r/stupidpol

Throughout the past couple of decades Canadians and Canadian politics can only be described as performative idpol maxxing while we live in an ever worsening capitalist shithole. We think we're soooo much better than Americans because of our free healthcare, LGBT rights, and land acknowledgement, nevermind the fact that we committed genocide against our indigenous population.

Our oligopoly businesses performatively fly rainbow flags and talk about land acknowledgement while actively squeezing the general population out of our ever stagnating paycheques, recording record high profits. Our grocery chains, banks, and telecom companies fking own us.

Our leader is the dictionary definition of a free market shitlib who says all the right things to make Canadians think he's just soooo much smarter and better than Trump(yes he is technically, but that isn't exactly a high bar) because he isn't explicitly racist or bigoted. While he rips apart business taxes and regulations, we haven't exactly been seeing an increase in our QOL.

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I occasionally see this when a Canadian gives their opinion on American politics or wjen Canada is mentioned. Stuff like "you're Canadian", saying that Canada is a reactionary state, saying it should be annexed by the US, etc

Just fucking read. Doesn't matter what you read, Doesn't matter their ideology. Sorel, Lenin, Giovanni Gentile, Marx, Mao, or even James fucking Mason. It doesn't matter, just read more. Get out of your comfort zone and explore. Go beyond dogmatism, know your enemy, etc

McMentum is over 😓

I was just checking out the infamous geo politics sub, and the comments there are comically funny. It reads like some random neocons are wanking each other in a warmongering orgy. That sub feels like an enlightened worldnews gathering, the other infamous sub that is just as hilariously astroturfed.

I'm seriously looking at Lemmy right now, it seems like there is way more value in reading posts and interacting, even if some users there are as braindead as bots here astroturfing. I don't know if stupidpol is active there, but I've seen some good discussions in the "main" communities of Lemmy, something that was possible around 10 years ago on Reddit.

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I love how ukraine slightly soiled the bed with their fucking honoring of nazis and the immediate response is to set their bots on worldnews and europe into overdrive to say well "it's actually the poles' fault, you see" with the occasional whitewashing along the lines of the upa just fighting the ussr and when that becomes too obvious of an astroturf and there is *some* pushback on social media (not that it matters) they go for the old "its actually the russians who did this" with the source being their fucking state media and people just gobble that shit up without questioning and bitch about russian bots and propaganda in the same sentence.

And every comment by an actual organic Polish person who isn't completely comfortable with all of that is shot down.

I'm basing all of this on two threads I scrolled through on worldnews and europe after seeing a bit about the dispute on the television

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Imagine if Bukharin (the true successor to Lenin) won.

Like I'm aware that Leninism began with What is to be Done by Lenin (Also Sorel I guess but he is very complicated) which was a critique of Marxist movements of the time but like what was actually different?

For me it's Bukharin seeing as how China is doing (as Deng was a student of him)