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I'm pretty left, yada yada whatever, y'all seem to know things I wanna know. Curious where you get your info and such and so on. Idk show me stuff, I wanna depropagandize myself.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is your current general sense of actually existing socialist countries (current or historical)? This might be a good place to get a better understanding of some concepts.

Also take a look over here for some of the basics topics if you need to gauge your political development: https://hexbear.net/c/librehab

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Generally speaking I think I view china negatively but that's probably because I live in America and honestly don't know much about it. Sinophobia etc etc. But honestly until recently the only other socialist country I even knew existed was Vietnam.

I think more authoritarian governments just make me a bit nervous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Comrade, you need to get on board with the Cuba pill. Listen to Blowback Season 2 and embrace the fidel-cool

I'll just say that Blowback, in general, is great for the Imperialist brainworms. While season 1 is Iraq, which most people "know", the following seasons are really incredible in developing some of the insanity that amerikkka has engaged in over the 20th c.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seconding Blowback, I'm six episodes in and went from "Hmm I feel icky about Cuba" to "Holy fucking shit I can't believe we would do that to them, I unequivocally support Cuba"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The news from Cuba is even better since the season aired. Their constitution is now more progressive to LGBTQ people than amerikkka