Fayne [he/him]

Sorry, we can’t teach the Iranian diaspora in the US their own history. You’re patrionizing the Global South! /s

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Unfortunately while I’ve seen good pushback against this letter, my xitter TL has been flooded with all those ultra-leftists that defend it.

They have revolutionary potential to be a progressive force against Trumpian Fourth Reich

extremely rare amerikan W

You know, Hitler also supported ecology and enviroment

Yea in my country there was a whole moral panic around it. There were psychologists appearing on TV saying that this is DISTORTING children’s behaviour because it’s associating hugs with horror and fear.

Pokemon “being evil” is a classic. I remember that some time ago there was a moral panic around Huggy Wuggy too

I still remember the times when Rowling was seen as a far-left liberal lunatic who promoted witchcraft through Harry Potter

It’s edited, there was something else on the original, but I forgot what it was

Him and Peter Korotaev from Events in Ukraine are possibly two of my favourite Ukraine news accounts. Korotaev has many informative posts on his substack

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You’re right that it doesn’t default to this and I phrased incorrectly. My point is more about the propaganda angle and how to maintain a revolutionary defeatist stance and anti Russophobia without being perceived as being pro-Putin with regards to Russian internal politics.

There’s not going to be such a “propaganda angle”, even american nationalists/realists such as Mearsheimer that are critical of NATO expansion and US military adventures are constantly slammed as sino-russian propagandists. Do you think the political establishment will be gentle enough to extend acceptability to actual, radical communists?

I don’t have a problem with refining arguments and propaganda itself, but your assumption that you can just not be perceived as pro-Putin is just wrong

You’re going to get perceived as “pro-Putin” no matter what you do, especially when criticizing NATO and US imperialism. There’s no point in trying to gain the acceptance of the liberal centre

Fox News fans would support DEI for medicare if they found that the Southern DEMOCRATS have pushed through exclusionary policies during FDR’s New Deal

Decent bait against ultra-leftists, but I don’t really like this argument that much

I prefer people that deny “CIA conspiracy theories” to the ones that are aware of them, but defend them. Long time ago I had a teacher in high school that was a “centrist” and he was in support of CIA coup in Iran. He didn’t know anything about Iran; not even the fact that APOC existed and was exploiting oil fields there. The only reason that he had shown support for Shah (he didn’t know who the Shah was, he only knew that there was some guy that was in charge of Iran before the islamic revolution) is that he was “pro-western”

Literally Stalin