• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      A now popular word used by “liberals” for anyone that doesn’t just regurgitate Western narratives, from what I’ve seen.

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          Communism never worked at all (crushing of communist revolutions and calling Cuba and pre-Maduro Venezuela bad, as much as the latter was anti LGBT which is a major problem), Israel has a right to defend itself, ignore the rapists alongside Epstein, Democrats and Republicans are different in their goals, regime change in other Latin American countries, communism killed more than capitalism (which is more debatable when you consider economic death in capitalism, but then again the holodomor was really really bad and targeted Ukraine, and don’t get me started on the Muslim genocide in China), Islam is violent, so on so on.

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            Lol it’s a “western narrative” that Nazis and a mix of people with some bad aren’t indistinguishable.

            Black, white, gray? They all look the same to me!! /s

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              What what do you mean? I’m kinda a bit dumb, like you mean Nazis alongside anyone that tolerated them means everyone is a Nazi, or what do you mean?

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                I mean that Democrats are clearly extremely different from Republicans and it doesn’t need any “narrative” to convince anyone watching their actions.

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                  They might technically be different, but I’ve been getting horrible vibes from them after their 2024 loss. Gavin Newsom had been agreeing with fascists on how to rid of trans people, Mamdani has had no response to the hospital closures and instead had the AG strike the closure down while saying not much shit, the advisors to the Harris campaign were using the word “transgender” in a bad way that reminds me of conservatives, and the fact is there has been some Democrats involved with Epstein, especially the non progressive types. Also don’t get me started on anti-zionism, when progressives like Mamdani have almost completely rid of these bits, minus maybe a few aspects like saving a protestor and getting rid of some executive actions that Adams did. Mamdani also cut the library fund after criticizing Adams doing it. The Democrats have supported the genocide in Gaza during Biden’s years, and have been supporting the Iran and Venezuela invasions minus in how Trump did those invasions. The Democrats recently have also supported age attestation, similar to how Republicans supported ID verification for porn.

                  Look as a trans woman, it feels like I’ve been systemically backstabbed first by capitalists with the fall of rainbow capitalism, and then systemically by a Democratic party that wants to no longer oppose Trump and instead become blue MAGA and copy him, even on the “far left,” (Mamdani… Fetterman… Soon Graham Platner) to establish a new normal where internet fascism is the default policy and the US turns into the UK and the Democrats into the Labour party. And people like me and a friend of mine in Lebanon will all get slaughtered so socdem Americans can pretend to get closer to healthcare when the capital class will never let that happen no matter what.

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                    You raise some valid points but I don’t know what you’re talking about with mamdani. I am not familiar with what you’re referring to there but it does strike me as odd that one of the few names you picked to criticize is literally the furthest-left nationally-known voice, probably in American history.

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                I don’t think communism or capitalism are inherently violent or have killed more. You can have communism and capitalism without killing people. Fascism, though, requires death to operate.

                Communism has worked.

                I don’t think Europe or Commonwealth nations are ignoring the Epstein rapists. Only the US seems to be doing it.

                The rest I don’t know enough about to really have an opinion if it’s a Western narrative or not, especially since you’re using US-defaultism.

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                  Technically capitalism also requires death to operate, it’s just far more subtle in how it’s done, like not gassing people in chambers but rather trying to strip resources from people until they starve. That’s why fascism and capitalism are related and fascism is what pops up at the end of capitalism, because the goals are similar, to have certain people more powerful than others, it’s just capitalism abstracts it with money and the theoretical freedom of the system vs fascism which just points a gun at your head and blows your brains all over the wall. In communism it’s not the theoretical goal of the system, but rather a symptom of corruption as the leaders long for a system similar to fascism or capitalism in terms of power for the top.

                  And Europe and the Commonwealth have been dealing with the Epstein types? If so that’s really great, I’m admittedly hypercynical from American politics and the fall of our democracy towards soft fascism, and the exposing of a lot of our seemingly at first glance positive bits like protecting nations and Israel turn out to be imperialist and fascistic. That said, the one exception I’d have for talking about the Commonwealth is the UK when the UK is basically going down the same paths as the US, with some aspects like the anti-trans fascism being far worse than the US. I would die if I was in the UK lol. That said all of the European nations are still responsible for the Israel/Zionist stuff too, I hope over time they back away, but considering how bad things are going in the US I’m doubtful.

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                    Technically capitalism also requires death to operate, it’s just far more subtle in how it’s done, like not gassing people in chambers but rather trying to strip resources from people until they starve. That’s why fascism and capitalism are related and fascism is what pops up at the end of capitalism, because the goals are similar, to have certain people more powerful than others, it’s just capitalism abstracts it with money and the theoretical freedom of the system vs fascism which just points a gun at your head and blows your brains all over the wall. In communism it’s not the theoretical goal of the system, but rather a symptom of corruption as the leaders long for a system similar to fascism or capitalism in terms of power for the top.

                    You do realise that you’re also describing communism, yeah? Imperialism is the core component here, it doesn’t care if it’s communist or capitalist.

                    I don’t think the US has ever actually had democracy.

                    Also why would you die if you were in the UK? And while we’re at it, what’s your main hexbear account? I’m curious.