Cynicism is easy and good at protecting yourself from getting let down, but it isn’t a healthy or productive attitude to have really.

I get it though, seeing the “no clowns” bullshit our aussie libs pull is very, very disheartening. They see American libs and go “I want to be like that, but even more cringe and proudly ignorant.”

I think many people turn to the status quo out of despair. " if you can’t beat them, join them". It’s dreaming too small.

I agree with this. In my most doomer moments, my thoughts have always led to a smug sort of “fuck it, the libs are too dumb to help, we’ll all just suffer because of their wilful ignorance, guess I’ll just get comfy and await the end.”

But being a doomer who just does nothing is functionally the same as being a smug no-nothing lib, and helps no one, least of all, yourself.

It’s frustrating, but we must never stop explaining.

You mean you protested…but not through the proper, pre-approved channels and methods?! Where’s your civility?!

It feels like the “nothing ever happens” gang’s only response when something happens is to act like the sky is falling.

Getting so insulated from reality they can’t even name a Bad Guy Country to blame. I hope the cave is comfy.

Who is arguing against a straw man idea that these protests will magically turn into socialism without effort? Or worse, who was actually arguing for that idea?

The people are angry. Sure these are brunch-munching libs, but they are only that because they think that is the Best of All Possible Worlds. They literally don’t know any better. I thought the Hexbear line was “These libs are useless on their own, but some of their number do have genuine revolutionary fervour and with a bit of help will become comrades.” I’m very confused by this whole thing, I saw some people talking about the uselessness of these protests, but I thought it was more about the lib aspect and how they need to be steered towards effective action not just doom posting about how everything is unchanging and eternal and revolution is impossible.

You’re putting a FUCKTON of words in my mouth there and I don’t appreciate it. I’m not going to bother actually discussing the topic if your first response is this bad faith.

It depends on the Ultra. A lot of western chauvinist ultras will say “the party” but let them ramble on long enough and they’ll reveal that they basically think the exact same thing that libs do about the “asiatic brainpan” and think that Chinese people are incapable of thinking for themselves.

Some of them do believe in the people of China and want a second civil war to happen, an even more extreme cultural revolution that purges all of the non-pure communists from society. How a devastating civil war that will kill tens, if not hundreds of millions of people and devastate the country will actually “help” China is never explained, only that the survivors will be Morally Pure, before their massively weakened and destabilised country is destroyed by the US.

The cool thing about “critical” support is that you can approve of the things you think a state is doing well, and disapprove of the things that they aren’t doing well. You don’t have to see everything in black and white terms.

wow I just saw a Zionist talking about “Western media accusing [the Entity] of attacking Iran first”

Really? Where? All I’ve seen has been stuff claiming an “unprovoked attack” from Iran. Literally ignoring Israel’s first strike. I feel like I’m going to be fighting a losing battle with my libs with this war, they’ll be seig-heiling within 6 months.

Jokes on you, I’m sick so I’m already shidding nonstop.

Nah, power doesn’t corrupt. Corrupt people chase positions of power, even petty ones, like middle management.

You gotta ace the interview, practice those affectations, you really gotta sound like a good goon, it might seem like a minor part of the job, and that upper body strength or shooting tommy guns is more important, but 90% of being a goon is just sounding like one. Call people “Wiseguy” and “Dames” a lot and it should start to fit into place.

Yeah, kids roleplaying things they see on tv and in the news? That’s like…regular kid stuff. Much, much more fucked up stuff on that platform.

Like what the hell is an “Obby”? I’m getting huge pizzagate CP vibes from it, but I’m bad at acronyms, but I know there must be something there!

Jesus. They’re fucking reading the president’s ramblings like an augury. America is so, so cooked. Like, no one lib or CHUD seems to actually have any idea what is going on and is just looking at the “signs” to prove their preconceived ideas.

To quote Carl Sagan: “I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."

So I guess this is the new WMD, not “They have a nuke” but “They may perhaps develop one at some point in the future.” I look forward to them declaring war on China because “They might build the Death Star from Star Wars at some point!”

Why? Is Gaza an awful place to be or something? I thought Israel said the Gazans were fine and nothing was wrong?

You just look through the news mega during the first 12 hours of the conflict, you’ll find plenty of this!

I hope the intern they put in charge of setting this thing up just googled “pet ai” and accidentally downloaded a pet play ai instead and it tries to roleplay with the customers.