This is just a vent post. I don’t really use reddit much, but I’m getting increasingly tired of the anti-materialist perspectives and obsessive purists who refused to engage with the actual lives of people whom they supposedly seek the emancipation of.

This was just sorta sparked by yet another ignorant post about Venezuela that I’m honestly getting too tired to debate over, but it’s just been a culmination of different factors.

I’m just glad the Grad is willing to have mutual respect amongst eachother. As well as the fact that it’s not filled with as many vague posters or utterly pigheaded people.

Again this is just a stream of consciousness vent. Obviously reddit is gonna be filled with the most excruciatingly annoying people on earth but I was at least hoping an ostensibly ML sub would be able to fucking take into consideration that the pedophile genocide regime has no qualms about butchering thousands. I’m well aware of the funked situation Venezuela is in and how stomach turning it is to see all the concessions they are making.

However how is it that so many redditors can’t see the fact that the US was ready to do to Venezuela 10x what it’s doing to Iran? Has my brain just been fried by the images of corpses these past few months, let alone years, to where I want to avert the possibility of seeing more? I really can’t tell why it’s so unclear to them. The images of death across Iran, across Palestine, across Sudan, I can’t get them out of my head when I think about Venezuela’s potential fate, and I’m not sure if it’s impeding my ability to see these other Communists perspectives.

Apologies for the vent post, I’ll probably just sleep this off by tomorrow. Hopefully with some more better news on the Iran War thread, whatever that may be.

  • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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    28 days ago

    I take your point, it’s one that has been posted here a couple times and I can’t help but doubt it. I don’t have a well thought-out refutation, but I don’t see any verification either. The series of events we’ve seen can fit a tactical retreat due to overwhelming force, or it could be a capitulation with a side of placating there public and ideological allies.

    I’ve long come to not hold it against anyone, who opposed China in around the period 1975-2013. The mountains of evidence we’ve got to support the PRC bring a proper workers’ state largely wasn’t there. In the case of Venezuela, I haven’t seen enough to fully accept that this has been a retreat, and I don’t see anything on the horizon to properly quell the doubt. I hold out hope in my heart in any case.

    Honestly, I’m just happy my opinion doesn’t come up on the subject, I feel as easy to sway as an autumn leaf.