I have once talked to a libertarian that equated Minimum Wage to the Holocaust. Most libertarians are either teenage boys or mentally very unwell people who are completely detached from reality.

I once talked to some petite that claimed that most people in Germany live great and that most own property, it’s just a small minority that doesn’t while in those evil communist countries nobody has anything - that asshole couldn’t provide me a comprehensive answer when I showed him that not even half the population in this country owns their home while most people in AES do own their homes.

I have no respect for any person that chooses to waste their time crying about “censorship” in far-away countries while living in a shithole like the US - a place where tons of people either slave away for less than a living wage, where police regularly shoot people and where lots of people have to live on the streets. Even if China would do every bad thing libs accuse it of - it would still be a concerning sign of weird priorities to focus so much on this other country while your own is basically a sinking ship with nukes.

Personally I have the theory that the US will turn into an open fascist dictatorship somewhere within the next 20 years

tbh, I think you can really only attest that to FC3. In 1 you don’t fight locals nor save any local populations or something like that. The first game is just a generic tropical island where you fight some mercenaries led by a cartoony villain that produces mutant soldiers. FC2 has like 10 protagonists, of which several are non-white you can choose from and from what I remember you are not there to save the country, you’re just there to kill some arms dealer and earn some money (iirc the game ends with you committing suicide). In FC5 you fought against an American religious militia. Far Cry 4 protag is ethnically a Kyrati (country game takes place in) but yeah, he is kinda americanized. In FC6 you play a local though, but that game of course is still western propaganda imo.

The Far Cry games are surely not really progressive, but I don’t think they are as blatantly chauvinistic as some people attest them to be.

Thanks for clarifying it and intervening. I can absolutely understand why some comrades may have a generally very negative attitude to “white people” but some of the stuff I saw in some threads was really off the charts, and I’ve seen at least one claim that was pretty much akin to the demand of ethnic cleansings. I’m glad that I am organized in real-life and that my ML bubble is not limited to internet discourse.

I would call Die Linke neither Marxist nor attribute their fall to Wagenknecht. Die Linke is more or less just a melting pot of various vaguely “leftist” positions, but it is not clearly marxist. I have never seen them advocate or employing Marxist analysis. There are Marxsists in Die Linke, but from my personal experiences, most of them are pretty unhappy with the party.

As for Wagenknecht, isn’t she one of the most popular politicians according to polls at the moment? The downfall of Die Linke has been going on for quite some time now, and I don’t think it started with Wagenknecht, nor do I really think Wagenknecht is responsible for losing votes. Die Linke has had issues gathering Working Class votes for a long time now, and I think that comes mainly from their inability to provide the working class with a proper alternative vision for the future (Socialism) as well as their constant, open infighting.