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I just want to point out the contrast between how BE talked about the event and how the Cuban Communist Party talked about the event so I will leave their article here https://www.granma.cu/mundo/2026-01-07/haz-lo-que-digo-no-lo-que-hago-07-01-2026-22-01-22
Socialism is when you act smug on the internet, communism is when your smuglord post hits the frontpage of reddit.
Honestly, fuck this Western attitude of throwing their own movements under the bus for not being perfect out of the gate. Whenever reaction doesn't happen spontaneously, it's hopeless because "Westerners" are inherently passive, when it actually happens it's hopeless because they're not doing it right. If you're that hopeless just leave politics already, this is not the place for people who don't believe in change.
Also, Bad Contrapanada, people can be angry about multiple things at the same time. And there's this neat thing called "propagandizing" that relies on it.
Either way, a woman was shot at point blank range multiple times for trying to drive away from a brownshirt. It was filmed and the footage is easily available. Trying to frame the reaction to this as somehow bad is some bizarre lack of empathy.
Was gonna edit but I think there's a broader point to be made about the lack of discipline of non-partisan online Western left as a whole. Lots of these left content creators seem allergic to submitting their publications to a greater editorial line, and still seem to think of their online presence as it pertains to them as individuals rather than to society as a communication apparatus.
You're allowed to have your frustrations and vent them out among friends without thought, but if you're doing it on the internet at least have the decency to use an alt account. Otherwise this is some "personal brand" type shit.
First paragraph is correct.
Second paragraph concedes at some level that material conditions informs the idea but then backtracks to criticism of a lack of a type of metaphysical conception of change. This latter is just the other side of the coin of those who are firmly in the camp of brainwashing as an explanation for lack of persuasion of westerners towards more significant anti-imperialism (it is not).
(Everyone should also read that last link on how advertisements work)
Same shit with all the progressive liberals hating Trump's invasion of Venezeula only because Trump did it without going through the proper channels. Had a democrat done the same thing but with senate approval then imperialism would've been okay in their eyes.
I hate both what is happening in Venezuela, and what ICE is doing. It's all exhausting. My problem is that Liberals will worry about people with no criminal record (you can get one by shoplifting once) getting deported, but not necessarily people with a criminal record. I was hoping seeing people being brutalized simply for being criminals would get Liberals to sympathize with criminals, but instead, there is only the language of "ICE is criminal, Trump is criminal, the inevitable trajectory of Capitalism that I see affecting the law is criminal". I smell plenty of fear from Liberals despite their claims to show none.
Pointing out the hypocrisy of libs talking more about annexing Greenland as a bad thing instead of the Venezuela situation would have made more sense. Also, sneering at people for being outraged at fascist excesses in the US is... a choice.
Some people are really showing their ass lately, indicating that they're more upset at the western left having any progress at all, than they are at the imperialists, i.e. their identity is more about being a west-hater than it is being anti-imperialist. I don't care if someone is generally pissed at the western left for not being effective enough, but shitting on it during a crisis instead of encouraging further development is, well... maybe it's too weighty to say it this way, but it strikes me as counter-revolutionary, wrecker shit. Like what the fuck do these people want. The US makeup is not going to change the whole of its behavior overnight and it wouldn't even if a communist, de-colonial vanguard party took over today.
70% bad 30% empananda.
I don't think there is more noise about the woman ICE murdered than there is about Venezuela.
Even if there was why would you expect liberals to care about brown people in south america more than a white woman? Why would you expect people to be less mad about something that could just have easily happened to them as something that happened thousands of km away?
None of that would be shocking... if it was the case.
As much of a jackass as he is, he makes a half point. The average American does not care about anything but themselves and maybe their friends and family, and especially not people who don't look like them. Look at how they reacted to Ukraine vs Gaza.
Taking the tiniest grain of an accurate observation and sprinting with it in the most uselessly misanthropic and self-satisfied direction possible, the BE special
Dude's gonna end up as some kind of weird antinatal nuclear extinction advocate
Posadist Empanada era incoming
Is Badempanada not aware of how large the anti-war protests in the US are?
Not to be mean but much of the world doesn't really see American or really western "protests" as protests they're more like angry parades
more like angry parades
thanks this made me laugh
So the people in 2020 who were brutalized by cops for protesting police brutality, were those parade participants?
Yes? Repression alone doesn’t turn something into a real challenge to power. Liberal states routinely brutalize protests they know will remain contained. In 2020 millions marched, chanted, got beaten, posted photos, then went home and the system carried on largely unchanged: police power intact, imperial violence ongoing, no serious threat to state authority. That’s why much of the world sees Western “protests” as angry parades: emotionally intense, sometimes violently policed, but structurally safe. They function less as challenges to power and more as pressure-release valves for discontent that the system knows how to absorb and move past.
hard to say since he's a ragebaiter. it's maybe fair to ignore our anti-war protests since the government doesn't pay attention to them either.
the only attention most protests require from the state is local police giving approval to when/where it happens
~~"protests"~~ angry parades*
Goes perfectly along with his recent rants about how the USA invading Greenland would be good because it would be Americans killing Europeans. Despite the fact the almost 90% of the population of Greenland is Inuit.
I also seen a take that the Inuit are colonisers who genocided previous population so you see, USA invading Greenland is actually doubly anticolonialist! And the real indigenous population were vikings.
People think its discount Iceland because it has a similar name and the most known thing about greenland is the viking switcheroo with Iceland to trick norse settlers into choosing iceland (not true btw) -> meaning its major association is with europeans only.
Hey look Innuits aren't real colonised people bcz they exist in an area that is north of Britain.
Badempenada's book called "why revisionism is cool actually"
This and a comment he made regarding how US leftists can't be persuaded by empathy and solidarity (real anti-imperialist framing in his words) really make me pinch the bridge of my nose. In the latter post he declared that it might be more effective to make Americans think they are being harmed by the US relationship with Israel as an appeal to their inate selfishness.
It just has me scratching my head becuase... is that not the entire idea of material interest? Is it not in the material interest of many anti-imperialist countries to fight Israeli imperialism? Would South Lebanon not be better off if the zionist entity collapsed and it instead bordered a Palestinian state? Would Iran not have more regional influence if there was one less US vassel to contend with? Would the Global South, who are constantly agressed against by Western international lawfare benifet from shifting the paradigm against Western aligned states?
I'm not going to say that the US Palestinian liberation movement is some kind of revolutionary force, or that there isn't a lot more that could be done, or if they are not infested with liberals. However it's the peak of idealism to criticize them for agitating to other Americans by appealing to how the zionist entity hurts them. It's basic Marxist analysis that a people's material conditions influence their actions.
It's fucking infuriating that I have to justify my humanity as a Muslim to US Yakkubian liberals, but if I need to explain to them why the US destroying my communities homelands will come back to hurt them, then I still do it. If those Whites start getting upset becuase of them got killed by the fascist militia, I'm still glad that they are starting to oppose the fascist militia. Not because of some idealist notion but because that gets the heat off my back potentially.
I've said it before here, I'm not a communist because I'm altruistic, I'm a communist becuase the Liberation of humanity would benifet me.
white leftists stop performative self-flagellating challenge