Comradeship // Freechat

And most of those movies rehabilitate the actual bad guys. Still, if you've also seen the movie, you can add a little, 'and this is what really happened'. Or insist (with examples and am explanation) that these events cannot be understood I'm isolation. One of the propaganda functions of movies is to make it seem like capitalist atrocities are one offs or committed by a bad apple. Just don't fall out with your family over it.

To answer your question:

• Seeing politics exclusively as party politics
• Thinking that either nothing can be done or that the solution is electoral
• Thinking that reforms will solve our problems
• Refusing to understand that Stalin is dead (I know, it's hard to accept 😥) and so could have no control over a revolution today – i.e. they insist that socialism cannot work because they dislike the only example they think they understand; and fail to understand that a revolution means that they will be in power and can take whatever decisions they like.

Maybe these aren't that weird. But they are tedious and annoying.

I feel like lots of liberals I know think a majority of homeless people are drug addled hopeless causes. They don’t hate them, but don’t think they can be helped. Won’t think of rent hikes as the larger cause, or the reality not a huge percent of people between homes are on drugs

My mother is a decent person but she thinks the Fr*nch shouldn't protest the age of retirement increasing because "we did it" where I live. I explained that she's still working with a broken body at her advanced age because of that decision and she just looked blankly at me. She couldn't process how she's actively getting fucked by the system because she can't imagine any other way of operating the economy.