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Fuck me, i know we like to mock the average american, but there really are a lot of stupidly brave, rudderless, “on the right track” people over there who are ending up doing adventurist shit because there’s no party to organise them. Sad to see.
I say it often, but I think one of the biggest obstacles is foreign policy. You even see it here on Lemmy. So many people say things like, “PSL seems cool, they do a lot of good work, but don’t they also like Russia and China? They sound like a bunch of tankies.” I heard someone also say authoritarian left once, which made me cringe.
Until we break through that barrier of propaganda about US American policy, it will be really difficult to organize the public into a real communist party. Otherwise, they’re all going to go to the 505051/No Kings, Indivisible, DSA, or Workers Party, all of which just funnel people back to the Democrats right now.
I think more outlets for media criticism and analysis, like Citations Needed or some of what Hasan does, is probably the only way to get people to start to resist all the propaganda being thrown at them 24/7.
or some of what Hasan does
Hasan is also part of the problem. He campaigns for Democrats and always treats them as the “lesser evil”, and he is also feeding into the American left’s foreign policy problem. He is rabidly anti-Russia and willfully ignorant of the realities of the Ukraine conflict. He refuses to learn about the conflict’s history outside of what Western media says, or to try and understand Russia’s position. He has defaulted to the liberal “Putin is just bad and crazy” thought-terminating cliché. He praises China for its infrastructure and all the “treats” it’s been able to provide its people, but at the same time still clings to the “China did a Uyghur cultural genocide” narrative and always brings out the “i don’t like how repressive China is of free speech” card. The American left’s biggest problem is that they still cling to liberal American exceptionalism. Until they let go of the last vestiges of that way of thinking, they will struggle to form and maintain a disciplined, principled and militant mass working class movement.
He’s definitely not perfect but I’ve never heard Sanders, or AOC, Warren, Walz, or even Zohran Mamdani talk about the propaganda assaulting the US with relation to Palestine, North Korea, China, Cuba, and Venezuela and try to defend them. Everyone else people look to currently on the “left” in the US can’t help but call them dictators or terrorists or whatever.
Sanders, AOC and Mamdani have all engaged in demonization of anti-imperialist governments and have repeated imperialist propaganda talking points about these governments. They are directly contributing to the war propaganda narratives that the empire requires to justify its aggression to liberals. Despite this fact Hasan continues to strongly support these sheepdog Democrats. This says more about his views than what his words say.
Fair, but I just want to say that I think just having the correct rhetoric is something - especially in a country that’s constantly punishing people for having the incorrect line (see all his bans or people losing their jobs over Palestine) and bombarding it’s people endlessly with propaganda, to the point where we basically find ourselves rebuilding left movements from scratch from the ashes of past movements from the 20’s or 60’s and history books. For many people, it’s the first time they were even exposed to another possible thought, and that’s a huge step towards cognitive liberation.
It’s like when I heard Bernie Sanders say he’s a socialist and it was the first time I had heard someone call themselves that on purpose, as opposed to an insult you sling towards others. I’ll always thank him for that, even though I’m way past him politically now and think he’s washed lol. But basically everyone in my ML org started with that same story - either from Bernie or Occupy, or both, leading to class consciousness. The next generation, the streamer watching generation, I think will have Hasan as that start they can move past instead. After that, we’ll probably need a Tik Tok star I guess, since that seems to be where it’s heading next.
our brain on anticommunism
We need only to get lucky once
Just a line of people, wrapped around the outside of the prison, wearing various costumes and practicing their bit. Like something out of a Naked Gun or Mel Brooks flick.
Loving it… But I’m wondering if we couldn’t figure out how to spring him ala oceans 11(12,13,14, idk) and use the scenario as a dnd campaign to map out the many different possibilities across thousands of play groups at once.
You essentially just described military war games
Yeah… For no particular reasons…
DnD came from military war games, it all comes together.
Hell yeah, I bet plenty of folks would “play” a campaign like that.
Anderson said he had weapons in his bag, and inside the bag was a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter, according to the criminal complaint.
dude was springing him from the can to take him to a barbecue lmao
This reads like one of those “dangerous weapons confiscated” the PDs put up on X.
I stabbed myself with a BBQ fork once and it wasn’t even that bad
I say this as someone who once got shot with a crossbow
What did Daryl from the walking dead miss a zombie and hit you?
His name was Greg and he was drunk
Pulled a classic “Hey, check this out” and nailed me right on the collarbone
Fuckin’ hurt
Ouchies…did you have to go to the hospital?
Oh yeah, had to get stitches because the bolt hit the bone, glanced off and tore a big gash across my front shoulder region
Went to the ER, gave them a fake name and address and snuck out without paying
Hid it from my family until it healed and never hung out with Greg again
Went to the ER, gave them a fake name and address and snuck out without paying
It sounds a lot more impressive than it was
I literally was told to walk down the hallway to the billing desk and I just didn’t stop
It’s finally time.
is based now.Zomboid ass loot drop
Not enough butter knives
Two guys, a (dead) ghoul, and a pizza cutterYou attach the bbq fork to the pizza wheel and you’ve got yourself a hook and handle to zip line to safety and comfort
Bethesda storytelling
all timer mdk mdk
Let’s get Luigi outta there!
He should have brought a clipboard and hardhat.
And high vis jacket, and carry a big ladder, and maybe be in a wheelchair too. While bringing a film crew.
wheelchair
This right here and tell them you’re doing a surprise audit for ADA compliance
If anyone asks tell then to “Call Terry about it!”
Allegedly
I fucking love Minnesotans.
Good on him for trying. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
This really sounds a lot like the high-jinks of the early Civil War, when nobody was quite certain if secession was actually happening or not.
Bleeding Kansas campaign unlocked
That’s why I say, ‘‘Hey, man nice shot.’’
dudes have never rocked harder
“Hello, I am FBI Agent Jay L. Break and I’m here to fre—” Clears throat loudly. “I am here to transfer Luigi Mangione to a secret location for various reasons.”
Braver thank the troops.
After reading through I want to meet this dude, he seems chill.
Hell yeah dudes rock
