@AnarchoNinaWrites People who are leftists tend to forget that the enemy's ideas are unpopular and that ours are popular. Lefty ideas are popular on account of how they're aimed at improving living conditions for, you know, the populace. The natural result of this situation is that people who are not leftists are constantly lying about their unpopular ideas, trying to give them a popular, left-ish disguise.
It doesn't help that the unpopular liars have literally infinite amounts of money to spend on propaganda, of course. But still. At least try to think about this, kids.
@aral Fair. But me, I like engaging! My parents are liberals. I used to be a liberal. It's frustrating to me that no amount of politesse seems sufficient to overcome the mental block.
It's #BlackHistoryMonth, and in 2024 I'm reflecting on the fact that although I've known about Walter Rodney and his seminal work "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" for years, it wasn't until I started reading it last year that I found out that Rodney was assassinated by his own Guyanese government in a car bombing. He was 38.
I'm obligated to point out to fellow white people, in case you missed it, the trend of white people lionizing a heroic Black person in a show of solidarity while studiously ignoring the vicious violence enacted against that person by the powers that be.
Also, Rodney was banned from Jamaica and from his teaching position at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. This caused protests that escalated to riots in Kingston in 1968. Part of the wave of protests that swept the world from that year to the next.
Chronic illness, probably neurodivergent. White & anti-whiteness. #SolarPunk #Climate #DeGrowth #StrawBale #LivingMachine #Construction #Engineering #Crochet #GreenBuilding #SciFi #AnarchyLiberals DNI. Just kidding, I love you liberals. Don't block me just because I'm right