#westplains

[spintronixguard]

We had a fun day coming and going, spinning our #kingkong rifles at the gun show! It was really cool to introduce a whole new demographic to the #sportofthearts . Thanks for having us! * * * * * #spintronix #spintronixguard #designsbyking #colorguardrifle #trickswithking #colorguardmemes #westplains #westplainsciviccenter https://www.instagram.com/p/Cok9qCRuPIb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[edgarthepooh]

אתמול ישבתי עם החברה הכי טובה שלי, ושאלתי אותה האם היא שינתה את דעתה על ההפגנות בעקבות מה שקרה באוניברסיטת קולומביה. מלבד העובדה שהיא לא שמעה על זה, *אחרי* שסיפרתי לה מה קרה, ואמרתי לה *שוב* את מה ש-*המפגינים עצמם אומרים*- "אנחנו לא רוצים שתי מדינות, אנחנו רוצים את הכל" ושהמנהיג של המחאה בקולומביה אמר שהוא "רוצה להרוג ציונים" וש-"לציונים לא מגיע לחיות", היא *עדיין* חוזרת על המנטרה הקדושה של "אלו רק הפגנות נגד המלחמה ובעד שלום". אני באמת לא מבינה איך אנשים מסוגלים להיות כל כך עיוורים ומטומטמים. זה כבר הגיע למצב של דת אצלם-גם אם מראים להם באותות ובמופתים שזה לא המצב, הם מתעלמים.

לא נעים לי לומר, אבל השמאל המערבי הביא את גל הפופוליזם הימני על עצמו. אותה חברה בוכה לי אחר כך על "אני לא מבינה למה אנשים הצביעו למפלגת הימין הקיצוני בגרמניה"... אולי בגלל שאתם שם בשמאל האירופאי הוכחתם שאתם לא קובעים את העמדות שלכם על סמך עובדות אלא על סמך מה שמתיישב עם התורה הפרוגרסיבית? אולי כל האנשים שהצביעו לימין בגרמניה לא הצביעו בגלל שהם גזענים ועיוורים, אולי העמדות שלהם לא באמת השתנו, אלא אלו אתם שנכשלתם? זה באמת מעייף ומוכיח לי שאני יכולה להתחבר עם אנשים מחו"ל, אבל שאסור לנו כיהודים להסתמך על אומות אחרות ושאנחנו חייבים להגן על עצמנו.

[nastylittleman]

https://x.com/elicalebon/status/1756449361339502689?s=12&t=WGQSfbz7S-srcLaKjLhtqA

[mariacallous]

Begging American leftists to realize that being apologists for Hezbollah comes across as ignorant as if a non-American wanted you to feel bad if the Proud Boys had their phones blow up in their faces. That is what y'all sound like when you westplain Hezbollah to the Lebanese.

It's exhausting.

[redstarnotebooks]

"The Collapse of the New Polish Left." Damian Winczewski, Monthly Review. "This outline of the political situation in Poland, which, after its neoliberal transformation has been ruled alternately by liberals and nationalists, constitutes a context for the reflections of contemporary politically active left-wing intellectuals. Having largely abandoned the Marxist apparatus as obsolete, they attempt to resort to or create new, fashionable concepts that intend to re-empower the left. In fact, however, these turn out to be ideological justifications for increasing opportunism... "...In recent years, following the full-scale Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the outbreak of a massive international-scale crisis in which the Polish authorities have played a major role, the reconstruction of the intellectual and political identity of the Polish left has become even more difficult. At present, the majority of its representatives speak with one voice with the government camp, supporting the militarization of the country and even competing with the government for bizarre, militaristic ideas. At the ideological level, the dissociation of the Polish left from its Western anti-imperialistic counterpart has been justified by the concept of “Westplaining,” which was introduced into the public debate by Jan Smoleński and Jan Dutkiewicz, both columnists for Political Critique. According to them, “Westplaining” is basically any criticism of the United States and NATO. It allegedly treats the peoples of Eastern Europe as objects and ignores their belief that the United States and NATO are agents of rescue from and an alternative to centuries-old Russian colonialism.

