I haven't been on in a while, i saw the news about federation and it's been a total shitshow.

I shouldn't say I'm surprised. I've interacted with so many normies the last few months and they are all like a homeless-encampment-down-the-street away from calling for genocide.

America is a truly deeply fucked up place with very few people doing actual self-introspection or legitimate critical analysis of the society in which they participate - often willingly and uncritically-. Why would any expectation that posting, a mindless numbing activity for your avg. internet consumer, would be any different.

If you want to know what the response was like from Western pro-imperialist "socialists"/soc-dem types, look no further than the interview between H.G. Wells and Stalin:

"It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr. Stalin; I think the old system is nearer to its end than you think."

(Narrated version with commentary courtesy of Socialism For All, if you prefer it being read to you)