The low hanging fruit like Biden reversing Trump’s decision to pull out of Somalia? The low hanging fruit like trying to ban any app they disagree with? The low hanging fruit like continuing to fund the Azov Battalion?
Are these elections in the room with us right now? Mind naming a single “election” that the left was “lost” over illegal immigrants?
Liberals really like their voting; purchasing items is voting with your wallet, driving a vehicle is voting with your car, walking your dog is voting with a leash.
No, it doesn’t. At all. Having children is definitely the norm, with the average woman having over 2 children across the world right now.
I’m not sure I have seen any evidence to suggest that US life expectancy is decreasing. Mind sharing any sources on that? As far as I can see it has been growing since 2021 annually, obviously having been lowered because of COVID-19.
What’s the more uniting class consciousness? When is anyone saying white men are inherently evil? The fact is that they are rewarded for upholding existing frameworks in the US and Europe. Have you read Sakai’s Settlers? He goes over this quite well.
I have no clue what you mean about a more uniting rhetoric besides just denying reality in order to appeal to a group that is materially rewarded by the current system. We have to analyze things materially, not through lenses of trying to “reframe things to appeal to this group”.
That is ignorant to what racism actually is. Racism is not just a set of unconnected rude actions towards someone but specifically exists within a cultural context that subjugates certain groups. Racism upholds that oppressive framework and racial bias in statements and beliefs help to encourage that false framing of the world. White men aren’t oppressed in the same way that a racial minority woman is and to say it is racism or sexism all the same is to downplay those specific experiences and cultural norm that holds certain groups and the individuals within those groups down.
Cultural appropriation is specifically a method in which suppressing groups deny the cultural heritage of oppressed around. To call it a faux pas is ridiculous and ignorant
Propaganda functions with a pre-supposition of the initial dominance of the material over the immaterial. People are functionally motivated to accept specific ideological and social viewpoints where the material state encouraging that comes first. I think this article makes an interesting case for why this general concept is non-Marxist: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
You still haven’t achieved that understanding. Ideology does not come about from ‘convincing’ or ‘swaying’ anyone. I once again suggest you to read Settlers to see why this thought process is flawed. I understand where you are coming from but the material precedes the immaterial
Being ‘short-sighted’ is irrelevant. That’s not at all how all evolution works. Dollo’s Law of Irreversibility knocks down any notion of ‘devolving’ existing anyway. Evolutionary paths are not going to go trace themselves back again.
Denying privileged doesn’t make it go away. You have to first understand something in order to deconstruct or oppose it.
That doesn’t make sense. You need to start with a correct historical and material analysis before you can approach anything else. Socialism is based on dialectical materialism, not gaining ‘followers’. Leftism is not a religion that aims to have many converts but rather should understand why neocolonialism and other such institutions would deincentivize white people from being leftists in the United States in the first place.
I guess those values like Nazism and goals of cultural suppression of Russian-speaking people in the Donbas was all just to “protect their families”
The Uyghur genocide that the UN doesn’t refer to as a genocide? That genocide?
I think you should read J. Sakai’s Settlers. It explains this (in a US context) quite well and I think that it refutes the concept of just making leftism “more appealing” for people
Accepting the Democrats support for the genocide of the Palestinian people just because of “voting for the lesser evil”
Hmm, could there be some bias that almost every single major country on Earth signed treaties in some capacity with Axis powers? Oh nah, that just must be these two countries. Britain and France would never….
In the US literary canon, I would argue that Mark Twain is the most prominent author among all American authors historically. The vast majority of his stories deal with working class and less-well off individuals. John Steinbeck and Zora Neale Hurston were other American authors who also primarily wrote about working class individuals. I definitely agree with you about this in general but I also think there are a fair amount of Yankee authors who dealt with this. That’s certainly not always true and not accompanying of all cultural output but I figured that it is worth mentioning.
