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>>2394953 >>2396303If Bordigga did it, so can you!
Bordig in yourself.
>At least 30 people were injured after a car plowed through a crowd early Saturday in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, authorities said.
>The incident took place outside the music venue The Vermont, near the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vermont Avenue in east Los Angeles, at around 2:00 a.m. local time.
>At least one person was still in critical condition with several others in serious condition as of Saturday afternoon, the LAPD said. In total, 24 patients were taken to the hospital.
>The critically injured person was a woman in her 20's who sustained critical leg injuries, police said.
>Police said the driver was shot by a male after the crash. The driver is currently in surgery and the shooter is at large.
>The crash occurred after an individual was removed from a nearby business, the Los Angeles Police Department said. That person then allegedly drove a vehicle into a crowd, according to police.
>After the vehicle became disabled, bystanders in the crowd dragged the driver outside the car and began to physically assault them, according to police. At some point during the physical altercation, the driver was shot by a male who is still outstanding.
>The motive for the crash is still under investigation, the LAPD said. While the motive for plowing into the crowd is unknown, it has been determined he was shot after he crashed into the crowd, sources told ABC News.
>The driver will be arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, sources told ABC News.
>The suspect who shot the driver fled the scene on foot and was last seen heading westbound from Vermont Avenue. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, bald, wearing a blue jersey, and possibly armed with a silver revolver, according to the LAPD.
>>2396311I don't know. I think it's just a cop thing in general. There's really intense indoctrination from the get go that seeks to validate all the cop movie machismo shit and create this us-vs-them siege mentality, where they're literally putting their lives on the line every day in conditions that would make fallujah seem like a Sunday picnic. To them their lives are always on the line and anything that isn't the most obsequious subservience isn't just a challenge but a thinly veiled threat.
They're all psychos and Americans need to wake up to that fact.
>>2396320>The suspect who shot the driver fled the scene on foot and was last seen heading westbound from Vermont Avenue. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, bald, wearing a blue jersey, and possibly armed with a silver revolver, according to the LAPD.Minus the silver revolver I don't know how you find a guy in LA when that's the description you're going off of. I can literally just walk out my front door and see a dozen dudes that match that.
>>2396311I think there's some bullshit police term where it's like, someone's body is naturally reacting to getting their ass beat, and since they aren't lying down perfectly still that counts as resisting arrest. Something like if you hit someone in the knee and they impulsively kick out.
>>2396339He literally can't disrupt them at all. His only possible options are either doing nothing or watering down all his policies so they are acceptable to Democrats. The system is specifically designed to stop people like him, which is why working inside it is borderline suicidal.
>>2396344Also if you hurt the pig at all they'll give you 20 years.
>>2396335You know I read this and I’m reminded that I just watched this video of this liberal who says that Mamdani will fail for the reasons you say because according to him the overwhelming number of Americans reject progressives in favor of “experienced” Democrats as opposed to “activist” Democrats, his words. His examples are Cori Bush and other progressives that got into power then lost their power to an establishment opponent. If that liberal is correct and progressive ideas don’t work and that establishment Democrats are preferable after a taste of progressives in power, then how does having establishment Democrats in power serve us in the grand scheme of things? If the majority of people don’t care for change and want to grill even if those establishment Democrats will make shit too expensive to live but those Americans will never be radicalized because they actually saw what a “left” Democrat does when they’re in power then what does that say for communism in general?
I’m going to give you my genuine opinion, I’m a Blanquist, not a Marxist with regards to politics. I’m marxist only for historical analysis but not for political practicality. In my opinion what the majority of people want is irrelevant, and you should do what needs to be done without the consent of the masses. Call it a form of Democratic Centralism but it really isn’t. As a Blanquist I believe as soon as socialists are in power they should get rid of all “democratic” processes and allow leaders, not necessarily a party but a leader who centralizes power into him alone and does all the reforms to better society. I do not believe in democracy liberal or otherwise. I do not believe that people know how to govern themselves and do much better when they are governed by those who know better.
>>2396301>>2396311I've been through some civil disobedience training, and the Civil Rights Movement made this a core part of their strategy, which was smart and effective in their situation. The basic idea was to be unflappable in the face of violence which they knew they'd bring onto themselves, but this was also part of a strategy to make the injustices of segregation immediate and apparent, and create a wedge in American society. MLK would pick cities for demonstrations which he knew would be meet with police repression.
It's not necessarily a bad strategy, is all. Though I'd say a big part of this was adopting the narrative of their putative enemy. White Americans would tell them stories about how America is a land of freedom and equality, and MLK's strategy was not to say
that's wrong but to demand that those same white Americans live up to their own story they tell themselves.
>>2396326I think so.
>>2396361i said I would vote for mamdani if i lived in new york but would temper my expectations because social democracy doesn't work and this is your response? anyone else can read this exchange and see that you're a wrecker trying to provoke and derail.
death to israel btw
>>2396364nta but you sound like
1. a bitch
2. a wrecker
3. too mentally weak to follow a political line
>>2396356https://nhjournal.com/felony-indictments-for-pro-palestinian-activists-in-merrimack-attack/>hree women arrested during a violent protest at Israeli-owned Elbit Systems in Merrimack now face prison time.
>Weeks after his office took over the case, New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced felony indictments Friday against left-wing activists Sophie Ross, Bridget Shergalis, and Calla Walsh.
>Walsh, 19, is a progressive political star in Massachusetts who led the teen army that helped get Democrat U.S. Sen. Ed Markey elected. She’s also faced repeated charges of antisemitism.
>Communist multi-millionaire James “Fergie” Chambers paid the cash bail for Walsh, Ross, and Shergalis. Chambers himself takes part in Palestine Action US, though he denies any official role in the group. Chambers started a commune in rural western Massachusetts where Belanger reportedly lives. https://nhjournal.com/anti-israel-vandals-get-jail-time-for-attack-on-elbit-in-merrimack/
>All four entered guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges of criminal trespass and criminal mischief as part of a negotiated plea agreement. New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella, who personally oversaw the prosecution, originally charged the four activists with a series of felonies, including riot, conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, burglary, and conspiracy to commit falsifying physical evidence. Each charge carries a potential three-and-a-half to seven-year prison sentence.
>But in the end, Formella made a deal.
>The sentence for each charge is 12 months in jail, but the women will each serve just 60 days under the agreement. The remainder of the jail time is deferred for six months. Along with community service and a pledge to not be charged with any new crimes, the women are under orders to pay Elbit a total of $95,000 to cover the damage they caused at the Merrimack facility on Daniel Webster Highway. >>2396358>His examples are Cori Bush and other progressives that got into power then lost their power to an establishment opponent.I think part of the issue with some of these politicians is they just sucked at their jobs and became alienated from their own constituents. Like just because you have the correct opinions doesn't necessarily make you effective at doing politics. AIPAC also didn't run ads (or so I read) beating up on Cori Bush on the basis of her supporting BDS, but for other reasons, which was a more effective method of attack (although her support for BDS is
why they targeted her). The way the Israel lobby and Mamdani's billionaire opponents have tried to go after him was self-defeating because they made it all about Israel, but most Americans – including many who sympathize with the Jews – don't care
that much about that. Like he's not kosher or whatever? It's like, screw you, man. Usually they're smarter than that.
