A Shitlib pop history youtuber who makes lowbrow “what if” slop and has been recently getting into obnoxious slap fights with random communists and anarchists on Bird-site also has far right fans? Huh

    • invo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      17·
      2 years ago

      They won the Cold War and the world didn’t instantly get better. In fact, everything seems to be slowly getting worse. There are no grand aspirations for humanity anymore. Every new technology is met with justified skepticism because people know it’ll be used to fire as many workers as possible. They just don’t connect it back to capitalism. In fact, when shit goes wrong today, people STILL blame communism for it.

      • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        I honestly wonder sometimes what could drive someone to be so spiteful and bitter towards people who have the audacity to imagine a better reality, especially when they have no material incentive to be like that.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know if a pervasive sense of entropic hopelessness is technically a material condition, but it’s not like they’re immune to it. They need something to blame