Do you not have people in your life who understand that the police lock people up for bullshit all the time? Why would they assume you deserved it? You need less ignorant people in your life (don't we all)

Woke just means being aware of white supremacy. The blues musician lead belly spoke the first recorded instance of the word in reference to the scottsboro boys.

The ignorant use of this term drives me up a wall.

This, unironically.

If your "circle jerks" involve discussing the nuances of history and political theory, that's just a discussion.

If your "circle jerks" involve spreading imperial lies and frothing at the mouth for genocide, that's a problem.

Unfortunately, it seems the latter is much more acceptable on the Internet overall.

This question only serves to enable mudslinging while hiding behind a homophobic term.

The term is so loaded with homophobia that's it practically useless.

There are communities where leftists can openly discuss leftist theory and (to a lesser extent) praxis without being permabanned for thought crime like most spaces.

I find that fun. I haven't had the opportunity to join a circle jerk, but it sounds fun to me. So, in that sense, the answer to your question is a tentative, horny yes.

but the tianaghur squarocide or something. I heard it on a podcast gimme a sec

Not voting does not give your vote to anyone. It gives your vote to the "did not vote" column, the current undefeated champion of us elections. Do you libs even hear yourselves?

I hope you grow to a point where you can look back on this comment and appreciate what a word salad it is.

Just because it's not one of two flavors of democracy in favor in the "west" doesn't mean it isn't democracy. To me, it's about cooperation as opposed to competition, and the liberal democracies sure suck at cooperating internally. Also, give me the kind that doesn't devolve into fascism and destroy the planet.

Personally, I have always felt that living in a liberal democracy was oversold to me growing up. If I spend most of my life at work yet I can't democratize the workplace, what fucking use is it to me?

For clarification's sake, the coin is capitalism.

I think assassination as a political tool is a few millennia too old to be just a putin thing.

I hope you take a moment and reflect on why you insist on approaching comparative history in this way.

Simply trying to compare kill counts like history is call of duty only serves to dehumanize the victims.

In my view, just one aspect of the U.S. makes it the worst country ever: its role in the ecological crisis. The us is like three corporations in a trench coat, and a us corporation knew about anthropogenic climate change and kept that internal, and that's just one instance of fuckery where there are plenty more. That's the international elephant in the room which nobody seems willing to talk about. We need to also consider all the future atrocities as well as those in the past.