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>>2255718 >>2280940Not this shit again.
1. Feds at the NSA archive everything on the web with automated software. They probably have their own archive superior to ours in many ways that requires no one to manually paste urls.
2. If you're planning anything important here you're an idiot
3. I'm sharing an archive list for the people here. Use it or don't.
4. If feds are really wasting their budget investigating every post on here then good. I hope we keep wasting their time.
>>2280960here's your options
1. I stop archiving threads and do what you tell me. Feds keep archiving the threads anyway.
2. I keep archiving the threads but don't post the links anymore. Feds keep archiving the threads anyway.
3. I keep archiving the threads and keep posting the links. You keep complaining. Feds keep archiving the threads anyway.
<contrived scenario with a shootingif anyone plans a shooting here they literally are a fed. this is not a party org. it's a shitposting site
>Thus terrorism – like economism – reflects the lack of faith of the petty bourgeoisie in the masses of the working people. Reviewing a leaflet issued by the Socialist-Revolutionaries in 1902, Lenin remarks:
>"The April 3 leaflet follows the pattern of the terrorists' latest arguments with remarkable accuracy. The first thing that strike's the eye is the words: 'we advocate terrorism, not in place of work among the masses, but precisely for and simultaneously with that work'. They strike the eye particularly because these words are printed in letters three times as large as the rest of the text. But just read the whole leaflet and you will see that the protestation in bold type takes the name of the masses in vain. The day “when the working people will emerge from the shadows' and 'the mighty popular wave will shatter the iron gates to smithereens' 'alas' (literally, 'alas!') 'is still a long way off, and it is frightful to think of the future toll of victims!' Do not these words 'alas, still a long way off' - reflect an utter failure to understand the mass movement and a lack of faith in it?”
>(V. I. Lenin: ibid.; p.190-91).
>In repudiating terrorism, Marxist-Leninists are speaking, of course, of what is generally termed “individual terrorism", such acts as the assassination of a reactionary judge or the planting of a car-bomb outside the office of a government department.
>In the sense of “attempting to strike terror into an enemy” Marxist-Leninists by no means reject the use of terrorism.
>The socialist revolution can be brought about only against the armed men who form the core of the machinery of force of the capitalist state, and one of the aims of armed struggle is to strike terror into the enemy and so facilitate his defeat.
>Again, one of the functions of a state is to strike terror into those who might attempt to overthrow it. Thus, the dictatorship of the working class which must be installed on the victory of the socialist revolution has as one of its aims to strike terror into the overthrown capitalist class, and its active supporters, so as to restrain their desire to overthrow the power of the working class.
>Marxist-Leninists, therefore, repudiate individual terrorism not on the grounds that terrorism – in the sense of striking terror into the Enemy – is unethical, but because acts of individual terrorism harm the cause they purport to serve:
>"In principle we have never rejected, and cannot reject terror. Terror is one of the forms of military action that may… be perfectly suitable and even essential at a definite juncture in the battle, given a definite state of the troops and the existence of definite conditions. But the important point is that terror, at the present time, is by no means suggested as an operation for the army in the field, an operation closely connected with and integrated into the entire system of struggle. Without a central body and with weakness of local revolutionary organsations, this in fact, is all that terror can be. We, therefore, declare emphatically that under the present conditions such a means of struggle is inopportune and unsuitable; that it diverts the most active fighters from their real task, the task which is most important from the standpoint of the interests of the. movement as a whole, it disorganises the forces not of the government, but of the revolution”.
>(V. I.,Lenin: “Where to Begin”, in: “Collected Works", Volume 5; Moscow;1961; p. 19).
>"It would be interesting to note here the specific arguments that 'Svoboda' (a terrorist group– Ed.) advanced in defence of terrorism. It… stresses its excitative significance…… It is difficult to imagine an argument that disproves itself more than this one does! Are there not enough outrages committed in Russian life that a special 'stimulant' has to be invented? On the other hand, is it not obvious that those who are not, and cannot be aroused to excitement even by Russian tyranny will stand by 'twiddling their thumbs' – even while a handful of terrorists are engaged in a single combat with the government? The fact is, however, that that the masses of the workers are roused to a high pitch of excitement by the outrages committed in Russian life, but we are unable to collect, if one may put it that way, and concentrate all these drops and streamlets of popular excitement, which are called forth by the conditions of Russian life to a far larger extent than we imagine, but which it is precisely necessary to combine into a single gigantic-flood… Calls for terror…… are merely forms of evading the most pressing duty that now rests upon Russian revolutionaries, namely, to organise all-sided political agitation. 'Svoboda' desires to substitute terror for agitation, openly admitting that 'as soon as intensified and strenuous agitation is commenced among the masses its excitative function will be finished"'
>(V I Lenin: “What Is. to be Done?.” , in: ‘Selected Works’, Volume 2. London; 1944; p. 96-97).
> At first glance, the distinction between terrorism (which Marxist-Leninists oppose), and revolutionary guerilla warfare (which Marxist-Leninists support) seems blurred. In fact, however, the distinction is quite clear.
>In the first place, guerilla warfare becomes a correct revolutionary tactic only when it has the support of the mass of the working people in the locality in which it is carried out:
>"Fighting guerilla organisations must be conducted… such a way as . .to ensure that the state of the working class movement and the mood of the broad masses of the given locality are taken into account”.
>(V. I.. Lenin: Draft Resolution to Unity Congress of RSDLP 1906, In “Collected Works"; Volume l0; Moscow; 1961; p. 154).
>In the second place, and following from the above, guerilla war becomes a revolutionary tactic only when the class struggle has been elevated, as a result of correct day-to-day leadership by the Marxist-Leninist Party, to the stage where the mass of the working people have come to see the armed-forces of the capitalist state and the fascist bands as their irreconcilable enemies who must be fought – for only then will this guerilla warfare have the support of the mass of the working people in the locality in which it is carried out. Terrorist acts, on the other hand, are carried out before this stage has been reached and in isolation from the class struggle of the working people:
>"This act (i.e., the assassination of Sipyagin – Ed) was in no way connected with the masses, and moreover could, not have been by reason of the very way in which it was carried out – that the persons who committed this terrorist act neither counted on nor hoped for any definitive action nor support on the part of the masses. In their naivete, the Socialist-Revolutionaries do not realise that their predilection for terrorism is most intimately linked with the fact that, from the very outset, they have always kept, and still keep, aloof from the working class movement, without even attempting to become a party of the revolutionary class which is waging the class struggle”.
>(Lenin: “Revolutionary Adventurism"; In “Collected Works” Volume 6; Moscow; 1961; p. 189).
I think Biden's dogs kept attacking people to alert that Joe had cancer
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/health/new-home-test-can-detect-cancer-thanks-to-puppies-who-sniff-it-out/Prostate cancer leads traces in urine, which dogs are very focused on. In typical Democrat fashion, they refused to heed the warnings and sent those based dogs to a farm upstate (gravel pit?) to protect the image of their Zion-nazi collaborator
>Commander was involved in at least 24 biting incidents between October 2022 and July 2023, with some reports suggesting even higher numbers. Ultimately, Commander was moved to live with other family members in the fall of 2023>This wasn't the first time a Biden family dog had issues with biting. Their previous dog, Major, also a German Shepherd, was rehomed in 2021 after similar biting incidents involving Secret Service personnel<In May 2025, Joe Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.I think the problem is not the dogs! They were probably upset because Biden's decaying body probably smells worse than any Palestinian holocaust mass grave of women and children who he has spent the last 40 years cheering for:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-once-called-for-israel-to-defend-itself-including-killing-women-and-children-report/>>2281258Transgender ideology centers personal identity over objective relations of sex, labor, and production.
