The_Filthy_Commie

I appreciate the word ''expat'' because it's telling on themselves 8 out of 10. Leaving 2 for those rare cases of not knowing a better word for themselves and those still trying to integrate.

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The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 4d ago

Gather 'round, kids, it's another instance of The_Filthy_Commie's unposted comments he saved up. This time on how ''elitism'' can be good:

When I was still a lib, I was one of those ''elitist'' pricks. If something was popular I became suspicious. If too many people were believing something, and I found out it was bullshit, or that it was a morally wrong position to have, I would tell myself, see? this is why you have to be suspicious of things if they're popular, because ''the masses don't know anything''. It saved me many times from falling into that groupthink of western bullshit, the kind we see with Ukraine, the hatred towards Muslims, Russians, and Chinese, and other vitriol. I would also have present this thought when assessing new things: ''for something to be mainstream, it has to be for the common denominator, and the common denominator has bad taste, hence what is mainstream is in bad taste.'' Looking back, its funny how adopting an ''elitist'' position like that, which apparently many westerners believe they represent, as arbiters of ''truth'' and ''universal values'', helped me to overcome them with their own tools. What I mean is that by looking down at those looking down on the world, I was able to understand the world better. At the very least, I was able to get closer to a sort of ''internationalism'', and not close myself within western nonsense, because I knew that the positions held in the West were not the only ones, and that more often than not, they were not only incorrect, but immoral.

But, just as socialism will come to the world bearing the birthmarks from capitalism, so, too, I became a communist bearing the birthmarks of an ''elitist'' prick. At least, it helped me maintain critical thinking, introspection, reflection, self-criticism and what I call ''good taste'', which is simply not being a piece of shit. It makes me laugh to see how something that could have turned out so badly, this intellectual ''elitism'', was actually helpful in my case. Nowadays, I'm more humble, even if we ''tankies'' keep being right all the dang time.

The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 4d ago

Sweet, it worked! Thank you so much, Edie!

The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 6d ago

What the hell happened to Bush's hair when I wasn't looking? Did he finally get shaved by a shoe?

The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 1w ago

This is awesome, thank you. I'll get it for FF when it comes out.

The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 1w ago

I'll bring the beer.

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The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 1w ago

Talk about a fire sale.

The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 1w ago

Yeah, I thought it'd be him. He's a character to say the least. I don't know if he still runs that since I read he moved to Tunisia, but he had a group called the ''Berkshire Communists'', with a community gym and shit like that.

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The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 1w ago

Was it Fergie Chambers?

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The_Filthy_Commie @lemmygrad.ml 1w ago

Member a few years ago when Kim(Jong Un) hadn’t made a public appearance in like a week and the western MSM was salivating over his sister being the sexy new dictator?

I had to voluntarily undergo mild VOLCEL Policing to lower my heart rate at the sight of Respected Comrade Kim Yo Jong because I was fanboying too hard and it was the right call.