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>>2431789FRIENDLY REMINDER TO FILTER GLOWTARDS >>2433804>Yeah I always think the "we're soon gonna be like nazi Germany" is very off the mark. The burgerreich is a whole different beast and the current day is a whole different time. It's transforming into something else. Fascism isn't really that relevant to the analysis. But y'know, weight of history, nightmare on the minds of the living, yadayadabasically this is what i think, because when you understand that history hasn't just changed enough to where "fascism" has basically become obsolete and where the conditions are not bad enough to even justify any of the sort of events, the USA is not weimar germany, there is no impetus for major political violence, or just major violence in general because society (and by society i don't just mean people themselves, i also mean government and private institutions) are still together, if they were to collapse you might see something like that, but there's no violent strikes, nothing like the early or even mid-late 20th century, it just doesn't exist in the USA, and doesn't exist in many "third world nations" either, tl:dr: fascism isn't a threat, the threat is instead that capitalism has softened itself while still remaining hard and the future is probably soft-dictatorships until major crisis waves happen
>>2433714>>2433715Your settle logic is wrong. You are like a zionist who says arabs occupied by israel are israeli. You cracKKKers only wish to spare yourself from justice by falsely implicating blacks. Some coons exist but they will be dealt with.
>>2433720Wrong. The cleansing of ameriKKKa is totally desireable. AmeriKKKans are not fit to rule themselves in respectable orderly fashion—this leaves only one solution. Land back is non-negotiable. JDPON appointed Afrikan committee is to rule and armies of boss uyghas is to be dispatched and bring truth and order to the ameriKKKans and see them on the path of reform and goodness. The capital is Atlanta and former AmeriKKKans become wards of New Afrikan State to earn redemption. New Afrika is decolonization not partition. These terms are beyond lenient.
>>2433806 the key to understanding capitalist reaction in times of great crisis is observing their deliberate destruction of the very same productive forces, through waste and war, that they originally claimed made capitalism a superior way of organizing society in the first place. Since the means of production, the raw materials, the machinery, and the fixed capital of land and factories are privately owned, this great bounty can be hoarded or destroyed at their whim, in contrivance to restore profitability, or prices, which is why they are always stark raving mad about "price stability." The capitalist class always reverses their historical revolutionary role (The development of the productive forces beyond feudalism through industrialization) when the profit rates fall, deliberately destroying productive forces and human lives in an effort to restore profitability. Capitalists actually
socialize the productive process itself while keeping the ownership of the results of that production process privately owned. They carry out this destruction both consciously and unconsciously, as a class. Some are aware of what they are doing and why, while the less learned of them are just purely reacting to changing circumstances. The key is that somewhere there has to be a country that continues developing productive forces through state owned enterprises even when it hurts profitability. And that country right now, whether you think they are socialist or not, is China. China is not interested in becoming the hegemon because they see what it did to the US and realized it's a poisoned and unsustainable form of power. They want their power in this world to be more sustainable, and not merely overwhelming. People do learn from history, even if it's very slowly. I always harp on war and destruction of productive forces because it is the easiest strategy the capitalists "spam" in times of crisis. Whether it's pouring thousands of gallons of milk down the drain because prices are low, using coffee for fuel in the ships, sending men to the trenches, hosing the fallen oranges down with kerosene, buying up inventive patents and not actually using them, etc. etc. etc. the capitalists become most reactionary when they react against the very bounty that we are already capable of producing, because abundance hurts profits during a crisis of overproduction.
>>2433833it doesn't happen because it's a purely hypothetical scenario
>>2433834that is (partly) true but you are ignoring another point in my post, which is that a society developed enough, will lose mass-parties, and that this is also because of the stability of these nations is high, insurrectionist groups are rarely stable and exist primarily to destablize that society by destroying its infrastructure, etc, mass-parties are still possible, but they require a major crisis
>>2433840I mean you can give up if you want
>>2433841>>2433846That does seem to be the primary contradiction. I might be just being optimistic here but so long as the current administration is hellbent on making things worse for everyone and dismantling any semblance of a functioning civil society the more people will have to turn to alternatives to have their basic needs met, which can be accomplished via clandestine cells having front organizations designed for mass appeal to give us a popular base without demanding rigorous ideological commitment from them.
and another thing i am gonna say before i go to sleep, if you are talking about a revolution as if it's gonna happen within 5 years or so, you are engaging in intellectual masturbation, that isn't an insult it's a matter-of-fact, because you are not simply putting the cart before the horse, you are putting yourself onto an imaginary cart being dragged by an imaginary horse, you are gonna fall flat on your ass
>>2433853labor might be mechanized, but you still need a large number of workers, you still need large amounts of jobs even if they're unnecessary since you need to quell down revolutionary sentiment, that or you pay taxes for welfare programs
>>2433858that is at the very least more productive, but yet again i think you are being a bit premature since you need things to get worse enough that is seen as valuable, you basically need ruthless reactionaries to make that happen
>>2433855you could use those as a system, but i think if any real hope of communism is granted it must be organized through any means necessary, otherwise it will falter and break apart
>>2433859Yes that's why you start with militant, non violent organizing designed to inflame the state and regiment your people to prepare them for the future armed struggle.
You can take actions that will perpetuate insurrectionary conditions, but you must do what Lenin commanded and combine legal with illegal organization. At first, tactics like Gandhi's could be used until the movement evolves to such a phase as armed struggle is the natural next step.
you can't make this up.
ADL has branded "American first" slogan as antisemitic.
https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/america-first>>2434061yeah fossilcucks deliberately hamstringing solar/wind/hydroelectric/nuclear in the cradle so they could keep making money really fucked the country long term kek
also divesting from public infrastructure put our grid way behind even on its own shitty terms.
