managers have insane priorities

she is, personally, with no consideration for her husband, extremely conservative. she’s one of those terrifying people from a soviet or post soviet state who views putin as the great protector from the evils of communism, ignoring he’s doing all the worst things about the soviet union without a single one of the upsides

hence my other two comments. this goes deeper than that payment. google is deeply invested in the global mass killing machine

these are florida based cubanos mind you. the original seed population for that community was peeple who fled cuba early because it was a threat to them personally. yes, they’re worried about the civil liberties lost, but a lot of them are also salty about the loss of their profit generating sugar plantations. they don’t really engage with the positive aspects of fidel castro’s dictatorship because for them, personally, those were negative aspects.

and none of this is to discount the issues of civil liberties experience in cuba, but a lot of later people who then arrive in florida for whom things weren’t as bad on the front of wealth redistribution get bombarded by the seed population saying “see, communism and wealth redistribution always leads to problems” and that propaganda subsumes any discussion surrounding the push between centralized vs decentralized authority.

plus you got the zionist community right there pushing anticommunist propaganda and suddenly southern florida is a nightmare of a location with people pushing for centralized authority to protect them from radical leftwing ideologies like “letting people live their lives”

how many people have you talked to from soviet states? because food insecurity was a serious problem in the highly stratified authoritarian eastern bloc. yes, capitalism kills, but if you understand capitalism to be a system of controlling the workers by having a small cabal owning everything you start to realize the eastern bloc was capitalist as hell

we tried to warn you but you bought the ticket because you were that scared of neoliberalism leading to communism through a process i can only describe as “somehow”

also google maps and waze have tons of israeli input

Israel payed a lot of money for google to push that propaganda

IDF is an org though, and he said death to that. it reads pretty clearly as bing about bringing about an end to the org to me an. the other read relies too heavily on a dictionary definition than on the types of allegory rappers engage in. but as you said, maybe that’s just me

yup i’m gonna block now that my soothing adult beverage is wearing off

dafuq? i’m saying china is a genocidal imperial regime all the time. i guess if your standard is that anyone who wants to tank the united states is maga i get the joke. just didn’t realize what you were saying

can you provide some links, i’d love to expand my horizons

what? this is my first time hearing China is MAGA. that seems patently absurd to me.

i’m just saying MAGA policies have a strong pattern of reinforcing the white supremacist systems of oppression

100%. just like every time. ethnic strife is just a tool of the oppressor

white. it means white.

“death death to the idf” =/= “death to idf troops”

and i’m tired of outlets reporting on it like it is. the man was saying the idf is a criminal organization that needs to be resisted and disbanded. yeah, that’s gonna result in some fighting because the idf are a violent and vile organization of oppressors, but in the context, “death death to the idf” is the only reasonable stance…

also the idea that confederate generals were better strategists is an outright lie. they may have been better tacticians, using their troop movements in battles more effectively, but they were atrocious strategists, often engaging in pointless battles from a position of hubris that their superior plans would win the day. Grant understood the strategic advantages he had, and pressed them. he had the larger army, the superior industrial base, and more soldiers who thought what they were doing really and truly mattered. further, i am fascinated by grant’s writings pre and post war. he was a member of the fraternal order of odd fellows and seems to have tried to live through that lens of pacifist abolitionist ideals while still being a military commander. it seems to have been his view that the way to achieve peace and prosperity for the most people was to rip the bandaid off, send Sherman to the coast, and end the war quickly through decisive victories.

my read has been that general McClellan and general Grant loved their men and wanted what was best for them. McClellan prioritized keeping his men alive at the cost of loss after loss, Grant prioritized stopping all the killing as soon as possible by making attacks the confederates couldn’t survive long term. McClellan ultimately became a confederate tool, running for president, whereas Grant was beloved by his men for how much he respected them and listened to their needs. they weren’t in the south to fart around and lose like they had under prior generals, as you said. a great many of them loved america and detested tyranny. that their nation should be divided for the sake of prolonging the institution of slavery was doubly insulting for them. Grant gave them the hope that he believed that their work mattered, and that steeled their resolve as confederate resolve that this war mattered to anyone but the aristocracy deteriorated

i know it doubles down on the stupid. it’s why we have to resist that march to darkness with everything we have. people are simple creatures. they go where they feel their needs are met. it’s why the unions of the early 1900s set up soup kitchens and the salvation army fought street battles to shut those soup kitchens down. i’m not asking that people not see these morons as ignorant, i’m asking people to realize this leftist echo chamber behavior makes them less effective propagandists when they go out and hit the streets.

