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>>2267649 >>2270488Know your place in history. Communist China is highest extant form of society. AmeriKKKan society crumbles by day.
>>2270491>soon your job will depend on the Chinese economy.Wrong. It already does
>>2270496Wrong. Communists support Communism, therefore Communist support Communist China.
>>2270512>AmerikkkaAnother retard doesn't read when I said NO ANTI-WHITE RACISM
Yes, China is already running the world.
Who should I blame that Americans are so retarded to ship off everything to overseas? I am angry that China has nicer things than we do. I want fancy futuristic shit without tofu buildings and social credit scores. Or any credit scores. Fuck the banks. You commies no doubt love big banks since they are shilling for communism like that Canuck Carney.
reuploading this so it gets more views.
>racism in America? nah, that's a myth.original video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVEz03E3Uo, recently declassified body-cam footage.
>>2270537What a fucking prick right out of the gate
>nice car>is that your car>what are you doing in this neighborhood>YOU live in THIS neighborhood?>you peopleAlso reckless driving citation for going… 30 in a 35. Are you fucking kidding me with this shit. Breaking her tail light just to have her jump out in her robes, lol surprise uygha!
>>2270640Do you have the opinion from every single US citizen so we can do the math on how much that number exactly is?
Otherwise I call bs
>>2270640>It is trueIt isn’t.
>Most Americans would die Military recruitment is at an all time low. Trust in the government and the police is at an all time low. Approval ratings for politicians in general are underwater.
The youth are in discontent.
The majority of the country just cheered for the death of a healthcare ceo.
The reality you claim to exist does not exist.
>>2270643No, I just have history to go off of. There is no significant opposition to the US government and there never has been. Even during the civil rights movement, the movement was never anti-government or anti-capitalist in nature.
>>2270646They hate the individual politicians but do not hate the system or the government in general, which is treated like an immutable fact of nature at best and the greatest system ever devised at worst.
>>2270659The Black Panthers were maybe .01% of the total population and accomplished nothing because they couldn't form a mass base even among the black community, who should have been generally amenable to their platform.
>>2270661Peru is not a sovereign entity.
>>2270673The program pitch reportedly starts with 12 pre-vetted contestants arriving at Ellis Island in New York City aboard “The Citizen Ship.” The show’s host—preferably a “famous, naturalized American” like Colombian Sofia Vergara or Canadian Ryan Reynolds—will welcome them with a personalized baseball glove.
Contestants would then travel from state to state aboard a train called “The American” to learn about each region’s history and culture and compete in themed contests, ranging from balancing on logs in Hayward, Wisconsin to building and launching a rocket in Florida’s Cape Canaveral, which houses a major NASA hub.
Officials from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are reportedly being eyed to tally votes.
“We’ll join in the laughter, tears, frustration, and joy—hearing their backstories—as we are reminded how amazing it is to be American,” the pitch reads.
The losing contestants will go home with “iconically American” prizes, including a million American Airlines points, a $10,000 Starbucks gift card, and a lifetime supply of 76 gasoline. They will also have a leg up as they undergo the traditional citizenship process.
The big winner, meanwhile, will get sworn in as an American citizen on Capitol Hill by “a top American politician or judge.”
“There won’t be a dry eye within 10 miles,” the pitch reads.
>>2270649>They hate the individual politicians but do not hate the system or the government in generalYour insistence to minimize American discontent is suspicious to me. Nothing backs what you claim. Despite your nihilism, the majority of people’s belief in the system has been shattered.
>>2270652It’s closer to 80%
>>2270665I disagree. They are remembered and talked about for good reason. They may have not been the most successful, but I think they have been quite influential on discourse
>>2270665>Peru is not a sovereign entity.Doesn’t matter
>>2270672Given the appetite for sacrifice among the "left" in America, let alone the general population I think this is incredibly unlikely.
There will only be a revolution if you start one, and you'd all sooner watch humanity go extinct than risk even one hair on your heads.
>>2270679If the people did not believe in the system it would not and could not exist. Governments without mass support are overthrown and destroyed.
>I disagree. They are remembered and talked about for good reason. They may have not been the most successful, but I think they have been quite influential on discourseThey failed utterly and their influence on "discourse" accomplished nothing. They were operating during a time when a proletarian revolutionary organization could have credibly built a mass base and still failed. Now, there is absolutely no basis for that sort of organization in America.
>Doesn’t matterIt does matter, because the Peruvian government is imposed on it by the United States. It's popularity is irrelevant because it cannot be meaningfully changed.
>>2270544>BaitWhat bait you retard?
>>2270546China makes everything. Well, almost everything. Babies are made in Vachina. China is taking over the world and all I want is to have nice things and not live in a Vachina of a country. When Xi came to SF, that faggot newscum cleaned up the streets in no time. What do I have to do to have a nice America? Have Xi by the whole country and live here?
>>2270554>>2270555How do I deal with neoliberals?
My dad is one of those.
We had dinner 20 minutes ago.
>China this<China that>Muh China is collapsing<Muh China is buying up farmland and stealing IPI'm fucking tired of this bullshit.
I want to call out the property owners and those fucking ShArEhOlDerS for being trust fund baby faggots but every time I do it I get
>What are you a commie?>What are you jealous of their """"Success""""?>Why don't you become rich first and then criticize the other rich?I rather be a nazi at this point since nazis are looked at as dangerous competent evil while commies are always laughed at. I blamed the richfags for fucking up the country but my dad defends them like
>What do you want them to be? Poor?At this point, fucking yes. My dad worships the rich. He loves Trump, Elon, Soros, Buffet etc.
I cannot stand the crowd of richfag cocksuckers. These inbred faggots will sell their freedom just so they can invite out warren fucking buffet to the buffet for like 100K an hour so he can give you his shitty "wisdom". What they don't tell you is buffet's daddy was a senator, investor and ALREADY fucking rich.
>Muh Newspaper delivery boy.Fuck warren buffet and his fucking simps. I want to be rich, not buffet mutherfucker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_BuffettFucking bitch.
>Muh self made billionaire.Fuck the billionaires. I want to be the billionaire. Not those faggots. At least I am a nice guy and I help people out when I can. Richfags want to take away my fucking freedom. They will do it over my dead body, I ain't going down easy.
>>2270614Fuck you racist motherfucker.
>>2270669After you my faggot.
At this point I will admit the richfags are jealous of china for some weird reason. I'm jealous of the good shit china has. I hate the stupid government and the corporate overlords and I fucking hate ShAreEHOlders. Fuck them. Luigi should have went after the shAreHolders and made them "sell" their shares to him, so he could turn around the fucking economy. I had too much to drink after the lousy fucking dinner. Everyone in the family is talking about fucking china. If I wasn't such a whiteboy, I would move to fucking china. Too bad I dont speak chink. And what good Would a blue collar mechatronics engineer like me do in china when it's all fucking automated. Fuck this economy.
>>2270701I'm 23 and this economy sucks bawls.
Lucky me at least I have a job I like and I get paid well. Still, it's a miserable place and I am depressed as hell.
>>2270687The primary difficulty facing us is the bourgeois system itself and it's constant, lavishly funded propaganda. Until that system is meaningfully degraded, you will make no progress.
And given your appetites for sacrifice, the system will never be meaningfully degraded. The only way that could possibly happen is if there was a genuine, militant left willing to lead by example by any means and at any cost necessary.
