Amazingly salient point. It's clearly schizophrenic to have a political position, research it, and then engage in political debate with ignorant people who believe that their uninformed opinions are not merely worthy of being posted in public but also shouldn't be challenged because they are both valid and even-keeeled.

Of course, that's why I joined Lemmygrad, because I decided that team Red was better than other teams, and team Red fans all go to Lemmygrad where we swap stats and gossip about the players and coaches and we root for the red team to build comraderie, sorry, I mean friendships. And then of course we would show up to say "red team good" like a bunch of schizos any time someone says a bad thing about our team because our entire identity is based on whether our jersey wins the world war.

Your grasp of the situation is, of course, astoundingly clear eyed.

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Ok, with that out of the way, the only one licking boots here is you. No one wants empire to end more than communists. Empire is the antithesis of communism. If you don't understand that, you're ignorant and just shouting things at people based on vibes.

But when you look at an enemy of empire, or a victim of empire, and you repeat imperial propaganda against them, you are indistinguishable from boot licking imperial settler racists. The empire doesn't ask you to love it. The empire only asks that you hate its enemies. And like a good little soldier, that's the position you hold and express and defend like your life depends on it. When someone says"hey the empire is lying and the enemies of the empire aren't actually that bad", you go into a frenzied rage, rabidly trying to convince them they have a mental health disorder and that they are blindly rooting for a sports team and cannot see reality like you can. But you're just ignorant. You don't have any more information or ability to reason than I do. In fact, you demonstrably have less information than I do. Literally everything you can post about China and Russia not only have I already seen but I have also read a dozen analyses on already.

You have been lied to your entire life. It's time to read a book and see the world and the empire for what it truly is. And no, LemmyGrad is not the one licking boots here. It's the people who think NATO is right to expand and stop the evil Russians from their dastardly deeds. It's the ones who think the US war ships in the South China Sea getting pushed out by China's projection of power are victims of Chinese expansionism. It's the ones who think Taiwan and Hong Kong despite being proxies of imperial powers have legitimate claims to autonomy that they should be allowed to use in service of the empire. All of that is boot licking for the empire. And no, it doesn't matter if you express hatred for the taste, because you keep, fucking, doing it.