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2026: The year the western left went full mask off. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/memes@lemmygrad.ml
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[–] 24 points 10 months ago*

Nah, they already went mask off in 2022 when they decided to start praising literal swastika-tatooed, sieg-heiling Nazis as "brave freedom fighters". This is just more par for the course after they also celebrated Al-Qaeda headchoppers taking over a country.

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    [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I mean wasnt the Ukraine-Russia war and the Gaza Genocide not enough mask off?

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Should be, but as a third world citizen who lived in Europe for a couple of years I doubt it... Communists in Europe are just so limited, they can't understand what we live in the global south

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Most of them overlook the simple fact (or probably just don't wanna acknowledge) that the prices of goods in the first world will go up if the material conditions and in these overexploited countries in the imperial periphery improve.

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    • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I mean, it depends what your definition of leftist is, all the communists I know here in the UK have been very much against the invasion.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Seriously. Can we stop using "western left" to mean fucking liberals? Cause that's what these people are. That's who is saying this shit. Not anyone with an actual leftist ideology. It's like we just decided there two different meaning for "leftist" just because there's so few of them in the west. Liberals aren't left. Like what are we supposed to call actual "leftists" in the west then? If someone has the same ideals as an "international leftists" and is in the west, what the fuck are they? Just a leftist? A leftist that exists in the west? It's getting very tiring. If someone is spouting liberal nonsense and calls themselves a leftist, then they are an idiot and/or lying.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    This is why i have mostly stopped using the term leftist and now just distinguish between liberals and socialists. The two are fundamentally incompatible and so should not be lumped in together. It is much clearer what is meant when we say socialist as opposed to the vague "leftist" label. (And by socialist i mostly mean communist, but socialist is just a more palatable term for the normies, and since the goal of socialism is communism anyway i just use the two fully interchangeably in casual discourse.)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    They usually mean breadtube-adjacent leftsphere celebs (Mamdani, Hasan Abi, Miss Rachel, TrueAnon, etc...)

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    • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    i feel like we do this every single year

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