>>2270724>The primary difficulty facing us is the bourgeois system itself and it's constant, lavishly funded propagandaMainstream media outlets and shitty alternative media outlets used by the bourgeois such as info wars are despised by the majority of the population. So I would not say this at all.
>the system will never be meaningfully degraded.You are far too optimistic in your nihilism.
>>2270734It's more than just mainstream news outlets. Everything created by the system exists to sustain it. The fact that the Pentagon literally vets the scripts for most of your TV and film should be evidence enough of that. The propaganda is both incredibly insidious and INCREDIBLY widespread. You cannot fight against it because you do not have the resources, you can only hope to break the system and degrade it, bringing it down to your level.
The problem is the system will never be meaningfully degraded without massive sacrifice from a dedicated band of professional revolutionaries.
Such an organization does not exist because there is no appetite for struggle among the "left" who are the only force capable of being it's vanguard. You argue that you have no mass base, yet refuse to organize and drill people towards the goal of building a revolutionary armed force. You refuse to actually, physically build that base, then complain that it doesn't exist. It's almost like you read theory just as a way to give yourselves infinite excuses for doing nothing.
Spear of the Nation started as a handful of people in Joe Slovo's office armed with improvised munitions created by hand from bulk chemicals in Jack Hodgson's apartment. Their first mission was sending Joe Slovo to personally destroy draft records at a recruitment office and he failed owing to the incredibly primitive nature of his bomb. During the same wave of attacks, one of their cadres even blew themselves up because they didn't know how to properly use the device.
Within 10 years, MK had been built into a revolutionary army which was capable of engaging and defeating the state in open combat and dragged the apartheid regime into a ruinous war of attrition which eventually bled it white and led to it's destruction.
None of this will happen unless you make it happen, and you would literally rather watch the entire world die than do ANYTHING.
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/slovo/1986/3-minutes.pdf >>2270761The fact that you've even mentioned that there's a plan has almost certainly put an end to it.
You blew it. Your opsec sucks shit.
>>2270766The feds have backdoors down to the silicon level in every electronic device sold in America. They knew what I was doing as soon as I typed it out.
I can't hide from them and don't even try.
I can, however, hide from their primary collaborators, the blackshirts, who are eager to do the fed's work for them and smother communist organizing in the cradle. Until such a time comes as my party is prepared to defend itself from their attacks, I will do everything I can to protect them.
>>2270515>if you aren't sending them weapons or money or doing espionage or sabotage or fighting you're just cheerleadingWrong. You defy mass line. This liberal here fails to grasp that imperialists' struggle against Communist China is 100% ideological at by this stage of development. Communist China doesnt need weapon or money. Communist China already won. The ameriKKKan must recognize inevitiblity of Communism and accept Marxism-Leninism into their heart by understanding the success of Communist China
>which is why I say NOBODY ON THIS GODFORSAKEN WEBSITE MEANINGFULLY "SUPPORTS" OR "OPPOSES" ANYTHING. MILLIONS OF WORDS AND THOUSANDS OF HOURS ON LEFTYPOL DOT ORG WASTED OVER THE QUESTION OF IMMATERIAL "SUPPORT" (CHEERLEADING FOR GOVERNMENTS)Wrong. There is no question. Supporting Communist China is only line.
>>2270659Damn, i need to rewatch Rocky.
Monkee at the end is a nice touch.
What-a-job, day two over. Let's be real. So I showed up, first off. They weren't too happy about me walking to work. But it's not like I was late. I showed up to work today on time. They got me coming in right now at five, so I'm walking to work at four o'clock. 3:50, 3:30—that's like the hottest part of the day. So I came in, I was drenched in the fucking sweat. They were like, "Here's another uniform shirt. You can't be looking like that." I'm like, "Okay, well, I told them I have to walk to work." At least inside, I can get my first check and get some transportation going. So that kind of is what it is.
And it's just training for the first week. And I think it's a big L that it's training and I'm not really on the schedule yet. Because I know why they do this. Oh, coming in for two hours today for training. Coming in for three hours today for training. Coming in for four hours today for training for the first week. Well, that's intentional. That's probably to reduce their turnover rates. You have somebody come in, do all the training in one day, work a week, and they get that paycheck and just dip. And somebody would do that.
Manager seems cool. He seems to be probably a bit older than me. Seems like he's chill. Decent dude. I was like, "Can I leave at nine? I did all the trainings for the day. I'll leave at nine. That's a four-hour shift. And I'll come in tomorrow, so I'm doing the hands-on training." He was like, "Sure, call me at 11am and I'll tell you when to come in tomorrow," because I just had to walk to work. And it's only two and a half miles, but I ain't trying to walk two and a half miles at one o'clock in the morning. That's a little bit different than walking at nine, right? Or ten. Right.
We did this de-escalation training. It was pretty basic, like a two-hour-long thing, videos, talking about empathy, talking about why homeless people react in certain ways—because of PTSD, because of the violence they face on the streets. And it was actually—and I don't think I've ever said this about a work training before—a very informative training. I've worked in customer service for years and years and years, so I know all those little tricks by heart at this point. I know all those little tricks by heart. I know that when the customer's pissed off, they're not really pissed off. You know, it's five o'clock in the day. You just got off work. Your order's a little messed up. So you go off. That's 'cause you're mad at work.
But I just think it's funny that the police don't have to take no type of training like that to deal with people. The police don't take no empathy training and shit. They'd probably kill a lot fewer people if they did. And that's just a weird feeling. You go to get a job at Whataburger, you gotta do more training to deal with people than you do if you're a police officer. What the fuck? That don't make no sense, do it? They fucking don't.
And that was really why I was saying that. Yeah, I don't know—the police have to take something like this. They're talking about de-escalation and talking about how the last thing you want is violence. Don't meet force with force. Police are trained in basically the opposite way.
The other thing that's fun is because I just started, haven't gotten paid yet, I'm broke as fuck. I'm so broke. I haven't eaten yet today (not entirely true, I had half of a dollar bag of cheetos for breakfast). And I'm at the Whataburger. I'm at a Whataburger, right? There's an employee discount, and I still can't afford to get anything. So I'm sitting there, hungry-er than a motherfucker. Can't order shit. Can't be like, "Can I get a drink or something?" Because I got $4.50 to my name. Trying to stretch it. That's four different sodas from the damn corner store. You know what I'm talking about. On that polar pop shit.
I learned my lesson yesterday. I did not walk to work in the kitchen clogs. They fucked my feet up. I got blisters on both my feet from walking in them. So I brought a bag with them inside and wore sneakers to walk in. And I think tomorrow, when I walk to work, I'll bring a bag, same damn thing. I'll bring a bandana and change into my uniform when I get to work. Now that I have two uniforms, I can do that a little bit easier.
I think that was the one thing that really fucked with me today. Sitting in that motherfucker, hungry at the end of the bitch with no money and no way to go get food. You know, you work at the place, and this is just, you know, the type of circumstances that have a motherfucker doing spite push-ups.
Anyway. I'm thinking what we're going to do with this What-a-Job thing—I have a feeling that we're not going to be doing it every day. We're not going to be doing an update post every day on it, right? Because eventually things will just get boring. But for as long as the series is running, it's going to be a Patreon exclusive for any paid member. So if you want to hear more about my journey through low-paid wage labor, shoot me a dollar. If twelve people sign up for the Patreon, you've just made me an hour of labor this month. I'm about it like that. You know the money's going somewhere.
