Get a load of this user, supposedly this comm is supposed to be making fun of reactionaries doing the “vuvuzuelaiphone” thing but suspiciously is posting nothing but anti tankie memes, curious 🤔

Edit: to be 100% accurate because I’m not a liberal, it appears that the comm name is misleading and it’s just a general meme sub for “leftists”, still quite funny that the only memes they’re posting are anti tankie memes

https://lemmy.ml/c/vuvuzelaiphone

https://lemmy.ml/c/leftism

Another totally serious and not laughable community. Why do reactionaries like this think they’re leftist?

    • Shinhoshi@infosec.pubEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      I’d have to disagree, with my own anecdotal evidence. Remember, there’s plenty of people who aren’t staunch anti-communists but have had too much capitalist propaganda in the US education system. Reeducation takes time.

      I’m still working to try to figure out what the truth is and what I am, but I’m glad I found this community.

      • RedClouds@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Exactly comrade! It is so demoralizing when every person is so deep in their own shit to realize what the world really smells like, but a hint of fresh air can start anyone on a journey to re-education and realization. Even myself, as this is where I came from.

        I’m a self-selected individual for learning. I seek out knowledge myself, not everybody is this way. But with enough time and effort others will understand, especially when it gets so bad that it’s hard to defend the status quo anymore. And we’re getting there now, hence the rise in different flavors of communism.

        • Shinhoshi@infosec.pubEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, also stinks that the education system has to be so full of reactionaries intentionally spreading capitalist propaganda while acting like only the communists do it.

          At least the Sanders campaign helped people wake up to the idea socialism is beneficial and not a dirty word!

    • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      1 year ago

      it is if the stars align… i had considered myself a liberal for most of my life because i was one… i hated the system but i never looked beyond it and was blind to reality.

      one day that changed… people i respected shit all over me for something i thought we were definitely all in the same page about. i got all upset and started digging for information to prove them wrong and discovered a whole other mindset out there that aligned far better with what i felt deep down then i was able to go back and read posts and tweets in a whole new light and everything made so much more sense. and i got even more pissed, but pissed for the right reasons this time. pissed that i had been so blind all my life and never bothered to try to think for myself. pissed that everyone i knew personally was just as blind and now hated when i tried to tell them to also look beyond the programming… because of course that’s a tired and played out trope that everyone has heard a hundred times.

      i dunno, i think if someone sincerely believes that things are not right with the world they can open their mind given the right opportunity to crack through that seemingly impenetrable wall of self-satisfied ignorance and pride.

      but you can’t force anyone to see it

      • Black AOC@lemmygrad.ml
        62·
        1 year ago

        Here’s the issue with your sign: I don’t believe them ‘brainwashed’ or ‘especially naive’. I believe them willfully evil; and willfully ignorant. A horse might be led to water, but you’ll drown it before it drinks these days.

        • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
          10·
          1 year ago

          You didn’t read the article then. A point it makes is that the western masses aren’t just brainwashed, they willfully buy in. A USian sees an article demonizing China is made to feel good about his own status quo.