Soup4Every1

Marxist-Leninist
G*mer
Soup Enjoyer

Trying to wake up liberals from their eternal slumber.

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@cornerstone_a @kristalliserade @ImamBiden @keikiakapueo Capitalism absolutely encourages anti-social behavior. That is in fact the primary way to succeed under capitalism.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Liberals are racist, but just displace it onto foreign governments

They pretend to like Muslims, but spread fear about Iran

They say they are anti-racist, but go into a panic about the Chinese “peril”

They pretend to like Black people, but denounce African liberation movements

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Let me show you what "cultural" erases.

1934: Federal Housing Administration introduces redlining. Black neighborhoods systematically denied mortgage access for three decades.

1944: GI Bill passes. Administered in ways that systematically exclude Black veterans from the same benefits white veterans received.

1968: Fair Housing Act passes. By this point, the wealth gap produced by thirty years of exclusion is structural and self-perpetuating.

1971: Nixon declares War on Drugs. His own policy chief later admits on record it was designed to target Black communities.

1986: Crack sentenced 100 times more harshly than powder cocaine. Same drug. Different community. Different sentence.

2026: The neighborhood built by these policies is still poor.

You look at the neighborhood and say: culture.

I look at the list and say: policy.

One of us is reading the history.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The United States has the largest prison population on earth.

Not per capita.

Total.

More people in cages than China.

More than Russia.

More than every "authoritarian" state it condemns in its annual human rights reports.

1.8 million people.

Disproportionately Black.

Disproportionately poor.

Disproportionately from the zip codes with the worst schools, the fewest jobs, the most abandoned infrastructure.

This is presented as a "criminal justice system."

It functions as a labor system.

Prison labor, paid between 13 cents and $1.15 an hour in most states, produces goods for McDonald's, Walmart, Victoria's Secret, Whole Foods, and the United States military.

The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, contains an exception clause:

"Except as punishment for crime."

That exception has never been closed.

It has been expanded.

The plantation did not disappear.

It received a different name and a legal foundation.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

James Baldwin said it in 1965 and it has not aged a single day:

The reason Americans cannot face their history is that the history indicts their identity.

And you cannot ask someone to accept the evidence that destroys who they think they are.

White Americans, he said, need the Black American to remain inferior, because their own superiority is the only thing that makes sense of a country built on those terms.

The same structure applies outward.

Americans need the rest of the world to remain in need of American guidance, American intervention, American rescue.

Because without that story, what exactly was all the violence for?

The empire doesn't just extract resources.

It extracts meaning.

And the people who built their inner lives on that meaning will fight as hard to keep it as any general ever fought to keep territory.

Harder, maybe.

You can negotiate territory.

You cannot negotiate with someone's need to believe they are one of the good ones.

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

American teachers don't know what objectivity and subjectivity are, is it any wonder Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet? The US is an oligarchy in every sense of the word, there is zero room for debate, it's a simple fact.

[cat 🌸🌷🌼 @catwthewires]

@VanhaomenaXD it is a test for 6th graders. calling the usa an oligarchy is an opinion, and it was not my job to teach them my opinions. it is objectively not correct, but a subjective comparison

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@maria_rosaaaa @ljmontello A general strike means everyone. That's what general means. If only certain people are striking that's not a general strike.

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@maria_rosaaaa @ljmontello A general strike is defined in the term? It's specifically a general strike... What is there to clarify?

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Democrats & their No Kings parade is ONE BIG LIE. We live under capitalism—not a monarchy—where billionaires have more wealth than kings did under feudalism. Democrats have you focused on one billionaire instead of the entire billionaire class that funds & controls both parties.

[Hampton Institute @HamptonThink]

Slave systems (from chattel slavery to feudalism to capitalism) have evolved and even loosened in their structure, but they have also maintained similar psychosocial dynamics throughout these transitions. One of the most notable of these is the laborer being convinced that

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@k1myojong What about a more recognizable tool like scissors instead of the ripper? My dumb ass had no clue what it was until reading your description.

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

Can't hate it; Honestly this is pretty much the same conclusion you draw from reading Lenin.

[Sam Beckett @SamBeckforLyfe]

@PinstripeBungle This is the larger text from the post about sympathizing with the resistance.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It can make you feel like you’re going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we’re a year and a half into history’s first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything’s peachy.