I work at a Whataburger. I can't stop thinking about the movie Good Burger, which I don't think I've ever actually seen. Something that's like kind of on my cultural periphery. Might have to watch that. I might have to watch that one.
Several beautiful women work here, I'm not going to lie. That's definitely a fact. Of course, being six foot five, I'm already—"Hey, can you grab that off the top shelf for me?" Of course. I'll be happy to help you since you're 4'11". Bad to be thinking like this? Probably.
I haven't really been working a job that is like interacting with people since before COVID, right? I've been remote work, call center. So it is definitely—I feel a little bit weird. It's like coming out the cocoon. Went into a heavy monk mode around 2023, no dating, no going out, back then I was sleeping on a friends couch selling 8ths just doing what I can to get to the grind. I don't think that's a bad thing. I think it's good for me to break out of monk mode.
Another thing I noticed. Another thing I noticed is that a lot of the people who come in are old as fuck. Like, America is a very aged population. And when you start paying attention to the demographics coming into these places, you can tell that very quickly. The majority of the people we served today—at least from my brief visual, you know, analysis—were over 50 or 55. Seniors, even. And they'll come and they're very demanding.
Like, I couldn't imagine going to a fast food place and being like, "My fries aren't hot enough, can you remake them?" Like what? But that happened—twice—and they were both old as fuck. Definitely a cultural thing, definitely a generational thing. Because I go to a fast food place, I'm just happy they're not fucking stepping on the lettuce in the kitchen. You're barely paying these people. Don't be making fucking demands. If you want actual customer service, go to an actual fucking restaurant. That's how I feel. You're not entitled to being glazed just because you paid $14, which is more than what I'm making an hour, for a fucking value meal. I mean, I don't get it.
And I've worked call centers, so I know what it is to have someone call me up and be mad as fuck. Like, "Oh, you know, my phone bill," you know, "$10 extra charge," just cursing at you and shit. But I think the customer service shit in this is a little bit different. Maybe not as direct, but probably more annoying over time. That's for sure.
And I guess that's going to conclude What-a-Job number two. The way I'm doing this is I'm literally walking home and recording the audio, and then we go home and take the transcription, clean it up, post it up, and there you go. This was recorded minutes after stepping out the door.
Day one:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-job-day-1-129076893>>2270698>i hate the stupid governmentdo you know how old you have to be to post on this website, anon?
…does your dad
china isn't the evil poopoo bug country you think it is, anon, it's just another country
>>2270831Several beautiful women work here, I'm not going to lie. That's definitely a fact. Of course, being six foot five, I'm already—"Hey, can you grab that off the top shelf for me?" Of course. I'll be happy to help you since you're 4'11".
>Bad to be thinking like this? >Probably.Why are zoomers like this?
>>2270909"Eighty-six" is old timey slang for "kill" from like mafia gangster types.
47 is Trump, the 47th president.
>>2270449 >>2270469 >>2270479 >>2270483 >>2270484 >>2270494 >>2270517 >>2270609 >>2270537 >>2270550 >>2270564 >>2270566 >>2270604 >>2270624 >>2270651It's fake. Sunny Springs, Florida is not a real city and the logo is just shooped from a totally different town.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-bodycam-officer-judge/I thought you people were better than to fall for fake shit. This site disappoints me more every day.
>inb4 "but the fact I thought it was real means…" reactionary line of argument >>2270971war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
>>2270852I know this may be a hot take, but…
…Trump looks really bad.
>>2270982Then it's okay too because in the new world, there is no bourg, only ex bourg.
See: survivorship bias
>>2271021no, I will become a glowie, access the us missle command and press the nuke button.
May nuclear armaggedon cleanse the bourg from this earth
>>2271024You fool
I will nuke the yosemite national park supervolcno
It will be an extinction level event. Nothing will survive that.
>>2270909It really is, especially because Comey is more likely more responsible than any other individual for getting Trump elected in the first place. The Comey emails stuff is actually petty funny too, in the context of Hegseth flagrantly violating every security rule so he can have games on his iPhone.
>>227092It also has the much more anodyne, and commonplace, contemporary meaning of just removing something a menu.
>>2271123>>2271129I miss the days american students and teachers brought guns to school. This was Before the 80s. Also there were no school shootings because everyone was armed.
>>2270840I kinda hate my own stupid government. I am afraid of chinese gov though.
>>2270840 >>2271145>I kinda hate my own stupid government. I am afraid of chinese gov though.I know libertarians have this philosophy of licking the closest boot possible but it's
your government that is the biggest threat to
you in 99.9% of times. China can't arrest you and put you in jail, the US can.
>>2271152I worry that china will own the US completely. I don't care about chinese glowies, I worry about their megaindustry.
>>2270634I'm one of those "propagandized" people. Communism just does not appeal to people like me because it always happens in poor countries, the revolutionaries are always shown as fanatics leading struggle sessions and the lack of freedom in those places pushes us away. Like we see inside north korea and people don't talk like normal. That spooks me. Also does not help how most communists share my vocabulary but not my dictionary. In summary communism ends up looking like high school girl club politics pushed onto the whole country. I don't know what can be done at this point since even if guys like ACP start fixing sidewalks, it all seems like a ploy to buy support. We are afraid of communists and I rather it be a guy like Trump doing a bit of communism than leftists.
>>2271159>Like we see inside north korea and people don't talk like normalThat's because they are speaking "Korean"!
>I rather it be a guy like Trump doing a bit of communism than leftists.lol
This is an 18+ website, sweetie
>>2271164No it's like they say
>Under the Wise Leadership of Our Dear Kim Jong Un.Why can't they just say
>Our president did a good job
>18+I'm 23. And your dismissive nature of my concerns is the reason why communism will never take root in america. Average people are afraid of you leftists. There is no middle ground where someone says
>XYZ is a leftist but he is ok, he has a right to be a leftistIt's always like this
>I am a leftist or I have leftists sympathies<I don't like leftistsAt some point you guys have to look in the mirror.
>>2271159>i worry that china will own the us completelyand how would your life meaningfully change? how can you tell the difference between the companies forcing you to drink their bottled water because the ground water isn't safe anymore, and the companies who bought up all the local roads so that they can corner the real estate market?
>we see inside north koreano you don't
>>2271161>My dad likes to lick billionaire bootsso do you, you just like the taste of different boots
>>2271176ive said it before and ill say it again, the scary peepee countries me no like aren't fucking mordor they're normal countries with normal governments. speak to any fucking chinese person, it's possible and you can do it. has this ever occurred to you? no, because you've spent your entire life in the propaganda hole. go talk to a chinese person; ask what their favorite place to hang out is. ask about their favorite restaurant. etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMsi-A56dshere's an old vid about cuba and how it's also normal.
>>2271168>Under the Wise Leadership of Our Dear Kim Jong Un.It's normal formal language in the DPRK.
>Why can't they just sayWhy can't liberturdians just never STFU
>>2271216Enjoy your echochamber then. Those are the only friends you will have.
>>2271205I want national sovreignty. I want my country to do good things to the people not some other country doing it for me. I want my parents to be good to me not some other family to take their place. Thanks for the Cuba video. I have nothing on Cuba since they are sanctioned more than north korea so I feel bad for them. But you faggot keep missing what I want and prefer to strawman me.
