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RT @caitoz: This is how all mainstream Russia hysteria victims think; they're just not normally this forthcoming about the infantile nature… at
— TeddiD (@TeddiAthena) November 14, 2022� �-
I have no special feelings one way or the other about China or Russia, I just acknowledge the indisputable fact that they are quantifiably far less destructive than the US-centralized empire. If they weren't being aggressively targeted by that empire I probably wouldn't notice them much.
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Discussion of revolution and communism in the English-speaking world is just fantasy role playing unless it begins and ends with the cold hard reality that the left has been completely neutralized and marginalized here and the numbers are nowhere close to what they need to be. Moving revolutionary leftism out of the farthest margins and closer to the mainstream should be your first and foremost objective before you talk about anything else, because otherwise you're just LARPing. You're arguing about a political movement that has no actual movement.
You can do this by outreach and activism. You can also do this by finding ways to make socialism and communism look so f*cking cool that people start knocking each other over to be a part of it. Finding clever ways to make it shiny and attractive in a very indoctrinated society.
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RT @caitoz: Western journalism is becoming more and more illegal. The western empire is guilty of everything it accuses its enemies of doin… at
— jim phillips ☮️☭🕊🇵🇸🇾🇪🖖 (@jmnphillips1) November 14, 2022� �-
Anyone who tries hard to convince you to like a powerful person has traded their mind for personality cult doctrine, whether their hero is Bernie Sanders, AOC, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson or Elon Musk. Proselytizing for the powerful is a sign that critical thinking has been abandoned.
Think about it: what would be gained by one more person having positive feelings about Elon Musk or some other powerful figure? How does that benefit the world? It doesn't, yet people try to win converts for them constantly, just like evangelists proselytizing their religion. This is because they're all about the individual, not the cause or the policies that individual supposedly stands for.
Anyone who tries to convince me to support a given goal or perspective will have my interest if their case is lucid and well-argued, but anyone who tries to convince me to like a given individual is instantly dismissed as a mindless automaton. I know I won't be hearing anything intelligent from them.
Pushing agendas serves those agendas. Pushing individuals serves only those individuals. If you care about advancing a cause, then advance that cause. Don't get caught up in the propaganda-friendly, thought-killing tar pit of personality worship.
Famous people are not your friend, and uplifting the powerful only serves power. This is especially true in the power structure we currently live under where the only people who are allowed to get to the top are those who facilitate the interests of power.
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Filmmakers can trick you into cheering for the seal or for the polar bear just by choosing which one's being followed by the camera and framed as the protagonist. They can also trick you into cheering for cops, a corrupt legal system, or an imperialist military in the same way.
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