Engage a liberal on Marxism and witness pure ideological autocomplete when they start flawlessly regurgitating anti-communist talking points with zero cognitive friction. No material analysis, no historical engagement, just the frictionless recall of a language model trained on Cold War tropes.
My father got an inkling of a whiff that I might vaguely be a leftist. I’ve never discussed politics with him but I referred to the global south as over exploited once and complained about labor rights another time. This was enough for him to make absolutely certain that I knew the soviet union was actually the worst thing ever and responsible for 100s of millions of deaths atleast. I hate it here