do you know what i’ve noticed in my time protesting of late? there has been an increase in tankies showing up places advocating for authoritarianism, but not their authoritarianism, our authoritarianism, as if authoritarianism can ever lead to anything good. and the ignorant masses see that and think it’s who the left is and they turn away from us even though the the vast majority of leftists are advocating against the authority of monetary and military might, and want that authority distributed to the masses.

i’m just asking people here to think about how to make effective propaganda that doesn’t just preach to the choir, but entices new people that we have something different to offer than the things they’re escaping. there’s a theology of food and liquor. the idea is that god made food, and the devil made liquor. on the face of it, god seems like our ally for this and the devil our enemy. but god uses the food to control us through his authority, and the devil helps us survive until tomorrow by soothing the pain of our subjugation. the most dangerous food is the low quality stuff the authority makes readily available that’s low in nutritional quality. the most dangerous liquor is the church. if you want to help people remove themselves from the bondage of this society you have to perform some acts of self sacrifice and share some of your food with them as keep them away from the dangerous liquors like the church, opioids, and booze.

how do we keep people from the dangerous liquors? by understanding why they turn to them. they are in pain. they need hope. hope is the safest liquor, and after the devil realized that god was a slave driver, it’s the liquor he focused on giving the people, but the damage done by his original liquors is hard to combat. in order to give people hope, you have to speak in terms they understand, you need a unifying strategy that they care about. right now, that’s the epstein files. a lot of the left and the right working class people think there’s a conspiracy of the elite to participate in a vast sex trafficking network. that’s why we’ve been so focused on not letting any distraction work.

as for why i cited hannah arendt: i don’t think her being an immigrant detracts from my point. i don’t think immigrants are intrinsically different from us, nor do i think any nationstate is intrinsically different from another. it was nazi germany in the 1930s, it’s the united states today. if we don’t educate the children and show them how to build a better world it will be whatever new power emerges 20 years from now after another 60 years. hannah arendt’s insights that all of these horrible things happen over and over again with a great deal of consistency and the only cure is patient education are extremely valuable. yes, we lack the time to do patient education if everyone is to survive. a degree of wielding violence in the name of community defense is necessary. but treating the pain of the ignorant will not help you. denouncing the people who cause this pain will.

remember, the greatest illusion of all is the illusion of separation. authorities of every kind have used this illusion to prevent solidarity amongst the working classes since the beginning of written history. our path to liberation from this scheme involves realizing the propaganda works, and that if we want to help people escape the propaganda that’s programmed them, we have to produce propaganda for them that will deprogram them. to do this we can’t go to our echo chambers and yuk it up at their expense. our disdain for them that we foment in our echo chambers will leak out and ruin the whole thing.

and no, i’m not asking you to accept transphobes like someone else said. i’m asking you to stop accepting the things you cannot change and work more to change the things you cannot accept. almost everyone here had to go on a journey to get to the position they now are in. think back on the person you were before you saw the world for what it is. what changed you? for me, it was people in my life telling me i wasn’t seeing the whole picture. it took time, but eventually i got it. that there is any leftist thought that exists in our sea of right wing propaganda indicates that people’s minds can be changed and improved upon. but you have to be considered about how you do it. don’t play the right’s us vs them game. they want you to play it. that’s their entire goal: make us seem unreasonable to the people in their thrall.

tolerance of terrorism is not evidence of a tolerant society with freedom of expression. it is evidence of a terrorist state

soon to be heard nationwide: charlie kirk song, unofficial national anthem

(i’m referencing horst wessel in case anyone didn’t get it)