>>2434106MR PUTIN WHY DO YOU HATE NATO EXPANSION SO MUCH
MR PUTIN ARE YOU WILLING TO ADMIT AZOV BATTALION IS MERELY DEFENDING THEIR LAND
>>2434152Machiavelli in The Prince advises that a wise leader will send out a brute to do his dirty work for him in a far away province, and once the brute is done doing the dirty work The Prince ought to come in with his forces an execute the brute he himself put in charge for his brutality, in order to "free the people" from the problem he created in the first place, bask in the heroic glory, but at the same time achieving the political suppression he sought. This is the process which the United States has done with its client regimes over and over, whether it was the Nazis (assisted by Ford and IBM somewhat covertly) or the Israelis (assisted by the entire government openly)
Here is the passage in question
<He, therefore, judged it necessary to give them a good government in order to make them peaceful and obedient to his rule. For this purpose he appointed Messer Remiro d' Orco, a cruel and able man, to whom he gave the fullest authority. This man, in a short time, was highly successful in rendering the country orderly and united, whereupon the duke, not deeming such excessive authority expedient, lest it should become hateful, appointed a civil court of justice in the middle of the province under an excellent president, to which each city appointed its own advocate. And as he knew that the harshness of the past had engendered some amount of hatred, in order to purge the minds of the people and to win them over completely, he resolved to show that if any cruelty had taken place it was not by his orders, but through the harsh disposition of his minister. And taking him on some pretext, he had him placed one morning in the public square at Cesena, cut in half, with a piece of wood and blood-stained knife by his side. The ferocity of this spectacle caused the people both satisfaction and amazement. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/57037/pg57037.txt >>2434126>le war pigsomeone who doesn't know that it was the communist part of Russia that since 2014 was asking a military protection, "Maximum Protection" and "legal recognition of the Donbass region as republics" in Ukraine, and United Russia was always reluctant.
but hey, be a lib.
>>2433961Well, I came to think that from the 90s onwards Italy must have served in some respect as a kind of laboratory to test some sick crap that was later attempted elsewhere. Now, that would be a long story, so I'm skipping it for now. On a superficial level tho, what I'm noticing is that the Donald elicits the same kind of hysteric response from Burger libs that SB provoked in his opponents. And for the most part is a question of style, of etiquette, of
decorum… In my opinion, it's an excuse to cover for the fact that when in power, libs come up with much of the same shit, but are not crude and gross like him and, communication-wise, they play the inclusivity and diversity game, while the MAGA-train is explicitly and unhingedly racist. Also, while SB used to be a clown many times, I really can't remember he getting to the same level of the Donald in his current term. Plus, the Donald seems to have come to believe all this far right narrative, while SB just had fascists in his coalition because he needed them to have a majority, but even when some of his ministers were getting "rowdy", so to speak, on issues of immigration or things like that, he never contemplated unleashing some kind of gestapo on the undocumented, partly because he always knew large sectors of his constituency benefits from an easily exploitable pool of labour, partly because he always regarded himself as a conservative liberal moderate.
>>2434011He was regarded as a passionate and effective speaker. He loved the sound of his voice a lot. He had aspirations as a journalist early in his life and his first work was as an elementary teacher. No doubt you wouldn't have gotten all the malapropisms and the tangents the Donald goes on about.
>>2433858> doing the capitalist destruction of capital during times of overproduction for themCapitalists already destroy vast amounts of capital with endless war. What you want to do is develop the productive forces, lower the rate of profit and trigger a crisis of overproduction. I do think work like
https://sci-hub.se/about is part of the right approach (I do think the crypto stuff is stupid though). But IMO you also need to focus on areas like agriculture and domestic labor. Still not sure of the details on how the workers themselves can organize to develop the productive forces and tank the rate of profit.
>>2434368I live in the Governor's Mansion on 16th and H street. My name is Gavin Newsom. I'm 57 years old. I believe in taking care of myself, and a balanced diet and a rigorous exercise routine. In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an ice pack while doing my stomach crunches. I can do a thousand now. After I remove the ice pack, I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water activated gel cleanser. Then a honey almond body scrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel scrub. Then apply an herb mint facial mask, which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion. There is an idea of a Gavin Newsom, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me. Only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our life styles are probably comparable, I simply am not there.
>>2434428They won't do anything, they are literally brainwashed servants of imperialism. They even call their own training indoctrination. This isn't 1917. NATO soldaten have exactly the same level of revolutionary potential that their forefathers in the Reich had, which is to say none whatsoever.
The only use for a NATO soldat, especially an American Soldat, is digging their own grave before you shoot them.
>>2434434You should listen to what they say, a historical big strength (and sometimes weakness) of the US military is that they allow dissent and criticism in a certain way among the oils; as a spectacular example during the cold war the huge ego of generals fighting each other about nuking or not comes to mind.
And "serving imperialism" means
not derailing your country of what it should do against a competitor staged to achieve superiority, so following your thinking, we could expect the US military to act against the executive if they feel it imperishes to much the position of their country
>>2433807Is there any American socialist groups doing literally anything useful right now?
I swear all i see is a desperate clinging to electoralism and basic mutual aid (which is important but should be no where near the main focus)
>>2434535Do you have a good bag to carry everything in that will fit the core essentials you need to survive in it?
You'll basically want to live with one limb hooked through one of the straps of the bags at all times because you will at points be so sleep deprived you'll leave it somewhere wander off and forget where you left it
What else? Anyone have suggestions ideas, places he can go?
You're in Florida now aren't you Houdini?
>>2434542I haven't had a car since mine got repoed after losing my job during covid (2021).
>>2434543I was homeless in Austin but couch surfed and traded sex for a place to sleep in some cases (never doing the latter again, really bad experiences there).
>>2434540I have one solid backpack and already live basically out of it. I have a place to put exactly 1 small grey tote of my things and the rest will be throw away. I have a place where I can be effectively from 11:30am to midnight everyday, thanks to knowing some people who run a local venue here.
I'm living in Lakeland Florida but am open to relocating basically anywhere if the opportunity is good. I have a dog and I'm probably going to abandon him in a rich neighborhood, he's a nice looking dog and I'm sure someone will take him in if the place I do it in is nice enough. I had a friend who worked at the animal shelter in San Antonio and she would legitimately recommend people do this if it was the last ditch thing, all of the shelters are full, and the homeless shelter here doesn't allow pets, nor would most people be willing to let me crash on their couch if I have a dog with me. It feels wrong to even think about doing that, and I love my dog man, but I know that getting out of the streets will require me to do some drastic things.
If anyone wants to donate to me, I can't use cashapp anymore bc I had to afterpay a motel stay and now owe them money. You can donate by buying any one of these items, like our zines. Most of them are free/pay what you want, and I get the money in 48 hours or less.
https://houdini-magazine.itch.io/ >>2434572Room rent is $370 weekly.
