chapotraphouse

I hope you're right that it changes as the generations move forward! I'm also hoping social media makes a difference. I know it also puts people in their own bubbles, but I could also see it allowing people to get exposed to different types of people. If you're an LGBTQ person, the only one in your small town or village for example, you can connect with others and see that you're not so strange. Hell, because of the internet, my eyes have opened to the Israel-Palestine conflict recently, something I never cared about in 2018, 2015, or any year prior, thinking it was too complicated. Now I'm arguing about it all over the place, looking up what places to boycott and shit. Changes is always possible.

I've spent the last 15 years being called a tankie (a label I don't care about but the other side thinks it's a slur or something) and an antisemite for relentlessly fighting for Palestine. Since you're freshly out of the liberal bubble, did you know Nelson Mandela was a communist? Liberals love to invoke Mandela while mis-educating people on his actual beliefs. If you have any doubts about your support for Palestine, revisit the words he gave in his 1993 visit to Gaza.

Lenin gave us this little passage describing the phenomenon of Liberals to steal and deradicalise heroes from the left:

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

Applies to MLK, Mandela, Einstein, even Malcolm X to a lesser extent. And countless others.

And we have to hope rich people don't invent an immortality portion like they keep trying to lol.

Won't save them from China lmaoooo all-time billionaire execution record holders.