The US is a mafia state. I know a lot of you have considered this before, but when you look at every action the US takes, it parallels what organized crime does. From the DEA being the world’s largest cartel, the extrajudicial killings of fishermen in the Caribbean, to the CIA selling crack to our black and brown communities, and putting bounties on people who don’t obey them. isn’treal, too, to turn Gaza into a ‘‘Miami of West Asia’’, wiping off entire communities for condo projects. And speaking of that soulless hellscape, Miami, where do all our gusano terrorists end up? In fucking Florida. They not only protect pieces of shit, they encourage them.

Even US citizens are held hostage by this system. From the moment you’re born, the hospitals and healthcare companies take a cut, and put your parents into debt. When you go to school you gotta pay for lunch and books. When you want a house, you gotta take a mortgage, if you want a car, that’s another long term payment. And workers, which means most of us, are its primary victims. They tie your healthcare to your job, even your social security isn’t secure. If you even consider rebelling, they fire you, you lose your ‘‘benefits’’, healthcare and miss payments. ‘‘If you don’t pay, you don’t play’’. Everything is designed to milk you for every penny you’ve got. Even when you die it ain’t free, your family’s gonna have to pay for your burial.

And this is without getting into everything else the US does around the world, from funding paramilitaries, dictatorships, coups, stealing shit with 0’s on a screen with their exorbitant privilege and getting away with a free lunch, like Michael Hudson often says. And if the world rebels? They’ve got nukes, their military at our doorsteps, and their agents of empire working within our countries through NGO’s or the state. The US blackmails its own people and the world into playing their game through threats of violence, withholding funds, putting bounties, sanctions, and murdering anyone, anywhere, that gets in their way. It’s a rogue state against any notion of international law, which is why they want an ‘‘international rules order’’ instead. Rules for thee, but not for me.

And I didn’t even get into the internal politics of the US, with lobbying being legal, and people tied to all kinds of criminal activity.

With the news of r/TheDeprogram’s demise I went to and saw that r/GenZedong is still alive, and I found the legendary Xi Bazooka pic from WION.

I only know him from Soberanía podcast with José Luis Granados Ceja, and so far they’re cool.

Sweet, thanks, I bookmarked that site.

Yeah, there’s a whole gamut of online diversions, sometimes it feels like you’re playing a platformer avoiding all the traps and spikes. But in truth, they’re more like snares and shadow plays to get you caught up in a Plato’s cave, fighting with strawmen, and not advancing towards Marxism-Leninism. If you’re not here, ideologically, you’ve been ensnared, and your energy is being diverted into meaningless chatter. That’s why what you mentioned earlier is important, that we need more rigorous Marxist critics. I guess that’s what Tricontinental, the IMG, CTW, and other great orgs and channels do.

There’s a realization spreading now in the Global South that we need our own tech, and not to rely on Western, mainly US, tech. I bring this up, cause sometimes either we overestimate online activity or we underestimate it, thinking that real, on the ground organizing is most important. It is at the end of the day, but we spend time simultaneously in both spaces. So we go back to your call, and I wanted to tie that with the pursuit of sovereign tech, because as we’ve seen with Venezuela, the right has total control of online space. Chavismo has always had a presence online but because the US has Meta and Twitter, they’re minimized, shadow banned, etc. So we need our own tools to quell theirs. This can only be done under revolution, like China did. We have to build platforms independent from US meddling. It is a matter of national security in the world today, specially for our AES comrades.

I haven’t read those, and thankfully don’t know about the Hegelian e-girls, Hahaha. I agree, that there’s a lot of pseudo-theory out there because of bourgeois academia where like Gabriel often says, it’s like every academic has a product to sell; the new, hip theory that’s dressed up as ‘‘radical’’ but upholds the status quo.

Thanks for the book recs, I’ll write those titles down and look for 'em.

Yeah, I love Critical Theory Workshop, too.

Hahaha, there was another one recently about Western Marxism from Losurdo, but I didn’t post it, it was from the International Manifesto Group and Friends of Socialist China. It should be on Friends of Socialist China’s YT for any comrades interested.

Thanks for posting this great article, man. I always appreciate people learning about Venezuela.

Unlimited slavery on Terf Island.

Yeah, man, that was after MoreTankieChapo got hit. Good times.

I sometimes visualize narrative management from libs and chuds like a baseball game with bases loaded, but in which the ‘‘opposing teams’’ are not playing against themselves, they bat for each other. I dunno if it makes more sense to think of it as: a team playing itself so that it always wins.

The idea of nonfalsifiable orthodoxy is one of the most brilliant observations and syntheses that we possess. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. I’ve watched it working in real time from escuálidos regarding Venezuela. The same show on a gusano channel, EVTV, would say that Kharim Khan, the ICC dude, was in the pocket of the Maduro ‘‘regime’’, but also that he was going to finally bury them. They play both possibilities simultaneously in order to cover their asses, and most importantly manage the narrative in their favor no matter the circumstance or result. It truly would make Goebbels’ blush at his own incompetence.

There’s another element to it that you alluded to, Nikki. That libs can fill in the blanks. If there’s nothing there, they’ll place it, horror vacui style.

This tactic is part of information warfare, as a part of class warfare. It is meant to maintain the status quo and proselytize with TINA: ‘‘There Is No Alternative’’. It’s very hard to fight back against it in a world with social media. You will wake some, like us and some lurkers, but others will remain asleep. We are ‘‘curados de espanto’’, as we say in Spanish, ‘‘cured of fright’’, meaning that we know much of this by now because we’ve seen it play out so often. But it’s always worth the effort to point it out, and hopefully, once it is out in the light, it becomes more apparent.

As many of you’ve heard, PR had another massive blackout so I was down for the count for 4 days without net after power came back.

For the record, I did not kill the pope, looks like JD Vance got to him first.

they could’ve just hired Daniel Craig and shaved his hair, no need for deepfakes

It’s funny that it’s AI cause they gotta make everything up to fit into lib lore.

Ahh, alright, I hope it happens soon. Thanks for letting me know.

How did the Hexbear auction go? Cause all my subs went silent, like slop, chisme, etc., but when I go to Hexbear they’re still active?

Ukraine just got told they started this whole debacle, and you’re laughing?

Another banger from Arnaud ‘‘Threadmaster X’’ Bertrand.

You know that scene in Office Space when the therapist dies from a heart attack and you don’t know whether his therapy worked or Peter is just stuck under hypnosis forever? That was my moment.

Great points, man, I wish more people understood Ché’s words: ‘‘No se puede confiar en el imperialismo, pero ni tantico así, nada.’’ ‘‘We can’t trust imperialism, not even a teeny bit, nothing.’’

Yeah, they have them in apartment complexes and some are like suburbs with schools, clinics and parks nearby.