We’re murdering kids. We’re starving them. We’re dropping high tech military explosives on them. Blowing their limbs off. Ripping their guts out. Shooting them in the head. This isn’t just being done by “Israel”. It’s being done by the entire western empire which backs these atrocities.

And yet if you turn on a TV you’ll see famous people laughing and joking about nonsense, expressing political opinions of no more depth and significance than whether or not there should have been a female Ghostbusters movie. Go read the news and it’s dominated by empty fluff about celebrities and politicians and the latest brain fart to come out of Donald Trump’s mouth. Go to a party and everyone’s nattering about vapid gibberish, yelling “No politics!” if you try to say anything about the holocaust-shaped elephant in the room.

Newer readers might not know this, but I used to have a lot more fun on my platform. Lots of humor. Psychedelic poetry. Spirituality and philosophy. But ever since the Gaza holocaust began, that kind of writing has often felt like it would be irreverent and frivolous. Almost sacrilegious. I would feel like I’m joining in with the madness of mainstream culture by turning my back on all those emaciated bodies and mutilated children.

So for the last year and a half I’ve mostly just been doing what I feel everyone on earth ought to be doing: pointing to the genocide and saying it needs to stop.

I used to be a lot more poetical and creative in my ways of pointing to the criminality of the empire, because its depravity was often difficult for people to really grasp, so I was always seeking out new ways to help people see its monstrosity with fresh eyes. Now that they’re just butchering children right in front of us, that’s not really what’s called for anymore. What’s called for is to keep drawing everyone’s attention to the terrible thing that’s staring us all right in the face.

This task shouldn’t be falling to university activists and obscure antiwar bloggers. Every news outlet in the world should be making this their entire focus.

If we had a sane and ethical news media, this is what they would be doing. All the leading stories every single day would be about the latest evil thing Israel and its western backers have done in Gaza, clearly stating in every headline our own government’s role in making this possible. Every press conference would be completely dominated with questions asking every western official why we are participating in an active genocide and demanding answers about when it is going to stop.

Instead we get “Palestinians perish in explosion” passive-language headlines, usually coupled with “…says Hamas-run health ministry” in order to let readers disbelieve the entire story. And that’s on those rare occasions that Israel’s atrocities get reported on at all; normally Gaza is seen as a third or fourth-tier issue of far less importance than some infinitely less egregious grievance in our own country. Palestinian lives are given vastly less weight than western lives, with our own feelings and comforts emphasized far more heavily than the issue of the Palestinian people living or dying.

And it can just make you feel like you’re going crazy. It’s like if we were all going around physically drenched in human blood, with blood flooding our living rooms and severed limbs strewn about our bedrooms and kitchens — but nobody was talking about it. You try to say “What’s up with all this blood and gore?” and they shush you and tell you it’s impolite to talk about politics. A dark red deluge pours out of your minivan door when you open it to pick up your kid from soccer practice, and everyone looks away.

This is happening. We know it’s happening. It’s happening right in front of us and we’re acting like it’s not. It’s so maddening and frustrating, and it can make you feel so powerless.

But we keep pointing at Gaza, because what the hell else are we going to do? The alternative is to join the lunatics acting like it isn’t happening.

At the very least, it’s a way of preserving our sanity. Preserving our humanity. Even if they do succeed in purging Gaza of all Palestinian life, at the very least we will have prevented the bastards from warping and twisting us into psychopathic freaks like them. Even if we can’t stop them from destroying Gaza, we can at least stop them from destroying our hearts.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

“Capitalism ends up elevating sociopaths…” ⬇️

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@historyoarmani2 Give em a break, 'regime' was one of this week's vocab words

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@k1myojong DPRK is the litmus test for a person being able to think critically even if everyone they've ever met has already made up their mind on something.

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@Dr_Marxist_27 They know exactly what they're doing: Purposely catering to the right wing, libertarian, free market worshipping anti-establishment types and funneling them back into the hyper patriot, fascist mainstream. Lest they become class conscious. ACP is a fed project.

[Robert (Durden) @realrobdurden]

If you’re American just understand that almost 100% of what you know about our history is Imperialist propaganda.

[Soup4Every1 @Soup4Every1]

@TrashPandaGirl Not everyone gains wisdom with age but that's what it's like.

[Solidarity @1WhiteRabbitt]

Capitalism < Socialism