>then what does that say for communism in general?I think a bigger problem is that a huge number of Americans view communism as, like, ontologically evil.
>>2396353>He literally can't disrupt them at all. I think if it were that simple then there wouldn't be so much pissing and crying about him. Tbh I think people like you are worse because instead of trying to work with what you've got you just declare the whole situation hopeless.
I don't hold any messianic views on mamdani but if you don't have anything helpful to say maybe just shut up.
>>2396375>I wasn't dropping a decontextualized quote.I wasn't saying you were dropping a quote, I was saying that out of context quotes have done irreparable damage to your brain and that's why you regurgitate cliches instead of actually thinking about the situation
>I was telling you what social democracy's function is.no, you are rehashing the critique against social democracy from a different time and place (this is, context). I'm pointing out to you that unlike the europe of the early 20th century there is literally no revolutionary potential in the us, much less at a mayoral level. you didn't answer, what revolution is dsa stopping? if you oppose dsa in the name of a bolshevik alternative that doesn't exist you are a wrecker and anti-progress
>>2396392Both Marx and Lenin also stressed that legal organizing must be combined with illegal organizing if you want to actually overthrow the government instead of sustaining it
But the DSA was literally, explicitly founded to save capitalism from the left so sustaining this government is their primary goal.
>>2396393I choose to die on the hill of Zohran Mamdani socialism and anti-Zionism.
You choose to die on the hill of Zionist-MAGA-landlord-Cuomontang.
>>2396394NTA but nobody's against working with what they got. nobody here except 1 anon has said "I hope he loses" or "I won't vote for him."
Most of us don't even live in NY. It's about tempering expectations for reformist options. I think people should in fact VOOT or whatever if they think there's a real "lesser evil" on the ballot. Just don't expect that alone to do anything. Even if he wins and isn't ratfucked I don't think he'll have much effect over the Gaza situation.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-394-a-city-we-can-afford
>But within the frame of a city like New York, with a tightly packed population of 8.5 million, the distributional struggle takes on a rather different hue. In New York City the trade offs and conflicts feel real. The rich, the middle class and the poor cannot avoid each other, as they often do in the rest of the USA. Through shared infrastructure like schools or overcrowded and dangerous streets, the competition for scarce housing and the cost of everyday necessities, the struggle of competing purchasing power and class differentiation is played out in plain view. Meanwhile, the shocking state of the subway brings home viscerally the many failures of public policy. How can a city of such wealth be reliant on a system of such shabby, stinking decrepitude? It is not by accident that New York City’s upper class fear democracy more than their counterparts in much of the rest of the country. Here there might actually be a majority in favor or redistribution, major market regulation and against privatization. De facto, New York City’s taxing powers are limited. Mamdani is talking about a few percentage points for those earning more than a million dollars a year. Everything requires approval by Albany, the far more conservative state-capital, 140 miles to the North. But, to prevent these questions even being posed, the backlash against Mamdani will be intense and it will be very well funded.…
>New York City remains hugely attractive to millions of people. But the gap between the resources of the vast majority of the population and the cost of living yawns increasingly wide. The city gets by. Its people are resourceful and resilient. But this coping comes at a price: increasing stress, resentment and incomprehension. How can things be this unaffordable, this dysfunctional and shoddy? Why is the city not as great as it could clearly be? Of course, a minority do extremely well. They feel no urgency for change. But for the majority of people the trends, both of recent decades and more immediately since COVID, are in the wrong direction. A politics that speaks openly about these pressures and urges bold and imaginative steps as Mamdani and the New York left do, is a starting point, both to address the issues and to relegitimize city government. His success is a rare sign of hope in American politics. If entrenched elites were to derail his candidacy in favor of machine interests, it would be a victory for privilege and a disaster for democracy that would resonate beyond New York. >>2396394The situation isn't hopeless you're just using the wrong tools for the job. You have to combine legal and illegal organizing or all you will ever do is sustain the government rather than overthrow it.
But the point is that the DSA doesn't want to overthrow the government. They want to reform it and purge it of it's most self-destructive elements so it can rule forever. This is literally the point of the DSA and why it exists.
>>2396409What effect would it have on you, exactly? 90% of the city council is against him.
>>2396414The DSA is explicitly counter-revolutionary though. They actively oppose any and all attempts at a revolution in America.
>>2396416scroll up and observe the young self described communist woman calla walsh who was arrested for sabotaging an israeli arms manufacturer. that's called underground activity
>muh commies are PMCsgive it a rest
>>2396421"Antisemitism" is code word for "anti-white."
The fact is most mainstream Jewish groups, including the ADL, are either defending or outright promoting actual antisemitism in their quest to defend American imperialism and the genocidal terror state of Israel.
>>2396402>NTA but nobody's against working with what they got. nobody here except 1 anon has said "I hope he loses" or "I won't vote for him."
>Most of us don't even live in NY. It's about tempering expectations for reformist options. I think people should in fact VOOT or whatever if they think there's a real "lesser evil" on the ballot. Just don't expect that alone to do anything. Even if he wins and isn't ratfucked I don't think he'll have much effect over the Gaza situation.I can see what you mean, but I think "he can't do anything" goes beyond mere tempering of expectations into the territory of reactionary defeatism. I'll agree that as mayor, what he can unilaterally do with his position is limited, but instead of trying to dampen excitement that this event is creating it would be better to try and utilize it for something constructive.
I'll even agree with you and the other anon to a certain extent. It is true that on his own what he can do is limited, and it is true that the system is designed with ratfucking people like him in mind. We saw just that in Nevada when other DSA candidates won and the state democratic party worked to undermine and sabotage them.
But what I think the correct response to that isn't to just declare "it's useless there's no point in trying" but to actually study why those tactics worked and then work on solutions. If it absolutely didn't matter then there wouldn't be any need to sabotage those or this candidate. The democrats probably aren't scared of Mamdani per se. What terrifies them is the same as the movement around Sanders in 2016: that working people can organize themselves and
win, and that this might inspire other efforts to do the same.
Mamdani and his potential accomplishments or failures are so much less important than the possibility that working people can put forth their own candidate and win. That will be the working class's victory, not Mamdani's.
>>2396435tampering expectations =/= "dampening excitement" and people should do shit whether they're "excited" or not.
class war requires strategic thinking not a constant flow of hype
>>2396436To be fair to the DSA you cannot run in US elections if you advocate for underground activity. Unless you're Republican.
