This makes me angry. I encounter it online and in the wild all the time. People have a problem with billionaires and corporations owning everything. They don't have a problem with mom-and-pop landlords living in the neighborhood (whatever's left of it) and renting out a few AirBnBs. People feel this way because they can't see a way out of capitalism except saving up some money and getting their own AirBnbs to exploit the land and proletariat, even though small landlords are neither happy nor interesting people, and they are still trapped inside capitalism.
People with an anti-corporate and anti-billionaire mindset are moving in the right direction, but they're still beholden to capitalist individualism. It's the same with local small businesses, even though these businesses are buying all their products from big businesses, selling them for a massive markup, and (in my experience) cheating their employees far more often than big business. Government jobs are the only ones I've had where I didn't feel like I was going to be fired or screwed every single day I was there.
I saw a Sysco truck a few days ago outside the only restaurant in my very small town. This place was my first job (as a bus boy) a loooooong time ago. They stiffed me on my first paycheck (I had been working an unpaid training period without knowing it, I was also supposed to be a psychic at this place) and I walked out. In the second or third year of the pandemic I saw a girl who couldn't have been more than eight years old working in an apron there (she was related to the family that owns the place). I've lived here off-and-on for decades and almost no one ever went to that restaurant; everyone knew you'd get sick if you ate their food. We suspected that it was a mafia money-laundering operation, since the owners drive red corvettes and seem to be rolling in dough. Tourists do eat there more regularly now even though the place has noticeably bad yelp reviews.
In a colonial context, big or small bourgeoisie can be revolutionary. In an imperialist context like in the USA, they are almost never revolutionary.
Also, the phrase "during the pandemic" makes me angry! A friend living overseas just told me yesterday that they had gotten sick and lost their sense of taste. Look up recent online reviews for scented candles.
Using "childish" as an insult. Bruh, have you talked with kids? Literally any kids. Easiest group of people on Earth to radicalize.
"Israel" is to blame for everything but somehow the USA is still good. This is thanks to Hollywood and the fact that the USA is a far bigger and more successful "Israel." Very few people know that Columbus was a Zionist. People around the world still dream of living here and making it big because of Hollywood movies and friends or relatives who immigrated here and somehow made it work.
In my experience, Arabic speakers are ready for a revolution, as long as it excludes women's liberation / queer liberation. Spanish speakers have profound levels of liberal brainworms. Portuguese speakers are typically pretty aligned with hexbear without knowing it. White leftists seem uninterested in returning the USA to indigenous sovereignty and paying full reparations to slaves / the descendants of slaves, and this is one major reason why their movements always go nowhere. (I hate the term "leftist" but I don't know what else to call these people since they aren't communists and yet they're still a bit more radical than the average democrat.)
What are some of your left-ish peeves you regularly encounter online?
You are remembering wrong. If the theory of Columbus being a crypto Sephardic Jew was correct, he would have spoken Ladino and written in Ladino. Which he also didn't. Now the fact that he didn't write letters in either Hebrew or Ladino does not mean he wasn't a Jew. Writing in Ladino would have been evidence of a crime and handing direct evidence to a messenger is probably unwise when you are already under suspicion for your many, many other crimes.
The thing you are referring is the insignia he used supposedly looking similar to the Hebrew letters Bet and Hei, which supposedly is a secret reference to the phrase Be'ezrat Hashem (With God's help).
Edit: Now Spanish crypto Jews (Marrano) did do stuff like that, this idea doesn't come out of nowhere. entirely But your misremembering has resulted in severely overstating the evidence.
Out of some actual weird Sephardic nationalist sentiment and weird Spanish antisemitism. The evidence for him being a practising jew is his use of the phrase "Second house" about Jerusalem and a doodle.
All the other arguments is stuff like Simon Wiesenthal arguing that Columbus went west as a sort of proto-zionist project to save the Jews of Spain by making a new homeland in the "new world" (A theory with approximately zero evidence) and Salvador de Madariaga believing he had the racial characteristics of a Jew like looking Jewish and lacking loyalty to Genoa and Spain (Which is just naked antisemitism)
This is not my area of study, and was something that was mentioned as an aside during my studies that I did not look into myself. I should have researched it further before repeating it, and I appreciate the correction. Columbus was certainly not a good guy regardless of his motivations or background, and I think we can agree on that.
We're on a shitposting site, you can fire from the hip.
And yes, we can agree that Columbus regardless of whether he was Genoese, Marrano or from space, was an incredibly awful person.