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I'll never understand why it's so hard for some people to understand that the US is literally an evil empire that exploits, oppresses, and murders people all over the world. Of course all rightwing governments suck, but it's easy to see that the US is the primary enemy of leftist movements across the planet. If we want communism, we need the US to collapse and movements all over the place preventing the vacuum from being filled by something worse.
Idk seems like anyone left of liberals would understand this.
"I'm comfortable which means the US can't be that bad"
Similar reasoning for why suburbanites generally don't care about police violence.
I think it literally is because books like 1984 and other propaganda has given people this idea that "authoritarian" countries are just this miserable 24/7 nightmare for everyone who lives in them and therefore any country that has any significant population of people who seem happy and comfortable can't be evil. It's like how liberals shit their pants when they hear accounts of people living in the USSR who actually enjoyed their lives and did fun stuff like go to the beach and have barbecues cuz apparently under evil communism everyone is just supposed to work in the orphan crushing factory all day and then go home to eat gray mush.
"In bad countries, the color pallet is dark gray or tan. In good country, they use all the colors of the rainbow."
Russia isnt even that authoritarian so in this case it’s literally propaganda