It detaches gender from the biological division of labor that underpins women's special oppression, thereby erasing material conditions in favor of self-declared inner truths. Asserting an internal "gender identity" that overrides biological sex reflects bourgeois idealism—where feeling becomes reality and class becomes irrelevant. This mirrors liberalism’s focus on personal liberty over collective emancipation.
Marxists understand sex difference through the reproduction of labor power, property, and the family.
Transgenderism, by contrast, idealizes gender as a floating abstraction. It is anti-historical and anti-materialist by definition.
>>2281305the church is a dominant force but their influence is waning, Salt Lake County is minority mormon now
>>2281320timpanogos <3 utah is the most beautiful state in the union
>>2281322I’ve heard they’re losing their grip of people, yeah. It was a majority but I’ve heard over the last 10 years it’s below 50-40%. I live in Utah County which is very heavily mormon in comparison, I’ve heard numbers like 80% thrown around for this county.
>timpanogosGood eyes! Taken in Rush Valley, I like to go out there to shoot in peace. I’ve been through much of this country now, and Utah is one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen.
>>2281280>I'm well-aware this isn't an original thought, but I fucking hate how rampant the notion is that "the working class" and "the everyman" is a conservative>>2281284>Conservatives are just really good at marketing and hitting people in the gut. Nothing original here either but I think a big part of the psychology of reactionary spite is wanting attention. A lot of these guys' own lives are unremarkable. Bonerless too. They are not having amazing sex every night. Many of them are not having any sex at all. They live no great adventures. There's nothing epic or interesting about them. Which leads to a nagging fear and loathing for anyone they perceive as not being like them (anyone who they perceive as having sex or living interesting lives) and anyone who might found out the truth about how they actually live.
They're the millions of stupid / mean "nobodies" and losers who grew up in the hotter climates and whose dad beat them with belts. In places like Oklahoma. They might also be locally rich and can afford the suburban house and new truck, but I mean as a self-image, it's all kind of relative. They don't hate the super-rich either, not really, they hate other people's kids who are no better than their own getting respected university degrees and going woke (having sex without punishment).
This is why they're all on-board with Trump kicking the crap out of college students.
It's a combination of things. Thwarted expectations. Shame. Cowardice. Anomie. And that leads to a desperate, yearning, misanthropic stew of power/revenge fantasies that you can sum up as: KILL EM ALL!
>>2281336Yes, it will be a huge problem in the near future. There is a lot of arsenic and other poisons sitting in the bed under the lake which is being released into the air as the lake dries up. Big problem with air pollution in general, Utah will have among the worst air quality in the world because inversion traps it in the valley until weather systems arrive to push it away. It can be smoggy for days, sometimes weeks, so smoggy you cannot see the mountains even from up close. We have a lot of industrial pollution too, Kennecott is a huge copper mine and smelter pumping heavy metals into the air, they also have petroleum refineries just north of SLC, all that shit sits in the air because of the inversion.
I live near Utah Lake and they used to dump raw sewage into it well into the 80s, it is still nasty today.
>>2281008Nerds here are reading SO MUCH theory to give them another excuse for doing nothing but will gradually realize that I was always right.
That's the only reason why anyone reads theory here, to justify doing nothing.
Remember the quote from Joe Slovo.
>We have correctly rejected the 'pure detonator theory' which is based on the belief that the localised military actions of professional armed cadres automatically generate growing resistance and support from the people. But on the other hand to postpone all armed activity until political mobilisation and organisational reconstruction have reached a level high enough to sustain its more advanced forms, is to undermine the prospects of full political mobilisation itself. Experience of South Africa and other highly organised police states has shown that until the introduction of a new type of action it is questionable whether political mobilisation and organisation can be developed beyond a certain point. Given the disillusionment by the oppressed mass with the old forms of struggle, demonstration of the capacity of the liberation movement to meet and sustain the challenge in a new way is in itself one of the most vital factors in attracting their organised allegiance and support. Thus we have been taught to avoid two extreme positions - in the one case the pure detonator theory and in the other case the pure reconstruction theory which implies that no organised armed activity should be undertaken until we have mobilised the people politically and recreated advanced networks of nationwide organisation. The first has within it the seeds of a dramatic adventure which could be over before it started. The second holds out little prospect for the commencement of armed struggle and the conquest of power in our lifetime. >>2281443>Left populistSame difference
>>2281445Yes, it is quite the mangled word.
>>2281452Theoretically, "populism" should be far and away the dominant tendency in any democracy, given that it seems to be defined as "relying on the wisdom of the masses" or something vague like that. So it's just…doing things that are popular with people. In which case why WOULDN'T you be a "populist"? To reject populism by that definition would be to openly embrace elitism, yes? But Trump is also considered a "populist", yet most of his policies aren't even that popular, much less beneficial to anyone but the elite. So is populism just a rhetorical device? Is it literally just vibes?
Props to Kaiserreich to naming their fascism substitute "National Populism" because it's something that sounds vaguely like it should appeal to the masses but in a down to earth folksy conservative type of way, with the prototypes being the Iron Guard and the terroristic faction of the Right SRs. Point is "populism" can be applied to just about anything, even moreso than "socialism". And anybody who openly identifies as a populist is at best just trying to ape Huey Long
>>2281446>. But there is a sizeable chunk of the actual people outside your head oooh reddit snark
>who think the virtue of the US armed forces is in peril for being a little bit more bigoted. For whom "progressive" means drawing from an inclusive pool of imperialists and rainbowashing their adventures.this is not a statement i disagree with but you can pretend I do if it helps you feel like you defeated the libs
>>2281506The Murder of Kyle Dinkheller
(i'm p sure it's from on guerilla warfare by mao but i was sent the quote with no source and am lazy)
>>228152238% of the workforce exists in the 'precariat' along with this but also you need the longshoreman union to be communist inorder for (things) to happen
so it's a mixed bag, they are a tool, use them as you see fit. class consciousness rising gives way to more union which raises class consciousness
>>2281544More like people are just tied of an explicit anti-communist bellowing all day about people he's going to kill while refusing to practice what he preaches wrt revolution. People aren't averse to you because we're all fake leftists and we're scared of "real theory", plenty of people have said similar shit about building parallel structures and using both legal and underground means to prepare for a revolution. No, people dont like you because you're a whiny bitch who's clearly only in it for power tripping purposes. Nobody wants to associate with that.
>erm I do REAL ACTUAL ORGANIZING unlike you WAFFENTWERPYes yes I'm familiar, you work for some super relevant communist underground army that totally exists and is getting ready to bomb a factory any day now but you cant even say its name because it goes to another school in Canada or something.
>>2281551Regiment and discipline as many people as possible with organized, targeted, militant non-violent action to prepare them both physically and psychologically for the state's repression. Continue to escalate, using all tactics short of open violence, until the state mobilizes to crush you.