I'm still getting set up to accept crypto. We just put out out collectives objectives, am doing my damnedest to be a real revolutionary organizer with the support people give me.
https://erikhoudini.com/#post?id=625621&title=houdini-collective-our-5-primary-objectives >>2434579Tenuous as the best of times. I've had the conversation about living with them again more than once, enough to know its not a conversation that can happen again.
>>2434582I wouldn't send anything to our paypal right now, the person who handles it is in an area without internet connection and will be for the next week. I'm looking into alternatives right now.
>>2434577>room rent is 370 weeklywtf
for ONE bedroom?
>>2434586this is the cheapest motel I could find, I haven't found a cheaper room in like someone's house. This is legit a trapped out ass motel. The only cheaper option is another motel down the block that has a monthly rate of ~1150 after tax, but that's a lot of money to have at once. Last week I legit paid for the room with $10 in change to round it off.
I know its unsustainable which is why a part of me feels like I should just be on the street to save other people from spending so much money on my bullshit
>>2434588Yeah itch.io is pretty good for getting me the money fast.
You can also use cashapp but it's not my cashapp, it's a comrade's who's been helping the collective.
$echoesofmotion
If you do this instead of itch.io, add the note "for Houdini's room" or similar so he knows its for me.
>>2434589I don't have Cashapp so I just used Itch.
Enjoy the benefits of me being a lame autist with no life.
>>2434591I hope you enjoy that zine, that short story is one I read in high school that deff influenced the name of the whole project. If you join our discord I can make you a Dracula member which is what anyone who donates work, money or labor to the project gets, though its not used much because more and more people are telling me they don't use discord.
Either way, I can't thank you enough
>>2434597No problem. It seems like an interesting short story, I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
I don't use Discord often but maybe.
>>2434787i will be killed and then i will shut my mouth? in that order?
who sends unlimited funds to israel again? rusha? chyna? amerikkka?
>>2435027make a list of them, redistribute them. when international courts point at responsibilities, aim for them, if they are not alive, take their family money generated by their relationship with the crimes they did.
in the era of 2025, document this things isn't difficult.
>>2435129I mean The Boston Massacre is cited as one of the events that catapulted America into a war for independence. The amazing thing is that Trump stupidly wants that because his conservative monkey brain is convinced "well the protesters don't actually have committed beliefs so if you just shoot a couple the rest will run."
That's the thing, Conservatives are pathologically dedicated to expressions of "strength". That's why Shapiro was demanding they pardon Derek Chauvin, not because of any "innocence" or whatever, but because they see themselves in a contest of strength with the Left and pardoning someone who committed such a flagrant fucking crime is just a way of dabbing on your opponents. It's saying you can get away with whatever you want whenever you want. And it only radicalizes people further.
>>2433984Y'know other than the fact he's a coward that wants to be a general and not a soldier, I really don't know why Felix goes to protests just to shove Anarchists or whatever. Like I said above about the whole Boston Massacre, protesters getting shot could cause instability in the state. And one can look at Ukraine to see what a single shot in the night during a tense stand-off can cause.
Guess he still considers his life more valuable than all the third world peoples he invokes to browbeat people.
>>2434933NTA: You both put words in each other's mouths with greentext:
>>2434929>>2434878I think it's a sad state of affairs when an LLM is a better communicator than either of you.
>>2435173Hard disagree my man.
I've been to plenty of protests. Yes the immediate aftermath of one massacre would be protesters running, but people are earnestly devoted to these causes and the death of a few would become a rallying cry for more. There would be no more boneheaded a mistake than telling State enforcers to massacre a bunch of protesters.
Shit, there's a reason why Gen. Milley was telling Stephen Miller to shut the fuck up when he tried doing a Grima Wormtongue and kept telling Trump to crack down harder. It'd cause so much instability its insane.
>>2435166You need to be prepared first or the people will just get slaughtered for nothing. This is why you have to regiment people in militant, non-violent mass action first before you make the transition to armed struggle. I know you've never read any theory or history before, you're too busy reading fascist propaganda, but this is Leninism 101.
Not that you believe in Lenin anyway. I think Evola and Spengler are more your sort of thing.
>>2435177Oh it’s got some problems, I’m just saying if you’re the type of person to browbeat someone enough for not doing a revolution “RITE NAOOO!” Then that’s something they could be doing as a lone individual, but they fucking won’t.
Saw the same happen during the BLM stuff, someone was browbeating the CPUSA for not having armed cadres storming police stations during them, and I pointed out: okay, where are yours? Why are you waiting on us to do shit if we’re these awful revisionists like you say? That’d be about as delusional as waiting on the democrats to press the big red Communism button.
People can talk a lot of shit about being “authentic revolutionaries” and dismiss caution as cowardice, yet they’re always making these bets that their lives are more important than the cause, it’s always someone else that has to do the jail time, the killing, the dying.
>>2435194The difference is the "C"PUSA does not believe in smashing the state with the armed body of the Proletariat and wants to "win the battle of democracy" by reforming bourgeois democracy (imperialism) to be more comfortable for the American Volk, reforms which they fully understand will come at the expense of every other human living on earth.
You will never have armed cadres because you are not communists. You are the sheep dogs for the democratic party, your only role in society is to keep nascent radical movements from straying too far off your masters property.
>>2435201You got an ETA on when your fantasy army will produce its first division by the way, or are you going less on a plan and more on vibes?
>>2435204He stopped using it because I was filtering him. He’s tsundere for me.
>>2435219That's all you need to be doing. Sharing is actually so fucking key because we aren't on social media really (I do have IG but it's for people I know irl and more for my own personal stuff).
Like just posting the magazine in your group chats like "yo peep this" is huge. I think there's a lot of actual labor that I could use though, its hard to justify to people why that work needs to be done though.
For example, we have a pulp horror/fiction imprint, this exists for few reasons: I get a decent amount of horror stories sent to me, horror sells well, and it's strong content to promote the overall magazine.
It took me about 20 minutes to make a short story into a bi-fold reader zine, and then that zine can be sold for $2. Those sales do add up and have come in clutch before.
But how do I tell someone "I need you to make me 10 of these zines, find some classic public domain literature and art, here's some to start with" when they aren't going to be the ones profiting from that labor directly (and we won't be making enough to pay them for their labor) while also somehow claiming that yes, this entirely unrelated to revolution task does actually contribute to the cause in a significant way?
