Capitalism requires their material comforts reduce, regardless of them leaving other nations alone or not.
A lot of them actually see the invasion as the reason their material comforts are being reduced - they pay the cost of invasion and get none of the benefits.
The truth is that invasion is simply an independent variable, the bourgeoise will continue to suck up all wealth and resources, from Latin Americans, from USians, indiscriminately.
Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda — organs of coercion and consent.
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At least for all of history up until now.
I don’t yet personally know any liberals who support the illegal invasion of Venezuela, even some of the most turbo-lib places on reddit are anti-invasion, probably because they are realizing that they will continue to pay the costs while receiving none of the benefits.
US global petty bourgeois is slowly collapsing into the rest of the global proletariat. So, they are taking the right position, even if for the wrong reasons.
But I do know some neo-cons and reactionaries who changed their minds overnight: they’re thrilled. I figure because they think they’re gonma get cheap oil at no personal cost, and because libs and leftists are mad and that’s the only thing that gets them off now.
RoA 34: war is good for business
RoA 35: peace is good for business
Ferengi were different than the US in that they would not be the ones starting the wars. They were the same as the US in that they would be selling weapons to both sides.
You’re not stupid at all and you have good intentions. It’s a core value of mine that food is a human right that everyone deserves, so we already have a lot of important things in common.
Unfortunately there are power structures that serve to withhold people their human rights, like food. This is the power structure of Capitalism, consisting overwhelmingly of white Christian USians. People deserve to be angry at this power structure, and those of us, like myself, who are part of the imperial core, are right to feel guilt and shame. It’s not that we are inherently bad, but we are a part of the system of oppression. And we don’t need to be punished, but we can take the criticism on the chin and continually strive to take down the system from the inside.
Feeding people is great right now, and the long term goal is to replace the current system with one where no one needs to be fed, because they are already guaranteed that right.
You might be unfamiliar with the Nazi bar analogy - I’m not saying everyone in the bar is a Nazi, but that it will continue to be a Nazi bar until you kick all the Nazis out.
Step 1 is to stop being offended that people call a Nazi bar a Nazi bar.
Step 2 is to admit you have a Nazi problem.
Step 3 is to make the conscious decision that you don’t want your bar to be a Nazi bar anymore.
Step 4 is to kick all the Nazis out.
you’re negating generations of liberation movements
No, refusing to acknowledge that the room has a bunch of Nazis inside, is what’s negating generations of liberation movements.
I’m not saying that the bar needs to be shut down, just that all the Nazis need to be kicked out. Until the Nazis are kicked out of the bar, it will be referred to as a Nazi bar.
Interesting experiment, but an unsurprising outcome. I wouldn’t blame it on identity, I think Gamergate types tend to rally around a particular value and goal: hating women and subjugating women. Anything that would be good or beneficial for women would be a step backwards for them.
Even the sex is not about sex, it’s about power.
For the record, I’m a white USian, and when people criticize white USians for being ghouls that ruin everything, I don’t wring my hands and say “don’t lump us all in together, some of us are good, if you say that I won’t be your comrade”, I say “yup fuck those crakkkers, death to America”.
That’s what it takes. You fight from the inside.
Plenty of specific critiques here that any good Christian would agree with.
To be a good person capable of change means being able to take criticism, especially of being part of a globally oppressive cult. Someone who can’t handle the criticism of being part of a globally oppressive cult, is not a good person, is not capable of change, and was never a potential comrade.
If I can’t say “your Nazi bar is full of Nazis” because that would offend someone so much that they would rather ally with the Nazis instead, they were always a Nazi.
If someone said that “ISIS are not real Muslims” using the same no true Scotsman fallacy that you did, I would find that equally icky, yes.
And comparing Christians to Muslims isn’t exactly apples to apples, either. Christians run the imperial core. Christians create the western propoganda, head the biggest most expensive imperial armies of the world, and hold the majority of the world’s wealth and power.
Ok a global scale, Christians are the oppressors, Muslims are the oppressed.
So while certainly there are Muslims who do bad things in the name of Islam, I prefer to spend the vast majority my time and attention punching up to Christians, than punching down to Muslims.
Icky. I believe you have fine intentions, but you’re trying to “no true Scotsman” your way out of admitting that Christianity is currently a Nazi bar. The Nazis were allowed in, now they won’t leave. I believe good Christians exist, but unfortunately they are either unwilling, or unable to kick the Nazis out.
For any good Christians, the fight isn’t to convince everyone outside the bar that you aren’t a Nazi, the fight is to finally kick all the Nazis out of your bar.
I had to double-check but he was born in Taiwan and studied at Caltech and Harvard, which connects the dots as to how he as to how he got so deep in the Western kook-aid.
Also the Proton CEO Andy Yen is a crypto-Nazi who praised Trump’s “America first agenda” and wants Europe to go “Europe first”, and also blames all Europe’s issues on “the globalists”
Russia is interfering with US politics but I don’t think Russia is actually influencing US politics.
The material conditions of neoliberalism lead to the rise of reactionaries and fascism.
The US will create forces like Trump, the alt-right, Steven Miller, Fuentes, with or without Russian money. The seeds were already planted long before Russian involvement.
I’m preaching to the choir here but liberals find it much more comfortable to blame an external entity than reflect on what’s rotten on the inside.
Yeah, that’s why they didn’t include Vizio, and their TV’s are entirely unusable unless you sign up and give them permission to spy on you in every way possible.
The good ole well it’s okay when Uncle Sam does it.
Everyone I know irl, across the political spectrum, is vehemently opposed to more involvement in overseas wars.
I’m very certain that online discourse around Venezuela is dominated by CIA troll farms trying to manufacture consent, but no one is really buying it, yet anyway.
The way I was actually ragebaited for a second there
Great foreshadowing to the twist ending.
Turns out an off-brand copying the most popular brand everyone loves is not going to stop brand loyalty anytime soon.
Exactly what happened in the US with Democrats and Blue MAGA.
They will not learn their lesson.
Oh no, I agree with you. GN will reject all principles for cheaper gas and better material comforts. They are losing their material comforts anyway so they might accidentally hold the right position on basis of losing their material comforts.