Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985)

He/Him, white-on-white violence advocate.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

Chad format for the people:

Single images in the comments

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@notXiangyu Based on vibes, I guess.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

Obviously many if not most technically "self employed" people in USA are trapped in a psuedo employment relationship or otherwise strongly beholden to clients that hold an enormous power advantage over them. Those people most naturally align with the proletariat.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

Marx and Engels: analyze the relationship between people and means of production, employers, workers, and define that relationship; but its ALWAYS based on organic analysis!

Unread leftists: boo. If *US law* says you are an independent contractor, then you are a class enemy 😡

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@AdamBlazowski @AngelicaOung 1) "I give you credit for still believing that" is a great albeit unintentional burn

2) Sey Hersch blew the US narrative apart and ever since, the US *avoids* looking into NS. Biggest industrial sabotage in history, against a NATO member, and 0 interest?

https://t.co/NN5keUMp1C

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@AdamBlazowski @AngelicaOung Jeeez man the thread you posted is like a fever dream. No evidence of anything. Just wild speculation based on the assumption that Putin is basically an irrational Disney villain.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

Dude complaining about communists OF COURSE describes capitalists.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

Let's be real, most of the globalist elite are Marxist.

They don't think human beings account for anything and are all fungible commodities.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@uchouten @TheEnemiesPE3 1) punk said "get your man before I kick his ass" and Seth wears Beckys clothes. Clearly kayfabe and not implicating others or nasty rumors

2) Beckys comment wasn't kayfabe, references niche baseless rumors, and implicates a very young woman whose career is not established yet

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@NMoonitz @guelphgirlchris "Proving a negative" - I.e. telling someone to prove the absence of something - is a fallacy.

Can you prove Elen has any real oversight?

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@LarrisseNelson Bro you're just being an incel. Normal people don't think like you.

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@T62Alan @WWEAsuka Mega creep? Naw, you're a MAGA creep 🤮

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

they sent Liz Cheney on a 3 state tour. they sent Kathy Hochul to PA! THEY SENT RITCHIE TORRES TO MICHIGAN TO START FLOSSING IN FRONT OF PEOPLE WHO HAD LOST HALF THEIR FAMILIES!

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@shouldhaveanima Tiger Noodles

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Wow

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this is what happens when you think real life is like reddit and twitter

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

Friend was part of a pro Palestine demo in Kyoto.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

@cutelikeafox12 @means_tv @YaBoiHakim What? No.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

The way this guy I never heard of just BURST onto my timeline in a flaming tailspin.

[Dr. Butch Ware @ButchWare]

Leftists are the only religious group that don’t know they are a religion and so have no checks on their intolerance. I never said there was a Uyghur genocide. But there is a thousand year history of Han Chinese persecuting Muslims that all Muslims know from Muslim sources.

[Reading 📕Soviet But Not Russian (1985) @ZombieBladder]

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