HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]

Remembering when this was called working for the weekend, and feeling old

alliance with fascists

I was very pro-Bernie in 2016 but also against the whole Bernie or Bust idea. Lesser evil-ism in general made sense to me, and the man himself endorsing Hillary on basically those grounds was enough for me to be vocally against Busters or people against voting in general. In my defense, I was a minor and couldn’t even vote at the time. By the time I could vote in 2020, my beliefs had shifted enough that I voted for Bernie in the primary but not for Biden in the general. I sure as shit won’t now, and not for state-level Dems either like I did in 2020.

I honestly am still not against lesser-evil thinking as much as most people on this site are, but for very different reasons than liberals. That kind of thinking really warmed me up to anti-imperialism. Once I got enough historical background on the death toll of America and colonialism and about how texts like the Black Book exaggerate and fabricate deaths under communism, comparison compelled me to realize that if I believed the lesser evil should be supported, then the DPRK, Iran, Syria, etc. (all the places I thought of as scary dictatorships before, essentially) are the morally superior side in geopolitics. On the basis of morbidity alone is enough to believe so, if nothing else

For that logic to work though, you need to believe people are of equal dignity no matter what part of the world they’re from. That every dead body is equal to every other dead body. So, I have also come to realize that the failure of other supposedly pro-“lesser evil” libs to be staunch anti-imperialists comes down to either racism or using the “lesser evil” argument as a rhetorical trick instead of an actual belief. Or worse yet, both!

One shouldn’t even need to be convinced of socialism or even social democracy to really follow this logic to its ultimate conclusions and support anti-colonial resistance, but apparently that’s too fucking much to ask.

On that basis, I commend Hamas. I think Olof Palme would’ve understood that. I wish the non-communist “”“left”“” today would have enough of a soul to follow the example of types like him.

lmao yes I saw that live with my sister. We both looked at each other instantly like “did he really just???”

met a guy like this and he was a also pro-NATO Vaushite “anarchist”

like bro you support the organization chiefly responsible for bombing people with the actual cultural background to say that phrase

you’re welcome!

I suggest adding the movie Daniel (1983). It’s about the trial and execution of a pair of communist New York Jews on false accusations, and the impacts of it on their children. It’s loosely based off the history of the Rosenbergs.

cocaine

I got a pair of timbs on sale for $90. They support my feet well and are perfect for snow, mud, rain, etc.

It was jarring to be reading the sub and see it banned right there and then. I click home to see more posts about what the admins were doing and – poof.

Thanks for the explanation. I didn’t mean to correct you, but I noticed you implicitly judged Mahayana in general as incompatible, so I was curious what sets Chan/Zen Buddhism (as a subset) apart from what you dislike.

Absolutely, especially when those bodies are in a clearly occupied territory, not in a scary, sovereign state

Glowing was coined by Terry Davis, the same guy who made TempleOS. He used it in the sense of “CIA n***** glow in the dark”

Spook is way older as an antiblack slur, but that’s never been the primary meaning.

We get closer every day! It’s gone so much faster than I ever would have expected a year or two ago

Isn’t Chan/Zen Buddhism a Mahayana (i.e. not Theravada) tradition?

It’s future fodder for libs to claim tankies are proud genocide deniers who use genocidal language in the same manner as Nazis.

I think it’s a lot more sus than “glowie” or “spook”, which have uses much more clearly divorced from their racist origins, but a lot of us have given those up regardless. (I don’t really care about using these either way, but I am not marginalized, so I avoid them. Not my call)

Not that I’m aware of. IMO, it’s not our best appropriation of fash memes when it comes to o p t i c s

Ghana is not under the CFA dictatorship however. Under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, it broke decisively from French imperialism.

It broke from British imperialism. France did not colonize Ghana.

I fell into the despair pit in high school, so I got ahead of the curve

A big step in the right direction, but let’s be real, this is basically just Keynesianism