I feel like not enough people know that Palantir, the security company owned by Peter Thiel, largely funded the ballot initiative to criminalize homelessness in Austin
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Against right wing aggression. ML. Market socialism proponent.
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My favorite aspect about this type of pointless, cynical browbeating of people doing something fun for themselves is that it's often people who equate being an adult to being miserable about our existence as a badge of honor and not something to change materially, collectively twitter.com/Boringstein/st
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When people are like, "Oh so you hate it when right wing governments crack down on left wing protestors but love it when left wing governments crack down on right wing protestors?"
Lol yeah.
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The Omaha Police Department was organizing an arms trade with the far-right extremists 88 Tactical, who have been training Bolsonaro supporters for years.
This seems important.
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When the revolutionary spirit rises, you really gotta go all in
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Amazing things have been happening in Spanish television
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The railway workers situation is a perfect example of why Marxists say “authoritarianism” is a made up lib buzzword. Every system is authoritarian, but in capitalism’s case it is authoritarian in favor of corporate interests
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It's wild how this "If 'issue A' doesn't stop, we will continue to kill people," is a common terrorist retort in any other context but here. Instead, it's treated as legitimate political discourse. This is the consequence of the so-called "marketplace of ideas"
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Tucker Carlson guest: Shootings like the Club Q shooting are going to keep happening "until we end this evil agenda" of gender-affirming care.
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It's interesting how the "overpopulation" myth seems to target brown & black nations of the Global South, & does so to promote, not climate concerns for the planet as a whole but for the sake of maintaining their capitalist fantasy of free-market solutions for climate change.
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It should not be controversial to say a population of 8 billion will have a grave impact on the climate | John Vidal theguardian.com/commentisfree/
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When I was 6 or 7, my mom bought me a game called Gold of the Aztecs. I had a Macintosh Plus, and when the game wouldn't run (it was for PC), my Mac asked me if I wished to "Initialize the disk". I thought, "Good idea!"...
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My friend moments before deleting autoexec.bat off his PC to clear hard drive space for Diablo when we were 13:
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Communism will win, fascist
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I wonder how the world community would react if Spain issued a stamp with a Nazi swastika in honor of Hitler's birthday? Why then is this allowed? twitter.com/visegrad24/sta…
This is the reality of white ethnonationalism: even though many Jewish people are white by default (and benefit from it), they are not considered white by white supremacists, even if they've aligned themselves with them. Antisemitism is a core tenet of white supremacist thought
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The joke that I was suspended for simply points out that Ben, who is desperate to be accepted by his Christian nationalist friends as white, will only ever be seen by them as a useful idiot, and sadly for him, a Jew.
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Nazis are bad.
RT if you agree
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Completely unabashed capitalist propaganda. "Work more jobs for less pay and in total, you'll find your needs met!" is pure technocratic nonsense
Communists need to ally with MAGA! No.
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This movement is just another fascist opportunist movement, and one that always seems to help the needs of the status quo. Rather than shake the foundations and create change, it entrenches the ruling class further and solidifies their power.
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Appealing to fascists as though they have the momentum we need does 2 things: It establishes fascists as the "winning movement", and it purposefully endangers those who suffer under the American condition. If they truly cared about material conditions, they would include them.
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Additionally, the idea that we need to focus solely on the white working class is a vehemently anticommunist (and often fascist) sentiment meant to fracture the working class as a whole. Besides, MAGA is not entirely working class -- many are wealthy business owners & others.
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The idea of "unifying" with people who disagree with you is one centered on those communities and groups that require reinforcement and greater strength. White ethnonationalist movements, even if working class, does not need that "boost".
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In addition to the exclusion of those who necessarily must be included in any revolutionary movement (history has shown the power of these unified movements btwn queer folk, BIPOC/POC and others), it will also lend ammunition to liberals/moderates who already disparage communism.
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Besides, the exclusion of a marginalized and disenfranchised community over little more than some Nietzschean-esque disgust with society's "moral failings" (again, fascists moralizing through their own lens even though they deny moral relativism) is thoroughly anticommunist.
