@Giyuu - eviltoast
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  • Maybe have a look at Jeffrey Sachs interviews on Ukraine. Certainly, as far as I know, not a “leftist”, being the guy known for shock therapy economic doctrine, but that also means he’s had an intimate history with that area of the world and he presents the history of this conflict quite plainly for Americans to digest.

    Personally speaking, and I have experience with this sort of thing, often times you just have to lay low as a Marxist. My job does not allow me to express my actual opinions and I am surrounded by non Marxist, politically active people.

    There are things in the world that constantly bombard us at every second and it feels like you are under siege. It’s a valid feeling, but ultimately we have to learn that we cannot expand our emotional energy on everything that goes on - it’s just not possible. It might seem crass, and I’m really not trying to be, but you have to detach and observe the world and events in the third person, as if you were a scientist. Do that whilst staying in touch with your feelings of indignation.

    This may well be something you’re willing to invest in and so that’s up to you. But for future conflicts you find yourself potentially a part of, you’ll need to consider if you want to shoulder it. You have to learn to observe things dispassionately, but it gets easier the more you do it, and you will find optimism in the scientific unfolding/direction of history.





  • yeah it seemed pretty pointless as i went through deleting stuff (anything containing key words related to geopolitics, like capitalism, etc. at least - i never talked too much about that stuff on reddit so others may find doing even this to be time consuming). rather, i edited them and replaced them with 1s and then deleted them. but it gave me more peace of mind and at the least perhaps made it a bit tougher for background check companies if their data gathering and capabilities advance to being able to piece stuff like that together.








  • Giyuu@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlRule
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    8 months ago

    America has killed millions, funded terrorism around the world, overturned governments and replaced them with fascists to open countries up to exploitation resulting in the absolute most horrible conditions imaginable.

    Meanwhile all you know about these other countries is what America’s ruling class feeds you- that they are evil, backwards nations incapable of governing themselves.

    Unfortunately this is also racist - you probably didn’t want to hear that but hey you’re the one who thinks these things. It’s also pretty racist that America itself was founded on the genocide of millions of real Americans (Natives). It’s not looking good for you.

    Anyway, this is all sort of long and history may be sort of boring to you. But the conclusion to all of this is that you just aren’t very smart.

    Cheers lol.