Most of the more militant theory I've read explicitly talks about the need for the cadre to be able to accept orders from a higher ranking member of the party, but few talk about how to be comfortable being the one giving orders.
Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report
Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staff
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas>>2435107> But one day soon there's going to come some shit that's so heinous and awful like the massacre of American civilian protesters that the majority of Americans will finally wake up from their self imposed slump and realize that we've let ourself be lead into a nightmare, but by then it will be too late to do anything.If we can't stop the nightmare anytime soon, then the nightmare will kill itself somehow. The American empire is dying and driving away every other country in some way, even our own "allies" . I think a likely future for the US is that it'll turn into a heavily sactioned global pariah state that little to no one does buisness with, and will collapse from a variety of extreme internal contradictions.
That being said I personally think we're in the prelude to an American Years of Lead, and DC might be where the trigger is pulled, most likely a massacre of protesters by the National Guard, police or ICE.
>>2435248American Firsters are mostly mad that imperialism is acting on behalf of an
international bourgeoisie and not a
local bourgeoisie. America Firsters don't all necessarily want to end American Hegemony or American Imperialism, a lot of them just want to make sure it serves the American ruling class instead of the Israeli, Ukrainian, Taiwanese, EU, or whatever other "ally" ruling class. They're only "anti-interventionist" in those cases where interventionism serves non-Americans.
And another thing Firsters are interested in doing is revising 100 years of history. Some of these people want you to think the US gov did the Korean war or the Vietnam war or all those CIA coups in Latin America "for Israel" as if this policy doesn't go back to the Monroe Doctrine. Even the things the US Gov did "for Israel" it also did for the American bourgeoisie. Do these people really want me to forget Dick Cheney got a golden parachute when he left Haliburton because he was gonna start an oil war on behalf of the Fossil Fuel cartels? Yes Netanyahu also wanted Saddam dead but there was overlapping interests between the American and Israeli ruling classes.
"America First" has always been a slogan of reactionaries, and just because Fuentes, Carlson, MTG, etc. aren't literal klan members like firsters were 100 years ago doesn't mean that there isn't significant ideological overlap between the Firsters of back then and the firsters of now. None of this is to defend the ADL which is obviously a zionist mouthpiece.
>>2435309There's formula from Marx that I love so much, emphasis mine:
>The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image. >>2435318>which one would be easier, overthrowing an internationally dominated bourgeois state or a domestically dominated bourgeoise stateFirsters are interested in neither. They just want to make sure American imperialism serves Americans and not American Israel/EU/NATO/Taiwan/Ukraine, etc. So their "anti-interventionist" character is aimed at replacing the
comprador bourgeoisie with a
national bourgeoisie.
I guess what I'm saying is, things have gotten so reactionary that American Firsters just want a 2nd bourgeois revolution, to reclaim national sovereignty from international capital. It's like an anti colonial national liberation movement, except it's coming out of a first world imperialist power and not out of a genuinely besieged peripheral ex-colony or neo-colony
>>2435331I think we're just emphasizing different aspects of the problem. But much of the industry in Russia was controlled by French, Belgian, British owners. Like the oil terminals that Stalin organized strikes at as a young revolutionary was controlled by the British (I think).
I'd put more emphasis on the economic side of things. The state isn't some neutral machine that simply "supports" the bourgeoisie or not, it's shaped by the economic structure, with foreign capital penetration weakening those states and making revolution possible or at least more likely (it happened). At least that's the more standard Marxist/Leninist view.
>>2435315Shame Marx never realized that by by introducing commodities the bourgeoisie makes revolution impossible because treats.
>>2435325There's one Maoist slogan I heard of that I really like, goes something like "Destroy Confucianism, Save Confucius". Basic premise is that by smashing up the dogmatic and institutional rot which has calcified under the name "Confucianism" one opens up new avenues of interpretation that allow you to see Confucius' thought in a different light. Reminds me of that Zen Koan "If you see the Buddha at the side of the road, kill him."
Marx himself came to deeply dislike "Marxism" or "Marxists". Personally I think with the USSR gone and China not doing much to fund international revolution, the smart thing to do is go over Marxist texts like a coroner. Study them relentlessly, but don't mistake the corpse on the table in front of you for something sanctified.
>>2435330I thought objectively good posts on here were the ones where people get unreasonably angry at an innocuous phrase
>"What movies will be produced under Socialism?" <"MOVIES?! YOU THINK WE'LL HAVE COMMODITY PRODUCTION UNDER SOCIALISM?!?!"Then spend the next 8 hours spamming some random Marxist scholar to punish you for speaking incorrectly.
>>2435337>>2435342I mean, wouldn't that simultaneously mean that it'd be better for the domestic proletariat to be strengthened on their own rather than relying on an international proletariat that isn't as committed to revolution in that particular state?
>>2435342The insight from that Marx quote in the Manifesto that I really like is how the bourgoeisie "compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production." As societies come into contact with each other, they compete, and the ones which don't measure up economically (because of antiquated social and political systems) will eventually become dominated by others and risk extinction, and since societies don't willingly let that happen to themselves, you have movements to reform or abolish the superstructure for a different one. That's a basic "law" that Marx discovered. I don't think that automatically leads to socialism (and after all, he's describing all nations adopting bourgeois *capitalism* to stay in the game) but there were particular conditions in those countries for it.
>>2435353>I mean, wouldn't that simultaneously mean that it'd be better for the domestic proletariat to be strengthened on their own rather than relying on an international proletariat that isn't as committed to revolution in that particular state?For me, it's more like the basis for the development of a thing is primarily internal to the thing. If you want to become stronger, you have to ultimately lift weights yourself. So the answer is yeah, but that doesn't exclude the role of external factors in the process.
>>2435377>>2435370I am all for left wing unity but "people" like CPUSAnon and gay Nazi are not leftists and never will be. Gay Nazi is a self proclaimed liberal and CPUSAnon is a national socialist. They are not just non-communist, they are anti-communist. They are rightists trying to fool you and infiltrate your movements so they can be destroyed. That is the role of organizations like the CPUSA.
