.ml losers are gonna love this.

I feel like thats a bit dishonest, saying it like that kind of implies that instability and violence in the region is only a result of western imperialism, and kind of ignored both non western imperialist influences on the area and the deep history of internal conflict in the region.

I think at this point, by dry weight I am 20% ham, 20% mince pie, 20% cheese (mostly camembert and Wensleydale) 20% chocolate and 20% Christmas cake.

Ah yes because there was never any war or violence in that area before the British Empire… Right?

To me, madness - one step beyond is definitive ska

Fighting tyranny doesn’t mean going to war with the US military.

It can be things like black panther style community patrols. A lot of states are open carry, you could set up armed community patrols around your neighbourhood, and that would make the brownshirts a lot less likely to drop in and start abducting people.

support for Russia is strategic, support for China is because they are an actual socialist country.

This sentence here invalidates anything else you might say. If you “strategically” support the imperialist, authoritarian capitalist power just because they are in opposition to a different imperialist capitalist power, then it’s not actually about oppossing imperialism or capitalism is it? You’re just being a contrarian.

Same with China, it’s not a socialist country is it? The workers don’t have actually power, the party does and the workers can’t chose the party, china still has it’s Uber rich capitalist class that profit off the back of the workers. In fact it’s more of a capitalist hellhole than many western nations, but again tankies will ignore all that and blindly support then because of Pure contrarianisn to US bullshit.

So you guys are just raging hypocrites that will support whatever bullshit, no matter how bad as long it’s vaguely anti-american/anti-western. So you’re as opposed to ACTUAL progress as even the most diehard neo-con, the only difference being how smug and holier than thou you lot are about and the fact that you really should know better.

I mean I expected this when I decided to engage with a .ml but still, it’s like you’re reading a completely different comment from the one I wrote.

So against my better judgement I will try to engage you in good faith for a bit longer:

I specified tankies and purity test leftists as different entities for a reason. Tankies do often make good points about western imperialism, the problem (and what makes them tankies) is there blind support for anyone and anything that opposes western imperialism, no matter how bad they are, which is usually support for russian/Chinese imperialism/authoritarian regimes.

Then the purity testers are the ones who will just pointlessly infight about semantics in theory. Like for a real life example, I got purity tested earlier this year for saying I think there’s a difference between systemic racism and an individual act of racism, and anyone can be the victim of an individual act of racism. And apparently that makes me as bad as the KKK.

So in summary I’m happy to talk to you guys about the how bad the effects of western imperialism is and how we to actively fight against it, so long as you don’t claim Russia and China are the good guys, in spite of all the evil shit they do, simply because they are a force that isn’t western.

I mean, you can view it that way if you like, but I feel like if you’re being an actually reasonable person, you can acknowledge there is a big difference between a purity test that about some politicians policy on benefits for homeless people not being enough, and a purity test of not assassinating political opponents or just straight up being an authoritarian.

Mostly to get away from the liberals, rightists, bots, trolls and capitalists losers.

So while the tankies and the terminally online purity test leftists are shitty, it’s at least not as bad as all the bullshit on Reddit and they are a small minority.

Cope

Cool that’s not what you’re doing though. You’re fetishizing an entire subculture because you think it looks hot.

Bro it’s not hard to just be a decent person.

Bro stop being obtuse. Just have some common decency for fuck sake and Stop fetishizing people.

This whole thread is just more evidence for why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of Brits for our food.

Yes I agree, but the whole “big toddy goth GF” meme is 100% fetishization

I mean none of the alternative people I know are into being fetishized like that. In fact they absolutely hate it.

Why do dudes that fetishize “”“goth”“” girls all look exactly like you would expect them to.

All these dudes that fetishize “”“goth”“” girls all look the same.

In the middle of mine rn, shit is going great I have like 5 social events lined up in the 2 weeks after Christmas and 4 dates as well. I feel like I could fight god.

Nothing can possibly go wrong.