Can I just say: I'm so bored of the pity party the most evil people in the world end up throwing for themselves. Like yes, of course you're getting death threats, you're a horrible, evil man who has ruined the lives of thousands of people. What the FUCK did you expect? If we lived in a halfway decent society, you would have been publicly beheaded and your family would live in shame for generations and this would be justice for your actions.
Unfortunately we live in this reality, where you do the most heinous things and then get interviews published about how upset you are that people don't like you.
How do these people not understand that we are praying someone follows through on those threats so that we can purge a little piece of evil from the world.
when the US breaks international law to start a war with someone it's fine but when that someone hits back they are bad.
This is literally it. What westerners think does not matter - they will believe whatever the media tells them without thinking critically and the media will tell them exactly this. And honestly at this point what does it even matter? Western people thinking anything one way or another makes no difference, their governments are going to do the thing they want to do anyway and westerners aren't going to do shit to stop them. The opinions of westerners is worth less than dirt and should never be a consideration.
Is anyone else getting pro-Israel propaganda on YouTube? Multiple ads claiming Israel had no choice but to attack Iran and saying Iran's nuclear capabilities are a threat to Europe. It's conveniently popping up this week after my ad blocker stopped working on YouTube out of nowhere.
The fact that these dipshit thumb ass looking cracker motherfuckers are the ones leading the empire is what makes my blood boil. There's no way this stupid shitstain should have any degree of power.
I am notorious for feeling the existential tug in the month leading up to my birthday, so I feel you. Do something that you don't get to do that often that will make you happy, go to your favourite restaurant (or cook your favourite food), walk in your favourite place. Try not to be internal and indoors on this day, try to do something that celebrates even if it's in a small way.
After all, you were born x amount of years today and that's joyous. I won't say you're loved (by the people here) because when people say that to me, it comes across a bit hollow. But by virtue of you being the type of person who chooses to spend their time in leftist spaces, I sincerely hope you find a way to have a joyous, happy birthday. Maybe that is love.
They don't want to know the truth, they just want to be mad.
They want to be superior. A lot of these people are straight whites who have grown up all their lives being taught that they are better than others, that they are owed the luxuries of life, that full control is their birthright. We already know that all of society just accepts that their luxuries come at the expense of severe exploitation of others, and we accept it. That's fine. After all, some people are simply lesser than us, right?
The chuds take it a step further. They want everyone under their thumb, there are scores of people lesser than them. They are uniquely qualified, everyone else is a DEI hire. It's their country, they should get to dictate who can enter it, who can stay, and who will be violently and cruelly ejected from it. It's their culture, and anyone who doesn't look like them, doesn't think like them, doesn't like to fuck who they like to fuck, is lesser.
Straight whites have grown up with this entitlement, some of them became famous and started saying it louder, but they're only saying the things that straight whites want to hear and have been conditioned from birth to believe are true. I struggle to trust any whites because I often see that belief leak out in the way they behave in their everyday lives. It's not about being mad, it's about being above.
This is too vague to really offer any meaningful advice about, but:
even if they have good praxis or ideologically align with our goals: they're advocating for ideas which would undermine our work in the longterm.
Say this person wasn't in the picture, are you on track to building socialism/communism/a better world in X number of years? If the answer is yes, great, carry on, you're doing brilliantly. If the answer is no, perhaps it's worth considering where time and effort might be better spent than chasing away someone who you've decided has a slight chance to undermine the goals that you aren't actually in any position to achieve.
Sorry if it's blunt, but this mentality is why I struggle to hold onto hope for the western left. Everything reeks of online brainworms but the vast majority of online discourse is completely irrelevant to the outside world. We only try to embrace the most terminally online thinking among us, despite those people being the least capable of actually making any lasting change in the world. We pretend we're building the future and this person with the wrong views on outdoor cats is going to spoil it all if we don't drive them out, but we aren't building anything and we just lost a potential comrade.
I don't know enough about the intricacies of Indian politics to be able to discuss it specifically. However, my position is that any people who blindly accept their political environment, prop up and defend the systems of oppression without critical thought, for their own benefit (even if that benefit is small), should not be surprised when the victims of that oppression and their sympathisers see them as the problem. If the oppressed groups of India feel contempt towards the benefitting majority's lack of action, my sympathy is with the oppressed, not the masses.
To me, it's clear as day that the people who do not question their political environment usually do so because they benefit from it in some way. And they end up becoming the shields of that environment. When they decide to be a shield for genocide, imperialism, hegemony, they become part of that political environment. It doesn't matter whether it's intrinsic or they do it because they don't know what else to do, they become indistinguishable from the enemy.
Okay, but where do we go from there? That political environment isn't going away, it's there by design, and soon their ignorance and bigotry fuels back into the machine that created it and the world suffers. People are genocided, people are conquered, people are displaced as their countries are coup'd and invaded. The ignorant and bigoted are there to tell you that it's right because it's being done by America and its interests.
I believe we're long past the point where it matters whether it's intrinsic or not. The result is the same, because the masses do not have the power or will to break away from their political environment. And until they do, they're complicit.
I feel like it's super common. It's crazy, I'm one of the only people out of my class to actually go into the field I studied in. Even then, half the time, I'm not sure if I like it.
In media, yes. You aren't against the idea of people having sex with bears. You're against the depiction of people having sex with bears, which has no bearing on reality. I ain't even into that furry shit but I think people are pearlclutching.
Can I just say: I'm so bored of the pity party the most evil people in the world end up throwing for themselves. Like yes, of course you're getting death threats, you're a horrible, evil man who has ruined the lives of thousands of people. What the FUCK did you expect? If we lived in a halfway decent society, you would have been publicly beheaded and your family would live in shame for generations and this would be justice for your actions.
Unfortunately we live in this reality, where you do the most heinous things and then get interviews published about how upset you are that people don't like you.
How do these people not understand that we are praying someone follows through on those threats so that we can purge a little piece of evil from the world.