Comradeship // Freechat

Are you in this for the recognition and applause? For feeling smarter than and superior to others? You're here of all places, so no you're not. Materialism wouldn't be a revolutionary philosophy if it fell in line with what people readily agree with. Your friend sided with you on this and that is good. Keep being educated and correct, and he'll agree with you some more. When you agree on enough, you'll be able to teach him how to be just as correct. Then we'll have another comrade, and you'll have a better friend.

The education is a thankless job, a fight against established thought. Our props will be the society where you no longer have to be an educator. And you're getting us closer to that, one opinion at a time. So keep your head up.

ah, liberals everywhere complaining with the pro-palestine and communists with "where are your protests right now"?

well...trump's genocidal shitfest was something to expect, but kamala lost because her capitalist party wasn't too different in the path, and you expected support for someone who already was commiting a genocide?

There was a similar thing that happened that illustrates the same point.

Media has been silent about bird flu, many people telling me I'm overreacting as the supply chain has been getting slowly infected over the last 1-1.5 years. Now that Trump's in office, Rachel Maddow covers it in a 10-minute long monologue & everyone's like "have you heard about the bird flu?"

It's like nothing exists until Trump does it

I bet he's getting the "negotiation from behind closed doors" talking point from some article or news show. I've heard similar from someone else before too (actually maybe two different people who don't know each other at all, now I think about it) and it's one of those things that sounds sensible on the surface until you stop and examine it for a moment and realize that the president can just refuse funding and doesn't need to "negotiate behind closed doors." Other conclusions don't make sense. For example, believing that the president can't put their foot down about it because israel controls the US would imply negotiations are useless anyway. And believing that the president can't put their foot down about it because the US doesn't control israel wouldn't fit with the continuous funding the US gives them.

The simple fact is the US keeps giving israel military aid, which is a major leverage point if they cared to set boundaries on what israel can do if they want to keep getting aid. But neither Biden nor Trump are doing that; at least, not in a capacity that reduces suffering. If they are setting boundaries at all "behind closed doors", it is more likely they are saying "you better destroy Gaza or we pull funding."

Yup, it’s the Cassandra complex.

A friend is now getting really pissed off about the annexation of Gaza. And I'm like, yep, I've been mad about this for a year.

Propagandhi called it in '93

That's the good thing about Trump. He says the quiet part out loud and reveals how horrible the US is. The bad side of this is that it makes the Dems look nice.

Yup. But also I've learned not to ever expect the moment of catharsis when people realize you were right the whole time. I think even it's too narcissistic to expect it.

The way I rationalize talking to people is with the goal of planting seeds in their minds, and hope that the sunlight and water, which in this analogy are the contradictions of society, grow those seeds and sprout into something.

I can't help these people anymore. I just need to avoid politics with anyone.

I'm with you on this. I try to be patient with people when talking about Palestine, but yeah. It's fucking exhausting talking to these kinds of people.

I made this for us :)

We are forever destined to be Cassandras, at least until the revolution