This is why every other Communist org in the world has a completely separate paramilitary wing that doesn't publicly associate with the leadership of the political wing. You gotta give yourself at least some cover if you don't wanna be taken out by the glowies.
>>2396401>It's depressing and I have no idea what to do.I've had some success talking to coworkers about it. It's a long, tedious process, but I don't think there's any other way than doing the work. Talk to them about their lives. Ask them about what worries them. Share their worries and concerns. When you hear what they think, offer your own thoughts and reasoning for them to consider. In my experience people react less well to a lecture or proselytizing but much better to a conversation, and have a tendency to give respect when they get it.
It's not easy but it's gotta be done.
>>2396443The DSA has explicit rules against democratic centralism and any form of violence or advocacy thereof.
The DSA has not won anything either you know. Even their prize pupil AOCIA has accomplished exactly nothing except some photo ops and tweets. She has no legislative victories or signature policies. She just tweets about how bad the GOP is and then shuts her mouth when the Democrats do the same thing. It's almost like shepherding the left into the Democratic party where it can be killed and dissipated was literally the stated goal of Michael Harrington when he founded the DSA.
Fun fact: the only reason the DSA exists is because Harrington got kicked out of the SPUSA for supporting the Vietnam war.
>>2396439>This is why every other Communist org in the world has a completely separate paramilitary wing that doesn't publicly associate with the leadership of the political wing.Interesting. Is their literature about this?
>>2396442You're probably right. Unfortunately my workplace is not very conducive to talking between coworkers and I'm socially inept as it is, but I will have to try.
>>2396449President Xi…
You may fire when ready.
>>2396447>>2396454No offense but hearing about aspirations to form leftist guerilla groups in the workplace are disheartening and irritating.
Are any of you actually gonna make strides in leftism if the opportunity is offered?
>>2396454Thanks. I will learn from this advice and try to improve my social skills.
>>2396456Why is this disheartening and irritating?
I'll admit I probably won't be forming an urban guerilla group but I would like to believe I could advance the cause of leftism in some fashion.
>>2396459I'm not saying it's a crime, just that it makes organizing more difficult, that's all.
>>2396445>The DSA has explicit rules against democratic centralism and any form of violence or advocacy thereof. Yeah sure okay, but I don't think most Americans support that kind of politics to begin with. It's a recipe for isolation which is the story of all of these Leninist "parties" in this country. If I lived in northeastern Syria or thought it was something that has a chance of taking political power in this country, then I'd consider it, but I don't. I barely trust you to handle phone banking for a city council candidate, let alone an automatic weapon. I don't knock those demcent groups in this country out of some moral principle that they're meanie authoritarians like Michael Harrington did, I'm just saying
it's not looking great for them, you know? I'm being realistic here.
>>2396372Now imagine what they could have accomplished if they were trained and armed to act as a squad of real infantry. The advantage of communists has always been organization. This is America, it's actually pretty easy to get tactical training.
We have to figure out some way to organize spontaneous events like this that show the courage and revolutionary militancy of the people and organize them into effective actions.
>>2396464There has never been a social revolution brought around by voting and there never will be. Democratic centralism works. It's a proven effective strategy for building the sort of disciplined party that is capable of taking power and holding it.
Do you think the DSA would or could ever raise an army and fight back against the state? Would AOC or Zohran die for this cause? They lack the fortitude necessary to physically confront and destroy the state, which should be our only goal. There is no discipline in any of their organizations or cadres. Their entire organization is based around doing whatever the fuck you want and creating little micro fiefdoms for your own special hobbies.
They can't ever take advantage of their numbers because they can't compel anyone to do anything. The state can. If you come anywhere near the levers of power they just crush you. Even in their wildest fantasy where they succeed at voting their way into a majority, the DSA would just be crushed by a wave of reaction.
The only way to seize the means of production is via force. The only way to build that force is strong discipline. Democratic centralism brings that discipline.
>>2396535>They can't ever take advantage of their numbers because they can't compel anyone to do anything. The state can. If you come anywhere near the levers of power they just crush you. Even in their wildest fantasy where they succeed at voting their way into a majority, the DSA would just be crushed by a wave of reaction. counterargument: the Democrats are so insanely incompetent I don't have much confidence in them being able to crush anything. they'd probably fuck up and radicalize MAGAs into Communists if they tried.
the state, as in the people behind the throne, the CIA, FBI, glowies etc, are effective at protecting themselves, but Trump has proven they aren't invincible. they're still just careerists that can be bribed or replaced, and their loyalty to the state only goes so far as they're being paid.
One key point is if Zohran were to actually become NYC mayor and just immediately fire the entire police force. They'd definitely try to kill him, but if he survives the initial assassination attempts the people remaining in local government will either "resign in protest" or move on to keep their jobs. The deep state is all just old dudes trying to protect their pension.
>>2396538Sabotage and infiltration are perfect tasks for infantry. The Viet Cong were almost all light infantry and they did tremendous damage working in small cells to infiltrate into enemy territory and sabotage their infrastructure. Same with the IRA, Spear of the Nation and et cetera.
Infantry with explosives are some of the most effective saboteurs. Drones will also be helpful, but they are limited in what they can do still. Especially the cheaper commercial drones. You can buy kits to build something similar to a Russian Geran drone but they cost thousands each. You could set up factories and make the stuff yourself, but that requires a lot of money and organization. A few rifles is much cheaper.
>>2396541I feel like the potential of drones hasn't fully been realized yet. You can literally just stick a malware USB on a drone with a simple release switch, fly it over to a random weapons factory in the middle of the night, drop the USB in the parking lot, and probably destroy the entire company in a few days.
Even a drone with a paint nozzle being used to spray graffiti over office buildings is probably annoying enough to drain the resources of the bourgeois just cleaning it up.
We're used to military drones costing tens of thousands and this is considered "cheap", but I feel like it's actually trivial to buy consumer drones from China and just modify them for specific covert operations without needing all the complicated shit military drones require since you don't need weapons on it. A simple fleet of $120 commercial drones with minor modifications could completely overwhelm local authorities without ever leaving your home. The biggest limiter is recruiting people to work in your little basement factories attaching thermite dispensers to drones without blowing themselves up or getting infiltrated by glowies.
>>2396543You greatly overestimate what the cheap drones can do. Their payloads are incredibly small so it's virtually impossible to carry something that can do considerable damage. You have to spend thousands to get a quadcopter that can lift more than like 5 lbs. There are diy fixed sing kits that can carry more, maybe tens or dozens of pounds but even that is pretty iffy. With military grade explosives it takes hundreds of pounds to guarantee a target destruction. With DIY shit you're going to be lucky to start a fire.
It can be done and Ukraine is doing it but it requires a lot of investment and technical know how.
You can do graffiti and shit but that's not what I'm talking about when I say effective action.
>>2396543>The biggest limiter is recruiting people to work in your little basement factories attaching thermite dispensers to drones without blowing themselves up or getting infiltrated by glowies.Don't recruit anyone for thing that can be done individually.
