If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like its brother 🎶

given how much modern ‘conservatives’ hate democracy and personal rights

“This far and no further” politics is a pox on conservatives and liberals alike. This is one of the reasons you see Gavin Newsom fucking around with TERFs in the name of fairness in college athletics. Its one of the reasons why so many people soured on Barack Obama inside his first term.

“Personal Rights” always seem to terminate at the edge of popular consensus.

teaches you to take pride in shit you’ve never done

The better outcome.

I’m more disgusted by the fuckers who go out and do the war crimes, then come home and demand everyone else say “Thank You For Your Service”.

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His Bowser was the best part of the animated movie.

And the page is bugged. I keep clicking on the Link to like and subscribe but it does nothing.

How is China imperialist?

It helps if you insist the natural state of Chinese territory is a balkinized patchwork of ethnic enclaves fighting border wars “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” style, and the amalgamation of territory over 3000 years of dynastic rule gets dumped on the head of the current government.

Bonus points if you don’t mention Uyghurs

Uyghurs are the only Muslim group that the NAFO crowd are allowed to empathize with. And only when they’re local to the Tarim Basin. God help you if you’re a Uyghur living in Europe or Southeast Asia or the United States because they’re not welcome.

the zenz/ US propaganda

Mentioning the name of Adrian Zenz, the history of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (and where it gets its money), or any choice passages from the book Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation marks you out as a Wumao Far-Left Ultra-Stalinist Botfarm with cooties and a stupid face.

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That is the joke, yes.

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Sorry to hear it, buddy. You’re missing a lot of quality memes.

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Ideas have a material and historical basis and must be acknowledged within that context or the deeper meanings are lost. Tying the art to the artist isn’t enough on it’s face. You must preserve author’s socio-economic position at the time of writing, the historical moment at which the piece was produced, and the publication through which the material was conveyed.

Whether you’re reading Das Kapital or Debt: The First 5000 Years or the “I Have A Dream” speech or Ender’s Game, you need more than just the name and demographics of the writer. You need the whole context behind the work as it is being produced. Reading Marx without knowing about the American Civil War or the Taiping Rebellion introduces you to ideas that are being espoused in the middle of a long-running conversation. Picking up “Debt” without knowing about the 2008 financial crash leaves you puzzling over Graeber’s sudden concern with the subject matter. You can’t talk about MLK’s most famous speech without knowing the conditions of the African-American working class in the 1960s. Neither can you seriously discuss Ender’s Game without knowing about the wars in Vietnam or Korea, or the various special ops programs and advances in military technology that birthed the combined fascination and horror that Orsen Scott Card sought to conceptualize.

Copywrite binds the material to the publisher more than it binds the ideas of the material to the author. The real sin of modern capitalist mass production is the disjointing of written works from the period they were produced. Making an Ender’s Game movie fully divorced from the historical context in which it was written is a crime.

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It makes sense if you recognize it as an excuse to harass black and Latino people