I consider myself corrected, smartypants.

You know since I’ve actually studied both in college.

Which college was that? Prager U, maybe?

If you did, you’d actually sound as if you knew anything about the subject matter at hand.

But you don’t - which means you didn’t.

Que all liberals on lemmy.world falling over each other to prove they don’t actually have a clue what a tankie even is…

Sure beats Marxism and Fascism

Rich… considering it’s coming from somebody who understands neither.

Dude if you care at all about expanding your ideology beyond yourself,

You are assuming I’m here to “expand” an ideology - that’s a bad assumption, and you should feel bad about that.

you sit in a continuous state of masturbatory rage

I wish - that sounds lie a lot more fun than whatever this is.

self-righteous smugness, save for perhaps something by Bill Maher or Richard Dawkins.

Okay, I have to admit - that kind of stings.

Learn how to disagree tactfully.

I’m afraid that I don’t have the energy to waste on respectability politics - I don’t have a thousand years to wait until liberals (magically) become “ready” to hear how the liberal consensus has screwed them (and the rest of us) over. It’s going to have to happen in a more abrupt fashion - but I can assure you… they will come out the other side without a scratch on them.

whatever rhetoric you have in the ol’ back pocket.

I’m not here to recruit people for some “ism.” I’m here to throw a wrench into the machinery of recruitment itself. Nobody here will hear the rhetoric I “have in the ol’ back pocket” no matter how loudly I shout it - but they will sure hear the rhetoric they use to defend this ideology, and it will probably be the first time they hear themselves thinking it out loud, too. Let’s face it - liberals do not have a lot of practice thinking about liberalism at all. All I’m doing is giving them the opportunity to do so - they sure won’t be getting that from the media and political establishment racketeers gaslighting them into not thinking about it.

I know colonizer-speak when I see it.

I know everyone wants to point out that she may be referring to the brutal colonialist exploitation that lithium ion battery technology rests upon - but the way the quote is placed and framed tells me instead that we are not being told everything about this “techno-miracle.”

“Global action requires working together to access critically important materials,” Meng said.

So… nope.

you may wish to consider challenging what you believe in.

Then offer me something - show me how your ideology actually explain anything.

That is - if you can?

I’ll try and keep that in mind.

But I am dealing with liberal here, you know.

Frankly, zombie movies have much more to say about modern life than other genres.

Only if you see the world through the same white supremacist lens that is so prevalent in (so-called) “prepper” communities.

If they focus on white people more, it’s typically

You mean it has nothing to do with the (supposed) “threat” posed to white middle-class Americans by all these “othered” peoples? I wonder what would happen if we were to replace the word “immigrant” with the word “zombie” in US main-stream media - would it make it any different or would the propaganda work pretty much the same? You need me to remind you how US authorities treat marginalized people during natural disasters?

But you have by no means established that Fallout made ghouls as racist stereotypes.

I don’t have to… the games pretty much does that all by itself. The relationship between humans and these “ghouls” in the games is a perfect representation of the “race relations” lens through which white liberals view the subject of white supremacism - which is, not concidentally, the furthest liberalism will allow discourse on white supremacism to go.

We have them now, everywhere.

Lol! So what’s the name of yours, then? Where’s your “tribe,” Clyde?

You were aware that it’s literally peak white supremacism to simply assume that everybody living in un-colonized spaces exist in (so-called) “tribes,” right?

Nor frankly, have you demonstrated that you speak for Native Americans.

No go, Clyde - you don’t get to deflect from white supremacism by using Native American folk as camouflage.