babe wake up new political compass
apparently circulating Chinese interwebs
apparently circulating Chinese interwebs
I'm a westerner and this is very insulting. I am perfectly capable of making myself afraid without the aid of communist China. If you doubt my resolve, know that it rained tonight and I spent a considerable amount of time worrying that I might get wet. I live on the bottom floor of a five story building. Me and dozens of other people would be dead from the building collapse before it is physically possible for me to get damp from the rain. Do you think that stopped me? No. I am a western man. My fear is made of steel.
Apparently posted, or reposted(?), on weibo by user 帽子载缝苏菲 (or on a meme page with that name? Not familiar with chinese social media) - Sophie Hatter from Howl's Moving Castle.
Not only are Chinese weebs more politically-informed and better posters than their western counterparts, it seems they also have better tastes in anime.
every day i pray for the great firewall to come down - the collective Chinese posting power is admirable
yeah this is actually a huge group, it includes all the American GOP anti-ukraine people who still want to fund Israel. It also includes most of India and maybe some of the more reactionary people in China even. Russia used to have very close ties to Israel and a lot of Israeli citizens are dual Israel-Russia citizenship.
The group I doubt the size of is top-left, although there's probably a good chunk of western radlibs in there.
Yea, the average Indian silicon valley tech bro/BJP supporter. They support Russia because of India's strong relationship and history of support during famines
And they hate Muslims
I'm not making this shit up I talk to a lot of Indian silicon valley tech workers
It's correct that if you oppose and understand the geopolitical context, you'll be in the top right, so that quadrant makes sense in the context of those who oppose .
It's also basically a gigachad meme, so I think it's meant to be self-flattering.
I promise I'm the one good anti-war guy, not this compass's definition of "anti-war" though
I used to have fantasies as a kid where the soldiers on both sides of an imagined conflict refused to keep shooting. Then I thought about the political situation it would cause and that the former combatants would need protection from third parties to not get executed for desertion, which made me realize that a cessation of warfare would have to be an international effort, yadda yadda yadda hello communism
EDIT: okay also I'd like to point out I was imagining something like a proxy war in these fantasies, I'm not opposed to anti-colonial uprisings at all
Just look at the christmas truce in WW1. The officers had to move the soldiers to other battles so they would be willing to kill again.
Yes I am exactly at the top middle
The difference in badness between Ukraine and Russia is on like the World War 1 alliance vs entente scale
No idea which comments you're talking about, but maybe they just disagree with you? Just repeating the same stuff isn't necessarily going to convince someone - is reciting Leninist theory supposed to be a magic spell to force people to agree with you? If you think it's impossible for somebody to be a communist and oppose Russia in the war, you live in an online bubble.
MFW the Amerikkkan state must be playing 72D chess because the dogs of the US empire apparently support Israel and Russia.
Russia and Israel are both more militarily powerful than the countries they're at war with.
I saw a person who posted this on Twitter who said it used to say "India" but they changed it bc thats too spicy for Twitter
I know multiple people like this, including a self-proclaimed trot, what are you talking about
Maybe like a handful of western radlibs, or arabs/muslims who work for the US government or associated NGO industrial-complex
Plenty of lib western muslims who have always given a superficial support to Palestine in the same way they supported BLM and pride, with flags and maybe a petition or donation to a charity but might by into the Ukraine-Russia narrative and the Trump derangement syndrome. This would make them pro palestine and pro ukraine.
Radlibs and even others are starting to turn on zionism a bit after a week of Zionist massacres and war crimes and the shock of the Hamas attack wearing off. Others are starting to notice this, even western media is starting to back off a lot of claims they were pushing earlier. Reuters journalists were killed by IDF and BBC journalists were interrogated and searched at gunpoint. Israel tried to use fake AI images of dead babies and made up obvious lies like "beheaded 40 babies" and never put forward any proof. Israel is making statements to the UN like "1.1 million residents of northern gaza have 24 hours to evacuate to southern gaza before it's open season" and then just bombing the refugee convoys evacuating south. People are seeing this.
It’s a Chinese meme not a political compass. The meme maker is working on a different dimension, it’s not a reference to the polcomp
It’s also an objectively correct meme
can't believe memes have evolved so much they can be objectively correct and incorrect now
they used to all just be stick figure faces with exaggerated emotions