Idealism is perhaps the trait I am most proud of
(for the actual leftists here who know about the work of the above author, Gelderloos does get a number of things wrong about "the state," but he was not wrong about any of the above statements regarding "nonviolence.")
Understanding history is a "gotcha" now.
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.
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