>>2396546>it takes hundreds of pounds to guarantee a target destruction.Grenades and lighter IEDs are not that heavy and they can take out unarmored targets.
If that is too high a risk profile they can be used to sabotage powerlines just by ramming.
>>2396561People talk about Guerilla activities, and I’m not opposed to that, but it has to be hand in hand with actual mass movement building. A Guerilla group that isn’t based on the actual desires of the masses just becomes terrorism.
Thing is a good portion of the left just openly despises the people. So that’d make some elements of PPW unworkable because it relies in part on maintaining good relations between cadres and the masses. If you want an example of the logic falling apart, look no further than leftypol’s own iron Felix. He’ll go on and on about how you can’t wait for the masses (“but it takes years to build an army so wait for me”) but then says the masses are all enthusiastic fascist collaborators, so in theory that’d make PPW functionally impossible, but then he twists himself in knots posting some South African communist to justify doing violence NOW (well, not him doing the violence, he’s more an “ideas guy” in the sense that maybe in 40 years he’ll draw up schemes for training cadres) while… ignoring the fact that South Africa was majority black and so apartheid was maybe one of the most noxious impositions of a minority on a majority population—making things like guerilla war possible. For his example to be comparable in his mind, a majority of black people would’ve wanted apartheid to continue and would’ve killed for it.
The point being: understand the circumstances on the ground and just what’s actually feasible at this point.
>>2396647>trusting right wingers to do anti-imperialismdid you also think trump would stop the proxy wars?
how many times do you have to fall for the same trick before you understand bourgeois nationalism has never been a tool against imperialism? if you had read any history this would be immediately clear for you. this was already known by the time of funking sukarno
>>2396672critical support means you support it even though you are aware it is eventually going to fold, just to bleed imperialism for a while
the fact that they had to invade was already a colossal defeat
>>2396681If I’m not on that topic why include me in it?
dumb ass
>>2396687I don't know who is going to win because
- neither russia nor nato seem to be going all out
- I assume all the data and figures released to the public are propaganda and therefore I know nothing about the actual conditions
- I have no military formation
but the outcome of the war doesn't really matter. russia has continued to sell oil, gas, agricultural products and other raw materials (with little to no industrial added value) to the west and even to ukraine itself uninterrupted since the war started. there has been a limited re-industrialization not because they wanted it but because nato forced western companies out, and the same can be said about interruptions in the trade of non-industrial commodities: it's not that russia refuses to sell, but that the west refuses to buy
what would change if the west conceded this proxy war? western companies would re-enter the russian market and dismantle the newly emerged local industry, and russia would focus again on exporting energy, food and raw materials - this is what the russian ruling class desires the most and what would be more convenient for them. de-development was and is the inevitable outcome of the abdication of the soviet union
>>2396707>but the outcome of the war doesn't really matterthe outcome of the war decides a new security architecture for Europe just as the Yalta conference did. You're insane to think the stakes aren't high for both sides
>russia has continued to sell oil, gas, agricultural products and other raw materials (with little to no industrial added value) to the west and even to ukraine itself uninterrupted since the war startedthis was always going to be the case for the simple fact that Europe literally has zero resources. European enslavement to Russian oil and gas is a huge problem for European continental security. Why else would the Americans bomb nord stream 2? For shits and giggles?
>what would change if the west conceded this proxy war? Now this is the biggest issue at hand. Had Russia lost europe would've accepted their defeat and everything would've gone back to normal. But since Russia won, Europe will never ever ever ever concede or start negotiations with Russia because that means legitimizing and recognizing a Russian victory, actual political suicide for anyone who tries. So no peace will happen. Europe will keep escalating and praying for a miracle like USSR's sudden collapse in 1991. There is no other alternative
>>2396646The eternal irony is that the anarchists he despises are currently far closer to his ideal of militants resisting the state at every opportunity and discarding electoralism or winning over the masses, but because he's so insanely sectarian he cant even bring himself to work with them. His "activism" during this year's protests consisted of him going outside and sneering at anarchists in the process of actually doing shit while writing long screeds about what he would do instead but for some reason wont.
If I didn't know better, I'd say him and others like him were federal assets trying to divide the movement by insisting all militant action fall under their supervision or be treated as the enemy, but I think some of them, Felix included, have genuinely gone insane from demoralization.
>>2396766Didn’t Felix say in some other thread that he was “gonna be the next Lenin”? I think what it is, is just malignant narcissism. Not to play armchair psyche, but the diagnostic traits of a narcissist are:
>Grandiose sense of self-importance<Felix frequently claims to be “the only real Marxist” and imagines that his presence or lack there of radically shifts the discourse that happens wherever he goes.
>Fantasies of success>Belief in being special<Felix acts as though he’s building some army that he’ll be directing to do guerilla warfare. He imagines he’s some kind of general directing digital soldiers towards acts of war against the state. He claims he’s “building an army” when he has zero combat experience, likely hasn’t studied any kind of serious military literature, has zero resources, and no followers. Yet just by yelling “kill cops” he’ll convince strangers online to throw their lives away.
>need for excessive admiration>sense of entitlement>exploitative behavior<He’d post videos of himself attending protests, unironically posted the meme video of himself from the booru. Essentially tries to back people into “you either agree with me or you’re a gleeful fascist” arguments. Never feels any need to justify not doing what he demands others do.
>Lack of empathy<I mean this is the most obvious: he writes long torture fantasies and considers most people to be on the same level as SS officers. He gestures to the third world but it’s almost always when using it as a cudgel “Children are dying because of YOU” and never because of actual empathy.Like I’ve heard people say before “Oh Felix must be more exploited, which is why he acts so insane” but I’ve met people who live in fucking shacks in the woods, and if the dox on Felix were correct he’s a fucking small business owner. It’s not that he’s just “rebelling against a world that abused him”. There are people who’ve gone through way worse that came out empathetic and kind. I think there are just assholes out there.
>>2396844>we need a freaking border yoi love the implication that we don't have one of the most militarized and enforced borders in human history. we could raise the ICE budget to 300bn and reakkktoids would still cry that we have an "open border."
Hell America could destroy Mexico and take it over and chuds would complain that the newly "acquired" border isn't secure.
>>2396846>Russia resisting NATO expansion is justified from their own perspectiveRussia resisting NATO is justified from the perspective of all global proletarians because the Ukraine crisis marked the transition from american unipolar global hegemon to tripolar world. Unless you prefer a world dominated by western interests?
>as it continues to expandNATO is dead. Russian Anti-imperialism killed it. Look, the West is even admitting it. Russia fucking won lol
>Italian defense minister says NATO ‘as it is’ has no reason to exist
>“Before, U.S. and Europe used to be the center of the world — now, there is everything else with which a relationship must be built,” he said, adding: “We often talk as if we were still living 30 years ago, but everything has changed.”
