If you want to say China is overpolicing a minority group that the US actively funds terrorist recruitment for, then yeah, I’ve agreed that that’s probably true multiple times.

This is whataboutism.

but that’s not the same as calling China “capitalism with marxist aesthetics”, ignoring all the incredible good they’ve done for their domestic poor over the last three decades, which is all I fucking see.

And this is defending capitalism cause China does it. The whole “China has lifted so many people out of poverty” isn’t far off from the “boot straps” mythology thrown around in defense of capitalism, or the whole defense of neoliberal policy “offering opportunity and building the middle class”. It’s hilarious to me that people start defending capitalism when it’s a discussion over China. No quote on quote “socialist” country has produced more billionaires than China. Their working class is exploited and paid literal poverty wages. But that’s all A-OK to you guys cause they call themselves communist and the country itself is this wonderful, amazing communist utopia, just with sweatshops and a mass wealth inequality between rich and poor.

When you have to make excuses for a “socialist” country having a billionaire class, you will defend anything until it is capitalism in name only.

The worship for Xi on this site is some of the most annoying shit on here. The OP is 100% correct in everything on her main post, and #2 especially. It’s lefty pol. The worship for Xi isn’t any different from the pol chuds worshiping Trump.

Elon Musk is basically Donald Trump for nerds. His followers are no different than the screaming MAGA chuds.

Feels like an empty gesture like when they finally banned The_Donald. They already moved to r/conservative and The Donald win site over 2 years ago.

Reddit should go after the many, many subs full of open and proud neonazis on there. They can start with stupidpol.

This is pretty much DHS all over again. When it first came about in 2001, there were only a few people saying it wouldn’t take long for the organization to be infiltrated and run by white supremacists.

This is Biden’s reaction to all of this and he’s doing exactly as I and others predicted; building more authoritarian police state stuff, which will be used by our future real deal fascist leader down the line.

kinda wonder how many conservatives “on the edge” of fascist radicalization this whole thing have pushed fully into the Trump camp versus how many were pushed firmly away

Early polls have shown that the wide majority of conservatives supported the attempted coup and were happy to witness it. Trump has the highest approval rating among conservatives of an elected president since Ronald Reagan.

Libs are morons and live in a fantasy land and don’t want to come to terms with the fact that Republicans are not going to go “come back to their senses” or “go back to normal”. They were never normal. They love Trump because he is them and says the quiet parts out loud, being mean and hateful towards people they loathe.

Trump is basically Reagan on steroids. If he were still alive, he’d be cheering him and proud of his destruction of the federal government and all the neocons enriching themselves from the presidency.

She had her office broken into and vandalized, being forced to flee in fear, and yet this is her response…

Dems are such cowards. They’ll be too busy arguing about making sure our cages have pillows and blankets while we’re hauled off to camps.

The liberal response will absolutely be to increase police budgets, authorise more lethal force and police powers, increase surveillance capability and possibly even more draconian forms of pre-crime arrest. They’ll give fascist a dream suite of weapons to ensure absolute success as well as further entrenching the psychology of law enforcement as the vanguard of the country, the makers of its destiny, the only thing standing between the dangerous masses and the country’s existence.

Sadly true. We saw that from libs after all the BLM protests during the summer. “Police reform” is such a joke. Citations Needed did an excellent episode on this where they talked about how all the police reform talks after the Ferguson riots just resulted in them getting even more bloated budgets and tools. It led to the whole body cams and those have been proven to be useless since in court, the body cams will often be used as evidence to defend the police.

All libs are doing is whining about how the police sided with the fascists, and I highly doubt any Dems in Congress are going to push to investigate them for corruption or anything. Instead, we’ll probably get an investigation over that woman they shot and killed yesterday since the right wing will make her into a martyr. The movie Serpico proves how useless their investigations are into corruption anyway. That movie and the real life Frank Serpico documented NYPD corruption in the 1970s. The NYPD only continued to get worse as decades went on.

Great reply, thank you. I 100% agree that it’s a radicalization point. This whole thing is a wet dream for the far right. Your post made me think of the 90s era militia types. They have been waiting for a moment like this for decades and seeing it, they have to be happy.

We’ll likely see it again in the future. As my original post states, it was a test run for the future. I expect to see them do crazier things now in states with local governments.

This is the reaction from the far right that many of us are anticipating during Biden’s presidency. We haven’t seen anything yet. They are going to get a lot crazier and scarier under another neoliberal president.

Meanwhile Trump himself was only excited to see a big crowd cheering him on. He backed down like a coward as he always does after all the tough talk.

It is amazing to me how these people put everything on the line and literally worship a reality TV star who has only been using the presidency to enrich himself, his family and his cronies. They had to invent the Q shit just to explain why Trump wasn’t making American great again for them.