"In other words, according to columnists associated with the Polish left, criticism of Western imperialism in a period of war is forbidden because support for it is the democratic will of the East European peoples. This is how Polish leftist activists compensate for decades of failures and missed opportunities: by lecturing their Western colleagues from a position of moral superiority and making themselves spokespeople for an abstract populace, while the real Polish working class, after years of being left alone in class struggle, is already completely indifferent to such leftist messages. The Polish left is now deluding itself into believing that it will win the favor of the people by affirming a conservative ideology allied with Western imperialism... "...Overall, the New Left received the smallest working-class support of all parties (only 5 percent of the vote) [in the October 2023 elections], with their biggest supporters appearing to be the metropolitan middle class. Despite this, they have announced great success, as they could become an important part of the new government under the leadership of the neoliberals of the Citizen Platform (which won 30.7 percent of the vote). These politicians, in turn, are already announcing cuts in social spending and the need to “balance the budget.” To paraphrase the ancient king of Epirus, Pyrrhus: A few more such successes of the left, and there will be no left at all."

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/12/01/the-collapse-of-the-new-polish-left/

[rozarens]

keep scrolling if you've got a good mood

I have gotten some dose of "the leftist activist you like stands by the worst kinda westplainers" and a "don't forget why you live in two worlds even in your friendships". Right after the usual "vermin" funsies towards the disabled from the lefties and the diagnoses of "stupid" by those who don't care about being less of the vermin themselves. :v I miss some of my addictions, buy I'm off to indulge in a socially expected one in a moment so there's that.

[drthrvn]

Western European leaders really be like “so during WW2 we basically made a pact with the devil himself by allying ourselves with Stalin and USSR and after the war we pretty much sold half of the continent to him and because of that, basically none of the Eastern European countries have a chance to develop properly because they were forced to live under communism and only gained their independence in the ‘90s. but hey, look at us! and at our prosperous economy, that we started to build right after the war, unlike y’all! we pull the strings out here cause we have money and influence! oh, what did you say? you want to have more influence and be treated seriously, instead of us patronizing you? well boo hoo, you should have tried NOT to be poor lol”

[ohsalome]

Leftists in particular may think, when criticizing NATO expansion, that they are correcting their own or fellow citizens’ biases as citizens of an imperial power that has often acted in bad faith. They may think they are adequately acknowledging this fraught legacy by focusing their critique on what they perceive to be Western expansionism. But they in fact perpetuate imperial wrongs when they continue to deny non-Western countries and their citizens agency in geopolitics. Paradoxically, the problem with American exceptionalism is that even those who challenge its foundational tenets and heap scorn on American militarism often end up recreating American exceptionalism by centering the United States in their analyses of international relations. It is, in Gregory Afinogenov’s words, a “form of provincialism that sees only the United States and its allies as primary actors.” Speaking about Eastern Europe and Eastern Europeans without listening to local voices or trying to understand the region’s complexity is a colonial projection.

Implicitly, it is based on a counterfactual scenario in which NATO is not enlarged and Russia does not attack Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022. It fails at the same time to consider a different counterfactual scenario: NATO enlargement does not happen, and Russia invades its neighbors nonetheless.

In the westsplaining framework, the concerns of Russia are recognized but those of Eastern Europe are not. This, again, mirrors the Russian line that “Ukraine’s current regime lacks any sovereignty,” which of course also operates within a framework inherited from the bipolar world of the Cold War. Eastern Europe is something that can be explained but isn’t worth engaging with.

[lady-nightmare]

[2rats1gogh]

Don’t westplain russians to ukrainians

You all DO NOT fucking understand.

A “what did I do-o-o-o 😭😭😭 I'm just a little guy, I'm apolitical, what do you want from me-e-e-e 😭😭😭😭” russian is not a “good” russian. It is a product of russian propaganda they've got going on inside the country. It is what they've been brainwashed to think like. Their government feeds them contradicting lies and punishes for speaking up, so they sit quietly, not even wanting to learn about Kursk.

