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lostlemmytors
Copying my comment from another thread: when I need to discuss "change through bourgeois electoralism" with libs I love sharing this interview:
It's so perfect; it's a reputable Western newspaper so you can share it in almost any setting, just preface it for plausible deniability with something like: "It's a hilarious read, one of the greatest modern liberal intellectuals debates a genocidal maniac frothing at the mouth!"
Libs love the idea and usually swallow the bait expecting funzies, they looooove them a stuck-up Brit "speaking truth to power" and handing out "hitchslaps".
And then Stalin absolutely demolishes Wells and it really fucks with their world. Wells says FDR's New Deal will bring about socialism in the USA and Stalin's like nah cause the economy is in the hands of capitalists so at most you will get some concessions which capitalists will keep fighting to revert. Stalin's arguments are so clear and concise, and his predictions are so plainly correct, while Wells is just being confidently wrong and terribly smug about it.
I had some success with it too, including one well-meaning lib literally telling me the next day, "Stalin was right" which are the three words I would not expect a lib utter under any circumstances.
Seconding Second Thought, also adding First Thought!
This series by Jacobin is IMHO a really good primer into leftism for libs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDg71ql7zQs&list=PLxlNhP2f0kULW8hdxvfF6ZcDbndpvF8Sb
It's a Polish surname
I'm from the USSR and I had a yank tell me I'd be speaking German if not for murica.
I said I only speak a bit of German but wish I spoke it better so he went on to painstakingly explain what WW2 was.
It was kinda funny but less so than I thought it'd be.
About Trump and Harris:
Their approaches to turmoil in the Middle East are also expected to be at least rhetorically different.
But no matter who wins in November, the United States will continue to prepare for war with China.
Not even pretending anymore lol
next up: metal deficits force closures of the few remaining US manufacturing plants
One of the wealthiest nations in the world which won't even provide free school meals to children: "we need to cut welfare and spend more on war!"
Libs: those damn Ruskies are gonna find out now, fuck yeah!
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Red_Scare
joined 4 years ago
Hahaha yeah I'm in awe of how Wells is full of himself, my favourite quotes are "It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin" which Wells utters in the same breath he praises Henry fucking Ford who would later support NSDAP with such fervor Hitler wanted to make Ford the leader of the fascist movement in the US; and "I do not know if you are prepared yet for that much freedom" in regards to the PEN Club, which at the time of this interview forbid it's members from using words such as "nationalism, inter-nationalism, democracy, aristocracy, imperialistic, anti-imperialistic, bourgeoisie, revolutionist or alike", wow that's way too much freedom for authoritarian Soviets to handle lol