Reminder that Noah Smith said that "Palestinian protesters suck", because of them burning the US flag
Also Noah Smith the most "I support the current thing" journalist that I have ever seen online. He makes statements like "Egypt will industrialize in 5 nanoseconds" for some weird reasons and also always blames "the left" for being too radical. Average neoliberal.
From my experience, when I was a "baby leftist" aka anti "tankie" lib, what got me into reading was "watching" some of her videos. Later, when I got more knowlegable I started to absolutely despise her and hate her "politics".
But if she has a parasocial relationship with her fans, similar to the one Vaush has then I agree, maybe I just didn't take all of her words for granted like her viewers do
I think contrapoints is ok for "radicalizing" liberals a bit, but she is a liberal deep down and a shill for Obama and Hillary Clinton
I think I've seen a Twitter post about new Syria's government abandoning "state-led development" and turning to neoliberalism. If that's the case then they're absolutely fucked
In my country the school's history book cites Solzhenitsyn's estimate of 66 million dead in the gulag. We also had to learn by heart the theories of Arendt and Orwell.
All the books that we were required to read said that "Revolution bad, reform good" or "The world is literally worse after the revolution", it's a joke
That's why I often try to stay away from my phone/PC while listening or I try to do something else (like reading). It helps a lot
Yes, I sometimes day dream when I listen to music, especially when it's really enganging, but I usually don't, because I have a very bad habit of skipping to the part of the track that I like the most
The funniest thing is that right-wingers in Poland usually use contradictory narratives to push their narrative of "communism bad, capitalism good". Poland wants to be considered western, but at the same time it always blames the west (especially Germany for partitions and nazi occupation, and allies for "betrayal") for its shortcomings. The Germans are also blamed for "controlling" liberal political parties, while conservatives also usually implement reforms that allow for lower taxes for western corporations and privileged treatment in special economic zones that benefit Germany. Poles know that their economy is almost totally dependent on the EU, but somehow they always want to make it seem like that the economy is a "miracle" compared to PPR. Polish political discourse is also filled with absolutely insane russophobia and orientalism, to the point where General Staff of the Polish Army, for example, shows this nonsense on their twitter account. Poland weaponizes its "victimhood" to force anti-russian and anti-communist narratives, but at the same time it wants to be like the countries that abused Poland.