>>2271210I want proofs that communist countries are not as anti-freedom as they appear to be. I saw old footage from Uzbekistan and it looked normal but poor. I also saw the COPS episode from 80s russia and noticed how building standards were inferior (no straight lines, everything looked handmade) and that rubbed me the wrong way. So I see it, either the communist country is more liberal but poor or it's authoritarian but more wealthy. I want to find a freedom oriented communist country that is developed. Then I may consider communism as an alternative.
>>2271177That could very well describe what Yugoslavia was before it was destroyed by the fire of ethnic violence that the US poured gas onto
Here's a few vids to show what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wow63FK_pshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0KNs8D-JY Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that Tehran has received no written proposal from the US, either directly or indirectly.
In a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, Araghchi stated that the messaging Iran and the world are receiving from the US is "confusing and contradictory."
His remarks came just hours after US President Donald Trump warned Iran that it would face "something bad" if it did not quickly accept a US proposal regarding its nuclear program.
“They have a proposal, more importantly, they know they have to move quickly or something bad—something bad’s going to happen,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One while heading back to Washington following his Middle East tour.
Trump, however, stopped short of revealing details of the proposal, which follows four rounds of indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the US, mediated by Oman.
The latest round of talks was held in Muscat on Sunday, during which the two sides discussed "contentious issues," according to Iran's Foreign Ministry.
Araghchi, who also serves as Iran's lead nuclear negotiator, said Tehran "remains determined and straightforward" in its negotiations with Washington.
"Respect our rights and terminate your sanctions, and we have a deal.
"Mark my words: there is no scenario in which Iran abandons its hard-earned right to enrichment for peaceful purposes: a right afforded to all other NPT signatories, too," he stated.
The top diplomat said Iran has "always welcomed dialogue" based on "mutual respect," noting that Tehran has "shown its power and fortitude in the face of those who have attempted imposition."
During his four-day trip to the Middle East, Trump emphasized that the US was "getting close" to a deal with Iran, sparking optimism as the negotiations progressed despite the war of words between the two sides.
In an interview earlier this week with NBC, Ali Shamkhani, a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Iran would never build a nuclear weapon and would ship out enriched uranium if Trump removed sanctions against the country.
Meanwhile, on Friday, Iran and the European Troika (France, Germany, and the UK) held talks in Istanbul on Iran's nuclear negotiations with the US, which came amid threats by Europeans to reimpose US sanctions on Iran if a deal was not reached.
Araghchi had earlier warned that such a move by the E3 would have "irreversible" consequences that could risk "provoking a global nuclear proliferation crisis."
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/iran-denies-receiving-written-us-proposal-after-trump-warned-of-something-bad/3570964Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The warehouses, which are run by USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA), contain between 60,000 to 66,000 metric tonnes of food, sourced from American farmers and manufacturers, the five people said.
An undated inventory list for the warehouses - which are located in Djibouti, South Africa, Dubai and Houston - stated that they contained more than 66,000 tonnes of commodities, including high-energy biscuits, vegetable oil and fortified grains.
Those supplies are valued at over $98 million, according to the document reviewed by Reuters, which was shared by an aid official and verified by a U.S. government source as up to date.
That food could feed over a million people for three months, or the entire population of Gaza for a month and a half, according to a Reuters analysis using figures from the World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian agency.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-aid-cuts-leave-food-millions-mouldering-storage-2025-05-16/>>2270505the burger reich isn't
totally de-industrialized. we still make the weapons and the viruses here
>>2271444Nobody even reads theories of surplus value (the vol. 4 of capital published in the USSR from marx's papers purchased from germany before the third reich got a hold of them)
http://www.marx2mao.com/PDFs/TSV-Part%201.pdf>This also establishes absolutely what unproductive labour is. It is labour which is not exchanged with capital, but directly with revenue, that is, with wages or profit (including of course the various categories of those who share as co-partners in the capitalist’s profit, such as interest and rent). Where all labour in part still pays itself (like for example the agricultural labour of the serfs) and in part is directly exchanged for revenue (like the manufacturing labour in the cities of Asia), no capital and no wage-labour exists in the sense of bourgeois political economy. These definitions are therefore not derived from the material characteristics of labour (neither from the nature of its produc tnor from the particular character of the labour as concrete labour), but from the definite social form, the social relations of production, within which the labour is realised. An actor, for example, or even a clown, according to this definition, is a productive labourer if he works in the service of a capitalist (an entrepreneur) to whom he returns more labour than he receives from him in the form of wages; while a jobbing tailor who comes to the capitalist’s house and patches his trousers for him, producing a mere use-value for him, is an unproductive labourer. The former’s labour is exchanged with capital, the latter’s with revenue. The former’s labour produces a surplus-value; in the latter’s, revenue is consumed. Productive and unproductive labour is here throughout conceived from the standpoint of the possessor of money, from the standpoint of the capitalist, not from that of the workman; hence the nonsense written by Ganilh, etc., who have so little under- standing of the matter that they raise the question whether the labour or service or function of the prostitute, flunkey, etc., brings in returns. A writer is a productive labourer not in so far as he produces ideas, but in so far as he enriches the publisher who publishes his works, or if he is a wage-labourer for a capitalist. The use-value of the commodity in which the labour of a productive worker is embodied may be of the most futile kind. The material characteristics are in no way linked with its nature which on the contrary is only the expression of a definite social relation of production. It is a definition of labour which is derived not from its content or its result, but from its particular social form. >>2271486That's because the caricature was a deflecgion
Librralism is actually more dangerous than fascism
Louisiana slave plantation turned resort destination burned to the ground, vidrel.
>The plantation, a 64-room, 53,000-square-foot property, was built between 1857 and 1859 for wealthy sugar planter John Hampden Randolph. It was added to the National Register of Historic places in 1980.
>Over the decades, Nottoway's sprawling grounds have been transformed into a sought after wedding location, tourist destination and resort, one celebrated for its Southern charm and beautiful oak trees. The plantation was a major attraction and tourism driver for the southeastern Louisiana parish near Baton Rouge.
>But for many, Nottoway remained a symbol of the South's painful history with slavery, one that some felt was ignored inside the resort's doors.
>…The extravagant home was fitted with many of the highest luxuries of the time: flushing toilets and hot and cold water in all bathrooms (thanks to 10,000 gallon copper tank), gas lighting, a grand 65-foot ballroom and a bowling alley installed for Randolph’s 11 children.
>By 1860, Randolph owned 155 enslaved Black people and 6,200 acres on the Nottoway plantation, 1,200 of which were under cultivation, according to a 1980 National Register of Historic Places nomination form submitted for the property.
Distasteful place for a wedding, people are deranged.
A U.S. federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that the detention of a former student who expressed pro-Palestine views was unconstitutional and that it was a punitive measure triggered almost solely by a complaint from the Zionist militant group Betar.
Late last week, Judge Angel Kelley wrote in her decision that a former student at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), detained unlawfully by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), be released, providing the first court admission that a Zionist extremist groups is working with U.S. authorities to violate free speech rights.
Judge Kelley wrote that the government’s “pursuit of [the former student’s] detention seems to have been almost exclusively triggered by Betar Worldwide.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/15/militant-zionists-spurred-us-arrest-of-pro-palestine-student-judge-rules/>they front load this statistic to make you feel better, 82% of families with children being food secure sounds alot better than 18% of children are at risk of hungry or going hungry.