We must wage an active struggle against fascists and all other rightists and we must maintain a strict ideological discipline to exclude them and their ideas from our movements. They are a cancer. If even one cell is infected it threatens the entire body of the left. This is why they must be excised and destroyed with extreme prejudice.
The only pathway is a combination of hyper local organizing and cell building in combination with decentralized primarily online based internationalism. Internationalism, in the American context, especially means forming alliances with colonized people within the imperial core. The imperial core is not a nation state or a region within a nation state but instead the spaces where capital can move freely. The imperial core is multiple nation states, America being the largest head of the hydra, but you cannot cut off one head and expect the snake to die. UK, Aus, NZ, France, Canada, these places are also part of the core.
The material conditions in Auckland are probably significantly different than the material conditions in New Orleans, and this is why a you must take a decentralized cell based approach to organizing, the cells should align with a fundmental set of objectives and a political line, but aside from that must be able to operate autonomously without top down leadership. This is a fundamental aspect of guerilla war.
>>2435399Anarchists are just bandits and should be treated like cockroaches by all civilized people. That is to say, killed on sight without hesitation and tracked down to their lairs so they can be wiped out entirely.
>>2435401Fascists are objectively subhuman.
>>2435403Thank you, some more lucidity. I would argue though that America is kind of the lynchpin of the liberal capitalist order of the so called "imperial core" and if that suddenly disappeared or fell into chaos, the other nations like much of Western Europe will have to quickly find new alliances and readjust themselves accordingly (a civil war in America would certainly spill over into Canada so I'm not factoring them in).
In such an environment, Russia or some other emerging power still connected to liberal capitalism might swoop in and promise to "protect" them from socialism in exchange for basically becoming satellites, like America did previously. Whether or not they join up with Russia depends on how strong that "clash of civilizations" narrative holds, but if it means preserving capitalism I feel like chances are high that they capitulate and join the Russian sphere.
>>2435416We do have to factor in that the world is much more interconnected than it was a century ago, something that will definitely work in our advantage when spreading the revolution especially in the former "imperial core" as it were. Incidentally I also think that's why anarchist praxis and tactics will be much more effective than they were a century ago, though that's not to say Leninism doesn't have a place too.
I think part of what happens in the future with Europe also depends on if the Communist Party of Russia actually lives up to their name and supports a revolutionary America and by extension a world socialist republic, but I'm honestly pessimistic on that front. National chauvinism still runs quite high all over the place, but when the west turns to communism it will be a good litmus test for communist parties all over the world whether they embrace it or reject it for being impure for some reason or another.
>>2435419Anarchists aren't people.
>>2435430It's telling that you post a video from a bunch of anti-communist dissidents who "flirt" with Nazi aesthetics. It really exemplifies your own "ideology" and how much of a coward you are, hiding behind parody and satire rather than just saying what you believe.
>>2435394you are a moron if you truly believe anyone could be less communist than that lib.
even "ACP magacom", larouchites, and the DSCIA are more communists than him.
>>2435448genuine cope, he puts actual historical materialism into practice, and makes decent analyses that tend to be true, more than you will achieve i bet
>>2435446>>2435443hey evan, i'm sure you felt really tough after posting this, hope you're enjoying the datura man
>>2435443Okay well you're obviously not going to offer anything useful, please just put your name back on so we can all filter you and continue organizing in peace
>>2435420Well I mean it's like Kropotkin said, communism leads to anarchy and anarchy to communism. There's too much of a false dichotomy being perpetuated by both hardline MLs and anarcho individualists who are unwilling to see the bigger picture. To be truly free is to have and honor obligations towards other people and society at large and in turn having our needs and wants fulfilled. It's kinda just the way humans are supposed to function anyways, all this capitalism and self interest shit is just artificial nonsense that gets in the way of people's inclination to cooperate in harmony. Obviously though we've had several millennia of god kings and warlords and presidents and the like who have done their best to condition us out of it so reorienting people back into having empathy for each other is going to take some force at first, and honestly I dont mind that and neither do most anarchists and certainly most communists.
>>2435452You want everyone else on earth to suffer and die so you can have free healthcare and unlimited capeshit movies and you have the absolute nerve to accuse me of being a psychopath. You put the lives of a few thousand Americans above the lives of the entire human race. You are the psychopath. Every school shooter combined couldn't even come close to inflicting the terror and death you support with sickening glee and full knowledge of what you're doing and what it will lead to.
Your death would objectively make the world a better place for humanity.
>>2435456No one on here organizes anything, when I'm not here you just post Twitter and reddit screenshots all day and jack off to how much smarter you are than the military psy-ops agents from Eglin AFB posting on r/Jewish.
>>2435351>The only saving grace of this current period of ultra-sectarianism is that the fanatical sectarians will likely be the first to get themselves killed while those of us willing to wear the Get Along Shirts will be left to fill in the gaps.Even if they don't get themselves killed they need to be ostracized or even purged. They along with this new wave third-worldists are some of the biggest roadblocks to achieving anything positive.
>>2435353Any viable socialist org should make it a priority to combat dogmatism and have an education program that stresses the fact that theory is not a sacred text and theorists and revolutionary figures (ie: Che) are NOT to gods to be worshipped. Attempts to build cults of personality should be crushed all costs
>>2435454>he puts actual historical materialism into practice,Eh I haven't done so much. I'll take decent analysis though.
>>2435462>where's the historical materialism with his analysis on al-hts =/=zionist? are you out of your mind?Israel doesn't like HTS. Sharaa is in cahoots with Turkey and the U.S. and that is a contradiction.
>>2435474I'm organizing a lot more than you are and I can do it without fantasizing about murdering people, you come in purely to derail conversation to monopolize attention
>>2435478I take a slightly more optimistic view of things and believe that a lot of those ultra sectarian types will during the course of the civil war and revolutionary struggle realize their folly and adapt accordingly. There's something about the fires of struggle that refines the iron and copper of untested ideologies and reforges them into steel
>>2435483>Sharaa is in cahoots with Turkeyand yet they took out the rights of the Palestinians organizations in Syria, which btw, before this, Syria was one of the few places on earth where the Palestinians rights were high, and al-hts ask the groups to surrender their arms. it's stupid as fuck to say that israel and turkey are enemies, when fucking turkey sells them oil like there's no tomorrow, violating their own "sanctions on trading with israel". Palestinians fucking know this, they know turkey doesn't care at all about Palestine:
https://madanews.ps/109357/this is not "material analysis" there's no
matter here to be analyzed. fucking
>>2435493yes, that's my point: there's no contradiction that alhts=turkey=nato=israel. all is performative action, and this person is a moron:
>>2435454. and he calls it "cope".
