People who say “I know from history” oftentimes have the historical knowledge of a gamer.

You dont have a point other than people bad. It’s the most insipid, unthinking comment you could possibly make.

Good luck with 7th grade

This is garbage. These societies likley treated the disabled with more dignity than we know today. There is evidence of people living with severe disabilities and living a full live. It is just developmentalist chuavanism to make the claims you assert.

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I hear people say they think it pushes the country to the left somehow, even though when I point out all the recent Dem election wins, they just blame Republicans for sabatoging everything. In other words, they just don’t pay attention and are deeply unserious but still have a moral stake somehow.

Yeah its just that if you suggest this people treat you like you are insane. People love to bring up privilege and revoke your “ally card” and whatnot as if third party voters and politically aware non-voters haven’t heard it all for decades. The conversation is always so stale. It’s so hard to convince people the election is a red herring. I can’t even bring myself to judge people anywhere near as harshly based on the election because it just isn’t that important.

All this does is invite people to use ML as bait to draw them through the gates of hell. There is no ideology you can call yourself that frees you from criticism.

I will say however, that MLs, whether they are ideologically agreeable or shakey, likely understand the stakes and will quickly reject a lot of bait your average liberal will take. Still, there are a number of things that can be used to create a pipeline that draws marxists to neoliberalism and we would do well to know we are not free from propaganda or the processes of capital. Workers have been used to advance empire and we can be certain this is not limited to a distant past.

It can’t be a proletarian ideology if it reproduces the behaviors of bourgeois ideology: that of being inaccessible in language, requiring years and years of studies to even start to grasp, requiring the reading of earlier philosophers in an academic manner (pouring over every word), and attaching itself not to the substance – despite what patsocs say they do – but to the form.

Lmao having a vocabulary is bourgeoisie. You seem to have a an anti-intellectual view of academia. Tell me, do you think the world is understandable to a proletarian because the world carries with it an affectation of simplicity that can work with the proletarian character, or because proletarians simple must engage with the world?

Also it’s just wrong to say academics pour over every word. Do you think people can read hundreds of books that way and get anywhere? Please return your caricature of academics to wherever you found it.

I guess that questioning of the artifical legitimacy is why we are watching all the “bleeding hearts” turn into George Bush.

Their vassals seem to be squirming for more war

This is complete bullshit. Unhinged stupidity.

“Sending”

You could have spent the time it took to write your comment to instead get in touch with local comrades to figure out how to spread the news of this event further in your area and talk to people about it and Palestine. You can go do that right now.

Why would I do that when I can livestream my suicide and be lauded as John Brown.

Apparently that isn’t a question for the actions he took? The result is nothing. The left loves a martyr, and our obsession with martyrdom and purity is a feature of the genocide. It’s never time to actually put our skills to use and organize or take risks. If it is then we don’t do anything beyond profile building and concern trolling. Making statements and pretending to die by lying on the ground while we chant that “we are all Palestinians” when we know damn well we aren’t. It’s such a disturbing ruse to witness.

And now this. Literal performative suicide. It’s a fucking embarrassment. If anyone has faith in the left let this be a moment to lose that ridiculous faith once and for all.

He was young and had military training. This was far from his only option.

I think you can admit this without being a doomer. Also I think there are some cool things going on they just don’t involve the metropolitan working class or broad society generally. There is reason to not be a “doomer” but if your standard is the military destruction of the US in the next 5 years (which is a fair thing to want) then that will of course be unlikely.

Look into movements that are trying to build community sovereignty. Especially food sovereignty. I like these because they will build things that we will need to survive and potentially can enable something bigger in the long run. Food sovereignty and Land Back are basically the only land reform movements that exist and I feel that communists here forget about them too often.

I think comrades need to be part of something constructive as we take on the frustration of articulating anti-imperialism.

Non story.

I think you mean Hasan has benifited more from the conflict in Palestine than I have. His actions are liberal antics that his followers endorse. So what? He is not leading us towards anti imperialism, he is solidifying left wing coalitions that will largely only be able to benifit the global north. Saying Israel is bad isn’t revolutionary, it’s fucking obvious. But that’s what he is about, low hanging fruit and the spectacle around it.

No one is pretending it doesn’t exist. I’m saying it isn’t a space to build revolution and never will be. We deal with the world as it is, but we don’t have to drink poison just because it’s in our glass.