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Nobody likes to think of themselves as siding with the powerful against the weak, so they often re-frame a situation where they're doing exactly that using an incomplete analysis of the power dynamics at play which allows them to feel as though they're fighting the power. Thread.
Take Israel. You can squint at it in such a way that lets you feel as though you're defending a disempowered religious minority with an extensive history of persecution, but really it has the full might of the US empire on its side and the Palestinians are the down-power ones.
These compartmentalizations ignore where the actual power is at on a global scale and just zoom in to a local analysis which ignores all else. Guaido is the little guy fighting the powerful Maduro regime! No, he's backed by the US-centralized empire against a much weaker force.
Yay, the freedom fighters in Syria are fighting the tyranny of their oppressive ruler! No they're not, they're jihadist extremists who were backed by the US and its allies with the goal of toppling Damascus in order to seize control of a crucial geostrategic region.
Whenever you see the MSM and its propagandized followers talking about "The people of [insert targeted nation here]", they're cheerleading a US empire-backed movement against a weaker government which has resisted absorption into that empire. https://fair.org/home/the-venezuelan-people-are-whoever-agrees-with-donald-trump/
This impulse to pretend you're fighting the power instead of fighting for power is so pervasive I've seen people do ridiculous things like say Julian Assange is actually the power because WikiLeaks is influential. He's ONE GUY!
That's also what you're seeing when people try to spin these US protests as a Deep State color revolution backed by Soros and "the Chicoms". No it's not, you just don't want to admit that you support the US government and its armed goon squad against those who are sick of racism.
This site is full of self-described "anarchists" who constantly wind up on the same side as the CIA and the US State Department on foreign policy because they act like every "revolution" in every nation is the people vs power while ignoring a global-scale analysis of real power.
If your "anti-authoritarian" worldview frequently leads you to supporting agendas which make the biggest power structure on the planet more powerful, then you're not anti-authoritarian, you just want to feel like you are. You're no different than any other MSM-brainwashed tool.
That's another one. China is far less powerful than the US-centralized power alliance and the US government is unquestionably intervening in the HK protests, but people make believe it's just the people vs the big bad Chinese government. https://twitter.com/TomKwhite/status/1288262432591405056?s=20