>>2435496Turkey does not get along with Israel. Israel wanted Russia to stay in syria to oppose turkeys influence. You want this to be way more simple than it is to confirm a bias of yours
https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-lobbies-us-keep-russian-bases-weak-syria-sources-say-2025-02-28/Exclusive: Israel lobbies US to keep Russian bases in a 'weak' Syria, sources say
>>2435456I think about how deeply ingrained a lot of the capitalist psychic warfare is in myself when it comes to this. I still have a lot of views that are terribly capitalist aligned. I am in a lot of ways, the personification of the "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mindset. I have a hard time even being any sort of 'leader' because there's a feeling that my bank account statement still determines my worth, and yes of course this is compounded by the fact that the loudest socialists are also very well off.
Anyway, if I have all of these views still internalized, and I'm an active socialist agitator, what does that say about the average prole and what they've internalized?
>>2435515Like Qatar is part of Muslims brotherhood and as is Hamas. Hamas is an outgrowth of it. Qatar is super pro Palestine to supporter their power with Hamas. They are opposed to Assad which is why Al Jazeera is super anti Assad yet pro Palestine. Al Sharaa is widely supported by Sunni world all over.
Iran is helping Palestinians not cause loves them dearly and their heart breaks but to oppose Israel who they are constantly at war with. It is the same for houthis. Houthis have big issues with Israel. This shirt is way more complex than left right or just black white. CHALLENGE YOURSELF
>>2435519Of course I don't expect you to understand, you're an anti-social weirdo. Like do you even have friends? Any friends? At all? Go out to bars? See movies?
I mean everything about the way you act just seems like the kind of violent weirdo that shoots at people who approach his property line.
>>2435518Its the protestant mindset imo. People want to be able look into the big book of communism and pull a quote and then use that quote to live their lives by. That's not how this is supposed to work though.
You'd break people's brains if you told them you can, and very much should, disagree with some of what you're reading in relation to theory. You are supposed to look at the terrain you occupy and then apply the theory towards navigating that terrain. If the theory is talking about mountains but you're walking the desert, perhaps that theory isn't something you need to be applying dogmatically.
And I do wonder just what theory these people are reading and tell other people they need to be reading, because all of the theory I've read is pretty clear as to what a revolutionary should be and how they should be moving.
The same people who tell you to read theory with such a dogmatic framework (ie you suggest an action, they say read theory but offer no alternative to said action) are often the same people who will go on and on about how "the revolutionary conditions aren't right" and "there's nothing we can do but bide our time, the working class would never support revolution". It's tailism at best, counter revolutionary at worst.
And of course these are also often the most well paid of the activist class that espouse these views. We don't need to "start slow" or "dumb down our ideas" or whatever. I don't need to go to the AOC rally, the working class, especially those under 40, are highly radicalized, the masses need leadership and they need organizing. A revolutionary used to be someone who dedicated their entire being and lives to that cause, now a revolutionary is a well paid youtuber who preaches socialist imperialism.
Yes your favorite streamer is a zionist supporter too, and yes they are controlled opposition designed explicitly to funnel the radical, revolutionary energy of the youth into do-nothing mindsets.
Imagine someone like Hasan working at Circle K, like seriously imagine someone like Second Thought working at a Dollar General, or as a landscaper, or in a mechanic shop moving tires. I've done these jobs and I can tell you just off jump they haven't
There was a time when I had thought that if I proved I had a platform, organized some artists, started pushing power and had actual objectives, that the powerful, well off leftists that populate our social economy would, in some form, offer material support for that. After all, with the level of resources they have, surely they are offering material support to like minded activists and organizations.
Do you know why the powers that be started pushing NGOs, charities and non-profits so heavily starting in the 1970s? Because they act as a foil for actual material infrastructure building and mutual aid. Because the powers that be saw how effective the panthers were and made sure to do everything they could to.
Second Thought has 12,000 patreon subscribers, his monthly income is private though (mine isn't!). Assuming that 2000 of those people are free members, and the other 10k are paid, the numbers are actually kinda crazy! $2 per membership at 10k members = 20k a month. But if we average it out to $10 per member, because the tiers vary, well brother that's 100k a month! So one youtuber, and perhaps 2 editors are making anywhere from 20 to 100k per month solely from working class donations, let's not factor in alternative revenue streams like merch, ad revenue, in person ticket sales and private donations.
Think about what could be done with that kinda of cash flow, and then think about what isn't being done with it. Think about how much money is being taken from the working class by the top 5 leftist youtubers. Imagine what the movement could do with half a million dollars a year!
The last Black Panther health clinic closed in 2008, the first Second Thought health clinic hasn't opened yet.
Time for people to stop supporting these entertainers and put that money back into their communities IRL or into projects that actually move towards making revolution.
They will tell you "being a communist isn't a cult of poverty, there's nothing wrong with stacking your bag", but yet, there is something wrong with taking so much from the masses and only giving back 1 video a month of parasocial content about things most people already know. I know the rent is going up, I don't need a scientific breakdown of that, I need to know how to organize against me and my neighbors getting evicted.
Oh I'm sorry, the revolutionary conditions aren't right for that kind of organizing, have you read theory? Check out this youtube video.
>>2435541Cartoons are fascist apparently.
That said the fact he doesn't even know this shit just kind of reinforces my point about him being a friendless weirdo. Like its one of those big movies that I'm pretty sure tons of people saw growing up; or are at least vaguely aware of.
>>2435548>Couldn't even defend his lack of a social life.Mate I'm not giving your rants more than a skim, it's a bunch of horseshit about "le eating from the trough" but the fact is I've got friends to rely on, moments I wouldn't trade for the world. All you're headed towards is a calamity where they find your body in some dilapidated room a week or two after you pass because you've got no one. Shit, even the fact that you felt compelled to change your name so people stopped filtering you is an indictment; you're just an angry little boy acting out for attention, you've got no problem being hated, but being
ignored is what really gets to you. If you actively believed in anything, well then who cares if someone filters you or not? Lord knows I don't. But you, on the other hand, are obsessed with it. If you didn't have "enemies" you'd have no one I suppose.