>“If NATO was created to guarantee peace and mutual defense, it must either become an organization that takes on this task by engaging with the Global South — and thus become something profoundly different — or we will not achieve the goal of having security within rules that apply to everyone,” he said.https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-no-reason-to-exist-italian-defense-minister-us-europe-summit-giorgia-meloni-mark-rutte-guido-crosetto/ Hope you're not an organ donor
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at RiskLast spring at a small Alabama hospital, a team of transplant surgeons prepared to cut into Misty Hawkins. The clock was ticking. Her organs wouldn’t be usable for much longer.
Days earlier, she had been a vibrant 42-year-old with a playful sense of humor and a love for the Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally. But after Ms. Hawkins choked while eating and fell into a coma, her mother decided to take her off life support and donate her organs. She was removed from a ventilator and, after 103 minutes, declared dead.
A surgeon made an incision in her chest and sawed through her breastbone.
That’s when the doctors discovered her heart was beating. She appeared to be breathing. They were slicing into Ms. Hawkins while she was alive.
Across the United States, an intricate system of hospitals, doctors and nonprofit donation coordinators carries out tens of thousands of lifesaving transplants each year.
But in recent years, as the system has pushed to increase transplants, a growing number of patients have endured premature or bungled attempts to retrieve their organs. Though Ms. Hawkins’s case is an extreme example of what can go wrong, a New York Times examination revealed a pattern of rushed decision-making that has prioritized the need for more organs over the safety of potential donors.
In New Mexico, a woman was subjected to days of preparation for donation, even after her family said that she seemed to be regaining consciousness, which she eventually did.
In Florida, a man cried and bit on his breathing tube but was still withdrawn from life support. In West Virginia, doctors were appalled when coordinators asked a paralyzed man coming off sedatives in an operating room for consent to remove his organs.
Stories like these have emerged as the transplant system has increasingly turned to a type of organ removal called donation after circulatory death. It accounted for a third of all donations last year: about 20,000 organs, triple the number from five years earlier.
Most donated organs in the United States come from people who are brain-dead — an irreversible state — and are kept on machines only to maintain their organs.
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Have Questions About Death? Get Answers Here. Circulatory death donation is different. These patients are on life support, often in a coma. Their prognoses are more of a medical judgment call.
The Times found that some organ procurement organizations — the nonprofits in each state that have federal contracts to coordinate transplants — are aggressively pursuing circulatory death donors and pushing families and doctors toward surgery. Hospitals are responsible for patients up to the moment of death, but some are allowing procurement organizations to influence treatment decisions.
Fifty-five medical workers in 19 states told The Times they had witnessed at least one disturbing case of donation after circulatory death.
Workers in several states said they had seen coordinators persuading hospital clinicians to administer morphine, propofol and other drugs to hasten the death of potential donors.
A recent federal investigation — prompted by the case of a Kentucky man whose organs were pursued even as he shook his head and drew his knees to his chest — found that the state’s procurement organization had ignored signs of increasing consciousness in 73 potential donors.
In interviews with health care workers, as well as a review of internal records, audio recordings and text messages, The Times confirmed 12 additional cases in nine states that troubled medical workers or were being investigated.
Most of these patients ultimately died, so it is impossible to know what they experienced. Doctors expressed worry that some patients might have recovered if given more time on life support. Other patients may have felt pain or emotional distress in the last hours of their lives.
The questions have taken on greater urgency as this type of donation has grown rapidly in the last five years, driven in part by federal pressure on procurement organizations to increase transplants. At the same time, the government has largely allowed the transplant system to police itself.
The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, a trade group, said in a statement that potential donors receive the same quality of care as any other patient until a doctor declares them dead. Decisions about patient care and declarations of death “are the sole responsibilities of the hospital team,” the statement said.
The association said it was misguided to focus on a small number of cases with bad outcomes. “These stories paint a frightening, inaccurate and unbalanced view of our system,” it said.
Several groups representing hospitals didn’t respond to requests for comment. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, whose agencies oversee hospitals and procurement organizations, said in a statement that it was improving patient protections.
Dr. Robert Cannon, a transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said he believed the system was hesitant to confront safety lapses during circulatory death donations, out of fear that people would stop donating.
“I don’t know the scope of the problem. I don’t know that anybody does,” he said. “That’s the scary thing.”
https://archive.is/dtJ3z>>2396893Rushing DonationsCirculatory death donation used to be largely forbidden. That began to change in the 1990s, when a dying patient asked the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to remove her life support and donate her organs. The hospital honored her wishes, then spent two years creating guidelines for future cases. Use of the practice gradually spread.
Procurement organizations attributed the procedure’s recent growth to technological advances. Dozens of employees at the organizations said it was largely because of government pressure.
Citing the number of Americans waiting for organs, H.H.S. said in 2020 that it would begin grading procurement organizations on how many transplants they arranged. The department has threatened to end its contracts with groups performing below average, starting next year. Many have raised their numbers by pursuing more circulatory death donors.
Employees said some organizations had blown past safeguards, potentially rushing the process. For instance, coordinators are not supposed to approach a patient’s relatives until the family has decided to withdraw life support, but workers said that rule was frequently violated.
After relatives agree, it can take several days to prepare for organ retrieval. During this time, the hospital is supposed to keep treating the patient, including looking for signs of recovery.
In reality, said 16 workers at hospitals in a dozen states, once patients are approved for donation, hospitals sometimes put them in the care of young residents or fellows who tend to defer to procurement organizations.
Dr. Alejandro Rabinstein, chair of hospital neurology at the Mayo Clinic, said medical workers sometimes lacked the experience to tell whether a patient’s movements were a sign of recovery or meaningless reflexes. “Training can be a real issue, especially in smaller hospitals,” he said.
The federal investigation noted that Kentucky’s procurement organization often failed to recognize that illegal drugs or hospital-administered sedatives could make patients seem less neurologically healthy than they were.
A study published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine reported that 25 percent of patients who were thought to be unresponsive actually might have awareness, even if they couldn’t communicate. Another study, although small, found that when doctors predicted in the first 72 hours that a patient would not recover from a traumatic brain injury, they were frequently wrong.
Still, circulatory death donation has come to be widely accepted as crucial to reducing the national organ shortage. Dr. Joseph Scalea, a transplant surgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina, called it “one of the most impactful innovations in accessing more organs for patients in need.”
More than 100,000 people are waiting for an organ in the United States, and many won’t receive one. Recently, the system has set transplant records largely because of circulatory death donation, data shows. Organs from these patients were transplanted into 43,500 people from 2020 through last year.
>>2396906Health care workers across the country recounted cases that haunted them.Bryany Duff, a surgical technician in Colorado, said one patient, a middle-aged woman, was crying and looking around. But doctors sedated her and removed her from a ventilator, according to Ms. Duff and a former colleague.
The patient did not die in time to donate organs but did so hours later. “I felt like if she had been given more time on the ventilator, she could have pulled through,” Ms. Duff said.
