I made the mistake of balking at some particularly unhinged Ukraine/Russia rhetoric offline yesterday and got called a vatnik, a tankie, a Russia lover and I was even suspected of being pro-Israel and apparently a nazbol Aimee Therese follower or something
I’m not even invested in this shit, I just find the insane saber-rattling and warmongering unsettling
When someone tells you Putler’s going to invade Estonia, Poland and Finland for Lebensraum next if he’s not stopped in Ukraine, just nod your head solemnly
That’s not true. Unless the person is also very online I don’t think they say this shit. Most people I talk don’t really disagree with ukraine being a burgerland proxy war or its long effort of building up nazi holocaust criminals and their organizations.
Imma pull out the Keffiyeh and EFF beret when someone starts coping at me for being too political
to AmeriKKKa, “israel”, uKKK and Europe
Communists disdain to hide their views.
A little while ago my friend and I were talking and he was despairing of the left’s chances generally because of us politics horserace stuff. I pointed out that China is doing pretty great and he hit me with “authoritarianism.”
But we’ve both been to China so I just asked him if it seemed authoritarian when he was there and he said no.
i think you should develop your political beliefs so that they stand up to some minor questioning from someone who has not done any research on the issue at all. like, have a quick, intelligible response to reasonable questions like “but isn’t invading a sovereign nation a bad thing to do?”
