I relate to a lot of this, and I do wonder if it's an autism thing. Because like, I see a lot of lefties complain about libs as if they know they're thinly veiled fascists and are just pretending/virtue signaling etc, and they're always linking roderic day's thing about propaganda. But my experience was just nothing like that. It's like.... no, I literally just did not know lol. I always had good egalitarian-like values, and I was fed so much bullshit that I was just naively a liberal. I was a radlib for sooooo long because of all the other western 'leftists' being stuck in electoralism, defeatism, 'human-nature'-ism etc. The final thing that pushed me here was:

Wait, you mean communism ISN'T when no food?

Wait, you mean communism actually DID work and wasn't just a 1984 animal farm dictatorship ???

Wait, you mean it wasn't us libbies on the "right side of history", it was always the socialists, and basically every good historical 'great man' idol that we look up to (MLK, helen keller, einstein etc) was a socialist too??

THE COMMIES WERE RIGHT THIS WHOLE FREAKIN TIME????

Because my entire life I've been taught commie = evil, like, they're just The Bad Guys. It's drilled into your head. And then when you come up with something like "hey why don't we provide for everybody and make things fair?" it's always: "Nah, that doesn't work, it's been tried, and human beings are just too selfish to make it work."

And that had younger me like "Oh, okay... :( "

And our entire culture, media, news, history education etc is SUCH A FUCK that it took THIS LONG for me to finally get some real facts and be like wtf are you kidding me?!?!? The "villains" were right this whole time?!?!

Maybe it is like an autistic myopia for us. Maybe most people aren't like this...? I know it's more accurate that people's ideology follows their material interests, and for most of us westoids, our material interests are the empire staying an empire. And you could say that because I'm disabled, that means my material interests 100% align with the abolition of capitalism, therefore here I am. But there's definitely an element of like, bruh I did not KNOW. I wish somebody had told me sooner. But it's a wasteland out here in the west. I ultimately had to figure it out for myself.

And I'm glad I did, because unknowingly being a "communist waiting for permission to be one" is depressing as HELL man. I saw the BS of electoralism, reforms obviously were not working, I knew the necessity of revolution but I could NOT believe that it was ever possible, like the belief that humans are selfish and it just never works was so ingrained. So I literally felt like there was no hope. Absolutely nothing. We're just fucked and this is it and we're powerless to do anything about it. Total capitalist realism. The bleakest view of reality. Did you also go through this phase of utter despair like I did?

This dude is reaching soooo hard to make it sound sinister. I thought it was just a cute lesson about the importance of vaccination. I don't know what they were saying but it was pretty clear what the message was based on the animations. The kid was scared of the needle and wanted to skip it, but was shown a lesson about what germs can do and how important it is to have immunity. Then he decides to toughen up and get the shot. This is literally a good thing to show to children????

Capitalist fascist USA with its so-called "threat" from communist China and nukes... are we literally in the Fallout timeline?

and the traveler maintains a full-time schedule that enhances contact with the Cuban people, supports civil society in Cuba, and promotes the Cuban people's independence from Cuban authorities, and that results in meaningful interaction between the traveler and Cuban individuals, the individual's travel qualifies for the general license.

Lmao they make it sound like you're supposed to be some missionary of capitalism.

Hello Cuban people!!! Have you heard the good news about the Free Market??

I always feel that we should leave the door open just in case some of their users are based, or can be convinced, just like I was convinced.

I was a Reddit lurker escaping to Lemmy and was already anticapitalist but just had a bunch of brainworms left. I didn't trust the "red fash tankies" based on all the stuff that's everywhere. But scrolling around lemmygrad and hexbear for a while had me scratching my head and wondering what all the fuss is about. Clearly you guys are NOT some kind of weird crypto fash thing but are actually very educated with sound analysis of history and politics. So if there are more people like me who are curious, then we should leave the door open.

Of course, if it becomes untenable (like how shitjustworks went full nazi bar) then we shouldn't bother exposing our comrades to bigoted harrassment. Yes, it seems like the admin(s) are libs, but a piracy-based instance is always gonna have some anticapitalist lean, so it's less likely for dbzer0 to go full nazi bar.

What the fuck does non-woke anti-imperialist even mean

a bill to ban people convicted of a violent crime on the subway from public transit

I remember redditors LITERALLY talking about how "in China if your social credit score goes too low then you're not allowed to use trains and stuff!! OMG 1984!!!" which is apparently just made up

And then.... here we are.

Dementia can progress very quickly. You can go from slurring words and forgetting grandkids, and then starving to death because you forgot to eat, all in a few months if it's a bad enough case.

And the president has access to the best doctors and treatments. And he's still like this in public. So you can tell it's gotten quite bad. This dude doesn't even know what's going on anymore or where he is, I bet.

I noticed that too

One time I watched Friends while high, and I getting freaked out thinking I broke my brain because I couldn't understand the jokes. There would be laugh track after laugh track and I was just like, why??? I don't get it!!!! What is happening to me??

And then I saw it again while sober and was like oh, it's actually not funny, I was fine.

Middle one is how I started. Apparently lemmygrad was so "bad", that two of the instances I joined defederated it by default before anything else. I was like "Tankies, huh? I wonder what kind of nonsense stuff they like to post." So I lurked on the front page.

1 week later

Holy shit they're right.

Blacks often report higher pain intensity than other cultures

Isn't this code for "they're faking it"? Holy shit.

What book is this from?