Comment by KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.net on What’s a liberal trait or item you have that you are ashamed of, and what are you doing to fix it or make up for it?

I have a soda stream an every time I use it I set aside a dollar per pump for my Palestinian comrades

Edit. It was a gift. I didn’t buy it

To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.

I just can’t endanger what little social support network I have. I still try to educate them, but I’m too dependent on remaining on good terms to do so anything but carefully and lightly.

Are you saying you have also been given a soda stream by a lib relative?

No, I’m semi-seriously accusing myself of the first type of liberalism from Combat Liberalism lol.

If I’m remembering right, what Lenin wrote about beating liberalism basically amounted to aspiring to being the best, most respected and most reliable among your fellow workers while also not being shy about being a Communist and standing up to the bourgeoisie classes and their administrators.

Pragmatically gaining and spending social capital to win people over to the movement if you can, or at least making liberals look like shit and thereby encouraging people to be socialists and communists instead. Aspiring to being someone that your fellow workers can look to for support, either emotional or material.

Wish I could upbear more than once :mao-clap:

Yeah I feel you there.

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