ihaveibs

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

They don't fall for it, they choose to believe it to maintain their inflated perception of their own superiority above the Orient.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Would love for one of these fucks explain what the "nuance" is exactly

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Becoming a Marxist shows you that Gandhi was a villain that is propped up by the west in the name of non-violence

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They are telling on themselves so hard here, confirming that they were sending poorly trained soldiers to Bakhmut just to fucking die. Fucking monsters

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It is very disturbing how Reddit-like that response is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

It was primarily an Islamophobic movement in the post-Gulf War and 9/11 era.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

This is genuinely terrifying

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I think the most important thing is the Ukraine war showed what a paper tiger the west is. I don't think we would see the resistance in west Africa if it weren't for the war, for example. The US doesn't seem so all-powerful to the global South anymore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I mean yeah, mass murder has been part of the cultural psyche since the beginning. Once genocide and lynching fell out of fashion, the violence simply turned inward. You can see the parallels with relationship between liberalism and fascism.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

The last sentence is terrifying but only confirms what we've feared all along.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Neoliberalism has been particularly efficient at atomizing people and replacing many social and cultural things with products to be consumed. Low income obviously contributes to loneliness but its truly an epidemic across all income levels.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

Damn the tankies were right again? Don't listen to them though the economy is actually great and Russia is totally gonna collapse any day now

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