ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

To liberals, the DPRK might as well be Mordor. Growing up in the US, there’s nothing quite like the insane level of casual dehumanization of Asian people from countries America has occupied or bombed. You take people who can see in real time the absurd lies Israel tells about the people it’s exterminating, but they lose the ability to put two and two together when they encounter something that lets them feel smugly superior to the victims of our aerial genocide. We killed 20 percent of them and leveled every single building for the crime of not wanting to be our colony, and then they spent the rest of the century rebuilding themselves from dirt and blood with the entire capitalist world trying to gatekeep them out of modernity. But of course, we never hear about any of that. It’s just the same dumbass story we get about everywhere we’ve fucked over: they hate us because they’re jealous, because they’re crazy, they hate us for our freedoms, they have an authoritarian culture, they’re all brainwashed, trust me bro I heard it on the news.

The same smug, thought-terminating incuriosity is on display in this thread. Look at the level of critical thought my society encourages in it’s citizens dawg. Is it any wonder even tiny embargoed socialist countries have managed to do so much with so little, while the richest capitalist hearts of empire can’t seem to provide anything for the people living here except ever-expanding horizons of exploitation and despair?

Just want to confirm that for you, no genocide=expecting perfection. Not being genocidal is an unreasonable bar to clear in your eyes, is what you’re saying

The best strategy starts with you personally being shoved into a locker for other’s amusement

“The same”

Your evidence isn’t evidence of anything

Holy shit lmao, there it is, we’ve reached the molten core of anticommunism, just pure

Hell yeah dude, sounds like you got it all figured out

Why do you seemingly think and talk like a tacky YA novel’s idea of a cynical seen-it-all badass? Do you actually find that kind of cliche-based existence compelling, or are you afraid to engage openly with what you don’t understand because vulnerability is scary?

“Good and bad things are both the same and everything is actually evil, which means that by doing nothing and supporting the greatest evil, I’m actually above the struggle entirely”

How convenient a worldview for someone who wants to continue doing nothing

I will gather up the destroyed chunks of asphalt and sell them as artifacts to the Trump faithful like a peasant on the road to Llhasa in 1951

Yeah tbh it was kind of fucked up of Obama to make everybody do the macarena at gunpoint, I don’t see this talked about often

Got it, content of critque=

Okay okay, for real. You seem to think that because I recognize the necessity of uprooting capitalism, I have nothing positive to replace it with? Cause brother lemme introduce a concept you may have heard of before;

That doomer mindset that benefits nobody except the oligarchs, the mindset of…pointing out that the oligarchs are oligarchs? Genuinely confused here. You seem to be interpreting physical observations are some kind of provocative personal statement. Slug and salt physically cannot coexist. Flame and gunpowder physically cannot coexist. Capitalism and a healthy, peaceful living world physically cannot coexist. Pointing this out is no more “hateful” than pointing out that 6 times 7 is 42.

Choosing a hateful side or the other hateful side and never thinking about your own ideas, needs of many, morals and ethics, or your own belief is utter disgrace and folly

The needs of the many is actually our whole thing here, and the thing about the needs of the many is that if you actually take it seriously, what usually happens is that the sideliners who have spent much less time examining the facts will call you hateful for pointing out that the hell empire built on mass-subjugation is unsurprisingly the primary obstacle to the world we want. And that a house with a rotten foundation stands no hope of reconstruction.

While bewildered, I really am trying to approach this openly, which is why ive gone back and softened a couple embarassing redditisms in the edit. So genuinely, and in a spirit of understanding: what is your critique of my assessment?

In the case of capitalism that is literally true. Capital will try to destroy any country, culture, ecosystem or set of beliefs that can’t be exploited, or that threaten it’s ability to exploit. It literally is a case of “you have to pick one, and only one can win.” Liveable planet, or capitalism. No other options, no way to avoid the choice. Not choosing is choosing.

My own father asked me unironically if I was a “Chinese sympathizer” over dinner last night, and that was not the end of it.