we even get through to these people that socialism isn’t about social welfare but actually about workers control over the means of production? I swear to god some of these people think socialism begins and ends at the state giving out free shit

    Obviously the mission is mutual aid and China is more than capable of defending itself without me but my fucking god, last night I heard it all, Uigher genocide, brainwashed masses too scared to disapprove of the state, wage slavery, African debt trap, China is the real fascists, Western Europe is the real socialists, Chinese billionaires, China authoritarian, Chinese have no freedom, “my white American friend moved to China and moved back after a few years because it was suffocating” as if the Peoples Republic exists to cater to the sensibilities of white Americans immigrants.

    Makes me wanna pull my hair out talking politics with “leftists” libs. At least we can agree on the work that needs to be done in the near term but I need to convince these people to read theory. Anarchist, ML, anything other than this Berniecrat redditor lib shit

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      13 days ago

      Just throw the term White Man’s Burden in this person’s face because they’re exactly what it describes. Instead of Christianity, it’s “religious freedom.” Instead of civilization, it’s “democracy.” China rejects this because these same excuses were used to justify a Century of Humiliation.

      Straight-up call that person out as a white supremacist who thinks non-whites can’t think for or govern themselves.

  • 𝕆𝕔𝕦𝕝𝕚@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    131·
    13 days ago

    Think of how this will affect the Indigenous people of Greenland, and standing in solidarity with their centuries of suffering? Not for the western “leftist”!

    Just whine about how this won’t benefit the US labor aristocracy :D