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MxSelfDestruct
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BIZARRE "LEFTIST" FROM NEBRASKA OR SOMETHING: we must stand with Russians in their struggle against western capitalist imperialism!

RUSSIAN I KNOW #1: god i can't wait for Putin to fucking die i hate it here so much

RUSSIAN STATE NEWS MEDIA: we're gonna kill every ukranian because fuck em

RUSSIAN I KNOW #2: boss found out I'm gay so I'm out of a job now. god I can't wait for Putin to fucking die i hate it here so much


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in reply to @MxSelfDestruct's post:

The logic of the campist position is that any political enemy of the West (and especially the United States) should be supported, as a weakened imperial core is required for any leftist group to flourish. Now why they think neoimperialist powers would suddenly have the best interests of the global proletariat at heart and not just steamroll over all opposition (communist or not) is a mystery to me, but uh

I think that reasoning might be the claim sometimes but in practice it's often "I'm mad for complicated reasons, and being mad at 'the US' to the exclusion of any deeper thought makes for a simpler narrative that leaves me feeling like a powerful voice for change." Not that any of that is conscious or intentional. It's just the path some people wind up on, and at the end of that path is supporting another imperialist power that openly despises them.

There are ways to oppose imperial power without resorting to thought-terminating bogeymen, but after being immersed in online far leftist stuff for awhile I'm not convinced it really happens there.