In Miami in 2023, a potential donor who had broken his neck began crying and biting on his breathing tube, which a procurement organization worker said he interpreted as him not wanting to die. But clinicians sedated the patient, withdrew life support, waited for death and removed the organs, according to the worker and a colleague he told at the time.
In West Virginia, doctors were taken aback after Benjamin Parsons, a 27-year-old man paralyzed in a car accident, was brought to an operating room and asked to consent to donating his organs as he was coming off sedatives.
Communicating through blinks, he indicated that he did not give permission. Still, coordinators initially wanted to move forward, according to text messages and interviews.
Mr. Parsons’ brother Andrew told The Times that the family had authorized the donation and believed his brother had blinked his agreement several times in the hours before the procedure, when sedation had been dialed down. He changed his mind in the operating room, said Andrew Parsons, who added that the procurement organization had been compassionate.
In a text exchange that day, doctors involved in the case said that without a full neurological exam under no sedation, it was unclear whether Mr. Parsons was lucid enough to consent. “What a disaster and handled COMPLETELY inappropriately,” one doctor wrote. Mr. Parsons chose to go off life support two days later and died without donating. A transplant system oversight committee has been investigating the case.
The procurement organizations for Miami and that part of West Virginia declined to discuss the cases, citing privacy laws. The Colorado group did not respond to requests for comment.
The Times spoke with workers who described similar cases in North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington.
>>2396912I made $315 off scratchers yesterday and it occurred to me that, at this point, you’d probably have better odds of breaking out of your class position just gambling than going to school and working hard.
>>2396916If I had to guess? Women are allegedly less willing to aggressively advocate for higher wages for themselves. Plus you can talk about how you “support women” for good PR.
Course I heard some STEM dudes say they’ve had to just arbitrarily include diverse people in their studies to get even considered for funding. So maybe there’s some affirmative action element to it, too.
>>2396956Ehh, I think there’s just a personality type that wants to dictate people’s private lives. That’s pretty much how I see the culture war and why it goes back and forth. You’ve got a minority on either side that tries to shape attitudes from the top down, they overextend themselves, then the other side claims to want a “return to sanity” and after riding that wave to victory, they huff their own farts and do some insane horseshit.
You saw that going light speed on the Right after that GamerGate shit. You’ve got Milo dressing in drag and being a gadfly to feminists, then Trump wins and now you’ve got rightists like Elon and Andrew Tate saying “I can’t bear to support GTA cause it’s about killing cops.”
>>2396947Web commies that do jack shit irl should defend the gamers this time while pushing the reactionary narrative to the garbage can because it's straight up a woke front to far right narratives.
but because there is so much support to this behaviour in the left they will celebrate and let opportunity go between their figers
>>2396964None are exclusive uygha, you have all the time in the world if you have time to post in social media.
also i generalized, reactionary gamers should be beaten over, but gaming defended from radlib and cuckservatist encroachment.
>>2396971>Be honest brother, you know there is no overlap in the venn-diagram between people defending Palestinians and defending gamers>one thing needs to another to defend bothoh, i didn't know there were limited amount of things to care.
>Like what the fuck are you even talking about?fight against idiotic censorship movements from conservatists and liberals of course.
>Who gives a fuck about gamers? People that play games mostly, which is a substantial part of peoples pass times these days.
>What the fuck world are you living in?earth retard and they invented an thing called internet.
>>2396984Porn is free speech and anything can be censored or controlled by simply deeming it obscene or saying that its creator has some unproven fetish for it.
If people are afraid of naked bodies, then they are politically useless and will always defer to power and fascists who wield it.
>>2397003:'(
I want to throw every Israeli i ever met off a bridge.
>>2396971>>2396977Yknow it occurs to me that there are a lot of people who heard the “and there are starving children in Africa” line growing up and didn’t take it as “shut up and eat your slop”
Which isn’t to say they’re comparable mind you: what’s happening in Palestine completely overshadows a minor thing like feminists going after Steam, but I don’t think someone came in here saying “guys stop talking about Palestine, they’re gonna take our GAAAAAAMES”
Undeniably Palestine is important, but let’s not create some needless strife by responding to “some asshole cut me off in traffic today” with “why are you talking about that instead of Palestine”
>>2397003Porn itself doesn't matter the whole point is to control what's on the internet. What is considered obscene can easily be expanded. Posting war crimes will be considered obscene and any pro-Palestine post will be considered antisemitic hate speech. What you just posted could one day be considered a crime.
On top of that UK and US are starting to require IDs for porn websites but thi8s is simply a small scale test. It will be the required in the future for everyone on every legal website so you can only post what has been approved unless you want to go to jail.
>>2397023He's right, caring about this is incredibly pathetic.
Is this the kind of thing you people at CPUSA spend your time on unironically? No wonder you loose.
>>2397035Notorious manchild and unemployed layabout, Vladimir Ulyanov playing toy soldiers with his friend. The picture of arrested development, his toes curl, his eyes dilate, as he screeches in a pre-pubescent voice:
>”CH-CHECKMATE!”No doubt inspired by Japanese cartoons where characters add overdramatic exclamations to children’s games.
“Lenin” as his friends call him refuses to get a job, instead coasting by panhandling associates for money. Despite somehow having a partner, he has no children, likely because he’d be unable to provide for any of them while maintaining a lifestyle of childlike whimsy and freedom from responsibility.” His pants are doubtless stained from with crusted ejaculate from a frequent masturbation habit.
Parents, don’t have your kids end up like old Vladdy here. Put the toys away.
>>2396916STEM companies are refusing to hire any entry level employees in order to cut costs. Men are more likely to do a STEM major than woman.
t recent microbio grad
>>2396929Also women are more willing to put in effort into having a very good cover letter while men will just think "this is BS, I'm going to not submit a CL go do X instead"
>>2397057bvt v see…
chess, tis the game of kings
of the manliest of men
>>2397066It would be funny if you actually tried this on the police. fyi showing support for Palestine is already a terrorism offense in the UK with up to 14 years prison time. And you support this…
https://novaramedia.com/2025/07/18/heres-whats-happened-since-the-palestine-action-ban/>>2397068Wonder if you will have the guts when it actually happens.
>>2397088Well thankfully we're not the UK, though all it takes is one bad day for this administration to go sicko mode on us. Realtalk I still get nervous every time I hear a police siren and I can think of fewer reasons why I shouldn't worry about being targeted.
But hey, if I nail this library job soon I could try organizing spaces for "political action" as it were. Would paint a much bigger target on my back in the process but I cant just sit on the sidelines while everything goes to hell. I just dont have it in me
>>2397089fish sex.
>>2397094its the main issue, the other is that is just capitalism so it suffer all the problems of capitalism.
>>2397102Satisfies something in you either way.
neither are wrong but Christspook seethes about one and not the other.
