rando895

Are you okay?

Sure. Leaving most of Trumps policies in place as well as supporting a genocide in Palestine. He also hasn't done anything to reverse the genocide on the Indigenous people in the USA, if you want to be spicy. He hasn't done anything about the clearly disproportionate violence against non-white people, and he allows the hate speech and othering to continue unabated, providing a nice scapegoat for the country's problems without him having to lift a finger.

There's also the ongoing imperialism of the USA, and their hundreds of military bases across the planet, asserting control over numerous populations. While this isn't necessarily fascist, the common argument used for invasion into other countries is that "we need to bring them freedom and Democracy, and our Western values". And again, there is still an occupation in Iraq by the USA military, under Biden, where these were clear "reasons" for the occupation.

So, is it fascist to allow the continuation of things that may be considered fascist when viewed together? Probably. Especially when you lead the largest military in the world, and the second largest economy, no one else has the power to sign a paper and end the atrocities. Well, at least some of them.

A neat thing is no one actually needs to even die to meet the definition of a genocide

I hadn't thought about that, I still have the (liberal) knee jerk reaction to defend what a government could be, when they complain about the government and taxes. I need to move past this I think, and focus more on how they fuck everyone but big business.

Afterall, the small shop owner has more in common with us than they do with Bozos

I try and treat them like students without being too obvious. Praxis is important. If I can ask a couple of pointed questions based on what they are saying at me, they think I'm interested, but with the right questions it instills doubt into their views.

Then walk away lol

That's a good point. I can talk to a shop owner like they're a shop owner, but they have no idea who I am.

But then why talk politics at me in the first place lol.

Yeah I find yelling with regular people about the rich usually works. Shop owners are more difficult for me

... You work harder than everyone else but get paid the same

Well, playing the same game as rich guys will result in you losing. But it's important to remember the October revolution was funded with much less.....

The problem with these counts is there is no way of making them look good, like lives saved due to "x". How many people lived because the Soviets managed to eliminate all famines in their territory after that? A huge feat given their relative frequency beforehand.

And then you can blame countless deaths on capitalism, feudalism, slavery, but then do you normalize those numbers based on total world population?

What about blaming AK-47s? The police?

My point is that it's a pointless metric that is only used to drum up support against some group of people, not a useful one for objectively understanding anything. It does away with all context, and replaces it with some inane number.

Yeah and then Israel can go back to their peaceful genocide right? I get it death is bad, but ignoring context (settler colonialism) to feel superior by saying both sides are bad is dumb. None of us can sit here and tell an oppressed people how to fight their oppressor.