At this point you already have a cadre ready to resist, and you only need to put rifles in their hands.
You have to fan the flames of revolutionary militancy while simultaneously demonstrating that non-violent action is not sufficient, thereby leaving armed struggle as the natural next step.
There are literal instruction manuals for doing this. You just don't want to read them because you, like everyone else on here, only use theory as an excuse for doing nothing.
>>2281552Then you may as well just go home, because you will absolutely fail.
>>2281575most people want revolution but lack any level of political education so they become reactionary, the level of reactionary proletariat also correlates to the radical impulse
ergo
the concept that we must placate the 'average american' with reformist rhetoric is simply incorrect
If any of you were real leftists you'd be criticizing PSL for NOT having underground armed cadres, instead of criticizing Elias for doing a good deed.
>>2281588"We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution."
>>2281608Nobody to organize with, and if I did they wouldn't be up to your ideological standards anyways. But even if I did, the plan you have for me is to kill my boss, who is nothing but a middle manager and not even a CEO or someone actually important to the company and will almost certainly result in me and my comrades killed by the cops for no gain. Which will then be condemned as "adventurism" anyways.
Besides we're all still waiting for you to lead by example, and so far all you do is post online about how other people should organize militant cadres and die for you. So you'll have to forgive my skepticism
>>2281614the only correct take is that Elias did a good thing the wrong way.
If any of you were serious about what you said, you'd be planning do to the same sort of thing, except better.
No fascist should ever feel safe anywhere on earth. They must know that their ideology threatens their lives, that it will not be tolerated by civilized people. They must know at least a fraction of the terror that their disgusting, blood drunk ideology imposes on the world.
Terror is an absolute necessity for revolutionaries, it is our strongest and most vital weapon. Without terror, we are willingly disarming ourselves.
>>2281617Then find the CEO, kick in their door while they're sleeping, put a gun to their head and take them hostage. Exchange their life for concessions to the workers, then kill them anyway.
When it comes to the pig, let me give you a fun fact: You can buy rifles that shoot through police grade body armor as easily as paper at any sporting goods store. You can literally buy better weapons and armor than a patrol cop has. Furthermore, the pig comes when and where you call them, meaning they can easily be ambushed and destroyed by your infantry.
I know what you're going to say. "I don't have any infantry"
To this, I respond: Neither did Ho Chi Minh, at first. Then he trained some. The Viet Minh started out as 40 people and it took years of organization until they could finally take on French garrisons. They did so despite the fact that most of them were armed with flintlocks and machetes.
>>2281591>If any of you were real leftists you'd be criticizing PSL for NOT having underground armed cadresI have people here defending bordiga because he sucked to the death the fascists cocks to keep himself safe and alive, and praise the fucking coward, instead of praising fucking Losurdo who was poked to death in his cell because he didn't renounce his ideals of communism.
you have no idea how selective people here picks random causes to die on.
>>2281637Okay see that at least sounds like something more worthwhile to get killed over, but what exactly will it accomplish in the long term? If you have enough of an infantry to both kidnap a CEO and hold off the cops long enough to get them to agree to your demands, why not cut off the head of the snake? Avoid the middleman.
I'll fully admit though I'm not very experienced with guns though, so I will defer to you on this matter. Any particular types or brands that are effective and which ones aren't? Any that you personally recommend?
>>2281641No time like the present. We can start the Informal Leftypol Ecumenical Revolutionary Action Squad right now. People keep saying "do shit" might as well do shit. Felix can be our unofficial weapons and tactics advisor if he so chooses.
>>2281637>>2281651Motherfuckers are trying to recreate the Symbionese Liberation Army have a century later, as if it even accomplished anything.
The funniest part is there is no way any of you could even pull that stunt off.
>>2281657Can we get a Symboniese flag? That seems like an oversight that we don't have one already.
They kinda seem like peak leftypol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army<Ideology>Feminism>Anti-racism>Anti-capitalism>New Left>Vanguardism>Anti-fascism >>2281651Because the head of the snake is not a singular head, but a hydra spread throughout the country. You'd need an entire army to take them out. This should be a long term goal, but it's simply not achievable until you have a real army instead of a few squads of infantry.
>>2281657The SLA failed because they were bourgeois dilettantes with no connection to the working class at all and no clear strategy. I am suggesting forming an army of workers to act on their behalf.
>>2281637>Then find the CEO, kick in their door while they're sleeping, put a gun to their head and take them hostage. Exchange their life for concessions to the workers, then kill them anyway.
unironically why don't you do this with a quadcopter with bombs strapped to it
why doesn't anyone realize that you can just have quadcopters with pipe bombs take literally anyone hostage RIGHT NOW
ADL's David Goldenberg demands mass censorship of social media, deplatforming and the repeal of Section 230 in response to shooting of two Israeli embassy aides in DC.
"These tech platforms are not guaranteed under the Constitution," Goldenberg says. "They're just not!"
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64938ADL's David Goldenberg goes on unhinged rant in wake of DC shooting demanding Chicago Mayor fire everyone who is allegedly "hostile" towards the Jewish community.
"When you find out they have that history, you get rid of them!"
Goldenberg insists police need to be unleashed to shut down anti-Israel protests
>>2281687More like Anti-Defecation League
Gottem
>>2281579Thanks.
>>2281585>>2281643I will keep this in mind. It's a fairly reactionary area unfortunately so either way it feels like it would be an uphill battle.
Honestly maybe I should find a new job. I don't want to be unhelpful to the movement however.
>>2281736>>2281744their religion accuses blacks of being the living proof that they are sinners. the brown and black skin are physical manifestations of their sins. they called them
canaanites.
>>2281775it'd be better if they had aerial shows, with all the jets parading.
only true shit worth seeing in those parades.
that, and the intercontinental ballistic trailer trucks.
>>2281790big missile on truckbed USSR bad
big missile on truckbed US good
>>2281714>It’s going to be a hot summer>>2281733>We're in the Dark Knight Returns timeline.We're in the Anarcho-Batman
, by which I mean Red Son, timeline
>>2281797>it'd be better if they had aerial shows, with all the jets parading.We see those jets fly overhead all the time. They used to fly over my house in holding patterns whenever they fly over the local stadium, which they do a couple times a year probably. Also you see the helicopters changing bases all the time. Cobras and Apaches. Seen long convoys of helicopters at night snaking through the sky.
I've been to the Edwards Air Show a couple of times too. We used to see the shuttle land at Edwards AFB. It's loud as fuck.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-15-me-62915-story.html >>2281822Reminder De Gaulle couldn't muster enough White Free Frenchmen for his part of the Paris parade so he put Quebecois and Louisianians in with them. And all the African Colonial troops, which were most of them, were not included.
There was however a battalion of Spanish Republican exiles who took part and flew the Republican tricolour which got Franco pissed.
>>2281840It’s like what the Idf thirst traps do but with some repulsive fat cunt instead?
I don’t get it.
>>2281840Wat.
>>2281849We're going to see another Holocaust supported by Israel it seems.
>>2281126his family is from louisiana, he moved up to chicago as a kid. his mom literally babysat emmett till. huey newton was from louisiana as well, it was the tail end of the great migration. part of the reason hamptons rainbow coalition was able to integrate the young patriots is because they had a mutual understanding of not only extreme poverty but being internal refugees.