>In some of these food-insecure households only adults were food insecure, while in other households children also experienced food insecurity.Imagine a single mother skipping meals to feed her kids, that's what this is talking about, abstracted away with McKinsey consulting language
In 2023 7.2 million children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.
The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said.
In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.
No final agreement has been reached, and Israel has been kept informed of the administration’s discussions, the same three sources said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-working-plan-move-1-million-palestinians-libya-rcna207224The Supreme Court in a 7-2 ruling Friday said the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants in its rushed effort to remove them from the U.S. last month using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), a 1798 wartime law.
Through its order, the Supreme Court extended its pause on AEA removals from the Northern District of Texas. However, the court did not determine whether the Trump administration can ultimately carry out removals using the AEA.
Instead, it asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to determine whether Trump’s innovation of the AEA was legal and how much notice is due to those targeted by the act.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented to the court’s order.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/supreme-court-trump-violated-rights-alien-enemies-act-removals/The Trump administration has tried to accelerate deportations by turning countries like Costa Rica and Panama into “bridges,” temporarily detaining deportees while they await return to their countries of origin or third countries.
Earlier this year, some 200 migrants were deported from the U.S. to Costa Rica and roughly 300 were sent to Panama.
https://gvwire.com/2025/05/16/trump-suspends-asylum-system-leaving-immigrants-to-face-an-uncertain-future/The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing a reality TV pitch where immigrants would compete for American citizenship, according to a spokesperson who said in a statement to CNN that “the show in question is in the very beginning stages of that vetting process and has not received approval or denial by staff.”
A producer who has pitched the idea to DHS said he envisions the show as being a “positive love letter to America” while dismissing criticism that it would be “punching down” on contestants.
Rob Worsoff, himself a Canadian immigrant whose credits include “The Millionaire Matchmaker,” “Duck Dynasty” and “The Biggest Loser,” said he’s pitched the idea for his show as far back as the Obama Administration. He said he’s had three conversations with the current DHS about his pitch — “and they’ve gone far” — but said Secretary Kristi Noem has not been involved in any of the discussions.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/16/politics/dhs-vetting-immigrant-reality-tv-show>>2271562quite retarded of you to think that public opinion is a factor on the Israeli issue.
It is the one Sacred Point on which the democrackka will never yield
Afrikaner Granted Refugee Status by Trump Is Linked to Antisemitic Posts
In April 2023, the X user @charlkleinhaus wrote in a now-deleted post that Jews were “untrustworthy” and “a dangerous group” and that “they are not Gods chosen.
In October 2023, the account shared a video of Christian worshipers clashing with Israeli police that had been posted on a Facebook account called “Israel is a terrorist state.” The X user @charlkleinhaus captioned the video “Jews attacking Christians!”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/us/politics/trump-afrikaner-refugee-antisemitism.html>>2271586>doomer is when communismOnly its complete abolition can do away with Israel, as with all statehood, sorry.
The two most important working class revolutions in history were in the midst of their respective countries being invaded btw.
>>2271587America is being invaded right now…
by woke
>>2271561>expecting immiserated proletarians to care about another country before their own needs is so fucking dumbyou could just as easily say "expecting immiserated proletarians to care about their class interests before their own personal interests is so fucking dumb," indeed this is the attitude libertarians take when upholding the ideology of "hustlegrind and bootlick your way out of poverty" followed by "fuck y'all, got mine."
This is why you have to make it clear to those immiserated proletarians that it is
in their own personal interests AND class interests to oppose imperialism because the imperial boomerang will come back to bite you. Collective guilt is the NORM, not the EXCEPTION when it comes to both atrocities and reprisal against atrocities. The victims of imperialism, when their turn comes, will not care whether you were an "innocent bystander" and "immiserated proletarian" who merely "did nothing wrong" while your government slaughtered millions in your name with your tax dollars, even if they did it without your consent.
>>2271425Beer: Open
Pizza: Hot
Game: On
Kids: Grown
Barb: Left me
>>2271624The problem is it's not in their own personal interests to overthrow imperialism.
The system was designed to, and does, benefit the majority of Americans. That comes at the expense of the rest of the world, but that is a price your average American is perfectly willing for everyone else to pay.
BOSTON, May 16 (Reuters) - The Trump administration lost a bid on Friday to lift a judge's order barring it from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own including Libya and El Salvador without first hearing their concerns about their safety.
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined, opens new tab to put on hold a judge's injunction that aimed to ensure that migrants have an opportunity to raise claims they might be persecuted, tortured or killed if they are deported to countries not previously identified in their immigration proceedings.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-trump-bid-swiftly-deport-migrants-third-countries-2025-05-16/>>2271624>>2271629Perfect example of the problems with internationalism as it’s currently constructed on the Left: you’ve got one person saying “we need to be internationalist because at the end of the day it helps us” and he immediately gets shouted down by some jackass saying “ACKTUALLY IT DOESNT HELP US, WE’RE SCUM WHO DESERVE TO BE PUNISHED! ITS US MAKING UP FOR OUR SINS!”
Honestly Nationalists will have the easiest time because they start from the position of “we need to make things better for us” whereas the Left is still debating whether “we” deserve anything but scorn as penance for our sins.
>>2271717 The report relies on old data from before the Great Recession of 2007-2009 to pitch the argument that the poor are doing just fine because they have it all—refrigerators, microwave ovens, window unit air conditioners, televisions, and cell phones.
These arguments are mean and misleading on several accounts. First, the electronic devices that Heritage cites are everyday necessities today. Who has iceboxes anymore? Who doesn’t need a cell phone to find a job or keep one? Fortunately, these appliances are all significantly cheaper these days, but not so the real everyday basics such as quality child care and out-of-pocket medical costs, both of which have risen much faster than inflation, squeezing the budgets of the poor and middle-class alike. In fact, if anything, those who we consider poor today are far more out of the social mainstream in terms of their basic income than when our poverty measure was first set in the 1960s.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20131003154738/http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/poverty/news/2011/08/05/10063/what-you-need-when-youre-poor/ >>2271708Dunno what the original post is, but yeah I got no problem with internationalism in theory—shit I’ll even have friends who were raised conservative and haven’t even read a lick of Marx at least express some desire to see humanity united. My problem has been attempting to extend Internationalism beyond a practical doctrine into a moral one. Specifically a kind of pseudo Christianity where you get nothing from said morality but you’re still forced to make penance for vague sins.
Like if we’re supposed to be materialists then we should obviously accept, as is the scientific consensus, that things like altruism are just a product of evolutionary biology to benefit ourselves and our species: charity given is charity received. Yet Felix and leftists like him think the idea is repulsive, that the moral purity of internationalism has to be maintained not just by acting in a matter where you’ll get nothing in return, but in such a way that you’re actively harming yourself by doing it. And the irony is while I’m certain Felix would spit on religion and the religious impulse, what could possibly be the reason to do what this idiot says unless you’ve got some deep religious sentiment. We’re just creatures of matter after all, there’s no reward in the afterlife and here Felix is saying there’ll be no reward here on earth either, not for us, not for our children, not for anyone related to us. So he’s asking people to throw their lives away doing random acts of violence he’s too pussy to do himself, and are they at least doing it for people who care about them? Well Felix was ranting and raving the other day about how being motivated by helping the people around you is fascism, and you can hear Felix and people like BadEmpanada heap scorn on us, despise us, and describe workers in the third world as getting fed up with our uselessness. So it’s not like we’ll even get so much as a “thank you” for it!
