If we had functioning free, honest media, the chance of this would be slim
“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.”
– Lenin, 1921 https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/aug/05.htm
Still as true today as when he wrote it.
You mean the BBC is dishonest?
No way.
Is he wearing a pride tie?
Certainly loooks like it
Wait but I thought white rage tipping a nation into overt fascism was a uniquely American problem because we’re just so uniquely evil that American leftists should be left to burn in the hell our countrymen made without any sympathy or help, and not because this is a situation that arises from the inherent contradictions of capitalism and the long, long history of European colonialism and white supremacy that we share?
Well fucking well…
EDIT: sorry to intrude in your space but I’m so fucking tired of years of “you people deserve it, yes all of you.”
Ignore people who talk like that, solidarity is the key to addressing these issues.
Euro-slander? Prepare for the downvotes.
They do not take criticism or non-halo’d observations at all well.
