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She might have named it that because she thought it was a fancy slur

Contexterino

I'd assume it's riffing on this

Me while Gestapo are escorting me to Auschwitz-Birkenau: "Those damn commies are up to something! Better keep an eye on them officer, Sir."

Look, if Kamala was in charge this wouldn't be happening, because you wouldn't see it in the media so you wouldn't care, and that's what we mean by going to the left. Also some of the guards in our camps will be queer!

The hammer and sickle is the sign of the communist movement. I assume you mean to insinuate that the USSR was somehow fascist, but I must be misunderstanding you, nobody would be that ridiculously wrong on the internet. The USSR saved the world from fascism despite the best efforts from the capitalists in the west.

It must rule being a liberal. Just being able to say whatever, talk out your ass like you're an expert on a subject you don't even understand, be completely submerged in the capitalist cultural ooze and somehow think people who disagree with you don't know shit.
I long for a world where I can be as blissfully ignorant as a communist as you can be currently as a liberal.

Liberal democracies use actual slave labour, not to mention the colonial horrors still being carried out - and I'm not going to waste my time trying to explain imperialism to you, because I know there's a whole other thing we'd have to educate you on first.
The USSR had a lower recidivism rate, lower death rate and higher QoL for inmates in the gulag system from 1952 onwards than the US has in its current system to this day.
We are infinitely more surveilled than any communist scare-story. You only don't notice political repression because you stay within what is acceptable. We coup, cheat elections, kidnap and kill to our hearts desire in the west - and not just brown people! We have black sites where police can take you, we have bullshit charges and violent cops.

But despite liberal democracy creating a violent all-surveilleing repressive police state dedicated to extracting wealth from the poor and giving it to the rich, it is somehow communism that is fascism. I assume this is because of "authoritarianism"? The idea that a state exerting power is bad in and of itself, no matter on behalf of whom and to what end said power is used, is fucking ridiculous. Cooked up by Hannah Arendt - an actual antisemite - in order to make Hitler an equal to Stalin. The concept is meaningless, any definition is either so broad as to encompass all states or so narrow as to just mean "enemy of the US"

Deporting the Irish?

Does this work? https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/82d3118e-4256-4394-a350-7c283be5c4f8.webp

I give a fuck, obviously, since I decided to mention it. You could just have asked why I do instead of this passive-agressive dismissal.
I don't believe there is anything "spiritual" to it, but the fact that what has been a punchline in movies and tv-shows, plotline in hacky true crime and I don't know what else in popular culture, is something that is actually going on is wild to me. That people like Hillary Clinton and George Bush meet up, in person, for some weird theatre-kid LARP in the woods on a regular basis is pretty crazy in my world. I could just go "oh yeah they're all in cahoots, we know this" like how people go "well what did you expect? All politicans are corrupt" but that the most powerful people in the world ACTUALLY meet up IN PERSON and do WEIRD SHIT is something that sticks out in my brain moreso than the idea of some vague smokefilled room where capital aligns its material interests.

Hot take: The depravity in the Epstein files combined with this being the first time many people realise they're in a class war against the rich, who are already organised, is a pretty reasonable thing to be the cause of your brain breaking a bit.

I remember I had a bit of a when I learned Bohemian grove was real some decade ago or. That the rich and powerful actually meet up in the middle of the woods once a year for a several-days-long bacchanalia and we all just know it and pretend it's not happening? Made my mind melt.

Reading about children being used as incubators for babies that are disappeared never to be seen again, is supposed to make you deranged. It's fucked up and it's fucked up that it's treated like regular celebrity gossip.

That the rich and powerful actually meet in smoke-filled rooms and carry out crimes against humanity gleefully is now not just something you know spiritually, you have written confessions from the creeps themselves. And we don't know how involved this shit is. Pretending like you do, pretending like you're somehow above it is just falling for the regular "don't worry about that craaazy conspiracy theory" propaganda.

Not even 10% of the files have been released and what has been released has been heavily redacted and even then people are far from done looking through them and what they do find is biblically evil. It's the kind of stuff Alex Jones would rant about, but here presented with actual credibility. Not only are depraved acts described gleefully by participants, but the overarching capitalist world order is implicated directly. Unironically we do not know how far this shit goes. Ghislaine Maxwell was one of the most active moderators on all of reddit. Her dad met up with Mother Theresa. Epstein hung out presidents. Whatever it is, it's spread out.

Older conspiracies like the brabrant killings and the Dutroux affair and the tinfoil shit around those now seem almost sensible, due to what is seen discussed.

It is also an incredible tool for radicalisation. I've used it for many fruitful discussions. Pointing out how practically every one is in it, regardless of outwards political affilitations, has been very useful.

The only derangement syndrome I see with this Epstein-thing is Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's become just another element of the current regimes moral corruption, instead of the blatant black spot on the last three decades of the political establishment.