Exploring the background of randoms who volunteer bad posts online is fun.
Dissent Magazine, shameless anticommunists who cheered for the US Invasion of Afghanistan and backed US Regime Change operations in HK, fantasizes about Rosa being some kind of whiz-kid to Lenin's meanie.
It's all so petty, so high-school, so mired in projection and self-importance.
It may seem insignificant, but you can understand a lot about the utter and relentless failure of socialism in North America by paying attention to the attitude of people like these towards Lenin.
The self-satisfied and completely unearned sense of superiority is well-reflected in the guy's TL—Rosa-over-Lenin finds a home amid Ed Markey and Ezra Klein RTs.
🏴: USSR Authoritarian Totalitarian State Capitalist Gulag Red Tsar Chernobyl 80 Million Dead
me: what's your source?
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Anne Applebaum is a guttering example of how far you can go in capitalism if you're completely shameless and willing to say exactly what powerful people want to hear.
Kennan's 1948 memo is an exceptionally revealing white supremacy manifesto, that very clearly defines that the threat is *Communism*, not some vague gushy non-ideological realpolitik battle for resources. history.state.gov/historicaldocu…
People will sit there and let Curtis pump libertarian sewage into their minds for two straight hours, then turn around and mourn gravely about massification and consumerism.
I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt a few times, but there's no way to talk about "treasured US values" without stomping all over indigenous and Black struggles.
Not long ago this guy was arguing that drug users deserved violence while making a narrow "cultural" exception for alcohol, basically ignoring the ultra-racist US context.
Mr. "Anti-woke anti-ipdol" over here is trying to pull the "I'm a Latin American" card, blissfully unaware that I'm Peruvian and have traveled extensively within my country, including shanty towns.