This is the kind of messaging that gets across to people in the hustle culture/grindset mentality. Believing that your only value comes from your income. Just pure evil

Same. I’m living in the US and I’m utterly surrounded by reactionaries all the time. So I’m just going to keep speaking and maybe some of them who are open minded will be swayed. Idk man… I’m trying whatever I can

This is why education and specifically fostering proper critical thinking skills and empathy is so important. It’s so scary how easy it is for so many people to reject the humanity of others

So even the Jacobin now is publishing the “Genocide is bad, but also Hamas” bullshit now. Liberal centrism is a malignant tumor

Considering Israel is basically a colony of the United States, I’m not really sure it’s worthwhile to see them as separate entities

There must come a time as a western leftist where you have to break down and grieve when everything you have ever been taught about your country and its role in the world turns out to be a lie. But there is also nothing more empowering than to make that realization

Even as someone who possesses just about every privileged trait that a person can have in society (besides wealth), its still so much more freeing to recognize material reality for what it is and allow yourself to just be human and vulnerable.

Ah yes the enlightened centrist. “Just calm down bro” it’s “just an ad for genes (jeans) bro”

Trump might really be the incompetent narcissist the world needs to ruin the American Empire. If China isn’t already a more desirable economic partner than the U.S., they will be soon.

Don’t argue with them, but continue to point out their fascism always.

Even though Castro actually apologized for his horrible treatment of LGBT people and changed course later in his life.

I think this video is well constructed as a sort of introduction to unlearning the anti-Stalin propaganda. Something that well-intentioned liberals may find educational and help them start deconstructing the lies.

I also like the mention of the Trotsky ——> Neocon pipeline. I also use the “evolution” of Christopher Hitchens to describe that phenomenon

Makes me think of exactly what Haz does. Seems like that clown’s favorite thing about Stalin was his homophobia.

That’s just the sad state of mainstream social media now. Facebook comment sections are full of people posting memes that you’d only see on the dregs of 4chan 10 years ago.

I can’t hate on The Deprogram. They create podcasts that are engaging and perhaps most importantly provide a larger platform for a lot of smaller content creators.

Not saying we can’t be critical, we should be critical in a constructive way, but I do enjoy their content. Each of them also have quality, well-researched videos.

I had to give up on Reddit after being on r/communism. I’m sure there are a lot of good users on that platform trying to find meaningful interaction with other communists, but holy shit, so much ideological purity.

This is always the max amount of effort liberals put in to stop fascists.

Damn. I guess I should have image searched it before posting

It’s all a big fucking racket. U.S. government uses public funding to purchase weapons from private weapons manufacturers to give to and sell to their NATO allies and other outpost states around the world like Taiwan, Israel and Ukraine. Then the corrupt governments in those countries sell the excess on black markets around the globe

True. Pretty fucking pathetic