"With all the failures of the present, with all the social and economic dissatisfaction of a part of the population that amplifies regret for communism (cope), the catastrophic percentages of the population that mythologize life under communism (seethe) are not just the result of a natural phenomenon," Remus Ștefureac wrote on Facebook.
Liberal anti-communism is "natural" and people never change opinions. He's gonna blame the Russians, isn't he?
He says that this percentage is a "direct consequence of the information war we are in, of at least 10 years of serious active measures directly coordinated by a hostile power, waves of disinformation, lies and grotesque manipulations propagated on all channels of information multiplication, but especially on social networks."
"A campaign of destabilization and social vulnerability that was not fought by the state or society, neither by the public nor by the non-public sphere. A campaign against which we have neither built capabilities nor allocated resources to build the right antibodies that we can only find in the attachment to freedom, in good governance, in sincere patriotism, brother with integrity, with honesty and common sense, not with imported aggression and violence," claims Ștefureac.
Only NED liberals are homegrown, all the fascist and communist sympathisers is Russia's doing. Liberals only care about 'the people' when things go their way.
I'm hesitant about spending money too. For me I think it comes down to four things:
What if I need this money for something important down the line?
What if I find out later I want to buy/do something more than the thing I'm considering now?
I also feel bad about causing too much waste for ethical reasons (exploitation of people and planet) and philosophical reasons (not being a slave to consoomerism, valuing the things I already have)
Until recently my only other source of money was my parents, who are lower-middle income... I think? So I didn't want to ask them to buy things for me too often.
Julie told me Epstein was helping to track down employees who Wexner believed were “stealing” money from him at L Brands headquarters. “Leslie had said to him: ‘I have a problem in my company—there’s something wrong, someone is stealing from me. Would you fly out to Ohio’—and, of course, that’s like hell for Jeffrey, going to Ohio–‘would you fly to Ohio for several months going over all my books with a fine tooth comb and find out what’s going on?'”
I also struggle with this mentality. When I do introspection, I find the following thought patterns:
Not wanting a hassle, as you mentioned (risk aversion, lack of self-confidence)
Constant messaging by society and parents that I can be taken advantage of and to mind my own business (individualism).
Knowing that someone or a cause needs much more help than I can provide, like you also said, so any amount of help I give feels like a pittance and I feel guilty. ("letting perfect be the enemy of good")
Knowing that many people or causes need money but I can't help all, so any choice I make feels random or biased to the most sympathetic.
Getting a sense that the only moral thing to do then is to give up my relatively well-off existence to charity, mutual aid etc. and me not wanting to keep money for myself is selfish and "treatler-brained".
Rather than accept the imperfect, I avoid the matter altogether and try excuses like: "I don't have cash on me right now, sorry"
I also find 6.1" to be ideal and anything larger to be cumbersome. Dad got me a Galaxy S24 last Christmas, which is the same size as an S10 and the same size as the Huawei P8 I have fond memories of.
Note: I actually wanted a Xiaomi 13, but dad buys everyone Samsungs and found that "too Chinese", his words which he couldn't elaborate on.
I'm in the same boat and so I find such charged characterisations pretty jarring. I at least appreciate people imagining a futurist aesthetic that isn't Silicon Valley minimalism, the "Society if" meme or grimy cyberpunk. I ignore any political programs that people tie into it.
I can only imagine how great that must have felt. As a kid I didn't like the beach at all, I found the sand annoying (
) and it felt like a body show, which felt awkward and made me feel worse over how pale and skinny I am. And that's without any gender anxiety.
But in recent years I have nurtured a wish that my life and self-esteem improves to the point that I can have an experience like this too. It's become a kind of final proof of how much I would have grown as a person.
Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.
Liberal anti-communism is "natural" and people never change opinions. He's gonna blame the Russians, isn't he?
Only NED liberals are homegrown, all the fascist and communist sympathisers is Russia's doing. Liberals only care about 'the people' when things go their way.