I was looking at an old thread about “patsocs” and I saw the following comment, which I believe to be true - I have written this in a rush so sorry for any mistakes. EDIT: I was asked what the question was, so tl;dr it would be: is the threat of patsoc, particularly the “MAGA communism” development a significant threat...
i mean, it wouldn’t be the first time british communist orgs have devolved into reactionary tailism.
the fact that this “movement” has zero real world purchase in the US, the nation that gives it all its signifiers and on which it is primarily fixated, should give you an idea of how serious it is. it’s a meme that propagates through the brains of 20th century burnouts who feel nothing but disgust and confusion at pretty much every historical development since the working class lost the cold war, and so latch onto the growing fascist wave – which frankly doesn’t need direct help from the feds – despite also being unable to understand why it’s been successful.
additionally, i recommend that you abandon the thought-terminating cliche of the “psyop.” without any evidence that some social development is actually motivated by a nefarious actor, all it refers to is one’s subjective feeling that what you’re seeing is too bizarre to have a rational explanation. it’s, frankly, antimaterialist, and not unlike the reasoning that motivates “MAGA communists”; observe how they often like to call challenges to their personal bigotries the work of the CIA.
it’s a Type of Guy on Twitter, a dying site which mostly just accelerated the development of new breeds of mental illness when it was still popular. literally not something that exists in real life.
like, okay maybe it’s a fact that communist parties in the first world are being disrupted by such weirdos, but i think that speaks less to the effectiveness of bourgeois manipulation and more to the ineffectiveness of many communists. i don’t consider it a great feat to be able to smell a reactionary before you see him and simply not take his stupid thoughts seriously. that’s a low bar for a would-be communist party to clear.
Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
I understand the optics are bad in the US. I still believe it and I’ll say it. I don’t think there’s a way to believe otherwise if you oppose genocide and you fully understand the history of the occupation and of resistance to colonialism. Maybe there’s a lot more we could be doing to educate people (more posting!), but I think it’s a mistake to deny your actual beliefs in service of the carefully crafted PR produced message that will immediately transform a fully propagandized American liberal into a comrade. For decades we in the West tried depicting the Palestinian people as passive observers of their own destruction, and it somehow has done little to weaken the racist image of the bloodthirsty terrorist. Maybe we need to rely more on the truth: that Palestinians have always fought back, and have not given up.
reading these comments and realizing that there are tons of leftists, here and elsewhere, who quietly believe all the right things, but cannot emotionally deal with the fact that anti-imperialist communism isn’t as popular as DNC Vote-ism and never will be, so they fedjacket anyone who can on political-tactical grounds.
Big Yud is literally the founder of an assigning-random-values-based-on-gut-feelings religion. His essay on Bayesian reasoning has given perhaps thousands of blog-reading nerds irreversible brain damage.
Also, we know Mark Rober loves fucking cops, but to straight up gloss over the fact that this fucking insane surveillance system is being used on the southern border confirms he’s clearly just a state department asset. What can you expect from a NASA alum I guess....
I’ve been using Archidekt. I really like the built-in playtester, but the interface can be kind of sluggish, and some of the design decisions, especially around categorizing and sorting, are quite clunky....
Me, five hours into explaining what a film is, the existence of Hollywood, the existence of a country over the sea called ‘America’, the internet and what woke means: “ok so basically, in the year of our lord two thousand and fourteen there was this thing called ‘Gamer Gate’ and single men who couldn’t have sex would...
So, I’m not a very experienced drafter, but I know you’re supposed to return the lands you take from the land station. Recently though I attended a WOE draft (faeries, 1-2-0) and accidentally walked off with the 16 lands I borrowed. I know monetarily that’s only a few cents, money that the store probably made back that...
20 or 30 homeless people camped in the parking lot of an unoccupied office building. They had had been there for a little over a month. As I was leaving for work this morning 6 cop cars turned the corner. When I got back, there was yellow tape everywhere and all the tents were in a pile waiting to be loaded into a garbage truck....
Other than AI, what technology are you excited about?
For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls (www.eurogamer.net)
Weird (s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com)
It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection....
"MAGA Communism" potentially becoming a threat beyond the terminally online.
I was looking at an old thread about “patsocs” and I saw the following comment, which I believe to be true - I have written this in a rush so sorry for any mistakes. EDIT: I was asked what the question was, so tl;dr it would be: is the threat of patsoc, particularly the “MAGA communism” development a significant threat...
Why are Palestinian protests filled with feds?
Went to a Palestinian solidarity protest/rally with some new folks who’d become radicalised against America/the West over the last six months. They aren’t socialists (yet, I’m working on it) - but they’re good people. So, seeing the genocide and its support by our governments filled them with disgust. We talked about the...
18+ [CW// sex/ Swastika] how do they come up with this? (hexbear.net)
It's over. (hexbear.net)
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Police arrested four people over $300,000 of stolen Lego kits (www.theverge.com)
A carefully constructed crime leads to California arrests.
This is the guy who expects us all to listen to him about how AI works (hexbear.net)
bUt BoTh SiDeS dA sAmE - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)
They’ve been going warp speed to grab stormfront content. Couldn’t even wait to grab this...
Am I the only one who remebers who Palmer Lucky is? (youtu.be)
Also, we know Mark Rober loves fucking cops, but to straight up gloss over the fact that this fucking insane surveillance system is being used on the southern border confirms he’s clearly just a state department asset. What can you expect from a NASA alum I guess....
What's your preferred deckbuilding software or site?
I’ve been using Archidekt. I really like the built-in playtester, but the interface can be kind of sluggish, and some of the design decisions, especially around categorizing and sorting, are quite clunky....
High-level political discussion taking place on r/fuckcarscirclejerk (archive.ph)
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Imagine trying to explain what this means to a medieval peasant who literally doesn't even know what a potato is and has never been more than 5 miles from his birthplace (hexbear.net)
Me, five hours into explaining what a film is, the existence of Hollywood, the existence of a country over the sea called ‘America’, the internet and what woke means: “ok so basically, in the year of our lord two thousand and fourteen there was this thing called ‘Gamer Gate’ and single men who couldn’t have sex would...
She's been writing such shit at the NYT for 41 years. In 1999 she won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. (hexbear.net)
keeping the lands from a sealed events?
So, I’m not a very experienced drafter, but I know you’re supposed to return the lands you take from the land station. Recently though I attended a WOE draft (faeries, 1-2-0) and accidentally walked off with the 16 lands I borrowed. I know monetarily that’s only a few cents, money that the store probably made back that...
"It's a race to the bottom — literally the bottom." (hexbear.net)
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October 7 Survivors Sue Campus Protesters, Say Students Are “Hamas’s Propaganda Division” (theintercept.com)
So called marxist website full of impotent screeds asserting that dialectics is wrong (anti-dialectics.co.uk)
Somehow has worse UX than marxists.org.
They cleared out the tent city on my block today
20 or 30 homeless people camped in the parking lot of an unoccupied office building. They had had been there for a little over a month. As I was leaving for work this morning 6 cop cars turned the corner. When I got back, there was yellow tape everywhere and all the tents were in a pile waiting to be loaded into a garbage truck....
Me when I'm in a shitty teleprompter reading competition and my opponent is Biden (hexbear.net)
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