garbology [he/him]

I think about this, too. The bloodlust that gets posted here sometimes is very offputting. Advocates for killing all chuds post-revolution don’t make me feel comfortable with the idea of building communism shoulder to shoulder with them.

Good way to see those parents do a speedrun from Bible literalism to allegorical/historical interpretations no glitches any%

they have this eternal hateboner for post-modernism

[Scooby and gang removes the mask of this group]

Old Man Peterson!?

Communists in 1949 conservative imagination: operating in cells, murdering infiltrators, pressuring shipping execs to undermine the US economy
Communists in 2021 conservative imagination: think black people have a point about police brutality

Imagine if someone had told you in 2016 that Shoe0nhead would criticise Mother Jones from the left, while Mother Jones is criticising Yglesias from the right.

No point reading any Mother Jones unless the editorial team is completely replaced. “Means Testing Really Isn’t So Bad”

Transcript:
posted to /r/teenagers by fatpenisbarbeque
“Ukrainian here. I can’t explain how much it embarrasses me and hurts me to have to explain to privileged Americans why communism is bad.” (17 reddit awards/stickers, 5400 upvotes)

ScouT741: Ты хоть с какого города?
fatpenisbarbeque (OP): My Russian/Ukrainian is super botched because I haven’t really spoke it at all since I was 4-5. But I’m from Kiev. Lived in America for 12 years.
nonliquid: food shortages 13 years ago Kiev Пиздишь.
fatpenisbarbeque (OP): Yep, lived in a very poor neighborhood and according to my parents the markets either never had enough food, or when they did it was too expensive for us to get enough. My family’s monthly salary then was about 200 USD in terms of UAH.
Inner_Partisan: Buddy, you were born in 2003, over 12 years after the fall of the USSR. What you’re describing is capitalism.
tamagoronin: exactly, what is he even talking about.

Seriously tho these people can’t be serious, right?

Every single right-wing person in ex-Soviet republics says this exact shit.

It’s way, way, worse than you can imagine. It’s AWWWWFUL.

EDIT: There’s a large overlap with SlateStarCodex if that means anything to you.

There is also /r/SneerClub, dedicated to ruthlessly mocking /r/themotte, but it was never funny enough to keep my interest TBH

It’s not really a new meme format, it’s used heavily by debate chuds who worship HPMOR over at /r/TheMotte.

I’m fine with attempting to retake it, tho.

Why unions aren’t screaming about this issue

Well, some are https://incarceratedworkers.org/

burning your sources

Found The Intercept’s account.