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Which is kind of changing as more millennials and gen-z are getting more okay with not just simply hating basically all forms of anti-capitalism. Even taking time to get some random information while on their phones/social media from folks that are pro-leftist. I now find it easier to point to Lenin without dealing with all the “he was evil and killed people” lines. Stalin and Mao are still hard given that they seem to be more directly brought up in media/classes as being at Hitler levels. While they both went with some bad options (some of which was based on being given those options by advisers with bad understanding of a topic at the time), they did see how important it was to get caught up to western industrial nations quick as fuck.
It is hard to get to real critiques of which things didn’t work or were correct but maybe could have been done better based on what we know now. Because lots of people don’t want to hear anything as it (to them) is like Holocaust denial based on the very very black and white way they are treated in history classes and media. Though even both of them are getting a bit more critical support by those millennials and gen-z folks that go deeper. Also helps that more formerly classified documents from the US intelligence agencies from those times are finally getting old enough to declassify and release them.
Even Cuba is becoming less of a automatic trigger for being seen as some “purely evil nation”. Though it being so close geographically to the US means the hawks will keep trying to find ways to paint them as such. The anti-communist people that fled are the real thing allowing the US to keep up the blockade and sanctions that are literally only in place to torture the people of Cuba into overthrowing their government. Those anti-communist Cubans here are enough of a bloc to be able to scare most candidates for state and federal elections from saying anything positive. We saw how Bernie saying a simple truth about how literacy under communism went way up was treated like he said we should just let Cuba take over the US or something. His point was that education should matter more here beyond the very bad policies that claim to push education but actually make it about numbers and not about real learning.
I feel like that realization had more to do with the part where it just kept going even after the whole overthrowing Saddam bit by a lot. Especially after all the reasons given for going in were one by one shown to be wrong from the jump. Even with all that, I think the libs were more embarrassed about how much money was used in “nation building” while the US economy tanked. And not so much for the reasons that we constantly hear from them about “cost of human lives” or whatever pretend moral shit. I think most of them would still resort to adding something to the effect of “well even if we were lied to, it was still worth getting rid of Saddam” after front loading how they were lied to.
So this time the big “gotcha” bit of smugness will still be about how “evil Russia has always been”. So it will be still considered America helping “protect freedom” is the “correct” and “moral” choice (even with the price tag that would never be treated as “sooo important” for helping poor US citizens at home). Hell, they still like to call the FSB the KGB. So real “lessons” will not matter outside the same talk but no actions shit they do every single time. They did all kinds of talking nice words for BLM protests (not the org), but their actions were to paint anyone that wasn’t “correctly protesting” as bad and over-funded the pigs more. And the cycle continues.
I think the point is that if the person being asked doesn’t tell the truth. It means they can add extra charges/search the car all under “probable cause” and to use it for maybe painting someone as a “bad person” if it goes to court. Shit like that. But they already tend to use skin colour as a jumping off point for getting the rest. Talk back at all? Maybe they all of a sudden “think they smelled weed/drink/etc”. ACAB all fucking day and night!
The mom making a point to bring up the hand on the gun part was a good one to make on the vid. The pig may not have their hand actively gripping the handle, but they are trying to heavily imply that they can end you at anytime. It is illegal to be a regular citizen with a concealed carry and make a point to flash your gun to someone in many places. As it is both a threat and an escalation if the other person isn’t a deadly threat all ready. The implication of what might happen if the other person doesn’t bow down (even if that person is completely in the right and the person with the gun is completely wrong or was the instigator). All shows of power to generate fear and submission. The not talking and just standing there also is them just trying to freak the mom and son out. All of it is aided by the pig being able to hide their face and eyes, while at the same time feeling like they are “soooo fucking badass” ego-tripping.
I love how often that same line of “thought” is and has been used just in my lifetime. We are told that the best “feature” of capitalism is about supposedly having so many choices because of competition and all that. While at the same time we are just never even told of any potential or existing options. Also used as an excuse to keep things from other places away from us. All because someone in a corp somewhere at some points in time keep claiming that “Americans just can’t possibly understand something”. Which also re-enforces the culture of praising ignorance and just always assuming we are correct and nothing is better (or allowed in some cases where we missed some cool tech). I know the real point is because they don’t want to provide choices. But shit is a broken record for us not know of or be able to use other options.
Agreed on that. Though I will give them credit for not just re-skinning a Linux or BSD based OS and calling it a day like lots of “new” distros do. I thought it was some kind of Chromium OS distro based on the look, and was happy to see it is just the current look for the UI that is running a completely new OS. The bold claim does seem a bit much, and does remind me of how Google advertised the early versions of Chrome. Which of course was also much faster than the other browsers, but that was because it also didn’t have most features of the “slow” browsers. After it got extensions and much more fully working versions of features from other browsers, it became about the same from a speed/resources standpoint. Since it seems to be like one guy, I am willing to be a bit more forgiving as it is about on par with many other new projects trying to get attention for funding so they can quit their regular jobs and focus on just the project itself.
I am now picking up on the bit now that you are pointing it out (my dumbfuck ass missed the obvious tells lol). So I responded initially with my very basic attempt at working with socdems, which is also dumb the more I think about it. Though I do personally believe that getting more normie people to un-register for either party and be unaffiliated would be interesting to see how they responded to it. I am deleting my post as I would for sharing an Onion article without seeing where it was from. lol