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The point, largely, is to grift. To make money, and to do so appealing to white backlash against what they posit is the degeneration of American society. Of course, that is a fascist dog-whistle, since the condemnation of a reduced type of person is one of their main beliefs.
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The good thing is that, right now, it's mostly a product of "terminally online" culture, and even seems to have issues finding adherents on the right. But that really isn't the point, or at least I don't think it is.
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The most obvious example, MAGACommunism, extols the virtues of Trumpism (white ethnonationalism), the aesthetics of capitalist greed and the fear-mongering targeting "the other", but virtually nothing of Marxist or non-Marxist communism. It's literally just a secondary label.
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We see the most visible leaders of this movement openly adopting aesthetics and styles of the right wing, enhancing this point that they are more ideologically alike than not (i.e. they were already fascists).
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What strikes me as even more troubling is how little "disagreement" is seen between fascists and these so-called patriotic socialists or "MAGACommunists". They both view society not in terms of materialist analysis but in arbitrary binaries like "degenerate" and "normal".
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The second is even more insidious. It posits that we must "listen" to fascists & other right wing elements, but their goal has never been, nor will it ever be, compromise. Rather, their goal is subjugation and the acceptance of their authority to rule.
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The first problem is that it isn't merely a disagreement if one side claims that certain marginalized people are illegitimate human beings and are deserving of their marginalization or worse. That already runs in contrast to what communists and socialists believe.
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Two things that bother me about this discourse that we must involve or include "people we disagree with" in revolutionary potential: the framing of this as merely simple "disagreement", and the implication that we must either absorb or adopt their views in conjunction with ours.
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The reason bourgeois revolutions don't fully denounce their past rulers (aside from the distance of time) is that their act of revolutionary violence is rarely based on imminent urgency for total liberation; instead, it is for the gratification of the wealthy classes
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we fought a war to not have to do this twitter.com/Drew_Hammill/s…
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Liberals and conservatives alike are both declaring the Queen, a royal monarch who had benefited directly (and more than others) from a complex tapestry of imperialist violence and genocide, as "non-political."
Additionally, the effects of colonization and imperialist violence did not simply dissipate, nor did the exploitation by western powers like England onto their former colonies. It just took a different shape under capitalist globalization.
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Elizabeth II did not "preside over decolonisation," colonised peoples shot enough British soldiers that the costs of imperialism outweighed the benefits and we won our freedom. Elizabeth was not a gracious liberator, she was a hated foe who we overcame in armed struggle.
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"Because you can't be nice about something I care about, then you don't deserve justice for hundreds of years of slavery and genocide"
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Dear Black Twitter:
If you can't show a shred of human decency, you don't deserve a shred of reparations.
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Though some mock the idea that the Company has worked tirelessly to create a capitalist friendly "leftism", we continue to see historical evidence of such activities. Not that it was hard to find evidence -- they wrote the book on it, otherwise known as "covert action".
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Liberal intellectual Hannah Arendt, famous for her ludicrous anticommunist "totalitarian" thesis (whitewashing fascism), was supported by the CIA in its Congress for Cultural Freedom
Cultivating a "compatible left," the CIA lavished "leftist" cold warriors like her with luxuries
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Liberal intellectual Hannah Arendt, famous for her ludicrous anticommunist "totalitarian" thesis (whitewashing fascism), was supported by the CIA in its Congress for Cultural Freedom
Cultivating a "compatible left," the CIA lavished "leftist" cold warriors like her with luxuries
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If you are "socially liberal" and "progressive" at home in the imperial core, but fully supportive of imperialist violence outside of it, you are still a fascist.
Cry baby traditionalists are just fascists. Appealing to a glorified (and fantasy) past over "modernity", despite the fact that they want 1000 years of fascist rule well into the future. All things move forward, and these grifters will simply move it towards continued destruction
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26 years ago Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) which instituted work requirements for welfare. He trotted out Lillie Harden as an example of a reformed “welfare queen”.
She died in poverty in 2014.
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$10,000 loan cancelation: another example of how this corrupt, capitalist government works. It does the absolute barest minimum, often right underneath it, so that it seems like it's done something helpful for folks, but instead is illusory, b/c it serves corporate interests more
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