@nap_ano@matthewstoller When the person I agree with criticizes the government, they’re brave truth tellers exercising their free speech rights
When the person I disagree with criticizes it, it’s a childlike tantrum that nobody should have to listen to
Lmao
@zynsoc I mean trust me I view it as a worthwhile struggle against the odds, I’m not saying the entire legacy is just useless, but if we are being hardnosed here then the American communist project was not going to be any more successful without Browderism-the party’s peak was during it)
@zynsoc Ah yes because clearly CP was on the road to October shortly before Browderism? The Third Period was a dead end too. It was used and tossed to the curb by the CIO and only made any inroads among black workers in a few areas of the South. Not even comparable to the SPA.
@zynsoc MUG, per the 2026 Tasks and Perspectives, advocates a functional clean break:
As far as I’m aware, Larkin conceded the race since he clearly lost but where did he then endorse Moskowitz?
@zynsoc Appealing to results is not my favorite and it really is too early to say how the wind is actually blowing, but I’m exhausted with the “let’s try to be CPUSA again but more intellectually impoverished” as if that model didn’t fail miserably the first time. It’s not working.
@zynsoc if it’s generating momentum and mass involvement and some notion of socialism among today’s youth and that has even a chance of leading to a clean break and a workers party as advocating by MUG, that’s better than infinite dead ender microsecting à la PSL
@sgtpepsii@Hezbolsonaro Winning power is being told by a bunch of historic political losers that you have to go around apologizing to people who aren’t going to vote for you anyway after they ran a massive smear campaign against you. It’s amazing.
@nightowl042727@letsgotothemaul Like half the fun is the casting here and you’re telling me you aren’t having a person as Judas? I think that’s just basic conceptual stuff one would be doing in such a photoshoot
@erikafloydxo@elle_reads_alot@ShowGirlEm@0rbitals Like a rosary is a specific type of prayer bead and has a specific setup for specific purposes even if prayer beads a general category, you can get a rosary wrong and this one is completely wrong lmao
@erikafloydxo@elle_reads_alot@ShowGirlEm@0rbitals Every culture has the concept of a big family meal tradition at least once a year, but if I said that the main dish at an American Thanksgiving is always a bowl of horse meat, you can’t just say that isn’t wrong because other cultures also have the concept of a celebratory meal
@nileinnit@libx_tendencies And has jihadi head chopping come to pass for Syria under this new government? Because that’s the entire point of this thread, that the threat was a jihadi state if the opposition won. Obviously that didn’t happen
@nileinnit@libx_tendencies By calling him a jihadi head chopper, one is rhetorically placing him next to the very famous Syrian jihadi head choppers which is Daesh
@nileinnit@libx_tendencies I think you’re perhaps being overly literalist here. When people call him ISIS, it is not meant he will literally empower the IS caliphate Calling him a jihadi head chopper is much closer to comparing him to Daesh than it is to simply saying he will persecute minorities.
@nileinnit@libx_tendencies I have to believe you’re being disingenuous because “jihadi head choppers” was absolutely the most common way to describe the Syrian opposition for a very long time