“Nuh uh!”

“I mean it straight up asserts something that contradicts what the authority figures in my life told me as a child, so obviously that means it’s wrong”

-You talking about Prolewiki or any Mormon talking about a biology textbook

This is the moderating repository of knowledge in the western media ecosystem all but admitting that they do not actually consider China a capitalist state.

Spiritually true

Me when my political decisions have consequences

It’s an understandably common misconception. Here’s a screenshot of an internal CIA memo from 1956 titled “comments on change in Soviet leadership”. Really only the first couple lines are relevant:

The labor is what makes the ruling class money but the slavery is what makes them horny

There are no good guys or bad guys, just guys

💯 Saying “South Korea” should be seen as no different from saying “French Indochina”

This is like when a little kid walks up to an adult and says “Nuh uh, mosquitoes are birds”

More like the facade of US democracy, having served it’s purpose, is being disposed of

You know how scientists will breed knockout animals, such as mosquitoes, with certain disease-carrying genes “knocked out”, with the idea that they’ll outcompete the natural variant in the wild and deny the pathogen a vector to spread? That’s how I see western marxism. Capital’s intellectual science project of creating a “marxism” incapable of threatening it in the real world, but that they could massively fund to occupy all the niches they wanted to deny to communists. The more explicitly political arm of all that Gloria Steinem, Jackson Pollock type shit. A controlled subculture used to misdirect the revolutionary potential of the many points of struggle at that time, pacifying them into navel-gazing individualism by stoking their intellectual chauvinism on the one hand and invoking the image of the authoritarian bad communist on the other, conditioning the culture to produce Chomskies and Zizeks instead of Lenins and Maos.

I begin with me, the center of the universe.

Now, time to examine the totality of existence one piece at a time and determine whether each piece is Good or Bad

Literally it’s just the crying wojak wearing smug wojak mask every time

Iran calls bluff of “collective defense”, begins peeling away US vassals

The very words are like cool water poured over my brow. That’s exactly what’s gonna happen, and you and me are gonna watch. You with diamond-crushing blood pressure, me with my big “Ansar Allah #1” foam finger, we’re gonna watch the wheels of history turn.

And then I go “Hey what if you could play CoD from the perspective of the psychopathic senior officers whose orders make all this violence happen?”

It’s good guy bad guy shit for racist children, but it’s the default mode of talking about most of the rest of the world here.

Thanks

(Unironically) Thanks Iranian government, good lookin out