Average liberal.
The liberal brain has most superior reflexes. If it detects any danger of being exposed to new facts that would contradict the existing opinion all operations are shut down immediately.
My mother legit thought she had a better opinion on communism, I then realized the only marxist work she ever read was the fuckin manifesto in college
SHE WAS A FUCKIN LIBERTARIAN IN COLLEGE TOO
Like 99.9% of anti-communists have read close to ZERO theory (maybe the Manifesto and even that is unlikely).
Also amazingly enough, despite the fact that they usually tell you to ‘read a history/economic book’, most of them haven’t read hardly anything since college or high school.
Even then, chances are, given the education system, that encounter was likely an extract or a summary.
I hate liberals insistence that observing the differences in outcome of socialist vs capitalist systems is as easy as looking at what goes on behind one imaginary line and behind the other. Even moreso, they put complete faith in the media they consume, which is the only window they have into how life and systems actually are in socialist countries. They don’t question it at all. Ive already talked about this before, but the bubble they live in influences their opinion on this a lot as well. They don’t understand at all how actually unequal and impoverished their countries actually are. They really think everyone lives like them, or at least most people do. When it couldn’t be further from the case.
They also think that no matter how bad the USA was/is/will be, it’s worse everywhere else. USA education and culture have perfected the cultivation of anti-intellectualism.
Exactly. It’s why when poor working Americans speak up about their conditions, the upper class hammers down with “quit complaining at least you’re not in (insert random African nation)!” It’s all relative, and you have to have a class analysis when observing this. The poor working class in America, struggling to get by, being forced to work two jobs or overtime to feed themselves or their family, is not all that better than a poor African just because they aren’t literally starving or have access to an iphone. The immiseration and inequality is still there, and it’s not something that can be justified by simply stating that its a little worse somewhere else. There is still an exploited underclass in America, how poor the rest of the world is doesn’t negate that fact. It’s unfortunate that many poor in America internalize this though, and think “it could be worse”. It’s never thought that “it could be better”.
“Full disclosure - I have not read”
Could have stopped it right there.
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uwu I’m a liberal I can’t read anything that conflicts with my worldview because it makes me uncoooomfortable 🥺
No investigation, no right to comment
“I’ll admit I haven’t read it but here’s why you can trust my dogshit take” - liberals
No time to read, but enough time to opine.
Maoist China vs Taiwan…
Difference between anarchists and liberals: anarchists don’t read, libs only read Harry Potter
