Fayne

It's edited, there was something else on the original, but I forgot what it was

Decent bait against ultra-leftists, but I don't really like this argument that much

I prefer people that deny "CIA conspiracy theories" to the ones that are aware of them, but defend them. Long time ago I had a teacher in high school that was a "centrist" and he was in support of CIA coup in Iran. He didn't know anything about Iran; not even the fact that APOC existed and was exploiting oil fields there. The only reason that he had shown support for Shah (he didn't know who the Shah was, he only knew that there was some guy that was in charge of Iran before the islamic revolution) is that he was "pro-western"

Same thing happened to me, one person I've talked to said that operation condor and CIA overthrowing governments in the Global South is conspiracy theory

I only have a problem with "lived experience" when people subsitute it for studying politics

Sorry, I use lived experience to analyze politics, not nerdy theory

An even worse trait of modern liberals is their cynicism - an active dismissal of any coherent framework for politics or history

But what if politicians (that are always 100% bad and self-serving) support good ideas in public, but then get into power and implement bad ideas?

"Anti-Semitism" lol

Tell them that they're idealists (they have bad ideas) and advise them to take into account material reality (your sanity)

Is this actually true though?

The last movie I've watched from MCU was "Captain America: Brave New World". It was alright I guess, but my interest in marvel movies has pretty much ended with Avengers Endgame in 2019