>>2280995if youre serious about this get the fuck out of here, the man was an incredible orator. if its bait kill yourself
>>2281866holy fuck
that's a porn grade cop
>>2281959> The American cries out as you threaten his treatsthat doesn't even conceptually map onto the original line
also socialist future will have transhuman public sex figures
>>2281736These days they are pretty accepting generally speaking. My understanding is the official position of the church today is that racism is a sin and against the teachings of Jesus Christ. But while blacks were partially accepted into the church since the mid 1800s, they weren’t allowed into priesthood, weren’t allowed to be involved in most of the temple rites or to be married in the church, the church opposing interracial marriage and supporting segregation until the late 1970s. I’m not too well versed on Christian mythology, but my understanding is that the theological background for it has to do with the curse of Cain. These days they are oddly racially tolerant, on a superficial surface level at least. You also have more conservative, fundamentalist polygamist sects that have compounds out in the desert, like the FLDS. A major part of their whole argument is that the decision to allow blacks into the church priesthood and to endorse interracial marriage was the ultimate sin. Their prophet, Warren Jeffs, a convicted pedophile, once said that the “black race is the people through which the devil has always been able to bring evil unto the earth”, that a “great evil has happened on this land because the devil knows that if all the people have Negro blood, there will be nobody worthy to have the priesthood,” because “today you can see a black man with a white woman.” In the early 2000s they were involved in sex abuse and pedophilia scandals which did long-term damage to their reputation even within Utah, and consequently they are generally seen outsiders, at least on a theological level.
There is also a fairly active contingent of fascists, Deseret nationalist types. Patriot Front is pretty active here, they often have flash mobs in the southern SLC suburbs around Herriman, South Jordan and American Fork. There is a fair amount of casual racism, a significant amount of various refugees were settled here, from Syria and elsewhere. Some time ago in my area some people were driving through neighborhoods screaming racial slurs at minorities and children. Lots of homophobia also, every few weeks I read a news story about how someone had their pride flag ripped down from their house or whatever. I’m not even a homosexual and I’ve considered flying a pride flag just so I could catch whoever is ripping them down and give them an east coast beating.
Curiously people are generally nice to your face, polite enough and non-confrontational, but if you aren’t a mormon, at least where I am, you are more or less socially excluded. They do try to involve you in the church though, I’ve had missionaries at my door multiple times. Missionaries are typically polite and nice people who are ready to help you, even with household tasks, for example they’ve offered to do lawn work for my neighbors. Much of the social activity takes places within the local church wards, on a neighborhood level - I can see over ten churches/meetinghouses and two temples from my balcony. Terrible drivers, the only worse drivers I’ve come across are Marylanders, a curse upon them.
Pictured: LDS temples. There is one in most major population centers and municipalities, each one being more or less architecturally unique. They look a bit like socialist classicist architecture, like some sort of provincial communist party committee building you’d expect to see in a Warsaw Pact country. Other than temples there are also multiple churches/meetinghouses in each locality, often down to neighborhood level.
>>2281799>>2281967>>2281977>mouthbreathing retards who thinks proletarian is when producing value and that cops arent proletarians not because of literally depending on the state paying them to protect capital but uhhhh 'consuming surplus'theres unproductive proletarians and productive petitbourgeois
illiterate shithole
>>2281982 (me)
>>2281749Also this:
>>2281796They call them “the Lost Boys”:
>"Lost boys" is a term used for young men who have been excommunicated or pressured to leave polygamous Mormon fundamentalist groups, such as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Although sometimes officially accused of apostasy or disobedience, it is thought that they are mainly pressured to leave by older adult men to reduce competition for wives within such sects, usually when they are between the ages of 13 and 21 … Since boys and girls are born in approximately equal numbers, and women do not enter the community in large numbers, the pool of available women is not sufficient for all men to have multiple wives … While some boys leave by their own choice, many have been banished for conduct such as watching a movie, watching television, playing football, or talking to a girl. Some boys are told not to return unless they can return with a wife … The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (hereafter FLDS) is a particularly controversial fundamentalist sect which has repeatedly been connected with the concept of lost boys. As early as 1968, the church's home turf of Colorado City, Arizona, had a peace officer whose responsibility was "to make sure that the boys would not associate with the girls." This officer's main police duties evolved over the next two decades to include "running the surplus boys out of town" to allow the "worthy" men of the community to live plural marriage by adding new, younger wives.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_boys_(Mormon_fundamentalism) >>2281982>There is also a fairly active contingent of fascists, Deseret nationalist types. Patriot Front is pretty active here, they often have flash mobs in the southern SLC suburbs around Herriman, South Jordan and American Fork. Vid
>Missionaries are typically polite and nice people who are ready to help you, even with household tasks, for example they’ve offered to do lawn work for my neighbors. They do that. I'm not in Utah but was moving apartments once and two Mormon missionaries walked up and asked if I needed any help loading up my stuff in the truck. I was already done but they see it as a good works type thing.
>>2281992Police are a necessary part of the appropriation of the surplus, mechanics are a necessary part of the base of production.
But that is an appropriate comparison to ask.
>>2281982>>2281989thank you anon for this detailed post
honestly sounds unnerving to live there if you're not a mormon
>>2281687It's amazing how they all turned an eye to Elon Musk, owner of what was once one of the biggest social media platforms in history, making two Nazi salutes at a televised event in public and then hiring several Nazi dipshits as his goons for the DOGE mission of infiltrating every single official federal institution.
And yet they are going all in on draconian online censorship because some guy was driven mad enough by the non-stop stream of death coming from Gaza and genocidal sentiments from the Israeli government and Israeli citizens that he killed two Israeli embassy workers in a futile act of adventurism.
I genuinely wonder if there's still gonna be a majority of people in this country who believe that antisemitism is a real and bad thing within a few years given this bullshit and the dwindling amount of living Holocaust survivors and WW2 vets who can relay their experiences to younger generations.
At one end of the spectrum, ranks of electronic boxes buried deep in the earth hungrily consume data and spew out endless tapes. Scientists and engineers confer in air-conditioned offices; missiles are checked by intense men who move about them silently, almost reverently. In forty minutes, countdown begins.
At the other end of this spectrum, a tired man wearing a greasy felt hat, a tattered shirt, and soiled shorts is seated, his back against a tree. Barrel pressed between his knees, butt resting on the moist earth between sandaled feet, is a Browning automatic rifle. Hooked to his belt, two dirty canvas sacks—one holding three home-made bombs, the other four magazines loaded with .30-caliber ammunition. Draped around his neck, a sausage-like cloth tube with three days' supply of rice. The man stands, raises a water bottle to his lips, rinses his mouth, spits out the water. He looks about him carefully, corks the bottle, slaps the stock of the Browning three times, pauses, slaps it again twice, and disappears silently into the shadows. In forty minutes, his group of fifteen men will occupy a previously prepared ambush.
It is probable that guerrilla war, nationalist and revolutionary in nature, will flare up in one or more of half a dozen countries during the next few years. These outbreaks may not initially be inspired, organized, or led by local Communists; indeed, it is probable that they will not be. But they will receive the moral support and vocal encouragement of international Communism, and where circumstances permit, expert advice and material assistance as well.
