Communism

During break, a colleague today (at a school) brought up Hitler after watching a documentary about it. We started talking, and he admitted he knew very little about Hitler and how he came to lead Germany, and wanted to know more. I analyzed the whole thing. Other colleagues in the area started jumping in and asking questions. They were appreciative of the way I talked about it and praised me for knowing so much about history and politics, while admitting that they also knew very little.

Now, I'm not saying this story to tout my own horn, but to emphasize what happened next. Bear in mind, nobody at the workplace knows I'm a communist. They know, I'm left-leaning, but that's it.

Anyway, someone then jumps in and says communism and fascism are the same thing ("communism is red fascism and you have to be an idiot and not know any history to be either one").

I bite my tongue and laugh inside. Here they are admitting they know very little history and praising me for knowing so much of it, then saying communists don't know history.

At any rate, I don't think I'll reveal my politics any time so. It's really effective injecting them with historical materialism without using the buzzwords.

Liberals, especially ones that are past their early 20s, are deeply cynical and hate us for having hope.

We actually recognize fascism, even when it comes from liberals.

It's a scary moment as a nascent leftist to realize just how much entertainment presented to us is about portrayals of great and special men borne to a special caste of greatness and superiority that require unchecked and unaccountable power so they can hold off the unclean unruly both-too-strong-and-too-weak resentful masses that often have a valid grievance that is shown to be going too far so extrajudicial violence is required.

For example, Nolan's take on Batman was fascist propaganda and rather blatant fascist propaganda.

Liberals just care about having the hypothetical moral high ground.

Like yesterday post about someone being mad because people were having fun about the Burning man flood. "A tragedy for an event that brings positivity to the world", "burning man attendes are solid human beings with strong morals, financially responsible, upstanding members of society" 😂 this is peak liberalism.

Downvoters, if you don’t explain your downvote, we’ll assume it’s because you know we’re right and you don’t want to admit it.

Liberalism has always brought out the worst in people. There is little to no difference from liberals anywhere between Johannesburg to Tallinn. Their rhetoric and smug-as-fuck attitude is all the same. In the former, they go as far as to commit treason and in the latter, are openly calling for Nakba.

One also did a bit of ableism (straight to :gulag:, btw) simply because I actually like, read and goes off on the "muslim cant be a communist". Funny how I never heard this line uttered once in South Africa (even from libs), but has been a constant talking point in the :international-community-1::international-community-2:.

Generous in assuming liberals have politics, and don’t just consume whatever’s on the television.

That's very well articulated, and very much the reason why liberals have such a visceral hate for communists. I think the key part that infuriates them is that we reject the idea that nothing better is possible. Their whole world view is based on the idea of accepting the evils of capitalist society in favor of doing anything different.

Liberals, through a combination of learned helplessness and unearned arrogance, and with the help of a whole lot of western media propaganda, see the presence of societal failures as better than some imaginary worse alternative. They see corrupt men in power as The Adults In The Room That Get Shit Done And Make The Hard Decisions just like in their Prestige TV treats. They see atrocities as not only necessary but good if they happen to people they don't like. The status quo looks fine from their water cooler chats and within their wine caves.

I think this is mirrored on some people's frothing hatred of veganism, the contradictions are clear but the cognitive dissonance is too strong so you lash out

every time liberals accuse us of being aggressive against people who disagree with us

I ask them what kind of disagreements we have and that's when they'll start spewing the most rancid transphobia or racism or Holocaust trivialization. Every single time. They're always vague about what kinds of disagreements they have with communists because they know they've got something putrid still rotting in them. They know they're still a national chauvinist or a bigot or they wanna own their dad's factory one day. They have to accuse us of being secretly bigoted because that's what they are.

They're also forever gonna be jealous that we had absolute kings on our side like Castro and Chavez. No liberal leader has come even close to how cool they were

About lgbt rights , i remember when I was in a pride march in bangalore india , and we had banned all political posters in the pride , the liberal party people did not attend that year , however commies on the other hand attended the pride.

Liberals don't get mad at injustice. They have nothing to offer when you bring up why injustices even happen in the first place, and will eventually get angry at you if you don't drop the issue. Do liberals get mad about cop city? About charter schools? About health care? About homelessness? About the millions that have died due to COVID?

No. They don't. They go "Ah jeez that's terrible" and then they act like they can't think about it anymore because "it can't be helped."

Fucking hate that.

Liberals aren't even pretending to have beliefs or morals anymore.

Feinstein and McConnel are both too old, but we can't get rid of Feinstein because republicans won't let dems appoint somebody to the judiciary committe (maybe shouldn't have put an 85 year old in clear mental decline on that committee)

Biden really old and 80% of thencountry doesn't want him to run, but we can't give up the incumbent advantage.

They identify problems but then have an excuse for why they can't actually do anything about those problems and most of the time the excuse is "our political opponents won't help us solve problems we created for ourselves"

So while reading The Long Road to Freedom, during Nelson Mandela's early years in the 1950s, some folks already had peaked liberalism all the way to "oh honey you are way too into politics :very-intelligent:" and suggesting to just :vote: away the whole racism and anti-communism and it progressively becoming even more violent and repressive in the 1960s.

Oh boy, the dogwhistle I hear constantly is much older than anyone probably thought it is, lol

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What’s next? Amnesty International barely does anything to help? L +Pelosi’sSlaying +NoToMAGA+ #Vote+ #RESIST+ #YallSeingThis#+ #Problematic PERIOD 💯💯 /s

Liberals "We're the legitimate rulers of the Turd Pile!"

Communists "Why are you standing on a pile of turds?"