i suspect is a class thing; as in how much respect should they give you based on your perceived class based on the work you you.

it's a little bit like how they treat you based on how you're dressed.

i'm referring to its notoriety, not its origin.

i like how you use the incel mascot; never seen a freudian slip as a comment before.

how long before the united states joins into the fray to counter the chinese monopoly on rare earth minerals?

(assuming that they haven't already).

i think it's ignorance.

it's the same kind of ignorance that makes people think that npr is a worthwhile news source when they've also covered consent manufacturing narratives like fentanyl kitchens; just like the new york times did.

it feels like all of the news outlets are doubling down on the culture wars and it's horrifying watching it take hold on lemmy; especially the news communities on .world

when that happened in mexico, the church started giving its congregants guns and it lead to war.

That's because he was a tankie. Lol

the best autism jokes are self deprecating. lol

are you me? lol

Basically, being a communist means you will very likely lose a good percentage of your initial social network. It’s probably one of the ways that capital maintains its control on society, forcing you to choose between community or your ideals, while you build a new leftist community (which is likely to be ostracized from their families as well).

i think i'm fortunate on this point in two regards:

first: an overwhelming majority of my extended family is further left leaning that my immediate family due to the fact that they're not white passing like my immediate family is nor did they marry maga-white people like my siblings did. also my extended family is deeply ingrained within a latin american political frame of reference so they already seem radical to my trump-tolerant immediately family.

second: my autism prevents me from ever building a large enough social circle to impact me if i lost access to them; so an individual shunning me has no impact. unfortunately this is a bit of a double edged sword since my autism also gives leftists pause to associate with me, but my anecodotal experience with leftist groups over the last 5-ish decades informs me that most are ephemeral relationships anyways.

... only a century of humiliation on the imperial core will begin the process of reparations

i wonder if there will ever be such a thing considering that original one relied on imperial military dominance where as the other side has no such imperial inclinations.

So I went back to the working-class, in which I had been born and where I belonged. I care no longer to climb. The imposing edifice of society above my head, holds no delights for me. It is the foundation of the edifice that interests me. There I am content to labor, crowbar in hand, shoulder to shoulder, with intellectuals, idealists, and class conscious working men, getting a solid pry now and again, and setting the whole edifice rocking. Someday, when we get a few more hands and crowbars to work, we topple it over, along with all its rotten life and unburied dead, its monstrous selfishness and sodden materialism. Then we’ll cleanse the cellar and build a new habitation for mankind, in which there will be no parlor floor, in which all the rooms will be bright and airy, and where the air that is breathed will be clean, noble, and alive.

i wish i were as optimistic as this protagnist.