As early as November, 1949, we had this assurance from China's Number Two Communist, Liu Shao-ch'i, when, speaking before the Australasian Trade Unions Conference in Peking, he prophesied that there would be other Asian revolutions that would follow the Chinese pattern. We paid no attention to this warning.
In December, 1960, delegates of eighty-one Communist and Workers' Parties resolved that the tempo of "wars of liberation" should be stepped up. A month later (January 6, 1961), the Soviet Premier, an unimpeachable authority on "national liberation wars," propounded an interesting series of questions to which he provided equally interesting answers:
Is there a likelihood of such wars recurring? Yes, there is. Are uprisings of this kind likely to recur? Yes, they are. But wars of this kind are popular uprisings. Is there the likelihood of conditions in other countries reaching the point where the cup of the popular patience overflows and they take to arms? Yes, there is such a likelihood. What is the attitude of the Marxists to such uprisings? A most favorable attitude…. These uprisings are directed against the corrupt reactionary regimes, against the colonialists. The Communists support just wars of this kind wholeheartedly and without reservations.*
Implicit is the further assurance that any popular movement infiltrated and captured by the Communists will develop an anti-Western character definitely tinged, in our own hemisphere at least, with a distinctive anti-American coloration.
This should not surprise us if we remember that several hundred millions less fortunate than we have arrived, perhaps reluctantly, at the conclusion that the Western peoples are dedicated to the perpetuation of the political, social, and economic status quo. In the not too distant past, many of these millions looked hopefully to America, Britain, or France for help in the realization of their justifiable aspirations. But today many of them feel that these aims can be achieved only by a desperate revolutionary struggle that we will probably oppose. This is not a hypothesis; it is fact.
A potential revolutionary situation exists in any country where the government consistently fails in its obligation to ensure at least a minimally decent standard of life for the great majority of its citizens. If there also exists even the nucleus of a revolutionary party able to supply doctrine and organization, only one ingredient is needed: the instrument for violent revolutionary action.
In many countries, there are but two classes, the rich and the miserably poor. In these countries, the relatively small middle class—merchants, bankers, doctors, lawyers, engineers—lacks forceful leadership, is fragmented by unceasing factional quarrels, and is politically ineffective. Its program, which usually posits a socialized society and some form of liberal parliamentary democracy, is anathema to the exclusive and tightly knit possessing minority. It is also rejected by the frustrated intellectual youth, who move irrevocably toward violent revolution. To the illiterate and destitute, it represents a package of promises that experience tells them will never be fulfilled.
People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion, freedom of the press, free enterprise as we understand it, or the secret ballot. Their needs are more basic: land, tools, fertilizers, something better than rags for their children, houses to replace their shacks, freedom from police oppression, medical attention, primary schools. Those who have known only poverty have begun to wonder why they should continue to wait passively for improvements. They see—and not always through Red-tinted glasses—examples of peoples who have changed the structure of their societies, and they ask, "What have we to lose?" When a great many people begin to ask themselves this question, a revolutionary guerrilla situation is incipient. A revolutionary war is never confined within the bounds of military action. Because its purpose is to destroy an existing society and its institutions and to replace them with a completely new state structure, any revolutionary war is a unity of which the constituent parts, in varying importance, are military, political, economic, social, and psychological.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LX3VMKmiLQ&list=OLAK5uy_lUNWXh7J3XjX2L_t0yj39RuSj264FjosI>>2282069It's not a uniparty, it's anyone who's good and decent united against an authoritarian that wants to send us back to the 1900s. I voted for Kamala because she's not a literal fascist who is about to destroy our democratic institutions.
She told us to never give up our power. This woman is an inspiration to all of us.
>>2282090Over?
Hardly
It's Joenly just begun…
>>2281989I’m so tired of Christian schizos, guys.
Every time their crazy shenanigans get countered they come up with a new crazy grift.
It’s like playing wack-a-mole.
3 different mosque in Texas spray painted with the star of David. All I found was small local outlets talking about it.
If this was a synagogue with a Islamic symbol on it you would see dozens of national news talking about it and screaming about radical islam even going on tv shows to give speeches.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/cair-austin-mosque-vandalism/269-081448ca-c534-41c0-b0fd-f151c7176dd9https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/apd-increasing-security-patrols-after-three-mosques-are-vandalized-late-thursdaywho gives a shit about some fucking graffiti?
>>2282119only if you do nothing about it.
>>2282127the only crime this man committed was wearing those glasses.
>>2282107It really lays everything out in the open. Zionists ignore (and regularly excuse) actual, blatant Nazism in order to run defense for genocide.
Rightoids really are just wretched people. Unfortunately the liberal psyop that is the Democratic Party has totally disarmed the working class. Now only petty bourgeois weirdos have guns in any significant numbers.
>>2281984the consumption of surplus is explicitly an exploitative role that thus ties their class position to capitalism.
being paid dividends of the surplus can not be productive.
the workers in sector 3 of the economy (bourgeois luxuries) are also paid out of the surplus.
the "working class" is not the same as "the proletariat", the proletariat is a SUBSECTION of the working class, which includes some amount of the petit bourgeoisie.
And finally the focus on productivity is recognizing strategic positioning.
No, police are not proletarian. Their class role is to ensure that surplus product is produced and appropriated and their wages are paid from it. This is literally a discussion on the relations to the MoP.
>>2281840Well, this is ok (except the Latino) but this
>>2281866 is too much, man
>>2282207Why not? All these bizarre terms need to be called out. For one, is it supposed to be a reference to feelings about a supposed Jewish race? or the Jewish religion? No other race of people has their own term. The word remains in usage because it somehow carries extra weight. It's considered fine to say things like:
>I'm a little bit racist sometimes>Everyone's a little bit racist sometimes>Sometimes racist jokes have a little truth in them or are funnyNow replace the word racist with antisemitic. Lol.
If it's about the religion, well the only other religion that has it's own madeup word is "Islamophobia." Funny they're trying to steal the homosexual nomenclature for that one. It's not that you're anti- that thing, it's that you're afraid of it. Like Arachnophobia.
These are bullshit liberal terms that are only designed to obfuscate things and confuse them until you can browbeat them with emotions from loaded terms.
>>2282215NTA but you must agree that "antisemitism" is a unlucky "spooky" word that really should be phased out of use - the sooner, the better.
"Antisemitism" is just racism + conspiracy theorism targeted against people of percieved Jewish ancestry. Insisting that it is uniquely tied to Jewish identity is kind of essentialism and obfuscrates the similar phenomena happening against other groups of people.
>>2282222Those who object to the inaccuracy of the term might try Hermann Adler's Judaeophobia (1881) Interesting. So they have their own phobia.
Why do no races get their own -phobias? Actually there is only one I know which is sinophobia. Maybe they just got that word because it sounds like xenophobia.
I was watching a video on Red Note—which, by the way, if you’re not on Red Note, you should be. It’s basically Communist TikTok. But I digress.
The video was about American history and slavery, particularly about enslaved people who escaped to Florida. At the time, Florida wasn’t a U.S. state, it was still a Spanish territory, so it wasn't explicitly part of America. The video went into the harrowing details of those escapes. In the comments, people were saying, “They don’t teach this part of American history,” and “There’s a reason why they don’t.” Another commenter said, “They don’t want Americans to know their real history.”
