As someone from the global south we post a lot of cringe too lol
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Some of the people I've encountered over the past few weeks feel like such relics. I don't mean that they seem old or out of touch, but their politics seem to have ceased moving around 2009. It's the feel good liberalism without specific policy goals. It's so empty that I have to wonder what sort of lives they've had to be so just...liberal.
Like a lot of us were galvanized by the 2008 economic crisis, or perhaps we were part of anti-war movements, or labor movements or maybe we slammed head first into realizing just how anti-LGBTQ everything is.
But for some of the folk I've encountered, you'd think the primary three problems of the world are Russia, China, and liberals being uncomfortable online.
I don't want the West to be saved
Please do not draw conclusions from how people post on a niche internet forum.
True, though it's arguably worse in the general population. Western indoctrination runs deeeeep.
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Please never go on South African twitter or Facebook if you think the stuff you've seen on Lemmy is bad and gives you no hope. There are plenty of dumbasses in the global south/third world
Annoying internet arguments aside, the people on the ground in the core also face the most expansive and advanced police state mankind has created yet. This makes doing anything close to truly subversive impossible without extreme precautions. Some Ferguson organizers dying (being murdered imo) comes to mind.
there were several post george floyd executions as well
can you link me to any reporting on that? I haven't read anything specifically but I believe it.
I'll have to do some research but the killing of Daunte Wright was sus and I think there was another Fed style execution of a blm guy out west around the same period
Michael Reinoehl was death-squadded by state & local police deputized by the feds.
It is obvious there were murdered by the police, you shouldn't hedge your bets on this.
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"The West"
"The far far East" 
Eh, I heard someone who visited Cuba being told that the US has a lot of revolutionary potential by Cuban communists so
I once tried explaining the concept of a mortgage to a Cuban and they were stunned that a country so rich would have such a complicated nonsense system of home ownership
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Those people don't really believe in anything, when the US states department dumps Ukraine and moves on to other imperial projects they'll shift their whole "belief system" right along with it
In a years time you'll see these very same people begin concern trolling about the bad behavior of Ukrainian refugees, they'll start using words like "ungrateful", "authoritarian" and "mentally colonized by ruzzia"
But you're right there is no hope in the north until climate change begins wrecking property values in significant numbers
The industrial and revolutionary fulcrum of the world lies in the global south
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You're not wrong but I'm surprised it was an online forum thing that made you realize this
It hurts me a billion times more hearing absurd anti-communist and reactionary statements irl
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