pocodemiel [comrade/them]

Speaking of Stalin, I’m looking for the Red Sails article about how “leftists” fetishize failure and demonize AES. Can anyone hit me with the link?

Found it: https://redsails.org/western-marxism-and-christianity/

First, let us discuss a large tendency in western marxism. According to Perry Anderson there is a separation between Western and Eastern Marxism, and Western Marxism is basically a kind of Marxism which has, as a key characteristic, never exercised political power. It is a Marxism that has, more and more frequently, concerned itself with philosophical and aesthetic issues. It has pulled back, for example, from criticism of political economy and the problem of the conquest of political power. More and more it has taken a historic distance from the concrete experiences of socialist transition in the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cuba and so forth. This western Marxism considers itself to be superior to eastern Marxism because it hasn’t tarnished Marxism by transforming it into an ideology of the State like, for example, Soviet Marxism, and it has never been authoritarian, totalitarian or violent.

At a church group this morning, someone asked if food assistance programs were doing the right thing or not because they stave off the consequences.

I thought they meant like “if we feed hungry people, then the gov’t won’t be forced to provide/reinstate food stamps.”

Ghoulish enough, but it was worse.

They clarified that people would not understand the consequence of voting for Trump unless they go hungry.

Out of about 10 people, 2 people seemed to admit thinking this way. There was pushback.

On the good side, the church is legitimately service oriented, and donated 200 meals today.

The digital freeway signs that morning said, “Live weapons over freeway” with no further context. (And it was No Kings Day.)

This is peak freedom. -CK

This Straight Facts comment could potentially get someone deported. I guess? All laws are fake - by manner of selective enforcement- they are just getting more and more fake.

Glad you shared this - I hope you get what you need soon!

I think the response to GLP should prove/convince of the medical-ness.

OTOH, I hear a shitty argument a lot, that now that people (some people) have access to GLP and are reducing, it shows the fat acceptance was a myth/sham.

Chuds gonna chud.

But I think I have personally made some leeway against the moralizing of body weight discussing the food noise phenomenon, for example.

Just riffing and rambling today.

Sort of a TOMT

I’m looking for the famous poem about how mornings suck under capitalism.

Rushing through the shit and the shave, etc

I thought it might be Bukowski but I could not turn it up.

he trashes pro-Palestine protestors by implying they stopped caring about Gaza now that Trump is in office

What person is he inventing to get mad at? The we-hate-Brandon-more-than-we-Hate-Trump Left or the Pro-Trump Bernie Bro?

You may be right, but often Socialist means Social Democrat or Progressive Liberal.

I met a self proclaimed Socialist the other day and she wrinkled her nose when I mentioned Central Planning and clarified that she was a Market Socialist, ie, not the bad kind (her words). This was before she started quoting Michelle Obama. I wish I was kidding.

Bad phrasing on my part. I was not “looking into it.”

Oh, the latter. But I agree, completely implausible. The coincidence just jumped out at me so I mentioned it. I wasn’t trying to be sly. In a larger sense, a growing leftist “scene” shows people are activated by Gaza, by the ICE renditions, by the brutality against the peaceful protests, by income inequality, housing insecurity…

What if the cope cages were made of drones? Is that a thing because it seems like it could be a thing.

On an unrelated note, have you seen any Chinese fireworks displays lately.

I really don’t know. I see posts making the point that the reaction seems muted.

There was Rubio’s Israel purity test to get a Visa, announced 2 days ago. Although I assume it was being rolled out anyway.

It is the fascist playbook to crack down harder and harder.

Conditions are riper than ever for organizing. Mind your op-sec, as always.

I get your point but use your imagination. They will widen the net and ramp up the brutality.

The internet limits the scope of “optimism” that can be expressed.

I’m watching a video of the ICE raid in San Diego and there’s a man interviewed who “asked to be identified as John Brown”

It was around the same time had an event not too far away. And they don’t have many events in this (notably conservative) area. I’m not saying it’s related, but worth noting.

Shitty embedded vid but here’s the link

TIL there were other podcasts on Club Random besides Maher’s.

For months the site has not worked great for me, going back to before the urls were lost. Mostly it’s impossibly slow or won’t load at all. It seems to be working fine at the moment. (I’m mostly phone based) o7 to the people doing the work.