You can come up with whatever intellectual justification you want, but at the end of the day you've just got the same profile as the /pol/ guy who screams the n-word as loud as he can in some desperate gambit for attention.
>>2435515>>2435524I don't know what Hamas really thinks, but my sense of Palestinians is they largely didn't like Assad because he killed a bunch of Sunni Muslims, and also Palestinans too (more specifically) in Yarmouk. That was the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and the SAA blew the shit out of it. It was taken over by ISIS and Al-Nusra but still.
Israel wants a weak/divided Syria that has been "Lebanized." Sharaa is running a rather Sunni supremacist regime that is trying to centralize the country with the Sunni majority behind it. Israel does not like that and wants to form alliances with Syria's minorities like the Druze and Kurds. The historical irony is that those minorities (less so the Kurds) once comprised Assad's base, which is why Assad dead-enders on the internet have been acting so goddamn crazy lately. They're holding onto a rather propagandistic framework constructed by the Axis of Resistance to get people teamed up and focused in the right direction, but that narrative or framework has been undergoing dialectical collapse as the old thesis vs. antithesis no longer operates, or is being systematically transformed with the fall of Assad. That system is breaking down and so is the old story or worldview that these people relied on to make sense of their reality.
The U.S., Turkey, and also Saudi Arabia are behind Saraa because they want him to push the Iranians out of Syria. So, again, there's a strange alignment of interests between Israel… and Iran. But it's not ideological alignment or that Israel and Iran agree on ANYTHING or team up or are allies – nothing of the sort. They're enemies. It's just complex and contradictory. I mean it's a shitshow. The Israelis could also just be acting dumb about this.
>>2435562I don't want to rest on anecdotal experiences but there are some opinion polling of Palestinians that had Assad ranking lower than JOE BIDEN. That's bad. You can go find out for yourself.
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BTW, for everyone else, another thing Assad's strongest soldiers will do is imply Sharaa is in cahoots with Israel, because Israel continues to bomb Syria and Sharaa is weak. They're trying to imply Israel is calling up Sharaa and being like "okay we're going to bomb you again, don't do anything like we promised!" And he's like "okay master I am your dog." I don't believe that's the case. It's true that he is weak. But I don't think this is, like, his preference.
>>2435561To me it's just a total dearth of social life. Like didn't he join a union recently and start bitching "ALL THEY DO IS TALK ABOUT CAPESHIT!"
Well, yeah, that's what working in a social environment is like. And generally you learn to pick up on the little queues with your coworkers: shoot the shit, talk sports, talk about your favorite movies and stuff, hit up bars, develop an actual social life.
Shit, Felix even has the irrational hatred of Pitbulls that /pol/'s got! He hates animals, he hates his coworkers, he hates people ostensibly on the same "side" as him, what the fuck does he have? And yeah he'll cloak all of that in some ideological lens, but it's the same way some unhinged loner in rural America claims that the reason he doesn't have a life is because "THEY" are out to impoverish him. Why see the latest movie or go out for drinks with your coworkers when can manically pin pictures to a corkboard PROVING without a shadow of a doubt that Queen Elizabeth faked her death to oversee the royal family's drug trade?
>>2435555I dropped my name because my goal is to hound you to suicide now, you fascist hog. The world would be a better place without you in it, and I think deep down in whatever you have that passes for a heart and a mind, you know this.
After all, you are someone who understands Lenin's theory of imperialism, you're just mad it doesn't benefit you. You are nothing but a parasite, a worm living in the stomach of the global proletariat, sucking their blood and living off their labor, and you have the absolute nerve to complain that there's not enough blood.
When you die, the people will applaud. One less tapeworm to suck them dry.
>>2435572what if I'm a leftist because I reject consumerism and don't wanna go to left-wing meetups just to talk about the latest capitalist culture?
I'm not felix btw I just think it's totally valid to find capeshit annoying and normies annoying.
U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-5th District, of Revere, the second-ranking House Democrat, called Israel’s war in Gaza a “genocide” during an event she held in Cambridge Thursday.
Clark’s comment makes her the highest-ranking congressional Democrat to use that word to describe the situation in Gaza, according to Axios.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/08/highest-ranking-democrat-in-congress-katherine-clark-now-says-gaza-war-is-genocide.html>>2435567It's whatever. I find it interesting but it can drive people insane.
>>2435569How so? Explain. Israeli's most fascistic politicians openly say they want to assassinate him.
A lot of this rests on faulty logic. It's like correlation equals causation or assuming motives from outcomes. Goes like: (A) Israel prefers a weak Syria and (B) Sharaa is weak so (C) Sharaa works for Israel. But someone else could say Assad "worked" for Israel because he prefered to destroy his own country rather than transfer power to a government that better reflected the majority of the population, which weakened Syria, even if that was not his intention. That's the kind of "logic" at work here.
>>2435575>I'm not felix btw I just think it's totally valid to find capeshit annoying and normies annoying.Yeah, it's "valid", but especially when you're trying to ingratiate yourself with people with the goal of organizing them, you've got to meet them where they're at, at least initially.
Capeshit at this point, at least the movies, is mostly inoffensive slop. I'm not saying you've got to watch everything that comes out or stary buying funkopops or whatever, but having at least a surface level understanding gives you neutral-ish ground to meet people on.
>>2435584>Capeshit at this point, at least the movies, is mostly inoffensive slop. I'm not saying you've got to watch everything that comes out or stary buying funkopops or whatever, but having at least a surface level understanding gives you neutral-ish ground to meet people on.I'm sorry I just find capeshit to be mind-numbingly stupid. I can't even pretend to care because it's like trying to have a conversation with ADULTS about harry potter or blues clues or something. I mean, it's fine if that's what you enjoy in your free time but it's not something you should hail as the peak of culture or vocalize caring about to those around you.
