Communists don’t just have the burden of being right too early, they also have the burden of never getting recognition once they’ve been proven to be right.
A friend is now getting really pissed off about the annexation of Gaza. And I’m like, yep, I’ve been mad about this for a year. And he responds with something along the lines of
“Oh yeah, the Biden administration wasn’t doing great, but it was only the public facing stuff. He was doing all of his negotiation behind doors. It may not have been good, but at least I understood why he was trying to do things quietly. It might have been ineffective, but he was trying”.
Sure, right, Cool cool cool, won’t even admit that this is what we’ve been fighting the dems about… ugh.
And follows it up with
“There’s not much we can do to affect foreign policy because of how we’re set up”
Like… What? Hey thanks for finally getting on board about Gaza. Please stop making excuses for Biden. And finally, WHAT THE FUCK? Nothing we can do? So I guess what Trump is saying is all bullshit then, right? Because, you know, “There’s not much we can do to affect foreign policy” right???
I think I’m giving up. I can’t help these people anymore. I just need to avoid politics with anyone. Their brain worms are too deep and I’m not good at propaganda AGHHH.
How I feel talking to the Syrians in dc about Al-julani.
We are forever destined to be Cassandras, at least until the revolution
I made this for us :)
That’s the good thing about Trump. He says the quiet part out loud and reveals how horrible the US is. The bad side of this is that it makes the Dems look nice.
ah, liberals everywhere complaining with the pro-palestine and communists with “where are your protests right now”?
well…trump’s genocidal shitfest was something to expect, but kamala lost because her capitalist party wasn’t too different in the path, and you expected support for someone who already was commiting a genocide?
Are you in this for the recognition and applause? For feeling smarter than and superior to others? You’re here of all places, so no you’re not. Materialism wouldn’t be a revolutionary philosophy if it fell in line with what people readily agree with. Your friend sided with you on this and that is good. Keep being educated and correct, and he’ll agree with you some more. When you agree on enough, you’ll be able to teach him how to be just as correct. Then we’ll have another comrade, and you’ll have a better friend.
The education is a thankless job, a fight against established thought. Our props will be the society where you no longer have to be an educator. And you’re getting us closer to that, one opinion at a time. So keep your head up.
Didn’t I put this in freechat? It was a rant. You can stop gatekeeping now.
bro really wants a medal for supporting palestine on the internet lol
There was a similar thing that happened that illustrates the same point.
Media has been silent about bird flu, many people telling me I’m overreacting as the supply chain has been getting slowly infected over the last 1-1.5 years. Now that Trump’s in office, Rachel Maddow covers it in a 10-minute long monologue & everyone’s like “have you heard about the bird flu?”
It’s like nothing exists until Trump does it
If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.
You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.
If Harris is the harm reduction candidate, who for?
Yup. But also I’ve learned not to ever expect the moment of catharsis when people realize you were right the whole time. I think even it’s too narcissistic to expect it.
The way I rationalize talking to people is with the goal of planting seeds in their minds, and hope that the sunlight and water, which in this analogy are the contradictions of society, grow those seeds and sprout into something.
Yup, it’s the Cassandra complex.
I bet he’s getting the “negotiation from behind closed doors” talking point from some article or news show. I’ve heard similar from someone else before too (actually maybe two different people who don’t know each other at all, now I think about it) and it’s one of those things that sounds sensible on the surface until you stop and examine it for a moment and realize that the president can just refuse funding and doesn’t need to “negotiate behind closed doors.” Other conclusions don’t make sense. For example, believing that the president can’t put their foot down about it because israel controls the US would imply negotiations are useless anyway. And believing that the president can’t put their foot down about it because the US doesn’t control israel wouldn’t fit with the continuous funding the US gives them.
The simple fact is the US keeps giving israel military aid, which is a major leverage point if they cared to set boundaries on what israel can do if they want to keep getting aid. But neither Biden nor Trump are doing that; at least, not in a capacity that reduces suffering. If they are setting boundaries at all “behind closed doors”, it is more likely they are saying “you better destroy Gaza or we pull funding.”
I can’t help these people anymore. I just need to avoid politics with anyone.
I’m with you on this. I try to be patient with people when talking about Palestine, but yeah. It’s fucking exhausting talking to these kinds of people.
A friend is now getting really pissed off about the annexation of Gaza. And I’m like, yep, I’ve been mad about this for a year.
Propagandhi called it in '93
I mean its an explicit goal of the zionist project and it doesnt end in Palestine, Syria is next. Eventually will clash with Turkey’s expansionist project too.
