What do you mean, capitalists only want to accumulate their capital? I am total shocked and shaking right now, because now one could know it. Probably the CIA found it out, they find everything out, I tell you! Do you think capitalist would also sell to someone the strick with which they will hanged? I have to take medicine daily now, because my golden heart, my golden bourgeois fat heart is aching so much.

we, the ‘whites’, should be proud of our ‘accomplishments’ and how it’s badass that ‘we’ conquered the entire world.

What about Mongols? Wasn’t there a famous dude who expanded the empire till Poland? Does it count or is the skin colour not white enough?

It is enough if you wouldn’t spot them so easily. Most of the time it is not easy to guess where someone is from. But an average US-American will mostly reveal itself through the behaviour I observed.

“America #1 best nation” from the minute we’re born until the day we die, from any of the following list: parents, teachers, preachers, TV, movies, etc.

Funny is that I remember how television channels here where flooded with cheap documentaty films from the US when I was a child. Biggest/Mightiest/Strongest what ever and it was often some military stuff. Or prison stuff, where the prisoners where obviously struggling. Worst thing was, that its hard to know if it was staged or not: “America, fuck yeah! Look at those criminal scum which is suffering, beaten up by police because they are still not behaving”. This sounds like pure satire.

This is also a good explanation. Thanks!

I have also tried to adopt a view like “if I don’t know about this other culture, I won’t try to speak for it”. So sometimes I make a point to emphasize my views are based around the US cultural context.

It would be soooo great, if more people could be that way!

To call them ruskis is pure ignorance. I hate that. If you don’t know the difference, that’s not a problem. Everyone makes mistakes and you can learn. But just ignoring it is next level. People are born in different countries, and also speak a specific language and grow up by experiencing culture which developed for several hundred years and probably far far more. Then some asshole behaves like it doesn’t exist, knowing the difference for sure.

I will say on racism though that Europeans, east and west, sure have their own special flavors of it. I mean, the entire Balkans, lol. Call a Serb an Albanian and see how they respond. It’s ethnic division and such, so it’s different, but also much the same. Brits, French, and Germans are currently all working together to figure out the most efficient way to explode boats of refugees fleeing to the EU. They’re all extremely reactionary towards Arabs/Muslims in a way that Americans are towards Mexicans and South Americans.

Europe (Not EU, entire Europe) is not less racist then the USA. How racism works is different and has historically developed this way in each of those places. But I still experience that people from US are believing that racism generally works like it appears there. That is normal if you don’t know about other places in the world, I am not blaming.

But ignoring it, despite being shown that it is indeed different in other places, is weird. Caucasian, Black, Something with Spain and South America plus Asia won’t help in understanding why calling Russians “orcs” is racism. It makes all sense if you talk about racism in the US. But other parts in the world? Not so much. Racism includes not just skin colour. It is far far more then that of course.

It would literally make me burst into laughter if a Brit or French person said Americans are racist implying their countries are not.

There are many ways how someone can be a racist. One is to clearly believe, that something like human races indeed exist and thinking that a group is inferior or superior. An other way is to do the same, but lying to yourselt:“I don’t hate people from North Africa, we just don’t have so much place! And also criminality is high within them, our society won’t survive it. It is not racism, this are facts. We can’t save the whole world, there is nothing to do about it.”

Later one is well present in Europe.

Remember when western countries maked fun of Tito, Breschnew and so on, because they are sooo old? Hahaha, look at those old apparatchiks in the CCCP, Breschnew was 76 years old when he died! But look now at Biden and Trump.

I dont see where this happened. So I can drive to Italy and experience that “the generation” is ruined? Are there any clues for that? And why only western world? Have generations in other countries an immunity against it? There is internet in other countries too.

Where did it ruined a entire generation? In which country? I don’t see any evidence for it, also not in this video.

This video has this doomerism and click bait vibes. You know, everything is ruined and doomed now. Generation ruined, music ruined, booms are ruined etc. Its over.

So that’d be something, so to just lure her to talk about food and then what? I’m not Gordon Ramsay, but my brother can make something I guess so he could do it. Sister talks with her all the time though so not like it would be something new.

It was just a an example. Talk about something else, at least something you have in common. Falling for her provocations doesn’t help at all.

My older sister talks and fights with her about this stuff all the time and can’t get through her no matter how she explains, if she can’t after all this time then idk who can and how.

Is there any need for it? You are probably riding a dead horse.