They went on a protest when there was no electricity due to infrastructure damage. They went on a protest abroad when a russian nazi singer got blocked on Spotify. Why don't they protest the war while living in Britain? Why do they either not give a fuck or attack Ukrainians abroad? It is THEIR choice to see Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria and then ploof on their backs receive belly scratches that Western folk happily provides.

They don't engage, then visit Crimea in the summer and run in complete bewilderment with tears on their faces when there's a bomb. What war? They're apolitical, guys. How could you? What did they do? Of coooourse they can call a Ukrainian a cowshed animal and still be apolitical (in russian of course, so you, their western friend, don't think bad of them). They can mock any language that got trapped under the empire however they please and not notice any oppressive undertones. You all did not hear what they think about Belarussian or Ukrainian — NOT when they're confronted, but when they speak in their space and in their language.

Image 1, “Dead languages of russia”

Image 2, “Guess why the fuck there are so many nationalities in ruzzian empire and why is that their culture is being erased. A bonus question: by whom? An extra hard question: do ordinary russians think that these people have the same social status as them? Do they think that some nationalities are subhuman?”

Of course they call for “peace”, because, you see, war is bad, because fuck the war! — because it's a surface-area nice thing they can say to get friends, because they're too “pure” to follow up with “they should give up so the killings stop giving me a bad reputation and I DO NOT GIVE A SINGLE SHIT about death when it's not on my Twitter feed”.

I know what a Westerner would think about this. At the very, very best, literally peak compassion I've met maybe twice, it would be: “Damn this is xenophobic, but I bet they're going through a lot right now, so I won't tell them that they're wrong”. And the funny thing is that I am not wrong. They're just nice to you, because your nation is not the funny one that belongs in the stables. If they're an opposition, they just want a better russia, not a free Ukraine.

And I'm talking about “leftists” here (not sure if it's the correct term, like, politically), the ones being befriended and cherished online. Shit the openly genocidal ones produce, which are many, is far beyond Western comprehension.

[ohmystarsy]

nothing t*iggers me more than Western politicians calling Ukrainian and russian nations "brothers" like fucking stop this russian propaganda bullshit!!! (yes, this is about Macron)

[alight1313]

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[azhdakha]

Ukraine was preparing a counter offensive. Russians did everything they could to stop it, affected Ukrainian infrastructure, economy and agriculture. What's so hard to grasp @theculturedmarxist

I wonder how would you explain that law about not investigating accidents on dams that was issues just before the explosion specifically for the "newly joined" Kherson, Zaporizhzhia oblast and LDNR. It's funny to see you claim that Ukrainian civilians in russian occupied territories are "their own people" for russians. Are you really trying to make us believe that an occupant ever treats occupied people as their own? Honestly? My apologies, but it's really hard to believe this after all the things I saw russian soldiers say and write on their Telegram channels about Ukrainian people.

I also would like to know why you, as a Marxist, support an oppressive bourgeoisie russian government and don't listen to Ukrainian proletariat. I wonder why do you stay completely blind and deaf to the fact that russian military is full of nazis. Is Wagner and Rusich not an issue to you? As a leftist anarchist from russia, seeing all the western Marxists support our opressive government is such knife in the back and betrayal. You're not helping fight nato's crimes even a slightest bit. You're not helping proletariat in these countries. You're just supporting a bourgeoisie oligarch opressive regime because it fits in your narrative and a made up image of it. Majority of antifa and leftists, actial ideological communists in russia opposed this war. Same in Ukraine And they also joined the Ukrainiam army. Ordinary people. Antifa. Leftists. The are in the army you're calling nazist. But you, sitting there in a far away country support it and never listen to us, doing your common westplaining. You're no different from nato. Open your fucking ear and listen to Ukrainian people at least for once. Or the whole nation is nazis that deserve to be killed for you?

How long do we have to live in fear and opression, racism, colonialism, how many russian oppositioners should be put in prisons and tortured until you will fucking understand who you are supporting?

Как же вы заебали, господи.

Russia destroying the Kakhovka dam doesn't make the least bit of sense if you think about it for even a minute.

[that-vegan-thing-blog]

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