It’s an interesting framing, because if you go back to that time, those enslaved people weren’t considered citizens. They weren’t “Americans” when they escaped into Spanish Florida. But now, people are saying their struggles and perseverance are part of American history we’re not being taught. That’s an ideological shift.
It made me think about Prairie Fire by the Weather Underground—how it talks about a people's history and pushes the idea of a continuous people’s history. I don’t have a solution to any of this, but I do think anyone talking seriously about revolution has to confront the idea that post-revolution, unless there’s extreme balkanization, “America” will still exist in some form. Maybe as a federation of autonomous, syndicalist, state-based regions—not necessarily the states we have now. Like, in a revolutionary context, there probably won’t be a Nebraska.
There are multiple actual nations of people living in what we currently call America. So you have to ask: Does Canada have a right to sovereignty? Mexico is more complex, but Canada is clearly a settler state. If a revolution happens here, how do we engage with Canada? Do we question their sovereignty? Do we have the right to invade?
And if America balkanizes—splits into five, six, seven different confederated zones—will that stop capitalism? No. Capitalism still exists in Canada. Neoliberal capitalism exists in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand. Even if America became a communist state, capitalism would still persist globally. Would an American revolution help spark more revolutions? Probably—especially in the Global South, where imperialism still has its boot on their necks.
But then you have to ask: Do we need more ethnostates? Is that actually a solution? Some people talk about balkanization like it’s inherently good. But from what I’ve read, the balkanization of Yugoslavia was a catastrophe. It led to massive suffering. Do we want that, or do we want a revolution?
So what does a transitional state look like? What does a de-imperialized America look like? We have to be ruthlessly pragmatic. It’s idealist to think that simply breaking up America will end capitalism. That’s just not going to happen.
We’d need something like the USSR or China—autonomous zones coordinated by a central government that facilitates resource distribution, commerce, cultural cohesion. After land back, there wouldn’t be an “Ohio.” The entire configuration of territories would be reorganized. And the new central government would need an Indigenous council embedded within it to manage those autonomous zones and ensure land back is implemented meaningfully.
We’d also need a kind of secular, civic spirituality—like a state-based Shintoism. One of the biggest cultural struggles will be moving away from the 450 years of culture capitalism has embedded and toward a class-conscious, de-imperialized, multiracial, diverse culture. America is diverse, but capitalism has weaponized that diversity to divide us.
We’ve also committed genocide. Some Indigenous peoples were wiped out entirely. In those cases, land back isn't even logistically possible. So we do cultural anthropology. We identify sacred sites—many of which are now under parking lots—and we restore them. Tear up the parking lots, build shrines, mark the history. Do this across the entire country. That helps build a unified culture that acknowledges the horror and pursues restorative justice.
We need to talk seriously about restorative justice in a de-imperialized context. Simply saying “destroy America” isn’t pragmatic. I’m not saying we become patriotic socialists or unhinged Jacksonian LARP guys. But we need to build a future that appeals to the masses. Capitalism created hierarchies, racial division, gender division, generational division. Whiteness is central to its propagation. America is at the center of this system. If you destroy capitalism, you create a huge cultural void. What fills that?
It’s easy to fantasize about destruction. It’s harder to imagine building something. We need a climate corps—a mass mobilized force that works alongside land back and sacred site restoration. Everyone under 45 should be employed by this corps, learning skills, working the land, meeting people from across the country. Back-to-the-countryside programs. We plant trees. We build berms. We lay infrastructure. We reconnect with nature and with each other.
These things all matter. I think about that passage from Kim Il Sung’s teachings on Juche, where he talks about using the scenic mountains of Korea as propaganda, tying the land to the people. That kind of positive reinforcement is more powerful than negative reinforcement.
>>2282224I'd say that there is another type which is
>5) racism against people perceived as typically lumpenprolesWhich probably most applies to Blacks, especially with the worldwide proliferation of "ghetto culture."
Other examples, would be Natives, Gypsies, Travelers, etc.
I guess you could add in racism against nomadic peoples.
But really I think trying to separate it all into categories because all the different types may exist together at the same time.
>>2281818>That would actually be sick. Get in reenactors from every war marching together.>>2282314We should also have all our comrades march in the parade with us. Get the Filipinos in there.
We need more Spanish American War content.
>>2282567I'm not reopening the tabs with the sources and re-typing the whole fucking post dude. Literally every other post this happens, why?
Explain this shit mods
>>2282568>>2282567Wasted entirely too much time finding the sources on trucks killing kids, finding the images to pair with that, for what? I mean really man what the fuck
>>2282562don't run over any kids you small dick cager
>>2282579American dream mythology is dying
Yanks will have a brit/euro temperament in this regard within a generation or two.
>>228256290% of trucks like that are used for single person commuting
also you can still easily fit 4 people and the same amount of stuff in the boot with a truck thats half the size
>>2282590That shitty truck in your picture can't even go on a highway let alone off-road. Why do you people just love spouting bullshit you have no idea about?
>>2282591>also you can still easily fit 4 people and the same amount of stuff in the boot with a truck thats half the sizeHow? You mean riding in the truck bed?
>>2282596those oversized pieces of shit cant actually go off road either. they're for dick measuring. as for on the highway, sure they're a bit slow on them but that's fine for the majority of actual travel
>How? You mean riding in the truck bed?the cabs are huge even taking into account the demand for four/five seats, the interior volume is immense
Here's some American trucks vs American trucks just to show even in the US you can get a much smaller four-door pickup (the four door pickup is basically just for show anyways, are people really going to haul shit in their $150k monstrosity and get it all scratched up?)
>>2282607wow, 60k in the whole of europe, what an immense figure
>>2282608what fucking job do you have that requires you to haul stuff for 12 hours in a pickup truck
>>2282623Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero![Krusty:] Hey Hey
The Federal Highway commission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)Drive Canyonero!
Woah Canyonero!
Woah!
>>2282642well he said he used it for work, not that it was a company vehicle, I thought he was just being a weirdo who spent $1000s per year on something to make his bosses' life easier
>>2282646well a little, but I just fucking hate these things
>>2282649let's see what vehicles we would use in europe for the same jobs shall we? cheaper and much safer for everyone around
Checkout the wikipedia article for the embassy shooting implying PSL and ANSWER are Iranian front groups. Laughable.
Who is Network Contagion Research Institute you ask?
>In a report published by the Disruption Network Institute, Jack Poulson documents that corporate records and tax filings indicate that in 2021, the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC) paid $335,000 to the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) … Joel Finkelstein, the founder of NCRI, is a former research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism and a board member of Hetz, a discreet Israeli organization opposing the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Other Hetz board members include Brigadier General (res.) Sima Vaknin-Gill, former chief censor of the Israeli military and founder of Voices of Israel, and previously unreported U.S. venture capitalist David M. Magerman.
:^)
>>2282697Honestly the best bit of TV I'd seen in ages.
Kino. Was better than Andor.
>>2282697It is a good bit to be honest. Taking it up with South Africa now makes it clear it's just a culture war point to the base. Nobody believes in a "white genocide" in the terms that Trump is putting it. No misunderstandings or false assumptions. It's just pure US vs THEM logic to it and they'll back it as such, unhindered by future developments or demonstrable reality.
