That such iconography could circulate for years within the US military and diplomatic-security apparatus underscores what the World Socialist Web Site reported six years ago in “Neo-Nazi networks exposed across US military”: fascist and white-supremacist currents have been cultivated inside the armed forces.
They show far less patience to the masses than I withheld from them.
My frustration is the blatant hypocrisy here on site In the past week I’ve seen many cases of people suddenly swapping tone on genocide and acting like this is bluesky and yet we have an issue an engage in struggle session when those outside the core say we’re flippant and untrustworthy?
And frankly I’m unsure how much patience I should even show from a solely selfish perspective. My comparison to white unionism wasn’t accidental or incidental, I’m a Black guy that knows this will include me at some point like it has damn near every other time. Snarling Wolf vs. Smiling Fox. Those that act like this are either white chauvinists in nature or uncle toms. Both of those are circumstancial allies, at full optimism, but not friends.
It’s utterly outrageous and must be engaged with as such coming from fellow “leftists,” and it’s been non-stop genocide apologia for each and every bastard with a camera that offers to piss on the American masses to cool them off.
I thought I was losing my mind when people justified Zohran saying he’d work with Nazis and my brain twisted itself in knots to take it as them missing the fact that is the nature of the comment. But now we decided they need to be those who direct the masses!
This hasn’t been people saying, “well if they feel really bad maybe we can let them mop floors,” their looking at a multi decade long career of imperialism, followed by choosing to do it for a private company as well, and saying, “well you’re being quite overdramatic saying he can’t lead the people, have you considered he said he feels bad about it?”
I’ve personally moved on how to consider these these people over the last few months. Seeing what a viper pit the DSA became was a wake up call for me re: Zohran. I can’t trust NYC DSA folks. Or most DSA folks.
The frustrating thing is these people should be close to getting it, right? I mean if they aren’t true comrades, who are?
There’s a silver lining in that these ghouls have to pretend to support some mild populist reforms now to be popular. It’s that or mask-off Fascism. If this was 2006 I’m sure this Platber guy would be a neo-con.
Some of them maybe. Many are young and this is their first time experiencing this and no one reads the theory that tells them this is how it goes. Many have no interest and are perpetually too invested in this hell state to want to.
And I’m very unsure if this populism, will bring anything good. Fascism uses populism for its appeal too.
Gotta struggle none the less.