Came here to say this. It’s word for word fascist rhetoric. Just replace “us communists” with “us whites, us Christians, us Aryans, us Ubermenschen, etc”.

Moreover this is the exact stance of fascist parties in Europe. “We are not racist. They should be deported so they can help their own country to stop being poor. The immigrants are willing to work for very low wages so it’s their fault they are getting exploited and the rest of us suffer from the competition”.

You should state that in your letter’s last paragraph “I would like to avoid taking birth control medication, for fear of how its side effects might interact with my fragile health and the other medication I receive”.

That’s the good thing about Trump. He says the quiet part out loud and reveals how horrible the US is. The bad side of this is that it makes the Dems look nice.

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The greatest disruptor of democratic processes around the world is the United States and the CIA. They’ve couped more than half the world. The US is sanctioning 1/3 of the world.

The greatest factor contributing towards the global populist turn is the failure of capitalism and the ensuing economic chaos that is following, coupled with crazed neoliberal policies that have gutted societies of their public institutions and communal wealth, in favor of a few rich assholes getting richer.

Western governments don’t counter this, because a turn towards fascism suits them and their bosses. In fact, they are the ones generating the most fake news, in an effort to placate an ever-angrier population and to create enemies as distractions and opportunities for curbing more freedoms.

Case in point, it’s been nearly 10 years we’ve been hearing about Russian troll farms. Whole committees and organizations have initiated probes into the matter. Millions have been spent. Thousands of man-hours dedicated. Yet, all we have to show for it are “indications” that certain posts were made using a “Cyrillic keyboard”.

Meanwhile, Western politicians are travelling to other countries, perching themselves up in the squares of capital cities and inciting the local population to revolt against their government (Georgia, Syria, Ukraine). But no, it’s the Russian troll farms that are dangerous.

Actually, it’s quite ironic that you mention Cambridge Analytica, which was a well-documented case of Western-directed influence on Western democracies. But sure, they got caught, and got shut down, and no Western government will attempt to influence online discourse ever again.

Oh wait…

UK - 77th Brigade

The highly deployable force elements of 77th Brigade, trained in the delivery of tactical information activities. Using Planning and Liaison Elements and Tactical PsyOps teams, 5IOTF conducts partnered operations and delivers tactical PsyOps activity.

Israel - Team Jorge

The investigation reveals extraordinary details about how disinformation is being weaponised by Team Jorge, which runs a private service offering to covertly meddle in elections without a trace. The group also works for corporate clients.

The organization has been active since at least 2015 and boasts of having manipulated 33 presidential elections worldwide, many of them in Africa, and in 27 cases with successful results

US - You might want to consider getting hired as a PsyOps operative in the US Army

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You could do it here, as a sort of diary.

I don’t understand. We pay them so much money and they give it to these foreign people? We have a really good military, the best military folks, why don’t we use that?

I’d love to be a fly on the wall, when people try to uncomfortably explain to Trump that USAID needs to appear independent so they can destabilize other countries without criticism.

I get what you are saying, but still, situations differ, and I wouldn’t in good conscious recommend to a total stranger to enact a confrontation with other total strangers (to me). In my circle of friends, I have 3 or 4 friends who we’ve always disagreed politically, but we can hold a discussion because we understand each other’s boundaries, and we are not trying to convince each other. I have 2-3 other friends who are alligned with me, and I have 2-3 other friends who are apolitical, and don’t like engaging in politics that much. They are the “default position is liberal” kind of people. So we just leave them be when they are in the group. All this was mutually agreed upon.

If your friendship is just based on hobbies, the friendship may not be as strong as one thinks.

Sure, but likewise, it doesn’t mean a friendship should be based on political alignments or that one should be jumping at the opportunity to create rifts just because they think their friendship with others is “strong/weak”. Obviously OP is uncomfortable with confronting their group, and I am assuming they know their situation much better than me, so I tried to give them the solution that is the most harmless and still can potentially fix their problem.

Friendships are like relationships. Very rarely they are ideal, and you need to make concessions if you value them.

