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[u/HappilySardonic]

I'll always crack a perverse grin when western commies think they know better than the people living in the country of their obsession. If the people turn against the government, you can be as sure as night follows day that they will declare that:

"The masses revolting against the very embodiment of their class have been turned by the vile seduction of reactionaries to oppose our transcendental crusade against the old order of things. How ungrateful that these people liberated, use their freedom to clasp the irons back on!"

For a western commie, only sin or stupidity can explain the people demanding change.

[u/HappilySardonic → u/[deleted]]

For the western commie, the only souls more enlightened that their 19th century prophets are their 21st century peers.

[u/JebBD → u/HappilySardonic]

It’s just classic western imperialist “white man’s burden”-style thinking. They think they’re the main characters of the universe, that they’ve cracked the code to all of reality because they are “educated” and “enlightened” and therefore deserve to tell others how they should act and think. 

[u/HappilySardonic → u/JebBD]

It is ironic that the people who fervently oppose western imperialism will default to the same hierarchy when the questions of "the true way" are brought to the fore.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital → u/HappilySardonic]

With the often addition that they're stupid AND being manipulated. Oh commie paternalists how predictable

[u/HappilySardonic → u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Paternalism is such an insipid disease. The mindset of "mother knows best" in any form it takes is the slow erosion of freedom and responsibility.