#polítics

"Charlie Kirk has kicked the bucket holy shit!!"

While I can only think of how Poland has invoked article 4 of NATO

I think there’s a shared feeling among people from cultures that have lived through wars, endured totalitarian regimes and dictatorships, and gone through long periods of extreme poverty, and it’s that we’re disgusted by States’ people when they talk about politics. Especially when they come crying about things that have happened — and are happening — around the world forever, many of which, over the last century, the U.S. has been directly or indirectly responsible for.

And then they have the audacity to lecture us on what does or doesn’t count as national suffering. Or to explain our own history to us. Or to “legitimize” social trauma that still affects so many societies to this day, and all of it from a position completely disconnected from our realities, with zero cultural understanding.

Honestly, I think these people live in such a Hollywood bubble that they can’t even realize that yes, our countries may have their disputes, mutual resentment, and complicated histories, but if there’s one thing we all agree on, it’s that US people are unbearable. And the problem is they don’t realize that. Yes, our cultures have our internal conflicts, but we know where the line is. Then they show up and start spewing nonsense they don’t understand, preaching with their puritan morals straight out of Methodist churches and Presbyterian cults like they’ve got the slightest clue about the real world.

They talk about WWII like the garbage movies they were sold are the truth, because no one ever taught them that it was France, England, and Russia who broke their backs and lost hundreds of thousands of lives fighting Nazis, and by the time the “heroes” showed up, Hitler was already pissing himself in a bunker.

And no, I will not tolerate someone from a country that’s never had a war on its soil in the last two centuries lecturing me about fascism, especially when Nazis tested their weapons and assault strategies on my country, flattening cities to help install a dictator who stayed in power for forty years.

And I truly think there’s a universal sense — among people who’ve actually lived through these things — that no one has the right to explain your history or trauma to you. Especially not someone whose country hasn’t seen real war or dictatorship in generations.

I know I’m mixing a lot of things here and getting intense, sorry. This really isn’t the side of me I meant to bring out in this space, I usually keep this for political circles. But I have a huge problem with Americans talking about fascism like they’re experts, because honestly? Anyone else has more right to speak on it than they do.

I just can’t with them. I’m sorry. They bring out the worst in me.

This account isn’t political because that’s not its purpose, but I have no problem sharing political opinions or being honest about them. I have political training both academically and practically, and I was a militant for many years. In my household, politics has always been very present. In my circle, not taking a stance is considered worse than holding a problematic opinion, because someone who stays neutral or has a lukewarm opinion on certain issues is still siding with the oppressor, just in a more discreet way. And that double standard is unacceptable when we’re talking about human rights violations like the one currently taking place.

You simply can’t be neutral, because neutrality doesn’t exist. Adopting a centrist, neutral, or mediator stance is also a political decision, and it’s not one that aligns with the victims. I personally have certain red lines I won’t tolerate online. In the real world, unfortunately, you encounter all kinds of people and ideas, and you’re forced to deal with them functionally one way or another, because in life you’ll come across people you’re obliged to interact with, even if their opinions are absolute trash.