Under such conditions, Nihilism isn’t insane, it’s the
only sane path. There will be no one to judge us after we’re gone, no Hell we will go to for not doing enough, no reincarnation into the awful world we created, there’s nothing people like Felix can use to compel us beyond shame—and we can simply choose to not be lectured by such little men. We can eat our fill and leave a crater behind us; fuck and drink and dance until we let the abyss inside and become one with it. Consume the flesh, then break the bone and suck up the marrow.
Of course no one wants to say this because it sounds horrendous, but that’s the truth of things. So Felix and those like him could do the world a lot of good if they just never spoke up. Because internationalism is possible, but not with him intentionally trying to sabotage it.
Trump named a religious liberty commission to protect religious people in the USA.
It is compromised 11 religious leaders. (7 Christians and 4 Jews)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/president-donald-trump-names-advisory-board-members-to-the-religious-liverty-commission/>>2271786Your "communist party" is literally in lockstep with Likud on the Palestinian national issue. You want to put Palestinians in Bantustans and permanently disposes them of their land for the benefit of what you know are European settlers with no claim to the land at all.
You are not communists, you are something far worse. You understand imperialism, you understand why it's bad and you want to continue it. Your only problem with imperialism is that the loot is not distributed equitably enough among Americans. You are not communists, you are not even slightly left wing. You are fascists, with an expanded definition of the "volk" from one race to one nation. You are considerably to the right of Gregor Strasser on everything that matters.
The thing is, YOU KNOW THIS, and yet here you are. The fact that your "communist party" isn't treated like the ACP and shunned by every serious leftist in the country is proof positive that the left is dead in this country, and it was your party that killed it.
>Joe Rogan defends Ye’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song
>“If you ban it, then people want to hear it more, and then it becomes more popular, and then it kind of supports what he says, which is that there’s this concerted effort, if you talk about Jewish people, that they’re going to remove you from everything,” Rogan said. “Remove you from banking, which is what he’s saying. They run everything.”
>Later in the episode, the pair discussed West’s diamond-encrusted swastika necklace. Earlier this year, the rapper sold swastika T-shirts on his site.”
>“You know a Jew sold him that,” said Rogan of the necklace, to which Segura responded “probably.”
>“The Jewish have been controlling diamonds for a long time,” said Rogan. “They’re very smart about the diamonds, because the diamonds aren’t even really that valuable.”https://forward.com/fast-forward/720901/joe-rogan-defends-yes-heil-hitler-song/ >>2271798Ordinary Americans active and enthusiastic collaborators with the most murderous system since the Third Reich. They know this, they understand it and they want it to continue.
The "ordinary American" is the problem.
>>2271800Truth hurts, doesn't it?
>>2271804I know what the CPUSAs policies are because I have tried to organize with them in the past and found them to be incredibly reactionary.
>>2271798I would try my luck with weirdos like Dale Gribble before Hank tbh.
Hank is in love with his boss and too much of a class cuck.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-chinese-cyborg-soldiers-biotech-militarization/289559/
>On April 8, a bipartisan commission chartered by Congress warned that China is rapidly advancing a terrifying new military threat: genetically engineered “super soldiers.”
>The report by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) urges the U.S. to respond with a sweeping effort to militarize biotechnology. It offers little concrete evidence that such Chinese programs even exist.
>In the name of national security, Washington is now pushing for deregulation, massive government investment, and human experimentation. Experts say this effort echoes Cold War-era paranoia and threatens to erode ethical boundaries in science and warfare.
>A Congressional Research Service fact sheet on the report claims its contents “describe how biotechnology could potentially revolutionize agricultural production in the U.S., transform U.S. health care, and change the future of computing power.” While that may sound promising, the report’s focus is overwhelmingly on using biotechnology for military purposes, including the creation of “genetically enhanced soldiers.” The report also states that “biotechnology’s impact on surveillance could be … transformative.”
>The report argues that biology could revolutionize warfare just as airpower did in the 20th century, promising new advantages in stealth, logistics, and real-time physiological monitoring of soldiers. It calls for “a fundamental rethinking” of how the U.S. uses biotech in combat.
< Biotechnology also promises new advantages in stealth and mobility. Dynamic biological camouflage, for instance, could shield warfighters from thermal detection, while wearable biosensors could adjust mission parameters based on real-time physiological data. Taken together, these advances demand a fundamental rethinking of how biology supports sustained, agile military operations, revolutionizing what it means to defend the U.S., including building for, nourishing, and healing forces in the field.”
>The report argues that “winning” the global biotech race will “require de-risking the domestic production of defense-related biotechnology products” and changing “military specifications” to enable biotechnology companies to sell their products to the Pentagon more easily. Repeated references are also made to the need to “reduce or remove regulatory hurdles for familiar products.” Although the report never defines “familiar products,” the term may refer to controversial and experimental technologies such as CRISPR gene editing and mRNA therapeutics. >>2271768>no actual arguments just seething and stawmanning CPUSanon is right, internationalism doesn’t work
Especially when no communist hold any levers of power or have a cohesive enough base of support to support or be supported abroad. Also Felix’s strategy of idk I guess trying to trigger some mentally unstable person reading leftypol into doing an ineffective act of terrorisim. Is annoying and shitting up the board. Nobody that’s serious about revolutionary work is trying to score points on an image boards. They’re either a kid or a fed.
>>2271805>>2271805>Truth hurts, doesn't it?To be honest once you went on an irrelevant tangent I just figured it wasn’t worth reading further.
>>2271826To be fair, I think internationalism can work as long as it’s structured on a practical basis rather than trying to achieve some penance for being a westerner. I think American Communists should try their damnedest to forge good ties with Mexican and Canadian ones first and foremost. Cubans, too.
But yeah, given Felix apparently has his face and name out there, it’d be *very* funny to crowdfund a PI to follow him and report back on the factories he’s not blowing up.
(Don't be a fed) >>2271828There wasn't a consensus really but what ended up being passed was to indeed "vote against fascism", however, it was up to local clubs to define what that meant beyond "do electoralism somehow".
I haven't been in the party very long but it looks like the party is in a bit of a disarray as a relatively angrier, younger, more radical arm of the party is clashing with the much more conservative older members. Clash of people who have their needs vs people who grew up trying to just survive the collapse of the USSR.
>>2271832Not dodging those accusations of being a fed very well, are you?
Your first response to seeing an actual communist is to call the cops on them. I don't think anything could be more on brand for the "CP" USA.
>>2271807Honestly I think Hank would listen if you explain it to him and make him understand. There are some episodes where he does have enough of Strickland's bullshit (the snow episode immediately comes to mind). Dale Gribble is based on Hunter S Thomson so he definitely would be at least open to some socialist ideals. Bill would like it because of all the socializing and food.
However I regret to inform you that Boomhauer is in fact a cop… So he is completely out of the picture because ACAB.
>>2271850I mean, the dude had a profound respect for Karl Marx and said he was right, had a massive picture of Che Guevara in his house, and was also a registered member of the IWW when he was alive.
If he was a turbolibertarian, then boy was he shit at it lmao.
>>2271857May 16 (UPI) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked the administration of President Donald Trump from using the rare wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan detainees accused of being members of violent gangs.
