Fuck, the wanted to hang Mike Pence.

The president and commander-on-chief of the United States had just heavily implied it would be a good idea. Those of them not just caught up in the enthusiasm probably thought they would have military support. Trump always appealed to people that can't really separate reality from movies and they thought they were living the climax. Reality is, however, much more pragmatic than that and they were lucky they were of the privileged class so they were merely arrested rather than gunned down the way anyone else storming a federal building would be.

Infowars had some reputable people in its earlier days too. Rogan seems to be following the same unhinged path.

How the hell was Johnson a communist?!

It started out a term teenagers on twitter used for when one of them discovered racism exists and corporations want to make money. Then conservative adults discovered it and started saying it instead of "the gay agenda."

Hearing actual senators use it is so embarrassing. I'm waiting for when they form the no cap caucus.

When I grew up we bullied gay children until they killed themselves. I'll take cancel culture going too far over that any day.

Tankie is a term British communists used against other British communists who didn't oppose the USSR invading Hungary in 1956. These days its pretty much any Marxist-Leninist.

You got down voted but you're right. Tankie is the new form of commie after that fell out of favor. Western "champaign socialists" (another term I hate but it kinda applies here) use it to criticize people from countries that actually have had socialist experiments. Most of the leftists globally are not western and would fit under the standard western definition of tankie. But if you've never come close to overthrowing your own government, are you positioned all that well to criticize someone elses revolution while you sit comfortably in the imperial core?

Poor countries face challenges that rich countries can't imagine often from western interference and revolutions are an ugly business. No Castro was not Santa Claus but he was a marked improvement over Batista.

Just because something is a social construct doesn't mean it isn't real or important.

Light? That you?

I'd say its more weaponized ignorance. He knows what happened and why. He's a current racist that doesn't want past racists cast in a bad light. His ilk define critical race theory as being critical of racism and they don't care for it.

And how do you expect us to do that, revolt? Because it turns out elected officials are reluctant to make significant changes to the system that elected them from which they profit handsomely.