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lol the red scare paranoia in mexico is insane right now get ready americans, a huge influx of mexican petty bourgeoisie and above is coming to you 😅
Hi, everyone! Wish you all a happy October 1st in celebration of the PRC.
Let’s go another week
It’s fall again so I can stop having a personality and start wearing cool outfits. I actually like fall with the rain and the wind and the greyness though I want to retreat into the woods in the southern part of the country for a while, to sort out things. Sadly that’s not a possibility right now.
Talking politics with right wingers is like trying to teach a pig math. They live in their own little world and then get violently angry when you tell them what’s really going on.
On the flip side, I was talking to day with a truck driver who was Republican. He was complaining about his trucking company, the CEOs and how local food taxes are about to go up due to stadiums being built in the city. I said, “you know, they should really be putting those taxes onto the CEOs and the businesses screwing you over.” Motherfucker said he’d vote for me lmaoooo
I think they might be easier to win over than I once thought.
The culture war has broken a lot of brains but the key to undoing that is to appeal to people’s class interests. They may not consciously understand those interests but they instinctively feel them. They are looking for validation and explanation, but unfortunately oftentimes they will turn to conspiracy theories, identity politics and other forms of magical thinking for answers. Our task is to provide them a real, materialist explanation, but do so not in a condescending way (the most ineffectual way to do class consciousness raising propaganda is to talk to people in the kind of smug, accusatory, “better-than-you” way that liberals do) but in a way that makes them feel seen and feel that their material woes are being taken seriously.
Khalida Jarrar is Palestinian leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
this is so wild to me. time have changed a lot and yet so many things are same.