>>2397102IF YOU AREN'T WORKING TO DEATH IN THE
PAIN MINES YOU AIN'T A PROLE
>>2397149if the revolt happens after complete automization, then we are fucked.
If it happens somewhat before, then theres still a chance.
Who is going to manufacture the weapons and food, if the workers rebel too
>>2397152soon, my arsenal shall answer to me and me alone
my exterminator drones shall eliminate all opposition
even my shareholders will be made to bow to me!
>>2397155I SHALL BE THE TYRANT THESE TERMITES DESERVE
SOON, I SHALL HAVE NO FURTHER NEED FOR HUMANITY
MY CLOCKWORK ARMY SHALL DELIVER THIS WORLD AND ITS SPOILS ALL TO ME!!!
>>2396984You're the same as the retards that say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" or "why are you worried about online censorship it's just to protect
the children"
>>2397199Wrong. Capitalism ends when monopoly capitalism, i.e., imperialism, ceases. Therefore imperialists must be destroyed for capitalism to end. You are imperialist brainrotted by capitalism. you are ameriKKKan so you no nothing of freedom. you think what they want you to think. Mao says the kind of tree determines the kind of flower, and the kind of class determines the kind of talk.
You are imperialist class therefore everything you say and think is wrong
>>2397153you are a zionist retard
>>2397229the zionists social democrat incels cannot explain anything criticism and explanation betrays their way of thought
>>2397276wow.
trump is going the same direction biden went
SAD
>>2397307 nta
or maybe just maybe
hes going senile
>>2397317correction:
Hes going biden levels of senile now
>>2396319I mean I have similar conclusions but I see it more in terms of settler-colonialism and imperial super-profits.
America was just about to prole everybody resulting in FDR succ-demery when a post-war boom and imperialist super-profits was able to tide things along with a labor aristocracy. But the whole labor aristocracy has been dying since the 1970s.
I don't know how a reasonable person can think Donald J. Trump is in charge of his faculties or at all competent to do the job he supposedly does. Biden was a complete creep and disgusting monster, but at the very least there was a shell of a man put on display instead of this drooling retard show that Trump represents.
>>2397334You don't know anything about what America is and neither does Cockshott. What happened in the 1930s was "the revolution". Those of a socialist persuasion in the US got what they wanted, and chucked the useless masses to the meat grinder. They threw you away a long, long time ago and laugh at you.
"Settler colonialism" is fag theory invented by Israel to mock you.
>>2397361That just sounds worse though. Being banned from the market just means you can't profit off of it. Being banned by the government means you'll be put in prison for it.
Visa and MasterCard are just tools of the Israeli government to control the internet culture sure, but personally I don't care when they block porn sites. Just release your porn for free like the good old days. Not every hobby should be a career.
>>2397307My tariffs are gonna make
Make Industrialization Great Again nudge nudge wink wink
MIGA!
>>2397392Just goes to show how job markets are incredibly inefficient. People spend years getting degrees for jobs they were told in their youth will make a profit. Meaning there is a high chance it will crash when they get there because millions of other young people were also told the same information.
Of course born rich Ivy Leaguers will come into that same market, be given everything and then pretend anyone could be successful if only they worked harder. This further confuses the information other young people will use to decide what jobs they will spend years studying for.
>>2397477Politics is a game of local elections. This is the exact shit that needs to be done to break the Democratic party. Unseat them at the local level and the state parties will become powerless.
Not saying electoralism is a viable means of achieving socialism, but it is a viable means of at least destroying the Democrats.
>>2397472>Am I out of touch?<No it's the children who are wrongWorrisome that both parties are openly embracing white supremacy.
>>2397485Could it at least be a stepping stone? Actual violent socialist revolution seems far off unless Trump and the GOP do in fact suspend elections.
>>2397540>>2397513>>2397523Honestly if you're running for office as a Socialist, I think you've gotta be willing to show teeth. A lot of even conservative voters are less ideological and more desiring someone with a vision and some backbone.
The moment trump clinched the Republican nomination was when he said some outrageously offensive statements and refused to apologize. If you run, be vocally and publicly anti-zionist, and if they try the "antisemitism" canard just point out "Hey, these people call everything antisemitic." Don't back down. Don't look weak. And with truth on your side your message will resonate.
>>2397553Considering the fact that /g/ and /b/ were baited by some redpilled idiot that started this whole Gamergate thing and how they were lead across the nose by right-wing retards who would stab gamers in the back.
Seriously do Gamers not remember the moral panics the conservatives did back in the 1980's and 1990's? Hell during the Gamergate thing I hated both sides because I thought the SJWs and the Conservatives were two sides of the same anti-sex, anti-creativity moralist policing coin.
Hell, I remember typing out in a gamergate subreddit that Milo Yiannopoulos and his ilk were not to be trusted because conservatives and right-wingers also hated video games just like the SJWs and would betray them in the end.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/21/sam-altman-openai-trump-dc-fedAltman plans D.C. push to "democratize" AI economic benefits
>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will use a swing through Washington this week to argue that AI is already making Americans more productive — and to promise to keep AI "democratic" by getting it in as many hands as possible, sources tell Axios.>Why it matters: Altman wants to continue driving debate over the effect AI will have on jobs. In an appearance Tuesday at a major Federal Reserve conference, Altman will offer what an adviser calls a "third path" between the bulls and the doomers.>Democratized vs. concentrated: A source familiar with Altman's thinking told us in an exclusive preview that his vision is "not all doomerism downside and not hand-waving away concerns — but focused on democratizing benefits (getting them into the hands of people to do stuff), not concentrating them in the hands of the few."
<Democratic vs. autocratic: It'll be the economic counterpart to a geopolitical case Altman made one year ago this week. In a Washington Post op-ed, he wrote that a U.S.-led "democratic vision for AI" must prevail over authoritarian governments that are "willing to spend enormous amounts of money to catch up and ultimately overtake us."
>By the numbers: In data being reported here for the first time, OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5 billion prompts each day globally. More than 330 million of those daily prompts are in the U.S.
<The free version of ChatGPT is used by the vast majority of the platform's more than 500 million weekly active users, OpenAI says.
>Zoom in: On Tuesday, Altman will join Michelle Bowman, the Fed's new vice chair for supervision, for a fireside chat at a bank regulation conference before an audience that includes Fed officials and Wall Street executives.
<A new economic analysis by OpenAI chief economist Ronnie Chatterji will be released in conjunction with Altman's Fed appearance.
>It's AI Week in D.C.: President Trump on Wednesday will keynote a "Winning the AI Race" summit, hosted by the All‑In Podcast and the Hill & Valley Forum.
<Also on Wednesday, the White House is expected to release its long-awaited 20-page AI Action Plan — which promises a hands-off, pro-growth approach, Axios tech policy reporters Maria Curi and Ashley Gold scooped last week.
>"Over the course of the week," the source told us, "OpenAI will make the case that democratizing the economic benefits begins with putting these tools in the hands of people to do stuff so they have an opportunity to participate in the prosperity."
