That there's a person who's only familiar with the movies, and flat out does not understand the point of Palpetine's slow rise to power.
it's wild to me how liberals seem to be incapable of considering what kind of person would flee a proletarian revolution.
So often when I've heard of immigrants who left an AES country, it's because they were fundamentally against the point of the revolutions. I.E. members of the bourgeois class, members of the dominant colonialist ethnicity, etc.
They'll be like "My grandfather fled Cuba because the Revolutionaries threatened his life ;-;", then you look at their ancestry and see multiple direct lines to Spanish nobility and lots of wealth.
Or "My grandfather left China because the Communists were repressive", then you research their grandfather and find that he was a soldier in the Nationalist army for the entire duration of both the Civil War and the war with Japan, and only left once the Nationalists were pushed out of the mainland. Meaning the man would've been convinced to his core that Communism was evil, and no amount of convincing would break the guy of that idea.
Or "Stalinists took my grandfather's family farm and tried to lock him up", but they're Ukrainians from the middle class in the 1930s. They probably hoarded grain during the famine, then fled when consequences came to their entitled asses.
this time on; White Westerner ruins their own relationship by not listening to their partner who is from the place in question, and has a far more intimate understanding of the situation and refuses to accept direct sources because of their own political bias.
seems to me the whitey did the liberal thing, wherein they marry someone from a culture they deem lesser so they can "rescue" them from it. Bro went to FU and Yale, if anyone would understand direct sources and intellectual honesty, it's them.
"made them the dominate voice"
bro, tankies made lemmygrad for tankies
once again fearmongering leads the sheltered white world to believe that anything that resembles the "enemy" is actually the enemy.
a 6-year-old boy and his mother were stabbed in Illinois, leaving his mother in the hospital and the boy dead. Just because our media has to fearmonger about the scary brown people.
the one instance I've hated the most has been .world, solely because 9/10 times when there's a pending report, that report was about a .worlder saying some horrible shit. and that .worlders will report our comments and posts for "violence advocation" when all we're doing is discussing the conflict.
It's only been a handful of days, and the Western "left" has once again shown that the only thing they serve is NATO and Western imperialism.
On the first day of the conflict, I didn't see a single Western "leftist" talking about anything related to the conflict. One of the spaces I check was too busy comparing doggos to give a shit that Palestine was liberating itself.
Then I saw MSM decrying that Palestinians were terrorists, and using the terms "Savages" or "living beasts". To which I haven't seen the Western left even shutter at. MSM is using slurs and colonialist language, and these pasty preditors couldn't give less of a shit.
And now that I see that they're talking about it, they're either making "both sides bad" statements, coming into full support of Israel, or using "we'll wait to see" arguments to excuse withholding support.
The only thing the Western left does is disrupt actual leftist movements in their home countries, while amplifying imperialist projects abroad. You'd think after years of posting pro-Palestine things on their Twitter and their Instagrams that they'd have the consistency to actually support Palestine when it mattered. But, no, they're really just white people who wanted to feel more important than their Democratic-voting parents.
Socialism to the Western leftist isn't the liberation of the human race, it's a sticker to put onto their hydroflask and a $10 donation to UNICEF. It's selling shirts with hammers and sickles on them, then hating the ideology that the symbol originated with. It's voting for Hilary when Bernie pulled out, then demanding that anyone who didn't vote for Biden is the same as Trump. Just a bunch of performative liberal bullshit.
update; it took them a minute, but they've figured it out. It's ridiculous that it took them as long as it did to support anti-colonialism, but at least they've come to a consensus about it.
love how the Canadian parliament inadvertently exposed just how far into fascism neo-liberals are.
just a few days ago, if you wanted to find out how willing to defend Nazis liberals were, you'd have to do a lil searching. Now it's right in front of us, all the time, without stop.
"He's a hero, he fought against Russia"
"He's just a little old man, he can't be a Nazi!"
"So what if he was a Nazi? Communism was worse than anything the Nazis did"
"How dare you call me a Nazi for defending Nazis?! I'm not a Nazi, I just hate Russia"
literally their evolution through this.
oh boy, it's almost as though people who immigrated out of their socialist country into the far-right United States had a political motive for the move, and therefore aren't the authorities on the conditions of the country they left.
When an anti-com says "yeah but Cuban immigrants" I really wish I could simply take them to Cuba so they could talk to actual Cubans.
I forget the statistic, but a majority of Chinese citizens are happy with their government. That's real Chinese citizens, living in China, right now. But, sure, listen to the guy who's the grandson of someone who fled the country before Socialism could start to be built. They're clearly the person to be listening to. Like, their fuckin' grandfather was probably part of the reason the revolution needed to happen.
Really the whole "yeah but my friend is [Cuban/Chinese/Ex-SR nationality/etc.] so they're right" argument strikes me in much the same way the "I have a black friend so I'm not racist" argument does.
white western leftists will literally be like "yes I'm a socialist... I just hate everything that socialism has done in the world and I'll gladly defend anti-communist efforts when they don't directly effect me"
Jacobin once again proving that they're not a radical publication.
I swear to god, anyone who thinks Jacobin is anything but a SocDem publication needs to first touch some grass, then read some theory.
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to boot, it was imperialists putting down labour strike.
-Palpatine's goal is to create the empire
-How do?
-Have a career as a Nabooian politician and a strong advocate for Galactic Republicanism
-Create a plot to assassinate the Queen of Naboo, when it fails unleash an attempted takeover of Naboo using the Trade Federation.
-When that fails, convince the Queen of Naboo to abdicate the throne and become a senator.
-Convince people associated with the events on Naboo to support your rise to Chancellor.
-By golly it worked.
-Need more power in government
-Get the dumbass Gungan to argue for emergency powers for the Chancellor after you start the clone wars (Galactic Civil War).
-Use the Galactic Civil War to keep prying more and more power into your position.
-Also Use the Galactic Civil War to keep the Jedi distracted, so other parts of the plan can go into effect
-When the Jedi realize you've been a sithlord the whole time, because you told the guy you groomed since he was a child, kill off the Jedi and the leadership of the CIS, and declare yourself as the sole leader of the Republic under even more special, even more emergency situations.
-Empire? Created. Jedi? Dead. Hotel? Trivago.
It's a story about the rise of Fascism.