Former KGB member explains how communists are taking over America

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[–]StillLessons 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

More and more I'm coming to the conclusion that to blame "communists", or "socialists", or "cabalists", or "capitalists", or etc. etc. is missing the fundamental point. What's more important is that a huge vocal chunk of the population is going along with this. Tens of millions of people are now willing to actively defend ideas that just a few years ago would have been (correctly) thought authoritarian. College students are protesting in favor of personal restrictions placed upon them. The entire concept of a voluntary cooperation between population and state seems to be going out the window. It's not "communists"; it's your co-worker you see every day. I am hearing this kind of crap from people I know. Unless we convince those around us that none of us (me included) has the "right" answer to impose upon all of us, all these words describing "them" who are doing this to "us" will be useless.

[–]Barcodetilter 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I had a high school friend group who I've known for 13 years that I kept in touch with through group chat after school. We barely saw eachother after graduating but we'd still be on the group chat everyday fucking around and trying to make eachother laugh. Then I witnessed this slow and awful slide firsthand. It seemed to start when a bunch of them joined Twitter. Most of them became extremely far-left but more importantly hostile to anyone who wasn't. They also seemed to more or less stop having thoughts of their own and would share tweets of other people's opinions more often than say anything substantive themselves. Most of it was about how anyome not far-left was a terrible person. I've never cared too much to get into politics but I had to carry around the secret knowledge that they would hate me and call me a right-wing bigot if they knew that I was basically centrist and not onboard with their leftwing extremism and it hurt. I just couldn't believe that they couldn't see how things used to be so much better and more fun for everyone before they got that way and what that might mean about the effects of their beliefs. I don't think they were having fun either anymore cause everyone just seemed mad all the time. Had to leave and it hurt. But it hurts more to see the same thing going down on a large scale. We're building a world where people aren't allowed to be people with their differences and points of view. You'll be allowed to be gay, black, trans etc. but you won't be allowed to be a complex person. Pretty bad tradeoff imo.