The whole umbrella of bigots has gotten the message loud and clear. Trump is giving them license to go on about their very different takes on "white genocide", it is no longer a schizo racialist take to have. And they'll be good boys and girls and go along with him for further treats down the line.
>>2282721Damn, how did I not hear about all this? I just saw and heard about the part where he was showing him all the printouts. This shit is hilarious.
So Trump finally found some Black employees? Who are these two? Usually he only has only White people in every photo op.
>>2282734that's how you do it, they are going to accuse you of being anti-white anyway, and if you try to preemptively appeal to them it (1.) won't work because they know anti-white racism doesn't exist, the accusation is just a vehicle for their racist reactionary agenda and (2.) you will discredit yourself with your base as either an idiot that doesn't understand his situation or a coward that is afraid of his opposition
he should do it more, provoke them as much as possible, make them give you an excuse to actually genocide them
>>2282759>aborigenalsreported
>crime/economic anxietyfalse. they fled because the land they had stolen was going to be given back to the legitimate owners, or, in their absence, the state
>Afrikaaners didnt leavebecause they didn't face that threat because they designed and coerced the transition after apartheid for things to remain static. the settler only "connection" with any place is the ownership of stolen land, once they lose that they leave
>>2282762>Afrikaners are a legitimate African peopleno they are not, just like israelis aren't legitimate palestinian people. if they want to be citizens they should give up their land and place of privilege, go to prison for their crimes, and then, if allowed, go through the naturalization process of regular migrants
Young US men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'A lot of people ask me: 'Father Moses, how can I increase my manliness to absurd levels?'"
In a YouTube video, a priest is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity.
Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine.
In the last six months, Father Moses has prepared 75 new followers for baptism in his church of the Mother of God, just north of Austin.
"When my wife and I converted 20 years ago we used to call Orthodoxy the best-kept secret, because people just didn't know what it was," he says.
"But in the past year-and-a-half our congregation has tripled in size."
During the Sunday liturgy at Father Moses's church, I am struck by the number of men in their twenties and thirties praying and crossing themselves at the back of the nave, and how this religion - with traditions dating back to the 4th century AD - seems to attract young men uneasy with life in modern America.
Software engineer Theodore tells me he had a dream job and a wife he adored, but he felt empty inside, as if there was a hole in his heart. He believes society has been "very harsh" on men and is constantly telling them they are in the wrong. He complains that men are criticised for wanting to be the breadwinner and support a stay-at-home wife.
"We are told that's a very toxic relationship nowadays," Theodore says. "That's not how it should be."
Almost all the converts I meet have opted to home-school their offspring, partly because they believe women should prioritise their families rather than their careers.
Founded by priests and clergy fleeing the Russian Revolution in 1917, ROCOR is seen by many as the most conservative Orthodox jurisdiction in the US. Yet this small religious community is a vocal one, and what's unfolding within it mirrors broader political shifts, especially following President Donald Trump's dramatic pivot toward Moscow.
The true increase in the number of converts is hard to quantify, but data from the Pew Research Centre suggests Orthodox Christians are 64% male, up from 46% in 2007.
A smaller study of 773 converts appears to back the trend. Most recent newcomers are men, and many say the pandemic pushed them to seek a new faith. That survey is from the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), which was established by Russian monks in Alaska in the late 18th Century and now has more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries, and institutions in the US, Canada and Mexico which identify as Russian Orthodox.
Professor Scott Kenworthy, who studies the history and thought of Eastern Orthodox Christianity - particularly in modern Russia - says his OCA parish in Cincinnati "is absolutely bursting at the seams".
He's attended the same church for 24 years and says congregation numbers remained steady until the Covid lockdown. Since then, there has been constant flow of new inquirers and people preparing to be baptised, known as catechumens.
"This is not just a phenomenon of my own parish, or a few places in Texas," Prof Kenworthy says, "it is definitely something broader."
Father Moses tells his congregation there are two ways of serving God - being a monk or a nun, or getting married. Those who take the second path should avoid contraception and have as many children as possible.
"Show me one saint in the history of the Church who ever blessed any kind of birth control," Father Moses says. As for masturbation - or what the church calls self-abuse - the priest condemns it as "pathetic and unmanly".
Father Moses says Orthodoxy is "not masculine, it is just normal", while "in the West everything has become very feminised". Some Protestant churches, he believes, mainly cater for women.
Buck Johnson has worked as a firefighter for 25 years and hosts the Counterflow podcast.
He says he was initially scared to enter his local Russian Orthodox Church as he "looks different, covered in tattoos", but tells me he was welcomed with open arms. He was also impressed the church stayed open throughout the Covid lockdown.
Sitting on a couch in front of two huge TV screens at his home in Lockhart, he says his newfound faith is changing his view of the world.
"Negative American views on Russia are what worry me," Buck says. He tells me the mainstream, "legacy" media presents a distorted picture of the invasion of Ukraine.
"I think there's a holdover from the boomer generation here in America that lived through the Cold War," Buck says, "and I don't quite grasp why - but they say Russia's bad."
Nearly a decade ago, another Orthodox convert turned priest from Texas, Father Joseph Gleason, moved from America to Borisoglebskiy, a village four hours' drive north of Moscow, with his wife and eight children.
"Russia does not have homosexual marriage, it does not have civil unions, it is a place where you can home-school your kids and - of course - I love the thousand-year history of Orthodox Christianity here," he told a Russian video host.
This wispy-bearded Texan is in the vanguard of a movement urging conservatives to relocate to Russia. Last August, Putin introduced fast-track shared values visa for those fleeing Western liberalism.
Back in Texas, Buck tells me he and his fellow converts are turning their backs on instant gratification and American consumerism.
"We're thinking of things long term," Buck says, "like traditions, love for your family, love for you community, love for neighbours.
"I think that orthodoxy fits us well - and especially in Texas."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro >>2282800nobody cares this is like traditional catholicism
80% of those young men are likely not religious
>>2282806My adult political life started in 2008 with Obama and the financial crisis, and it feels like in those 17 years it's just been rerun after rerun of the same shit and nothing has gone anywhere. Occupy, BLM Round 1(Ferguson and all that) BLM round 2(The summer of Floyd), etc.
I was talking with my progressive dad and he's going off on the direction of the country, the failing education system, the corporate influence in politics, and I said to him, like how many times have we had this exact same discussion? It's like we all literally talk about the same shit day in day out for decades and nothing ever happens at all.
I don't think there will be a BLM round 3 in 2025, but even if it does happen, nothing will.
>>2282808Thanks, somebody has to push back against the hordes of doomers. Whether it's the "nothing ever happens" clowns or the "Americans are ontologically evil treatlerites" jokers, pessimism hinders revolutionary organizing and more to the point also just brings down the mood.
The truth is comrade, everything always happens. It wont be easy, we'll have a significant portion of the world's most bloated military against us and plenty of reactionaries who will voluntarily give their lives for Trump and/or Biden, but revolutionaries in the past have faced greater odds yet and come through.
