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lol wasn’t that guy pro US intervention in Cuba?
Didn’t he re-evaluate his position after all of ML Twitter bullied him? I seem to remember something like that.
Edit: looks like it, his timeline is full of pro-Cuba posts now, so it looks like he’s at least better on that issue - still anti-China though.
lol, he’s quote-tweeting a guy saying that he’s “borderline tankie at this point”.
OK, he’s making a shitload of posts about independent Taiwan and “Chinese imperialism”. lmao, at least he’s better on the Cuba issue. Guy seems to be learning.
feels like he cynically realized he had to retreat from Cuba bashing to maintain any credibility for subsequent wrecking of the rest of AES
It’s possible, but I doubt it tbh. He’s probably just a bit clueless. :shrug-outta-hecks: I try not to pay attention to Twitter shit.
For every scrub who takes a paying job to inform for the CIA, there are dozens who either know not to help the oppressor or weren’t privileged enough to get access to handlers. There were probably some well intentioned libs that got turned into narcs, maybe they’ll see the light and turn double agent
I love the underlying implication that support of marginalized people is contingent upon them remaining marginalized.
It’s a pretty succinct distillation of the RadLib worldview. Only martyrs, never successful leaders. Only failed revolutions, never any that achieved national liberation.
Umm, actually victory is authoritarian. The status quo? Perfectly fine. :grillman:
I can’t remember the exact quote, but somewhere in The End Of The Tour, the David Foster Wallace character says something to the effect of this. When you’re small and unknown you convince yourself that the big players are sellouts and that your work is pure for being obscure. Then when you get big, you still judge yourself by those same metrics and it feels hollow
“I’m actually on the side of the CIA when it comes to china”
SocDems, abridged.
“I am actually on the side of the Gestapo when it comes to Communists.” -Liberals circa 1930
This, but like, not as a joke. They actually were, check the NYT for some suspiciously positive coverage of Hitler in 1939.
Seriously, less than two weeks before the war started and long after camps were opened and Czechoslovakia was invaded.
More evidence that appeasement theory was always just revisionist propaganda.
They wanted to appease Germany right into invading the USSR. Getting him to invade countries was the point!
Yep! That’s why it’s so fucking funny.
Note: Its not funny… this timeline is so fucking dark.
