also relevant

what welfare state only politics does to a mf

idk about that, the correlation is almost certainly that most people (regardless of how online or poltically active they are) arent educated in what fascism is or the actual history or theory of it, they just have a vague idea of it being bad in colloquial associations, so when theyre exposed to the theory w/ their guard dropped its confusing since they dont know how to interpret it

Ah didnt realize biden is 46th president. Makes sense

Some random twiter post

Para ser exactos no son militares, en todo caso ex-militares y civiles de autodefensa, se autodenominan reservistas y tienen una organización de sociedad civil que aspira a ser grupo político.

TO be exact they aren't soldiers, in any case they are ex-military and a vigilante group, they call themselves military reserve officers and they are an organization of civil society that aspires to be a political group

Gadaffi death is insane

Damn i was misinformed like a Facebook mom

Guy deserved more than a knife in his butt IMO

Blame the Europeans for getting him smoked, America just went along with it and let them use hardware

Gaddafi was collaborating in counter-terror efforts with USA for years and did torture sessions with them

Anyway it is funny seeing leftists hail him as some heroic anti-imperialist guy when he suppressed the left in his own nation and wrote a really s***ty “theory” book

The United States of Africa

ay man i just think getting brutalized like that is insane

first socdem revolution

Yeah I agree, can’t believe dude was chilling in a hole beating his meat to pictures of Condoleezza Rice

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“Revolution through reform” and also happens to have fascist sympathies

I’m so shocked

closest match: arab socialism

If you don’t mind me asking, I know you’ve expressed an affinity for Baathism before. I guess I’m curious, where does that come from? Are you Arab or something? Sorry if that’s the wrong word to use I don’t know the correct one. But I do highly respect your mind and I don’t disagree with you on most things so I’m just interested in how you came to your ideological tendencies

Arab still the term for a widespread region so u probably good lmao

yeah i have middle eastern heritage but i generally don't talk about racial specifics because A) im not an ethnocentrist or ethnonationalist and B) people tend to have skewed observations on peoples' opinions based on a speakers' race, so i generally just dont talk about it to not complicate things unless someone throws a wild accusation my way like calling me a white supremacist or something.

im not actually a baathist specifically, and havent specifically claimed to be one really outside of jokes. its a bit of a meme if anything because on most political alignment charts its what i get grouped into. i have a lot of knowledge of baathism and general arab socialism because it's a field i read a lot about (i can read some arabic so i can read non-english works which most westerners wouldn't be able) when i was interested in nationalist-tendency adaptations of marxism when i was younger and more generally nationalism as a combatant to imperialism; i'd be lying if i said i didn't pick up on certain baathist ideas during that time, but it's not like i subscribe to baathism as a wholesale ideology. there's a lot i respect about it and its theorists but more generally its a temporal ideology in practice to a specific time period, and its arab socialist contemporary ideologies (i.e. Nasserism) were technically more successful than baathism ever was.

the origin of the meme w/ people calling me a baathist has a lot to do w my early days on KTT, because i never really talked to western leftists before, so i really had no idea about specific social terminology in leftist groups, and a lot of people assumed i was a centrist or right winger because I didn't understand certain correlations which seemed obvious to people who had been in leftist circles for years, or more general lingo, more or less since all my experience with leftism had been either pure theory or like, actual foreign non-western leftists (who tend to have very little overlap with western leftists in terms of theory & colloquialisms). It lead to a lot of arguments/debates and people kept asking me what my ideology was, and as a joke i would respond w/ political alignment charts which usually would place me around Baathism. I also knew an extensive amount of arab socialist history and was pretty active in discussions or using it as an example of certain ideas in practice I subscribed to abstractly, so the label of Baathist kind of stuck on my end.

while i've always kind of been a theorycel with reading s*** obsessively, practically when i was a lot younger (like way before i was ever involved in posting on KTT or anything), i was associated with a lot of rw groups but i couldn't really get over the fact that at their core, western rw groups were pathetic if not straight up rëtardëd in comparison to foreign rw groups who i could sympathize with more relatively. while i wouldn't say specifically it's like i just moved right->left or something, it's more like I realized that gray area was validating of a lot of concepts in left theory which i might have been aware about but wasn't necessarily fully subscribed to. i don't necessarily consider myself anything specific ideologically regardless of how much marxist theory i may agree with or otherwise. it's not necessarily because of trying to purposefully find holes in ideologies to poke at or whatever (even if its fun to do try and do so), its more just because of like the lack of correlation between specific theory and political movements, i'd much rather make those decisions more asynchronously based on the reality of things as they emerge (or become viable to emerge) rather than like likening myself to something more historical

I just realized that Noah Smith and Vaush avi are based of the robot in FLCL

what has my fav anime deserve this, what does this say about me

noah smith may legitimately be one of the stupidest people on twitter, and that is saying a lot.

The white devils of Argentina shamelessly conspired with the traitorous French offense and Deschamps to steal victory from the honorable Mbappe, this is a world historic tragedy for Africa.

In all seriousness, this was a great game and the Argentinians simply played better, Messi deserves the cup. Its still f*** Argentina though.

I mean WHAT French offence? As soon as Deschamps benched Giroud I knew it was over for em. No Giroud, no Pogba, no Benzema? Without Mbappe's herculean performance this game would've been over at halftime. One of the most exciting football games I've ever seen, shame it ended on a penalty.

man who are u like dam