yeah, and not just leftist. you can have the most liberal and bourgeois-backed nationalist project just to secure some kind of national sovereignty and there will still be a coup. Case point: Iran and Mosaddegh.

Imperialism will sap the wealth of countries and peoples for short term gains, regardless of the economic system.

i call this a doubling down… there’s only so much fake constructed lies of reality until it just breaks the brain of followers.

all the best to them (not)

can ya hear that hogan? the shit winds are coming for ya

edit: oh wow I didn’t know he actually died.

This is what decades of right wingers calling democrats as communists will do to their worldview.

If they are banking on a strategy of ignorance, then we have nothing to worry about comrades; eventually their imagined reality will collapse and their strategy will be broken.

i think the key is to have a certain balance. Stay positive in certain aspects of your life activities, have principles and interests. Be true to them. Cherish those that mean a lot to you and appreciate them everyday.

But to quote a rage against the machine lyric “if ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face”

I don’t think many even know what a communist is or what communism is about. it just makes them feel upset when they hear the word because of constant corporate mass media conditioning.

If in the future i’m ever forced to drop smart phones because of further proprietary/removal of open source option then i’m definitely going this route.

have a dumb phone and just rely on a good laptop.

On second thought… maybe this is the way.

being overworked is bs and shit. on the other hand I rather have work/tasks that I can do well and gets me engaged and is not boring than be given boring BS jobs and tasks.

ah yes the basic ‘but arabs rejected the partition!’ argument?

is this similar to the terrible ‘all palestinians are just arabs’ angle so they should just just leave and give it to colonial settlers, just because?

Not OP but Detroit picture is in Edward Burtynsky’s ‘Oil’ photograph collection: https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/oil