Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Eric Cartman]

Honestly I really don't mind shows like Bridgerton too much that just throw any accuracy out of the window and dress it up like a modern show but I worry that clowns like people on RE start thinking that's actually an accurate portrayal.

It's one thing to rely on your own personal truthiness and ignore the facts, but then people start getting aggressively ignorant in their pursuit of rejecting reality and substituting their own, and its also aggressively solipsistic based on like, the small neighbourhood they live in being a 1 : 1 microcosm of all human existence and experience.
Then getting double big mad when reality as it is keeps handing them big L's.

Case in point:

I mean, I could've told you this with Ukraine. I've never seen politicians move that fast to deliver support to a people who were unambiguously the victims of an invasive campaign of terror, so it naturally begged the question: are you going to deliver aid (well really, owed money) to places like the Congo, or Haiti, or Afghanistan? Are you going to do, like, anything helpful for Indigenous people?

Of course not. Because these groups' autonomy depends upon opposing the West, and we can't have that.

At best, liberalism can be said that all it wants to do is bring minorities into the fold of neoliberal capitalism, because the problems it diagnoses is that non-white folks, women, and queer folks just simply aren't allowed full participation in systems of oppression like straight white men are. However, liberals believe these systems of Western imperialistic hegemony are good and just in and of themselves, so they don't actually promise true freedom and autonomy. Your ability to thrive as a minority under liberalism comes with an asterisk if it butts up against Western order. Hence the contradictions that just keep occurring.

So of course Ukraine got a fuckload of support; it is in the West's interests to oppose Russian expansion. However, fuck the Palestinians. Israel is the last major bastion of settler colonialism in the region and we will be damned if some fucking dead kids get in the way of that.

So I don't trust liberal leaders as far as I can throw them because I am fully aware of my expendability as a Black person whose condition is the way it is primarily because of centuries of continued Western pilfering of my home continent. They can't even come out and say "we oppose genocide" and not be hypocritical. So what fucking good are they?

:wat