You are literally an example of how this is untrue.
Are you... calling me a capitalist country?
Holy shit you’re now blaming other countries for North Korea’s situation?
Jesus fucking Christ.
Honestly, the performative incredulity is much less impressive than you think it is. Do you ever get off your fainting couch?
Outside the American media bubble the idea that economic sanctions are a major cause of famine in North Korea is not the least bit controversial.
His indifference to suffering, his willingness to use violence, his placement of power and ideology over the welfare of his people, etc.
Weird that the Venezuelan people are so supportive of a president that is violent and indifferent to their suffering.
That makes a lot of sense to me, you guys think alike and you’re similarly uncaring as to what the facts are.
I have to say, thanks for the Spidey level quote that capitalist countries can’t criticize socialist ones. That was special.
Yup, it’s not surprising that you think that. After all, you have no framework to understand the rise in nativism and fascism that we’ve seen in America and Europe recently. Indeed, the anger on the right makes no sense to you because you’ve been happily shoveling the bullshit fed to you by American corporate media down your gullet for decades now. So all you know is (mostly) steadily rising GDP, (mostly) steadily falling unemployment, and increased acceptance of some marginalized groups (gays, trans people, etc.)
So for you, Donald Trump may as well have been dropped off by a spaceship. His politics, his appeal, and his grotesque fans, don’t fit into your sense of reality. Thus they are simply “idiots” (or ‘uncaring as to what the facts are’, if you prefer), and their existence deserves no further examination than that.
I say all this with some confidence because 10 years ago that’s how I thought too. It’s very easy to recognize. The difference between you and me is how we coped with the disappointment of Obama’s presidency, and the disappointment in the appeal, and ultimate success, of Donald Trump’s campaign. That difference is representative of the increasing split between the “left” if you will, and the remaining traditional “New Democrats”.
I coped with it by rejecting my old worldview as a failure. Empirically wrong, as the worldview simply could not explain the triumph of Trump’s campaign (even taking into consideration that he substantially lost the popular vote, I believed in 2015, as did many others, that he would lose in a landslide if he was nominated.)
You, and Rachel Maddow, and most of the New Democrats on this board, most of the Democratic Party, and most of the “establishment liberals” coped with it by blaming the result on some kind of interference or unique circumstance. The flavor doesn’t really matter too much: Russia, Comey, Wikileaks, the electoral college, whatever. The point of it all is that if you can dismiss the election results as tainted then you don’t need to do anything with your worldview. You can keep believing the same bullshit you believed in 2009.
Nativism and fascism are diametrically opposed to socialism and internationalism. I think you sense that, and I think its partly why you compared me to a MAGA chud. But while I imagine that we’re both disgusted by MAGA chuds, I see them differently than you do. As a fundamentally incurious person, you think MAGA chuds exist because they exist, that they are simply a feature of the landscape, without any genesis or antecedent. I see them as a natural and inevitable byproduct of the pathological economic system we live in.
So yes, I can see why we look similar to such a dim bulb. We both reject your worldview, and we’re both unimpressed with your sophistic “fact based” arguments.
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