I think you’re half way to a perspective not reliant on 2010s Reddit atheist cliches (and the implicit western chauvinism within). We agree that religion absolutely is an instrument of class domination and always has a class character. During the Russian Revolution the church was persecuted by the bolsheviks because it was an instrument of Tsarist autocracy that ordained the oppression of the serfs, peasants, and workers. But how about liberation theology in Latin America? The exact counterpoint. We should talk about institutions rather than religions, because is Islam intrinsically this?

No, it’s something the US, Saudi, gulf regimes and Zionist entity promoted as a bulwark against Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. Religion remains a key social force in most of the world, and this intrinsic inarguable position that ignores the social forces at play won’t due.

The fascists and the ‘moderates’ will bridge the gap. Think of the German SDP working with the Freikorps. They come from the same money.

There’s… there’s a freaking , cheeoto. In the White House. It’s orange house now, ch dust

“We need to stop anti white racism” ass statement. Meanwhile every french has a charlie hebdo racial caricature in their back pocket in case the spot an Arab.

Literally just “no u”

Neoliberal brainworms can’t be distinguished from ragebait

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International solidarity between settlers

Maybe don’t join the Reddit Brigade

Nothing about the HRC having negative juice and being a total neoliberal ghoul

Russia will bomb US military industrial complex donation centers, Foreign Minister says

How can I get you to understand this is all within the framework of American capitalism and American “””democracy?””” There will still be elections in 4 years, and liberals will eat it up and maybe even fail to get a failson dipshit like Newsome elected. By that point the requisite decisions have already been made, without you.

It’s a free market. People can just not buy the product.

Just say asiatic hordes 😭

Ukraine is the most Reddit country. Folks, some people are saying it’s the Reddit country.

Not sure I even want to know what that said.

Meaningless liberal definition that can be selectively applied or laughed off depending on context. What relationships does this imply economically, culturally? Is colonialism what the U.S. and Israel are doing in Iran right now? Stupid definition.

Average Lemmy.world poster:

No, you’re obsessed with Trump because you can’t square him. Aren’t the systems of civility and institutionalism supposed to stop that kind of guy? Total freak out, he’s mango Mussolini, he’s a Cheeto in the dang White House!!! In reality, he’s there because the business interests in this country like his meaningless word drivel spew which seems to make line go up for some reason.

This isn’t even a meme it’s just repent for your sins

No, let’s contextualize this rather than doing an all sides bad gotcha that ends up feeding those with hegemony.

You seem to accept a hermeneutics of innocence towards the US and its ideology, fundamentally. When the constitution talks about the right to bear arms, in a militia, in the context of slave uprisings and settler-empire conflict, it’s actually a far sighted stroke of genius. The founding fathers knew 250 years later suburban dads would need a gun to protect their McMansion from inner city thugs. No, they weren’t coming up with extra-historical wisdom, they, like the many founding philosophers and practitioners of liberalism, were cruel slavers, atrocious exterminators, and elitists who thought they knew best. History doesn’t go away because you close your eyes and ignore it. The constitution or supposed founding values not being applied on so many occasions from lynchings to foreign occupations isn’t because “America is an ongoing project, a living document,” it’s because countries are what they do and who they represent. As opposed to pieces of paper. I have no sympathy for these viewpoints because you immediately drop the hermeneutics of suspicion on any critics of the American nightmare. If in Cuba the churches are empty, religion is being suppressed. If they’re full, people are rejecting their atheistic ideology. Funny how that turns out. American institutionalists keep crying.