Maybe I'm just being an elitist chud but I can't stand it man. I can't stand how infantilized people are these days. I can't stand how media has been dumbed down so hard that people can't comprehend any work of art that doesn't tell them exactly what to think and feel at all times. Media literacy is absolutely horrendous these days. And sure, you might say "its always been this way", but I think things have gotten so much fucking worse with the internet. You're just under a constant stream of advertising and rather than interacting with real people normies just get all their social interaction from youtubers that tell them what to think and feel, and regurgitate that shit endlessly. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT GET A REAL OPINION READ A REAL BOOK WATCH ANIME FUCK MAN I'M SO TIRED
>>2433828>That liberal order can produce the anticommunist function that was previously done through the fascistsNo. There was no need for that. Liberals have been anticommunists since the beginning.
You do not need Fascists to destroy unions. You do not need Fascists to kill communists. You need Fascists to kill Liberals if they stand in the way of launching a world war in order to prop up national capital.
The first domestic target of the Nazis was communists, their first international targets were the liberal great powers of Europe.
>>2435583Not clicking that.
>>2435591When seeing people online, yeah I get feeling enraged by them peppering their justification for why they should be inert or bloodthirsty with references to pop culture, but offline or in a more direct one on one conversation you have a better shot of them voicing a more unique opinion. For example, it turned out that the coworker who was surprised about me not liking capeshit
>>2435588liked some stuff off of the beaten path like this french animated movie called Blue Planet, Spawn and was willing to open up about his hobby for collecting ant queens and managing multiple ant farms. We would not have had long winded discussions about any of these things if I wrote him off after him mentioning capeshit (although it did help that we talked about the other ur-pop element:Star Wars)
>>2435611As usual, you are wrong. Literally hundreds of mainstream outlets have covered this. The US military vets and makes edits to Marvel movies because they are (correctly) viewed as great recruitment and propaganda tools for empire. Even Disney has admitted this themselves.
A simple Google search could find lots of evidence of this but you'd rather just reflexively defend your favorite pentagon funded and approved fascist commodities.
>>2435629Oh, I thought you meant like, ALL capeshit.
Marvel movies don't even register to me as real things anymore.
>>2435622It's not a contest. You're allowed to enjoy cartoons and movies.
Just remember cartoons and movies don't put food on the table, don't provide you the opportunities you deserve, the stability you crave, or the choices that were always your birth right.
>>2435498>Turkey does not get along with Israellol, lmao even
https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkey-breaches-its-own-trade-embargo-on-israel-by-shipping-crude-oil-report-news-65319up to 10% of the daily oil zionists consume comes directly from turkish shipments.
and they don't even need to ship this oil to israel, btw.
>>2435505>le homs camphow many Palestinians camps are in the ME?
HOW MANY, but nowhere in the the ME you''ll see that Palestinians had rights like in Syria, besides for Jordan (which is just nourishing their state with refugees, and that's that).
NAME ME ONE you fucking twat.
I am posting this onto my personal IG:
I actually got the blessing on this subject from an indigenous friend, we've had a few discussions on the topic which makes me, as a white person, a bit more comfortable sharing my thoughts.
Essentially, the vibe checker of the spot (see my piece "On The Vibe Checker") has been trying to undermine my ability to make friends and participate in the community.
>"The vibe checker might not even be the most important member of the community. The act of the "vibe check" doesn’t have to be something everyone has consensus on. They aren’t seeking votes; they’re spreading rumors, making it difficult for a newcomer to feel like they have space to interact within the community." (On the Vibe Checker, HOUDINI Magazine)
They've done this via 3 ways. 1) Weaponize the fact that I am not visibly queer as a means to tell me I have "stolen queer valor" (am bisexual, have dated men, have cuddled with men, have fucked men) and thus shouldn't be at the drag nights or similar queer events. 2) Weaponize my newness to the community and lack of solid peer groups, coming out of a covid world, working at home, and being socially isolated for 2-3 years has made reintegrating harder, and they've painted me as 'someone who enters conversations they aren't welcome in' and 'someone who tries to weasel into groups' (read: I'm just trying to make conversation and find my people). 3) Weaponizing my views on race in order to paint me as a bigot, or as someone who isn't willing to "check their privilege", claiming that my views are 'crypto-racism'. This person has DMed a variety of people about each of these things in an attempt to sully my reputation before I am allowed the space to properly integrate into the community, and from what I've gathered from others that frequent the spot, this isn't the first time they've done this.
To the first point, it seems very counter-productive to gatekeep who is and isn't 'queer' solely on a vibe, and in my opinion undermines the ability for the 'vibe' of 'the spot' to be a 'safe place'. Bisexuals have always faced erasure ("not gay enough," "just pretending"). After all this person has no idea of my past relationships, hook up history, or struggles with my sexuality, both internal and external, and the fact that this has to be spoken, speaks to a clear violation of solidarity that's supposed to exist between those in the LGBTQ+ community. This personal attack has left me feeling like I am not welcome as spaces that should offer me that solidarity, and this is why some might have noticed I haven't been going to such events as often.
To the second point, this sort of panopticonic social policing is exactly why so many people struggle to exist in public spaces at all. In a cafe setting, especially one with an open seating layout, conversations held are traditionally seen as 'semi-open' and should therefore, be the type of conversations one can work themselves into via common social cues. This social policing feels at best, out of place, and at worst, counter to community building in a post-covid world.
And to the third point, I offer this essay, which should clearly explain my views on ending white supremacy, and the entire superstructure of whiteness. It is not a denial of privilege granted by the superstructure to seek the destruction of the superstructure that grants the privilege. This racial attack also carries with it the implication that, this 'vibe checker' as the ability to 'tell' what race someone is, based purely on looks. It should be easy to tell how that becomes a slippery slope that ultimately makes a space unwelcoming to people of color, people of mixed descent and indigenous people who might not 'look the part'.
-Houdini
HOUDINI Magazine continues to provide material support to queer people facing real struggles in late stage capitalism, please check out our homepage for information on a helping a transwoman stay housed via gofundme. (link in bio)
>>2435695>shit, it's real“Not only must we decriminalize sex work, we need a comprehensive platform of justice for all,”
What a fucking bozo. A lot of people would be so turned off by that.
>>2435813>40sblackest reaction
>90sblackest reaction
>>2435695>that picturefatmerikkkans risk jail time
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Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
The move comes after Loomer, the right-wing provocateur, freaked out over a video of children from Gaza coming to the U.S. for medical care
By Naomi LaChance, Asawin
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-gaza-laura-loomer-medical-visas-hospital-1235410184/Unique IPs: 133