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You can join an org and do actual material activism to make the world a better place. You will make new friends, and there is no reason why this would cause you to lose your old friends. This is the way
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Argue with them. I've made it a point to do this recently. Don't let shit slide when they say it. They have the status quo on their side and most people buckle when they get even a little pushback. There's only a few outcomes from this: you'll convince them, they'll stop bringing it up, or they'll cut you off. I've kept all my friendships despite me correcting their crap. They have mostly chosen option 2.
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Sorry, but I hate the word equity. It's been thoroughly lib washed. I had to sit through so many meetings where libs gestured at how important equity is without ever describing steps to achieve it.
It was really, in translation, "we'd really enjoy it if more brown people paid to enroll here"
I'll give you Venusaur but Charizard is a dyed in the wool fascist.
Me when shit fuck
If you go to a tourist trap tea house in China, they will absolutely delight in showing these things to you.
They'll also make sure you're very aware they are , in fact, for sale, at a very reasonable price!
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I don't even know what a woman is if it doesn't have eyelashes and a bow. I've been lost for years now
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Sweet Baby worked on the bridge
The collapse of the USSR created major economic shocks and hardships for the member countries. This obviously creates political turmoil.
With the collapse, many of the countries were faced with a choice:
A. Try to maintain socialism as a single country and face the full might of the west who is no longer focused on the USSR as a whole.
B. Privatize your national economy and sell off your social safety nets for dirt cheap. Accept foreign investment in order to get absorbed into the western sphere in hopes of alleviating the pain.
Most chose B.
If you have political turmoil, economic hardship, and wide scale rapid privatization, well... You get fascism.
While the book isn't exclusively about this phenomenon, Parenti covers it in Blackshirts and Reds.
Also, Stasi State or Socialist Paradise gives a very in depth look at the dissolution of the GDR and Germany's turn to liberalism.
Wholeheartedly agree. My issue is that at my workplaces, it's always just been a corporate buzzword rather than an actionable goal.