>"OpenAI sees AI fundamentally as a productivity-driving technology," the source continued. "The big question isn't if it will grow the economic pie — it's who gets how much of a slice. … It's not about stopping disruption, but putting it into people's hands so they have the opportunity to benefit."
>The big picture: Altman tweeted last week, in support of comments by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, that AI will allow people to "do a lot more than they could do before; ability and expectation will both go up," although "for sure jobs will be very different."
<Altman added that "maybe the jobs of the future will look like playing games to us today while still being very meaningful to those people of the future. (people of the past might say that about us.)"
>The bottom line: Altman wrote in an essay last month that the AI industry is building "a brain for the world," and said that intelligence "too cheap to meter is well within grasp." >>2397578Majority of Gamers are too buck broken by the Liberal line of politics to understand this, they brush all the wrong doings of the right against gamers as isolated cases but any and all cases of ideas displayed on cames like a single pronoun in character selector is a grand conspiracy to victimize them.
why are they retarded like that ?, just look at most content creators giving political opinion on gaming sphere, they are retards pushing these narratives to the comunity or just regurgitate the same said thing like a uncreative NPC, and no voices to push back, is there a antitesis to asmongold in gaming in the US ?, no and considering how the left likes to do sanitary cordons and finding excuses to not engage with these camps instead of political struggle for recognition it will never change, despite getting fucked in the ass by capitalism in the most explicit way possible gamers will still return to their cuck shed and be a vector to reactionarism in the internet and thus IRL.
>>2397587>>2397623>idiotic essensencialism about gaming in general.as always.
>>2397751Thanks.
>>2397749Why were China buying them through '08 and etc? seems like most of the buying was through trouble years? Isn't that weird? (i don't understand what treasury holdings are, just assoooming.)
>>2397767Same concern trolling tactic behind the "hurr durr russia raycist" campaign.
China has been significantly easing visa rules.
>>2397839Bro. Just become a serial killer who targets burgers. It’s clearly what you want.
You clearly don’t actually care about politics or political economy, you just wanna off burgers
>>2397851No bodily fluids apart of the pump to the max ankles?
Is this the redemption ark of that germ (austrian I think)?
>>2397851The ankles retention is a recent development and probably would not be in his dream with Epstein. Also, the orange fake tan is mostly the face, not the hands and certainly not the ankles.
https://humor-kamensky.sk/Looking at the guy's strips, the audience seems to be some sort of center-left(far right) liberal democracy believer. The sort of person for whom politics is just an asphalt desert covered with rakes as far as the eye can see in every direction. And every day they must goose-step towards the horizon.
A sort of temporarily embarrassed eurofascist kind of vibe. For which all, but the apocalyptic violence of fascism is just entertainment. An interregnum of fools between the real fascist deal.
>>2396805>Didn’t Felix say in some other thread that he was “gonna be the next Lenin”? I think what it is, is just malignant narcissism. Not to play armchair psyche, but the diagnostic traits of a narcissist are:No, but diagnosing your opponents as mentally ill is a classic COINTEL tactic so it's not a surprise to see you using it.
> if the dox on Felix were correct he’s a fucking small business owner.They weren't, and I'm not. Quantico no longer sends their best, I see. It's a shame I don't even rate a higher caliber of federal agent than you.
Meanwhile, while you diagnose me, you sit back and type out elaborate fantasies about converting all the third world into Soylent sludge for you to suck down with your precious Volk.
At least there aren't any third worlders for you to treat with contempt any more, you successfully chased all of them off so you can have your discussion with co-racialists in peace.
>>2397884I like how he draws khamenei 10x darker than bibi to signalize that he is part of the "jungle" rather than the "garden"
>>2397903yuo see khamenei was going to use his magic carpet to drop nuclear bomb on westoid civilization but brave bibi stopped him. khamenei has also been given russian flag socks, to symbolize that the author regards him as russia's bitch
>>2397922>Truly, Zionism is white supremacism.It is supremacy. Jewish supremacy. Explicitly so.
It's scarcely a favor to call everything "white" supremacy, the same as it is to call everything "fascism". The vast majority of people are not going to be primed with the arbitrary nature of "whiteness" or it's place along race in colonialism. Or with definitions of fascism which frame it around the crises of capital.
For most people those are just going to be snarl words that reference static and heavily propagandized points in history.
>>2397926yeah
>>2397863i'm expecting this guy's face and a firing squad will be the last thing i see, because american leftists can't organize the people for SHIT
>>2397942They aren't going to use firing squads, they're going to do the most cruel torture imaginable before they burn you to death.
There is zero resistance to this. Trans people were yet again the canary in the coal mine for what is mass approval for fascism. These people ARE the majority of americans.
>>2397933It's worth noting that Julius Streicher only reached the influence he did thanks to his personal friendship with Hitler. Most of the other Nazis fucking HATED the guy for being an odious piece of shit and prior to joining the Nazis he kept getting kicked out of other far right Volkish groups because he could not and would not shut up about exterminating the Jews.
We have a lot more Streicher types around today in positions of influence than the Nazis did, but I think the closest analog we have to the man himself is Laura Loomer. It's kind of ironic in a mundane way, the heir of the number one Jew hater being a Jew, but I guess that's just the George Lucas thing about rhymes in cinema
>>2397953Calling it white supremacy is also inaccurate given as there is no such thing as the white race and never has been.
Zionism is just a form of fascism which aims to create a new race out of a scattered religion which doesn't really have any common "racial" bond. It's essentially an attempt to create a Jewish race.
>>2397960>the white race isn't realtrue
>therefore white supremacy isn't realfalse
>>2397962if you have bad credit and/or low income you might have trouble because a lot of complexes demand that you prove you make triple the rent at least per month, otherwise they see you as a potentially unreliable renter and won't let you in.
in cases like that you might have to rent out a room in an occupied suburban home through an informal arrangement or something. that's how I survived once.
>>2397962burn it down
as a joke haha
>>2397964White supremacy is real but Zionism isn't a form of it because they don't consider themselves to be white, but Jewish.
>>2397965Wrong. All these movements are trying to unify an indigenous people to the land they inhabit. Zionism is explicitly settler-colonialist in nature, it involves settling a non-native people in a land they have no real connections to and the creation of an ethnic group out of this settlement.
>>2397971all the white collar bugmen are being replaced by bots.
thats usually what they mean by "careers" some office desk job.
>>2397960>Calling it white supremacy is also inaccurate given as there is no such thing as the white race and never has been. That is such a retarded statement and I already know that if I press you on this you will say "Oh no, I meant it's not biologically real" which we all agree with, but the statement is still moronic.
>Calling something white supremacy is inaccurate because there is no such thing as a white race (biologically speaking)In that case calling anything white supremacy will always be inaccurate for the same reason. It obviously refers to the imposition of this fabricated social construct and not its actual existence in nature.
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