It's all:

from here on out, in it?

Hegel remarks somewhere[*] that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce

Yet you participate in a society...

Seriously, though, we have many flavors of ice cream here, choose one that you fancy and don't focus on changing one... unless you're a mod, lmao

To be fair, these people kept on screaming for years about how they're a constitutional republic... not a democracy...

Not that this is a good thing, of course...

Ye think slavery, worker rights, and decolonization was done merely by protests and by the mere will of liberalism?

Fellow transphobes?

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Anachronistic Comedy? Blazing Saddles is one, if ye think about it...

Not anything specific; apparently left-liberal media like "Morning Joe" is being axed or postponed, cuz of the Republican rightist's stupid allegations that left-liberal media caused the assassination attempt... I find it absurd

Not to mention, Biden decided to suspend some campaign ads because of this

Where are the firing squads, when we need to put the fossil fuel moguls to death?

That was a stretch but do you mean that the theory of totalitarianism was used to conflate Nazi Germany and USSR, and to an extent, justify double genocide theory...?

That being said, I don't see how it relates?

Typical COINTELPRO shenanigans, amirite.

It is possible (and highly encouraged) to use basic critical thinking and be critical of both when relevant.

You would probably classify me as pro-us, because I think tianman square was a horrible massacre and russian forces are commiting war crimes in ukraine. Doesnt mean I’m not critical of american imperialism. You can be critical to both. And in your whataboutism, I think a lot of ML, Hexbear accounts fail to be critical when appropriate of both.

Eh, fair enough.

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

Now, go ahead and downvoot, you lemmy.world arseholes

Modern right-libertarians are just the right-wing of liberalism taken to their most extreme, specifically in their propertarianism, especially in a settler colonial society like U.S, Australia, Northern Ireland, and Israel....

I call them right libertarians because the term "libertarian" has been co-opted to hell by them

“One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over...”

• Murray Rothbard

Let's just name, idk, the next Hurricane comin', "Hurricane Ash" or "Hurricane Alex"... to mess with the chuds

• What Don T. Jr. thought was the next plan for WOKE...

Emkay... seems good

Still doesn't exonerate from introducing Ted Lasso liberal finance capital fascism (also known as Neoliberalism)

Introducing the hawkish national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski who did the following

But okay, I guess I'll respect that

Cake was bread historically

I think all other dough-based dishes derive from bread really, since I believe it's the most basis dough recipe ye can make...

Nowadays, my definition of modern cake = bread + defined-sweetness + fluffiness and softness

My proof that cake was bread; look at pound cake, one of modern cake's forerunners, and tell me no one thought and baked it, thinking "how about bread, but more deluxe?"

Anachronistic comedy.