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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The "He's just insane and does bad things for inexplicable insane reasons" is very popular with American Liberals. Like we clown on them for not having material analysis or even having a concept of material analysis and then they largely prove it by ascribing the behavior of any world forces that oppose their regime to mental illness. Saddam? Putin? Xi? Fidel? All of them insane! Stark raving bonkers. Because the world runs on vibes, not the competing material interests of classes and states.

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The other mode of thought that I often encounter (through my mom, who pre 2016 media overdosing actually had some class instinct) is that you can't counter any negative assertion made about someone "bad," even if it's not true. It'll manifest with her saying something like "well, on top of everything else, Putin doesn't even do anything. He's really lazy." Then I'll say something like "How the fuck do you know?" Then you get accused of defending Putin. It's anti-materialism.

      Don't even bother asking a question like "why did 9/11 actually happen?" If you try to find a solution by starting with the reality of a situation you might as well be Osama himself.