I’m trying to come up with simpler and easier narratives to talk about these kinds of things that not only makes these discussions easier but also forces the reactionaries and the reformists into defending their narratives.

So I guess that’s a no-go on your part, eh?

Don’t worry… I’m nice, so I’ll give you two more tries.

Conservatism is a long-dead ideology, Clyde. It’s only liberalism and fascism that is allowed in the mainstream now - and those are both right-wing and extremely compatible.

Decide which you are - or reject them both and become a leftist.

No. You can prove it by providing one example of an “apolitical” community.

Shouldn’t be too hard for you, eh?

How far along the liberal-to-fascist pipeline are you, liberal?

Oh, look… a liberal has shown up to co-opt MLK.

Yawn.

Because there was never anything communist about these states in any way whatsoever.

Communism is a state (as in a social, political and economic condition, not a government). None of these states ever reached this condition, and, therefore, was never communist. And, one could argue, that their development literally went the opposite way to what could be called communist with a straight face. As the anarchist Bakunin famously said, “the people’s boot is still a boot.”

This is why the Maoist-types call this shit “democratic centralism,” which is essentially just double-speak for “what the party says goes.”

This does not make the idea of communism invalid - but it’s still as perfectly vague as ever, unfortunately.

So, he doesn’t understand gender binaries, but he perfectly understands and internalizes the liberal myth that pig exists for the sake of “justice?”

This is why the idea of a Star Trek “future” is so damn creepy to me.

I needed an ELI5 really.

Liberals essentially cover for both capitalists and fascists. See, capitalist and fascist ideology are very unpopular on their own, so liberals come up with all kinds of ways to pretend that rich people owning everything is good for everyone (capitalism) or pretending that more police repression means more safety (fascism).

Liberalsm essentially acts as the pretend-friendly “facade” ideology of this unholy trio - so yes, it’s simply coherent for leftists to despise liberalism.

Uhh isn’t progressing to electric cars… science progressing to help solve the issue?

No. It isn’t.

It’s capitalism shifting their private transport scam from an energy source that they exploited the living crap out off to another that they haven’t mismanaged into the ground yet.

Remember - they didn’t throw Martin Skhreli into rich-guy’s prison because he caused thousands of people to die by raising the prices on lifesaving medicines out of reach of poor folk… no, no, no, they threw him into rich guy’s prison because he embezzled some of his fellow rich parasites’ money.

The way it looks is the way it is.

Oooh… I see the “Liberals-Masquerading-As-Leftists” downvote brigade has been here.

Even well-intentioned non-Marxist, non-Anarchist liberals can deduce that NATO is the largest Imperialist military alliance in history.

Yes they can and do… and that’s why liberals love NATO.

Thanks. Now I have to go ask the duck what “bellicose” means…

“What was in it for them?”

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable question to me… far more reasonable than simply assuming the people who perpetrated the US’s colonialist mass-murder campaigns in the third world was simply “good men” (supposedly) “doing the right thing.”

Good job making Trump sound more rational than you, hero.

Why is he not taking this seriously?

He is. Support for Israel is policy, not politics. It’s not Biden supporting Israel… it’s the entire US political establishment that does.

You might just as well ask Biden to stop the US from being imperialist - no member of the US political establishment would ever do that. Period.

This is why you see liberals everywhere heeding the clarion call to pre-emptively start looking for people to blame when Biden hands over to the GOP (the “bad cop”) come November.

The division on the left over Palestine

There is no “division on the left” over Palestine.

All militarists know that war is horror - they relish the horror of it.

That’s why they love movies like Saving Private Ryan (which justifies the horror by ascribing justification to it) while disliking movies such as The Thin Red Line or Catch 22 (which strips any kind of justification away from it).

To me it was the first depiction of the horrors of war.

That doesn’t necessarily make something pro or anti war.

Saving Private Ryan is a pro-war movie.