I mean it’s called the imperial boomerang, what you export comes back to you.

It’s obviously a good thing, but how is it praxis?

That is one cesspool of a comment section.

Have you ever talked to anime fans? It’s probably similar.

Were the libs around here purged or something? Where’s the usual SPD dickriding?

Allied

*Entente. You have made a small mistake hence your opinion is invalid.

And replace it with a repressive secular vassal state. That sounds so much better I wonder why nobody tried that before.

Dogpiling with neocolonialists is a good thing. What “great things” do you think he wants to do in Iran?

from the past decade.

Make that “three centuries.” This shit did not start in 2016.

ICE don’t care about the law, as evidenced by everything they’ve done ever.

I mean, you have massive protests all over Iran. I’d say that’s enough.

I gotchu fam.

Feudalism moment.

Even if that’s what’s going on in Iran, no, it is in fact a revolution if one top is overthrowing another top as long as there’s enough non-top participation, which there is in Iran. What you’re thinking of is social revolution, which is a subcategory of revolution.

Relevant.

I don’t doubt the US was cheering and helping things along, but really the Soviet Union (specifically Communist Party hardliners) killed the Soviet Union, just like America is now killing America. Empires that big only die by war or suicide.

Protests can work, but only if it triggers a government overreaction.

True, but that’s the thing: Only disruptive protests can trigger a government overreaction. As authoritarianism takes hold the definition of “disruptive” becomes more expansive, but at least as it stands right now the kind of protests we’ve seen so far won’t cut it.

Especially against fascists who are often very good at portraying themselves as the victims.

I think there needs to be a lot more “spicy” resistance before violence becomes viable, but to be fair people who buy bullshit fascist narratives and people who would join anti-fascist resistance are probably two non-intersecting circles on a Venn diagram. I mean have you seen how MAGAts talk about Renee Good? These guys do not live in reality.

or you end up with another Horst Wessel or Charlie Kirk.

Not sure who the former is, but the killing of Charlie Kirk was a net good. The fascists aren’t doing anything they wouldn’t already do, and now there’s no more Charlie Kirk pushing fascist narratives.

what the fuck do we do?

If you’re American, organize locally. Agitation is nice and all, but at this stage I suspect you’d be more screaming at a wall than anything else. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink, as they say, so right now it’s better to get some infrastructure ready for when shit hits the far. If you’re not American, then frankly there’s nothing you can do except hope for the best and brace for the worst, in which case welcome to the club.

Hoping and playing people educate themselves, or pushing people who already mostly have similar base ideals to realize the logical conclusions of our current systems and what this administration is trying to do, and act accordingly?

Education is nice, but there are better ways to do that than policing memes on a small leftist community in the corner of the internet.

I have to say, Fauda is an amazing name for an anarchist organization. That’s “chaos” or "anarchy“ in Arabic.

The country of Tiananmen Square?

True but irrelevant.

The country whose people practically develop an ever-changing coded language to avoid big brother coming down hard on any sort of criticism?

Yes. I never said that China tolerates criticism, but that doesn’t mean Chinese people live in fear of their government. An incompetent government will have criticism coming from every which way, necessitating draconian measures and exaggerated crackdowns, which does lead to fear (ask me how I know). This isn’t the case for China because, despite their faults and the evil shit they get up to, Chinese people are generally satisfied with their governance. Fear isn’t an automatic result of authoritarianism; it appears when there’s too little carrot and too much stick.

The country that runs “reeducation” camps for many who do get caught?

True but irrelevant.

The country that has Uyghurs and Tibetans to blame “within,” and Japan without? Or the US?

Source? Not for their oppression of Uighurs and Tibetans, or rivalry with the US and Japan, I know about these, but that they’re using any of these as scapegoats for their own troubles. Oppression can be motivated by things other than scapegoating, and it’s not like China is lacking in real reasons to oppose the US and Japan. Without something that corroborates your claim this is just a non-sequitur.

Where senior cadres of the party magically grow richer?

This is just a non sequitur. Senior CCP officials are rich, but the other half of your claim “everyone else pretty much won’t” goes against everything we know about Chinese economic growth.

I mean it’s better than nothing?

Nope. It’s a do-nothing release valve, kind of like taking a painkiller and pretending your arm hasn’t been chopped off.

Sure it could always be more but I feel like pushing for more resistance and better protests is better than just making fun of it.

Probably, but this is c/leftymemes, not r/howtoeducateliberalsmemes. Also Americans tend to be very resistant to the idea that they should do more.