US Imperialism tends to happen through “soft power”,

i.e., backing a facist oligarchical dictator who loots his own country and mass murders his own people with paramilitary death squads for the CIA/neoliberal multinational corporations

social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism

Lol what a fucking ridiculous statement. Russia is absolutely amazing at democracy and soft power. Hell, in the space of a month they’ve driven divisions in NATO to the extent that it’s literally only the UK and US who are still sabre rattling. Compare that to the US trying to drum up support for Iraq and doing irreparable damage to the stability of NATO in the process.

I legitimately think people that used to be alt-right should be heavily scrutinized and never take any leadership positions or do punditry. I don’t know, are there any real success stories for those people? I don’t want to hear any pity about how some algorithm brainwashed them into racism. I spent my formative years plugged in online, on 4chan, on /pol/ and /new/, and they didn’t move me one inch, it was always absurd and obviously sociopathic non-sense that was being spread.