There’s only a few marginal threads praising her intelligence and pragmatism. Lmao

https://redlib.privadency.com/r/worldnews/comments/1o37wxu/venezuelas_opposition_leader_machado_dedicates/

Everything’s so performative with liberals. There’s no introspection regarding what their “protest” seeks to achieve; do they really expect fascists to somehow step down after performing the role of the victim?

Reeducation is indeed needed. But people won’t easily engage with it as is.

Let’s be honest, most do not engage with rational thought as much as with their emotions and intuition, especially when the hegemonic, mainstream media has tamed our minds with bourgeois propaganda.

Instead, we need incentivize reeducation: feeding an impoverished neighbourhood for free once a week; open a free clinic and provide vaccination; offer cheap after-school courses for their kids, so forth. And work on publicity. The people, especially those who are directly benefiting, will then probably think, “those communists ain’t that bad after all,” and will therefore be more open to learn to see things from a materialist perspective.

And this strategy has worked in the past and is even working with Islamist groups. Why do you think Hamas and Hezbollah have popular support? Because they offer their communities many quality services (healthcare, education, alimentation, etc.) which the bourgeois state would never have given them. And while most of their supporters and sympathisers are not strictly islamists — indeed, not even strictly religious — they nonetheless believe that these groups have the people’s interest in mind.

You’re absolutely right in your observation. I believe there is a stoic attitude of sorts that pervades the logic of the average worker under the western capitalist system. The supposition is that the latter is outside of one’s control, so there is no point in trying to change it; it is rather more useful to change one’s own feelings towards it. Absolutely no compromise: either you accept it as part of “nature”, or you spend the rest of your life suffering (mentally).

USA citizens in particular have been continuously consuming anticommunist propaganda for a century, to the point where it became inconceivable to imagine a system other than the capitalist mode of production. And so, despite being cognizant of its severe injustice, they were led to believe that they can only cope with it. In fact, the sample of comments above clearly demonstrate this: these people are in exactly in the same spot as OOP, yet their ferocious attack against their fellow proletarian serves as their coping mechanism.

Is this reversible? Perhaps it could be, but we are facing a multi-billion propaganda machine that knows no exhaustion.

Redlib link: https://redlib.privadency.com/r/self/comments/1nwan1k/nothing_worth_having_in_life_comes_easily/

From the tankiejerk comm they manage. I’m still not sure what I should gather from it.

“We are not the same”