Unfortunately, the only way to keep friendships under these conditions healthy, is for EVERYONE to understand the rules:

a) Let the disagreements slide

b) Figure out what each person’s red lines are and try not to cross them

c) Cut off politics as a subject unless everyone present is willing to follow the rules

As far as you, I’d suggest keeping in mind that adults tend to be extremely defensive when it comes to political views and ideologies. You can’t convince anyone with theory. So political discussions in that regard are useless anyway. Making people see that their boss and their landlord are vampires is the way to start converting people to the left.

For this situation, I’d suggest expressing your concerns in the chat. Something like “Guys, leave politics out of the chat. Some of us are very uncomfortable with the kind of talk that’s been going on here these past few days. We’ve been friends for X years and it’s not worth ending these friendships because of the elections”.

I can understand the reasoning why it seems conservative, but there’s a clear intent that each season is critical of one facet of society that eventually ends up leading to oppression, poverty and misery. The 1st season is about the failure of the justice system and the police as an institution. The 2nd season is about the failure of the education system under capitalism. The 3rd season is about the failure of politics even at a local level. The 4th season is about the failure of journalism to inform people on why the other failures exist.

Overall it shows how indifference and corruption leads to a total failure of society. Also, it shows how individuals trying to lash out and forge their own solutions is ultimately going to fail, because nobody addresses the core issues.

On the Hamsterdam episode, I’d say it makes fun of conservatives actually. The captain wasn’t trying to solve crime in Hamsterdam. He was trying to “exile” all crime in a particular area, so the rest of the city can be alleviated of crime. This is the conservative dream. Get all criminals in the wilderness and let them kill each other. And his motive was partly to say fuck you to his bosses who cared about crime numbers. And eventually it all failed because it didn’t address the actual issue that causes crime to be the only option left to the, largely coloured, poor population.

I don’t think any of the cops are viewed as heroes by the show. Even the main character’s starting motivation is self-interest and career advancement.

I think the creator is a “progressive” liberal, so his views are flawed ofcourse. But I still find it hard to consider the show as conservative.

There’s a few good channels dedicated to preserving Soviet music. Check Funked Up East if you are into electronic, jazz or funk.

I wouldn’t say The Wire is conservative. It does a very decent job of showing how racism, poverty and an absolute neglect by the government creates a black hole of crime that sucks everything in and from which there’s no escape. It also does a very good job of showing how cops are mostly pieces of shit either by upbringing or by the system grinding them down.

There’s a very simple reason (but it’s not the only reason): A significant section of the Russian military was supportive of the Revolution. Whereas in Italy and Germany, the military was by and large in favor of the fascists, by the time they were ready to ascend to power. So, in Russia, the military facilitated the Revolution, whereas in Europe, the military crushed the Revolutions.

Especially in Germany, where the loss during WW1 was attributed largely to the Social Democrats (who were pushing for an armistice), and a poor leadership ranging from the monarch to the government, as well as the nobility and the higher echelons of the officer corps. Put simply, the military hated the “leftists” and didn’t really trust any other politicians except Hitler with his messages of strength, unity and revenge.

In Italy, the Vatican gradually grew in favor of Mussolini (which ended up resulting in the Vatican’s independence). Virtually every priest became a propaganda officer for fascism. As a result, the military was in support of Mussolini early on.

And a second reason to consider (again, there’s more reasons): The October Revolution shook things up in the rest of Europe. German communists were also getting ready to seize power, and it was clear things were about to happen in France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Greece. The capitalists and reactionaries in those countries coalesced to stop the communists before they could begin their own revolts, and they saw fascists as the natural solution. Especially in Italy, where the industrialists started heavily funding Mussolini almost immediately after he formed his movement.

There’s many other reasons, like the popular mentality and culture, the nihilism of Western European communists after the failures of the Paris Commune and the more recent Spartacist Revolt, the more developed capitalist forces that permeated every facet of government and security, the large labor aristocracy that inhabited the major population centers in those countries, etc.

Yeah, Teia is either a plant or a narcissist mad with power. Their chat is so manipulating. Teia is trying to rile up Chill by answering with silly questions and feigning ignorance and incredulity, so they can have an excuse to ban Chill.

Declining empire doing declining things.