The Supreme Court, in its decision, also rebuked judges from a U.S. District Court in North Texas for waiting too long to act on urgent requests related to the impending deportations.
The decision, which sent the case for deliberation back to the Fifth Circuit court, effectively blocks any removals under the Alien Enemies Act until the case can be properly reviewed.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/05/16/scotus-alien-enemies-act-trump-maintains-block-2025/1771747431210/ >>2271832Crazy that you can even joke about talking to cops here and not get banned.
Guess that's what happens when you let Anarchists run something.
>>2271850Hunter Thompson read Marx and positively compared him to Thomas Jefferson. He was broadly on the left, and was only claimed by ignorant libertarians (he thought Barry Goldwater was a fascist funny enough) as one of theirs after his death.
>>2271853No need to apologize.
My thoughts on Internationalism is it’s become dogma devoid of context and some (like Felix) boil away any useful aspect of it to make it repellant or self-defeating. Like much of Marx, I think we can gain some new insights if we understand the context some of his ideas were developed in. Specifically: post French-Revolution Europe.
Consider that the memory of a “Holy Alliance” of Monarchies in Europe United to crush the French Revolution. In some cases, such as Prussia, you had some Prussians who were sympathetic to the idea of revolution such that their King had to bribe them with the promise of a constitution if they fought against the French. Well what happened afterwards? The royalists stopped picking up the phone, they kept delaying the implementation of the constitution, with a young Bismarck even arguing that the Prussians weren’t fighting for a constitution, but because they were Prussian and a Prussian’s duty is to soldier on and other nonsense.
So the French Revolution being countered by an international alliance of countries which all had competed and warred with one another but could recognize a threat to their class system, combined with sympathizers being bribed into fighting against the French only to have the rights they thought they were fighting for basically hamstrung by the governments they saved likely had a big role in developing socialist internationalism. Europe especially is a collection of interconnected states, a war that happens in Germany isn’t gonna leave Poland or the Netherlands unaffected, it’ll be direct and bloody and quickly spiral out of control.
Shit, I don’t even know if there’s been a European war that hasn’t become some clusterfuck of different nations all joining in on the fun. But regardless, I think internationalism is just de facto a practical tactic for Europeans. I don’t think you can
just have a German or French or Spanish revolution. God forbid we have a Polish revolution because given their geographic situation it’d go down in history as among the top 5 dumbest actions Poland has done.
Yet in a bit of cosmic irony, I’d say the two most consequential Socialist Revolutions—the Russian and Chinese ones—took place against a backdrop of the balance of international power firmly being on the side of Capital. It was the Whites, ironically enough, that were kept afloat entirely by foreign support in Russia. In China, even the Soviets were skeptical of Mao’s movement. Yet these movements succeeded despite the drastic difference in international support, why? If I could put my own theory forward: geography in part.
Russia has both literally and metaphorically stood apart from Europe. It’s the edge or end of Europe. It doesn’t cause the same psychic distress as, say, Germany going Communist in between France, The Netherlands, and Italy. It’s not “right next door”. As that one EU kraut said: they see Europe as a garden and the rest of the world as a jungle—who gives a damn what happens in the jungle unless you think the jungle is creeping into your garden. It’s distance, its size, it made Russia seem almost like another planet at the time; men go in, frozen coffins come out.
China, similarly, is a gigantic country. Distance is also a major factor here. It doesn’t have neighbors capable or willing to wage the kind of psychotic “clash of civilizations” type of war that would be necessary for capital to re-assert itself (well, excluding Japan) and so as long as the revolution could still draw support from the broad populace, it had the ability to succeed on its own.
I think America is similarly situated. In the event of a revolution here, which international capitalist state would have the capability, the will, and the nearness to stop us? Canada is, well, Canada. Mexico has a host of its own problems and I imagine the cartels would experience some chaos with the decline of one of their largest customers—maybe they’d switch more towards arms trading and de facto run some border towns. But Europe? It’s having trouble militarizing already. Russia might support some Junta, if the Ukraine war hasn’t sapped them. Honestly I wouldn’t be shocked if the hardest foreign fighters would be Israeli—but if they don’t get a quick victory, and Hamas starts acting up, they may have to retreat with their tails between their legs.
So I think it’s entirely possible for an American Revolution to occur, but I think it’d have to be National-focused rather than over rely on international support.
>>2271905That's why everyone needs to have their wishes written and given to someone of confidence.
I can't imagine burgers having to deal with both legal and health fees lol
>>2271915America is a lawless country where money makes right. The only reason this case got drawn out is because her parents were rich Jews and the husband was desperately pleading with them to let her die while they shopped around to every right-wing tabloid in America to demonize him and somehow tie it to abortion even though she wasnt pregnant. At no point did the courts ever side with the parents, but because they had money they were able to pause it over and over again, prolonging the woman's suffering through appeals and even moving it from state to federal court for no reason other than politics. This is the kind of country America is, nothing matters in the court system except how much money you're willing to throw at it.
It's actually horrifying how little control you have over your life in America.
>>2271956>It apparently did so bad it caused Disney to cancel all future live action remakes.Disney finally makes a right decision!
Also have this family guy clip I guess…
>>2272204In a world… where time moves forward, but westoid capitalist history stands still…
Where headlines scream chaos, but the status quo remains… unshaken.
One Chudjak dared to ask: What if… nothing ever happens?
From the creators of 'Fizzling II' and 'Nothingburger' comes a story of cosmic anticlimax.
This summer… prepare for… nothing.
COMING NEVER.
>>2272204Expected tbh
He's literally got a fasttrack to govt contracts for the next 3 years
>>2271832cop snitching fuck bag, what the hell
reported
>>2272281the virgin Kai Trump: p-please take me on a date elon-sama!!!
the chad arabella kushner: Hello grandpa Xi!
>>2272294what did I say two threads ago? The importer pays the duties, not the exporting country. So only wal mart has to "eat the tariff." The only time the exporter "eats the tariff" is if they only export to one nation, which is very rare these days. China can just change its export market to appeal to different customers. Trump is basically telling wal mart (who I am not defending btw) to pay more for imports and then charge the same. of course they're gonna pass that onto customers
unless he institutes price controls but he would never do that and he and every other porky called it "socialist" when Venezuela (70% private sector 30% public sector social-democratic Bolivarian republic) tried to do them.
>>2272434you don't joke about snitching to cops in a place where we are constantly talking in a way we are going to be considered terrorists by the powerful nato empire.
I have had beefs with other anons, like sage, sabocat, italian sandianon, but never see me joking about that. it's dangerous and attracts unwanted behavior.
>>2272429yeah we can scroll up
>>2272434nah dude he was literally going to waste his rent money on stalking a guy who just sits around and posts between work shifts
>>2272453I am not Iron Felix. and he got all of his posts deleted, but probably for being a wrecker.
also, communists killing communists is not hideous, is called "purge", and many times have saved revolutions.
>>2272464that rather tells you that the purges didn't go deep enough, than they were a failure because they killed the wrong communists. reading the documents declassified of the trials from the 30s purges in the USSR, you can see they were on spot, getting rid of counterrevolutionaries.
You have Grover Furr proving my argument.
>>2272487probably he gets more exploited and is more tired of seeing so much shitlibery taking over the board.
you see how the other writes and talk, and he seems to be more accommodated, more comfy, I don't see him in a state of urgency, like
revolution will come when it has to come, Felix is more urged, and he's probably in a more desperate situation.
