from March 2022. kinda curious if they’re still bravely crushing Putin with this amazing display of idealist power

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    My neighbour has their Ukraine flag towel sadly hanging out in the rain now. It’s faded and will probably start to look ragged very soon. Liberal “activism” is always either purchasing a product, or trying to prevent the purchase of a product. They’re so treat brained that they can’t imagine anything else other than spending. I feel kind of sorry for them sometimes, always jumping at shadows, always has a new “big bad” in the news each week who is personally ruining their lives unless they purchase the “fuck Putin” set of dishware they’ll never use for only $69.99.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      6 months ago

      This can be seen with the situation with the Uyghurs. Liberals believe that China is committing a literal Holocaust 2.0, and instead of arresting the executives of Nike and other companies that apparently use genocidal slave labor and executing them for crimes against humanity, they just want to fine the companies until they move their production to another exploitative country like India or Vietnam.

      Their activism is about consuming with good optics.

      • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        6 months ago

        They don’t even do that with the Uyghur thing. They have no interest at all addressing the supposed genocide, or even being seen to be trying to resist it. The idea of it only exists at the level of anti-China rhetoric, it is not connected to the world in any other way.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      6 months ago

      Some university had a library room named after Marx but it was removed after the invasion. You know. Because Marx was a Russian. Oh no, I’m mistaken. He’s German but Putin is a big Marxist so we can’t be seen as condoning the invasion.