>>2282819>has America literally ever been at a more revolutionary stage beyond CHAZ? CHAZ of course wasn't even minutely a commune it was a protest camp but still.CHAZ was just OWS 2.0 and I think a much dumber version if that's even possible. No purpose, no goal, no demands, just an excuse to party and do crime in the designated police free zone. I swear it was a perfectly orchestrated psy-op.
>Abolish the police huh?>Alright, let's run the experiment>1 month of no laws and no police>Have fun… ;)https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-end-of-chaz<In the end, the homicide rate in the CHAZ turned out to be 1,216 per 100,000—nearly 50 times greater than Chicago’s. Though that’s obviously not a strict apples-to-apples comparison—the small sample size of the CHAZ creates an exaggerated statistical effect—it’s instructive nonetheless, as it invalidates the entire premise of the autonomous zone. By instituting a “police-free zone,” the CHAZ didn’t become peaceable; it became lawless, brutish, and violent. >>2282816Occupy and BLM rounds 1 and 2 failed largely because while they started as grassroots protests they all ended up being coopted one way or another by liberals. Occupy got hit by the "progressive stack" but was also doomed from the start due to them lacking a long term goal. With BLM the liberals had to kinda sneak in the second time around though, and even then the actual revolutionary energy didn't go down without a fight. This time around things feel different. Call it a hunch, but when I go through various leftist spaces including this one there's zero toleration for compromise with liberalism in any form. "Peaceful protests" like those Tesla Takedown things where they openly cooperate with the police are being ridiculed, with leftists pretty much all dismissing them outright as a dead end, and unlike 2020 we dont have COVID or the Biden campaign to cool down tensions: it's plainly clear that nobody can save us except ourselves.
Whether this summer will be a 1905 or a 1917 of course remains to be seen, but people are pissed and radicalized at a rate we've not seen for a while. Happenings will happen regardless of what contrarians here will say.
>>2282836>>2282841>I mean yes I don't see a serious work purpose for those kind of trucks in general. Maybe there are niche cases but not that many. There are a hundred thousand sold in Europe per year whereas in the USA it's millions per year.In construction and stuff you will need it because you're not going to always be driving on pavement.
Look at this video from this German construction guy to see where they're using them and for what purpose:
>>2282676Look at the part at 21 minutes where I screenshotted this:
>>2282703 >>2282596>That shitty truck in your picture can't even go on a highway let alone off-road.Wow, so cool! you also drive to your work, commuting people with you, through swamps, off road muddy hills, and rocky roads.
the true communist dream!
>>2282851>I am glad to see that some Americans are driving Toyota Tundras to haul people like if it were public transportation,The fuck does that even mean? How is public transporation even remotely related.
>>2282851> surely you also transport heavy machinery all the time, including steel sheet rolls on that thing to juice every horsepower out of your designed Tundra truck.On many construction sites, both kinds of trucks may be present. Many kinds and sizes of truck. Why are you so insistent on being retarded about something you have no knowledge or experience with?
>>2282854>Wow, so cool! you also drive to your work, commuting people with you, through swamps, off road muddy hills, and rocky roads.Yeah.
>the true communist dream!It's just a job.
>>2282856>>2282857I don't believe you do what you say you do. post evidence of the opposite.
accept that those trucks don't have real feasibility purpose in most of the cases, and people most of the times just buy them to compensate for their small pee-pees, to get cheap chicks to get laid and they are only possible in a society that lives from exploiting other countries through violence and imperialism (also violence).
More than $6 billion has been spent by the U.S. military over the last three years to tackle recruiting and retention issues, with each branch adjusting its strategy to attract and keep service members, according to recent government data. That money could have funded SNAP (food stamp) benefits for nearly 2.4 million people for a full year, according to figures from the U.S. government.
A recent budget bill, passed narrowly by Congress, seeks to cut spending, with many social services for Americans on the chopping block. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by 8.6 million over a decade.
For the last three years, the Navy led the way in spending on recruitment, especially in 2023 when it struggled to meet enlistment goals, shelling out large bonuses to around 70,000 sailors annually. The Marine Corps also adjusted its incentives while allowing early reenlistment for the first time, which led to a major jump in bonus payouts.
>>2282917this pcv in picrels? or the real PCV?
the real PCV has its card on the voting pan. I know because I voted and saw the real PCV card on the screen.
>>2282941because they are a bunch of treacherous people. they allied with a rancid anti-communist in the presidential elections to have a candidate in 2024. you still can check enrique mqrquez X account posts about socialism, Cuba, etc. how he talks about that, mocking socialism and 15 years ago how would be a shame that Venezuela was going to the route of Cuba. He deleted the ones talking directly about communism, but he was too lazy to delete the others.
ask InDefenseOfCommunism why they keep defending 'communists' allying with anti-communists, and get ignored. always amusing.
>>2282947well I take back that you don't use it for good, but you have to accept that the vast majority of burgers don't give an appropriate use for the newer versions of trucks.
and one point supporting my point it's how the bed is being reduced to make those trucks like if were a SUV. a SUV with a bed. absolutely out of touch product design dictated by consumers that only buy them to just brag about having small castles with wheels.
Anyways if you're in Seattle this chucklefuck and his church organized some "family values" rally, some antifascists protested it and to the surprise of nobody the cops beat up and arrested of them.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/arrests-made-at-heated-fascist-family-values-protest-in-seattle/Now the same people who organized the first one are taking their "prayer circle" to the streets. Anyone in the Seattle area who wants to wreck their shit, tonight is your chance.
>>2282314I had an immigrant ancestor who was in that war on the American imperialist side. I'd be pretty good at reenacting an American soldier stricken by cholera.
>>2282590>trucks are generally fine. modern american trucks are shitty, overpriced boats with wheels I want one of the new Bezos trucks.
>>2282644>It's kinda funny because I used to drive a first gen Miata. That bitch is tiny. A friend had one of those and it was fun.
>>2282832>Call it a hunch, but when I go through various leftist spaces including this one there's zero toleration for compromise with liberalism in any form …. Whether this summer will be a 1905 or a 1917 of course remains to be seen, but people are pissed and radicalized at a rate we've not seen for a while. Happenings will happen regardless of what contrarians here will say.I don't want to sound like a doomer or concern troll, but that sounds like ideological purity spiraling, which I don't think is healthy. It can be a sign that movement is weakening or becoming disorganized. The guy who shot those two diplomats in the back, for example, might have been isolated without a group to direct his frustrations in a more productive direction.
>>2282998>Is there going to be a time when the right is rightfully seen as embarrassing or are they permanently part of the culture?I think they had that rep under Obama. 2016 was when they embraced the cringe and weaponized it. Now 2024 is when all the big companies officially fell in line behind Trump and his cringe army.
I think it's a passing thing, but it's been nearly 10 years at this point. I think the media and the libs are still of the opinion that they were two hard on the White-Wingers and that's the reason they've been underperforming. I just don't see it lasting forever. I said it before and I'll say it again, I think this is all like the White man's last hurrah.
Who knows. I'm kinda a both-sider in that both-sides are incredibly cringe.
>>2282998"The right" will just keep shifting as politics and culture shifts.
I do hope things improve as all the lead-poisoned boomers and gen Xers die out though. Zoomers can obviously be reactionary but as we've seen their opinions can shift radically in a very short amount of time.
Hopefully RFK Jr doesn't try to bring lead poisoning back.
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