Gotta love it when some racist liberal (redundant phrasing, I know) comes into a thread just to announce that they think it's "awful" when African people struggle against imperialism and colonialism, and are glad that a person who lifted hundreds of millions of Asian people out of poverty is dead.

I agree with your sentiment but the major flaw in your analogy is that while drunk driving is unethical and immoral, "piracy" is ethical and moral. Part of the problem is the automatic framing of "piracy" as though it is doing something bad and underhanded. Nah, it's simply using the information infrastructure in a way that circumvents a small piece of the ruling class' ability to siphon wealth from you.

The folks who are downvoting you have read history, enough to recognize your ahistorical bullshit for what it is.

You do need to be willing to learn, but unlike what the TrollAccount is telling you, reading Capital is not a prerequisite. Understanding the basics to the extent that you can correctly explain them to others will be a major benefit, yes, but you do not have to have to have read Capital all the way through as some minimum bar where not having done it yet is preventing you from connecting and working with others. The more you know, the better off you'll be, but whatever level you are at, that should not stop you from getting organized. Groups that teach and learn theory in addition to doing real world praxis are the best anyway. You do definitely need to be open and willing to do difficult things, and starting off with a refusal to read a foundational text makes it seem like you aren't ready to do hard work when confronted with it, which I think might be where TrollAccount is coming from. But you still should do what you can, even if you aren't able at this point to read a genuinely long and difficult text. And given what you said in your post, it sounds like you have been trying to start doing what you can, which is good and commendable. But don't preemptively cut yourself off from something (like reading foundational text) because it sounds like difficult work, the whole point is that you have to be willing to do difficult work.

Half of what this other user is telling you is very true, but the other half shouldn't be taken to heart. Another example being where they said "It sucks and is hard and feels bad." It is hard, that is undeniably true. It can suck at times, it probably will in some ways, but in other ways it can and will be extremely rewarding. It does not feel bad, though. Living under capitalism feels bad in general, but getting organized and doing real work actually feels quite good! Feeling good shouldn't be your primary motivation of course, but it should not come as a surprise that working together with other human beings towards a shared goal would feel good to any member of a social species.

Why would America (US, rather) ever want to restrict their citizen's access to one of their primary propaganda drivers? If you're in America, it's already necessary to avoid youtube directly and access it via frontends like invidious if you want even slightly decent privacy and to try to avoid being sucked into youtube's personally tailored algorithm. Though you may at some point need a VPN in order to access those (the frontends) if they aren't already outlawed. I can definitely see the US banning youtube alternatives like peertube instances, further restricting any kind of oppositional content on youtube itself, and enforcing strict identity requirements to access things on the internet, but they aren't ever going to make it difficult to access their state-approved slop troughs.

they are teaching that stalin is evil because he is rightwing?

Yes. That is essentially the lesson they derive from Animal Farm: that any communist/socialist revolution will ultimately devolve into "the same thing" or "just as bad" as fascist dictatorship. If you you don't recognize the incessant equating of Stalin with Hitler in both popular media and school curricula, then I don't know what to tell you. And when I say they derive that lesson from Animal Farm, that is not to let Orwell off the hook at all, because that is the most obvious and valid way to interpret it, as Orwell intended.

What's more, the lesson seems to be one you've absorbed and accepted, considering you're touting Animal Farm as if it has pedagogical merit instead of treating it as the silly, puerile rightist dreck that it is and even worse, insisting that fucking horseshoe theory is a useful heuristic. Oh and of course unironically using the epithet "tankie" to refer to other leftists in the same comment where you said you "just wish local efforts could connect to larger efforts, since we need multiple groups cooperating in solidarity, not isolated individualism" (and to be clear, that latter quote is good and correct but demonstrates unrecognized hypocrisy in someone who also talks about those ebil "tankies").

Any one of those things is enough to induce a huge facepalm in any leftist who has actually engaged with real leftist thought and theory. Yes, we are actually reading the words that you're typing and we can't help but wince.

You can be anticapitalist and liberal at the same time

No, that doesn't even "check out" on the NATOpedia article. Even that article is explicit that liberalism is fundamentally a pro-capitalist ideology with private property as a core aspect. But it is fun watching you did a hole for yourself, step into it, then declare victory.

And how is the OP meme referencing anything "tankies" say, other than that the person speaking in the OP image is someone you would call a "tankie"? See that little hammer and sickle next to her name? You really are deeply confused, aren't you.

It's not hard to look at history swallow the torrents of propaganda that you've been soaking in all your life and see uncritically assume that it's all true. Yep, it's very easy and it's clear you took the easy route.

Blanketing all Ukranians under a Nazi label is disingenuous, as OP insinuates.

No one blanketed all Ukrainians, all of us who recognize the accuracy of the OP image well know the Ukrainians of Donbas have been valiantly fighting since 2014 against the nazi regime in Kiev that openly hang their yellow and blue flag right next to swastika flags. But just because it's obviously true that not all Ukrainians are nazis, that doesnt mean there isn't a deep and systemic problem of naziism in western Ukrainian culture with large swathes of the population worshipping nazis like Bandera, or that the Ukrainian military isn't largely composed of literal nazi militias.

Put all the Nazis in the trash.

Agreed. (Better yet a pit). Though I hope you realize if we were able to do that, then the entirety of the forces fighting against Russia would instantly collapsewand the Zelenky's regime would cease to be.

Get downvotwd for it

Oh no! Not the fake internet points down-spammed by NATO bots!
Cringe.

Oh and here are some of the countless examples of the Ukrainian flag and Swastikas (or other symbolism) actually superimposed on or paired with each other, as proudly displayed by openly fascist Ukrainians:

It's funny because a large percentage of Ukraine's military leadership, if not the majority, would (and do) proudly and openly display their national flag right next to the swastika, or even one superimposed on the other*, but their western sycophants will all swear up and down how that's just an evil smear that Putler-Voldemort tries to spread in a desperate attempt to keep their heads safely buried in the sand. I will always laugh at how much western libs will give themselves aneurysms trying to deny it when you point out the straightforward and readily evident reality that Ukraine is a Nazi state, meanwhile everyone in the Ukrainian military with rank higher than private (and plenty of privates too) are like "hey check out my new totenkopf tattoo, it matches the swastika I've had on the other arm for years! Seig heil!"