I'm in China, studying socialism and propaganda. Every other week or I check the top posts, but that's about it. I'm a lot happier.
The funny thing is; the Market Liberals are the most open to cozying up to China, as they're just following the money. The Dutch left has seemingly been trying to emulate Obama era politics and is wholly disconnected from leftism, willing to even give up socialwelfarism as long as it means they can be part of the inner circle.
I like picking up stuff, and being in China playing with Europeans means it takes me around 20 seconds to get the loot window to open... 😢
Already pre-purchased it. Want to find someone to play with, but considering the fact I'm in China I can't but worry about the latency.
Actually stumbled up on that one. Got really weirded out by it being read in that accent.
I could give it another try. What did you think of it?
My family situation is the complete opposite of yours. I didn't become a socialist because of my family situation, but rather despite of it. Even though my family are literal fascists, I don't really have right-wing friends as I made the pleasant mistake of deciding to make friends with non-native looking people. Once you hang out with one person of colour it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Friends that have even a single racist bone in their body will soon try to create distance between the both of you when they find out that "you inviting that black/brown fellah" is a common occurrence. I'm not suggesting all right-wingers are racist, but if those two ven diagrams overlap quite a lot. Sadly most of these "other people" not wanting to hang out with us mostly happened with other ex-pats white (or Chinese natives) in China, though that might have to do with it being a lot easier to make new friends in ex-pat communities.
One of them literally spent a few months with me in China. The other, while not a good friend, I did enjoy a few dinners and hours commuting with. Knowing that a person is disgusted by you to a point where they'd rather just forget the many many hours you've spent together all because of a propaganda campaign launched by a doomsday cult in collaboration with the US government really puts things in perspective.
I have the feeling that if I lived through the worst of McCarthyism these same people would have me handed over to the central authorities, or worse if I lived in Indonesia during their genocide campaigns they'd personally take me to the beach, plant me face first in the sand and put a bullet through my head. What propaganda can do to people never fails to surprise me.
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