See, it’s not that the observation is necessarily wrong. The problem is that most of the time the people who bring this up are missing the point. Yes, I would prefer that the Russian Federation’s and the Islamic Rep. of Iran’s working masses have more political power, but griping about them over and over again is a waste of time that distracts us from how neoimperialism has been threatening both.
If this were the early 1940s, I wouldn’t distract people from the Fascist bombing of the United Kingdom by spewing ‘But Britain and Germany are both bad.’ Yeah. They are. That isn’t the goddamn point right now.
I really love the quote how an egg broken from the outside is food, but one broken from the inside is life. It’s such a perfect allegory for why values cannot be imposed from the outside.
See, it’s not that the observation is necessarily wrong. The problem is that most of the time the people who bring this up are missing the point. Yes, I would prefer that the Russian Federation’s and the Islamic Rep. of Iran’s working masses have more political power, but griping about them over and over again is a waste of time that distracts us from how neoimperialism has been threatening both.
If this were the early 1940s, I wouldn’t distract people from the Fascist bombing of the United Kingdom by spewing ‘But Britain and Germany are both bad.’ Yeah. They are. That isn’t the goddamn point right now.
Libs when bombs are dropping be like: “this is the perfect time to talk about the oppressive regime of Iran 🤓”
I would argue that it isn’t just a distraction. That same threat is a large contributor to working masses not having more political power.
I really love the quote how an egg broken from the outside is food, but one broken from the inside is life. It’s such a perfect allegory for why values cannot be imposed from the outside.