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A good example is the way Republicans have been pushing the most horrific agendas of US imperialism but using "anti-wokeness" as a carrying agent for their propaganda, like when Jesse Kelly said on Tucker Carlson that "We don't need a military that's woman-friendly. We don't need a military that's gay-friendly, with all due respect to the Air Force. We need a military that's flat-out hostile. We need a military full of Type-A men who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls."
RT @NikkiMcR: Tucker Carlson's guest: "We don't need a military that's woman-friendly, that's gay friendly" we need men "who want to sit on… at
— Phil Goode (@PhilJohnGoode1) November 14, 2022Or when Psycho Rubio said "We don't need a military focused on the proper use of pronouns. We need a military focused on blowing up Chinese aircraft carriers."
RT @KyleMatovcik: From a speech @marcorubio gave yesterday.
To a roaring applause.
This is playing with literal fire. Republicans aren't an… at
— Jason B (@BMAaudio) November 14, 2022The culture war says you should push back on the "anti-woke" rhetoric. Anti-imperialism says you should push back on their omnicidal warmongering. It's hard to focus on both. This is being exploited by empire managers in myriad ways. They get people chasing decoy dichotomies so they can't focus on the powerful.
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Step 1: Be a progressive.
Step 2: Ignore a major problem that progressives are supposed to oppose.
Step 3: Keep ignoring it until right wingers start paying attention to it.
Step 4: Frame opposing that problem as a right wing position.
See: See nuclear brinkmanship, Ukraine proxy warfare, Assange, Syria, internet censorship, etc.
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One of the reasons people are so casual about risking nuclear war is because it's a difficult concept for the mind to wrap itself around. Full-scale nuclear war wouldn't just kill everyone, it'd prevent every other human who would have been born in the future from ever existing.
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