happybaby [none/use name]

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Cake day: February 9th, 2026

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  • What a good, in-depth answer. Thank you!

    Do you think that if Russia were to get stronger and wealthier (as they are now) at a certain point they would act like an imperial bully, like the USA? These accusations are often leveled at China and in that context are completely baseless, but do you think it would be true of current Russia led by Putin? Would this imply a grain of truth to the “keep Russia weak” tactics of the US? Not speaking to the legitimacy of that plan (it’s illegitimate) but just trying to understand the power dynamics and implications.



  • This is really a great question and addresses our very important task. Accelerationist Comrade Trump is making the hidden contradictions of capitalism glaring and the glaring contradictions supernova, so now is really the easiest time to get through to people that capitalism itself is the problem i.e. we will not have a solution unless we ditch capitalism as a way to relate to eachother and the world around us. I would recommend some more straigtforward and modern authors like Clara Mattei and Richard Wolff.

    The right doesn’t propagandize like this! Why can’t our propaganda be more like theirs since their propaganda works so well?

    They are catering to honestly, deeply stupid people and have no regard for the accuracy of their statements. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Nothing at all like what we do. Following a link on that page you shared goes to this, which has a good gem:

    Increasingly, the work of government is being done by people outside the government—unelected power brokers who are invisible to the American public but who pull the strings, set the agendas, create the incentives, and write the rules we must all live by. Using both government and non-governmental institutions, leftists have bypassed the legislative process to compel institutional compliance with partisan goals. The White House or the Congress may change hands, but the left remains in power.

    In The Puppeteers, Chaffetz reveals how:

    Susan Rice was put in charge of using the bureaucracy to make sure Republicans never win another election

    The federal government now could be deployed to harvest ballots from Democrats

    President Biden hired a Blackrock executive to run his economic agenda for the first two years of his presidency

    State treasurers planned to use billions of government dollars to “address climate change” and “racial inequality,” with almost no way for voters to stop them

    Randi Weingarten makes more decisions for the education department than people who actually work there

    Electing the right leaders is no longer enough. To take back our country, the American people need to understand that they’re in a new fight. But it’s a fight that’s still eminently winnable, and Chaffetz reveals the playbook.

    This is really not far from a Leftist line so in some cases we already have a foot in the door. Like

    President Biden hired a Blackrock executive to run his economic agenda for the first two years of his presidency

    This is definitely problematic and leads to concentration of wealth which then destroys the social fabric through lack of funding for public services and the destruction of democracy. Depending if your mark is liberal or right wing will define how you approach it i.e. “shouldn’t we get these unelected bureaucrats out of here?” vs. “all the liberal gains since the New Deal are getting erased because of this!”.

    But yea, definitely not Lenin. I mean you have to first get them through Bernie and Mamdani before you even let them see Lenin.