>>2272486Cpusa
>longwinded anecdote about being white>blames blacks for bernie losing and only gets 2 day ban>social fascist>zero proletarian theory>democrat>calls to dox someone on website to which he posted screenshot of his brokerage accountFelix
>tells us to blow up factory every day>posts theory One is clearly worse. The worse one should not be more tolerated one.
>>2272499>>gets bullied into jerking off on a picture of putin and posting it in the ukraine thread (literally)lmao, this part is funny.
ah, good 'ol times.
>>2272498I am trying to find some screenshots from old threads in my collection, but I don't have any. he confesed something about that, along the ropes, like a /pol/ convert or something.
>>2272287Felix comes in here day after day screeching that people need to blow up factories and commit random acts of terror. Whenever people ask why *he* isn't doing any of that he just avoids the subject. He brought up ages ago that there's a mostly unguarded arms factory near him as an example of targets to hit, and again when people pointed out that he keeps bitching about no one "doing stuff" but isn't doing anything about said factory, he avoids the point.
Literally all a PI would do is prove that he spends day in and day out bitching on leftypol that no one is doing anything while he continues to do nothing himself. Well, either that or that he's just a fed himself.
>>2272564Three things: COINTELPRO, Operation Mockingbird, and Operation Gladio
All three of those things have done decades-long damage to the left in the west
>>2272560Felix jumpscare alert. Hey, what if the real dude has been gone for years and there's
only glowie impersonators left?
>>2272566Bingo
>>2272569I mean did anybody
really think she was gonna spend the rest of her life only banging Jared Kushner?
>>2272490If I recall correctly he literally runs a small welding business or something along those lines. I'm a grocery worker. I'm absolutely certain Felix isn't doing 14 hour shifts in the coal mines and dealing with the black lung. I'm not either, of course, but chalking it up to proletarian desperation is ridiculous. I know people who work two, sometimes three jobs. I've got friends that literally live in trailers out in the woods and do contract work for the government alongside a bunch of ex-cons; some of the places they go to are so impoverished that they've got stories of coworkers getting shot as part of gang initiations.
None of them, absolutely none of them, act like Iron Felix. They aren't constantly on the verge of tears ranting and raving about all the people they can't wait to kill and calling everyone else a pussy for not blowing up a factory RIGHT NAAAAO.
Yeah, it was dumb to joke about hiring a PI, I was at work and my thought process was more along the lines of exposing the "internet tough guy" for being an anti-social shut in. The fact of the matter is Felix is acting monumentally stupid.
Assuming he IS doing revolutionary praxis (absolutely certain he isn't) then going on an imageboard and screeching "AMERICA HAS TO BE DESTROYED NOW! BLOW UP FACTORIES! KILL COPS!" Is literally putting not just him, but
every single person who might help him. Assuming people actually are working with him to blow up a factory or what have you. Seriously, if you're planning to take that kind of direct action, then Godspeed, but if a guy in your group is going online day after day screeching "I'M THE REAL REVOLUTIONARY, WE'RE GONNA KILL ALL OF YOU, AMERICA HAS TO BE DESTROYED NOW!" Then he's compromised and associating with him any further is gonna land you in a jail cell. Especially when your *real fucking name and face have been doxxed*.
But again, I'm absolutely certain that he isn't actually doing anything. If he is, then he's endangering himself and the people around him for the sake of *image board rep*. That said, the way Felix acts on here is incredibly suspicious. And while I don't like tossing fed accusations wildly, generally speaking the guy in any socialist org who's loudly screeching about how we need to blow shit up now and calling people pussies for not listening to him is either a drug-addicted nihilist more interested in suicide, or a cop. You really don't have to search far (*cough* The Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute a Marxist–Leninist Party *cough*) to find examples of feds acting like ultras to cause schisms.
So yeah, sorry about the joke, but at the end of the day Felix is a malignant narcissist, a fed, or a dumbass. Maybe all three! And his actions are just gonna land anyone associating with him in trouble.
>>2272560>that faceYou can't tell me someone that pale goes outside.
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) >>2272568> Like, the zoomers call it main character syndromeThat’s dumb.
Everyone is the main character of their life. Bitches never played an MMO. In fact, that’s a better analogy. Leftists all want to play tank or get the glory of doing all the damage, but no one wants to play healer.
>>2272458Iron Felix is permabanned for his Ukraine thread shenanigans (Putin cum tributes aside, he also spammed gore and generally advocated for deranged and uncritical support for Russia, until his predictions about Putin were proven to be wrong at which point he became even weirder and entirely anti-Ukraine while also being anti-Putin). Beyond that he's also calling for terrorist adventurism and other stuff explicitly against site rules.
The only reason why he was continually posting was because he was using the TOR node for ban evading since we can't limit who accesses it, just that anyone can access it or not. But he (and some other TOR posters) have become so disruptive that we're going to put the TOR node on ice for a while and hope they fuck off. If not we might permanently ban the node.
>>2272611Imho it was a damned-if-we-do damned-if-we-don't situation. TOR was already being used for samefagging and false-flagging regularly by people trying to start drama (Felix included) which real users had no way to identify. The TOR node was already compromised to a heavy level with spam and abuse, at least this way the users could identify that abuse in a better way.
The alternative was to get rid of the TOR node then and there. The only workable solution in the long run is making it so that you can only post on TOR if we allow you to through some kind of registration because otherwise it's just a haven of people like Felix.
>>2272621That's the magic of it, he does it in a completely incorrect way. Can't even be right when he's right.
>>2272624He's anti-Putin for not killing more Ukrainian and anti-Ukrainian because he thinks they are genetically nazis or something deranged like that.
>>2272625Eugene is also perma'd but he buys a lot of VPNs. Best way to be rid of him is to report him. But people also impersonate him for giggles sometimes so there are false-positives.
>>2272629>>2272632I can see you samefagging, retard.
>>2272634>He's anti-Putin for not killing more Ukrainian and anti-Ukrainian because he thinks they are genetically nazis or something deranged like that.Ahh, an enlightened
centrist autist.
This is probably a very Yakubian thing for me to say but like, my major issue with Settlers types is that there seems to be no acknowledgement that people of color can play a part in upholding capitalism and imperialism. There's black cops and Latinos supporting Trump yet these people seem to be of no immense concern to your typical Maoist. I will concede that white people are probably overall a greater concern though.
>>2272623I just want Felix to be a sane communist. I wish him no ill will.
Walking 3 miles there and then another 3 miles back when my shift is done in 100 degree weather for my what-a-job that pays $11 an hour, not enough to pay my rent or really afford anything. While the apartment that I rent is also hot as fuck and slummy as hell because it's just a fucking slum, it is what it is, it doesn't stay cool in here, there's no insulation, this was essentially a shed someone turned into an apartment. It does quickly begin to radicalize you, more so than you already are. 3 miles isn't that long of a walk, but it could be less than a mile if there wasn't a giant interstate serving as a wall that I have to walk around. So that's fun, too. You notice these little things. Of course, I will admit there's a voice in the back of my head that's going, there are people who deal with worse. Imagine if you had to walk six miles to work. Imagine if it was peak of the summer. Imagine. Just trying to think of ways that things could be worse, and I feel like if you're at that point, maybe that's not the play. Maybe it's okay to be like, things are pretty bad for me.
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