She is the person who is nose deep into Feng Shui, Astrology nonsense and ‘‘traditional medicine’’, rambles about it from time to time and you can’t get to her senses.

In this case: If you don’t want an argument, ignore it. If something is questioned towards you, dodge it somehow. Quacker’s are awful to talk with.

“Aunt, I dont know much about the topic you are talking about, would like to recommend me a nice recipe for a cake?”. For real, I often lure annoying people into a talk about food and especially soups. Because I absolutely love soups and I put a lot of time to make a really great soup.

There is not much you can do I guess, mostly dodging. She is obviously stubborn. My stupid ass mother talked the same about video games, like your aunt about anime. For real. Video Games is something for children, doesn’t matter which game it is, because there is the word G.A.M.E and only children play games. Like wtf, its like this Spongebob episode, where he wanted to act like an adult: Not having fun at all and listen to jazz.

Otherwise, if you are interested to make your next meeting with her into a nuclear argument, you can introduce her to Hentai and also ask her, if it is ok show it children. Why not, its Also there are good BL Manhwas and Manhuas, not the shitty ones you are thinking right now about. Samuel L. Jackson was somehow an absolutely stupid idiot, so much, that he is aworldwide known.

Like she is so fragile to be offended at a simple ironic joke and then ramble about it the next 30 minutes, something is generally, unironically, terribly wrong with her and I can’t deny that I’m worried because she’s family, whatever happened to her is uncertain considering that it’s getting a lot worse last years.

That’s difficult. A bit also depending on how old you are, the family dynamic and the cultural background. Maybe you will get one day the possibility to ask her, what is going on and that you are worried.

Don’t give up, it is really annoying shit and can relate to you. If your family gathering happens, use sometimes the possibility to rant or shitpost here, if it helps you

Maybe don’t think that much about it. Just enjoy the time with your comrade. Friendship can develop between comrades but also can relationships. Watching films together can develop in each of those things. But don’t force yourself into a certain thinking. Don’t think “only friendship, nothing else”, this makes you nervous and also act more awkward.

Just look forward to watch great series, movies and animes. And I also can recommendate two films: Sibirade and How the steel was tempered. The later one is great to watch together, a great soviet movie and will also maybe your problem - In won’t spoiler. And it is also a great way to have a great talk about the Russian revolution.

And it wasn’t that awkward before even with this person? You said, that you want to become friends. Could it be, that there is possibly a slight contradiction regarding what you want and what you feel?

But however it is, why makes it you think about it that much? You agreed to watch a TV series and an anime together. Sounds like everything went well, don’t you think?

Did encountered this behaviour before? Or is it the first time?

It is a contradiction to Marxism

Do you have problems at building up conversations with every person or probable friends?

I have to say that it sounds a bit to edgy for my taste

His analysis regarding Hitler and fascist germany is peak stupidity, way more absurd then all those guys from the Frankfurter Schule. Psychoanalysis is not scientific. While it was kind of revolutionary at a certain point, today it is nothing more then quackery.

The only one who was more “special” is Wilhelm Reich. Before he started to believe in esoteric stuff, he had very interesting ideas and observations regarding fascism and Hitler. To summarize it a bit: Reactionaries are against sex. They want to make it strict. How you have sex and with whom. Also the kind of relationship you have. Communism is different, there is good sex, peak sexual freedom. This was the centre of his entire thinking.

Similar things go for all those other dudes. They all had their special fetish. If it wasn’t centred somehow around sex, then it went esoteric or into full pessimism and they became reactionary. Nothing marxistic about them.

Jürgen Habermas is still alive btw.

No, this is dont what I meant. I wanted to say, that it shouldn’t be important. If you say, that possible friends should have similar political views, than you will overlook other nice people. It should just not be that important, I think. Sometimes you meet a possible friend, which is not that political but also not a chauvinist. Some are also totally fixated onto a activity which you also like.

I made the experience, that if you like someone and get along, you will also be able to talk about political stuff with that person. A friend of mine comes from quite bourgeois household, is not chauvinistic but also never asked herself some political questions. And since we understand each other good, wife could talk a little bit political and there was no repulsion when I mentioned Marx, Engels or Lenin. Rather interest.

My wife was not political at all. She even had some chauvinistic prejudice towards some people, which were the result of her shitty environment. Today she enjoys read Lenin. Just dont narrow yourself into a corner, otherwise you wild miss the opportunity to meet good people.