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I ended up linking neoliberal sources and was just ignored and downvoted lol.

I like the end where someone just runs up and chucks the box of stuff in the window like "please take snacks, thank you."

Okay, to be clear, I'm not actually saying you should do drugs. I just found this picture funny and kind of insightful. I intended the title not to be a command, but as an 'if this then that" observation.

While many citizens of the former Yugoslavia miss the lower prices and global recognition, others warn against over-romanticising the Tito era

A common narrative during these years was that Tito had, for nearly half a century, forced different peoples to live together against their wishes.

Of course they have to find some angle to convince people that a good thing is bad actually!

So you are a lib. You care about women. You care about LGBTQ. You care about minorities. Fine.

Questions. Do YOU specifically command the US military and NATO militaries? No. Do they fight like you want them to fight? No. How many women or trans people or queer people have they liberated with their bombs? Or did they just... End lives of civilians indiscriminately?

If you stop supporting NATO and American militarism, then potentially, reactionary forces that cant POSSIBLY muster the amount of destruction like the USA may rise. This may blunt social progressive things... But like how you cant command the US army, neither can you convince or control how other countries forge their futures if they had peace from imperialism.

If you are a human rights lib; you have no reason to support NATO. All they do is kill women, queer folks, and children and sometimes reactionary men.

You dont have to have opinions on other countries. NATO is not a civilizing force and you dont have the power to make that the case. If you are a human rights lib, then it's okay to disavow NATO and the USA. You cant shoulder the responsibility of inaction since the only means of REAL critique and influence against other countries is sanctions or military intervention... Neither of which gives you or the people you pretend to care about the freedom you want or the safety. Only the dissolution of colonialism is it even REMOTELY possible that human rights can begin to be realized at all.

Context: The post was about how Tiktok was promoting minors sexualizing themselves for men and grooming them for sex work and etc (which I completely agree with). There was a sinophobic comment on the post though for no god damn reason. Everything that's related to China somehow has an evil plot to it and how they're trying to sabotage the west. This is yellow peril in the 21st century, and this is a horrific thing to promote. If circumstances were different and ripe, they would be thinking that Jews or other POC are responsible for societies' woes.

And I thought Reddit was bad...

I want to preface with this: 1. I'm not western. I don't think anyone in this world would consider my country part of the west or the imperial core. I'm from the global south and working class. 2. I'm young and only a couple of years ago started engaging with marxist theory and as a consequence the online western left. And 3. Everything here is my opinion and some details escape me due to the fact that I don't follow the discussion on the internet 100%. While I spend a lot of time online, most of that time is not wasted on Twitter or Reddit or what not. That being said, this is an insomnia induced rant aimed mainly to my american comrades, but anyone else in the western/anglo sphere also can take something useful from here. I don't know.

I started following western/internet leftists on twitter recently as a consequence of me making a twitter account. I've come to the conclusion that the western/western adjacent left (ie. All the anglosphere) is completely useless staying on the internet in any capacity. American and european communists debate the dumbest possible shit and reach no useful results. Motherfuckers agree on 99% of things and start attacking each other like rabid dogs for the stupid 1% in which they disagree. I wouldn't even call it infighting because that would compare it with the debates and disagreements of the historic left like the Bolsheviks. But the Bolsheviks were debating and discussing actually important thing while actually doing something, while going to the people and organizing. Imbeciles do jackshit and pretend that by attacking someone else on twitter they are achieving something valuable or reaching to the people and making a change. Their "propaganda" is garbage. While the people that actually do something to bring about the revolution aren't concerned by their idiocy. The example of this are the "discussions" that a lot of "leftists" have had with Ben Norton recently and that is what compeled me to write this rant.

In my opinion Ben is the best journalist out there. Both with the ideological conviction and the actual ability to do the job of journalism with integrity and courage to denounce the capitalist rulers, and his work clearly shows it. Similar to the people at The Grayzone but actually a communist. And by the way, it is clear that that is the line along which he "broke" with Blumenthal.

Ben, having seen with his own eyes the hell brought to Latin America by the United States (living in Nicaragua), naturally empathizes with the struggle and the outlook of the people towards the US. But people on twitter still attacks him or disagree with him on completely delusional matters.

One example: Noah from Midwestern Marx. I love Modwestern Marx. Carlos and Eddy are some of the best propagandists you americans have right now. But twitter really damages any possibility of reaching the masses significantly. his disagreement with Ben is about the US flag. Ben is on the opinion (rightly so), thay the US flag represents terror, war, imperialism, death, to the people's of the world. And that US communists should NOT use a symbol like that to rally the people. Noah disagrees and says that using that symbol has been democratically elected by the people (?). Not only that, he states (without a grain of evidency and clearly not even listening or reading what Ben actually says) that Ben is "reading too much Sakai and not enough Lenin"... WHAT THE FUCK?! And then he doubles down and defends the use of that flag by some indigenous people in the US. Needless to say, but I'm saying it anyways, colonized people holding their colonizer's flag doesn't make it a good flag.

Some others, like Xiangyu of all people, post stupid shit like "Oppose the Nortons" (mf you are not Mao) or call Ben a radlib, and being rude in general. Straight up infantile shit. And oh, while also self righteously calling people that disagree with him "degenerates" all while saying he laments Dugin's daughter assassination (a whole other can of worms).

I hate that that is the state of the left in the US and adjacent. And I hate that I saw that shit willingly. If you american communists don't get to work and do a revolution soon, the rest of the world will, with or without your support, and things will get ugly, like, really ugly. For us, but specially for you.

I post this all not because I think the details matter, they don't. But to illustrate the point that as long as you keep falling to the trap of social media like twitter (it makes you angry by design), you won't achieve anything. And the people that will do something will be the worst elements of the western society, either on the right or pretending to be left (coff coff Maupin). The west, and specially the US, have a way of shaping your mind that I have seen too many times, both online and offline. Shake that shit out of you. It is making you inhumane and ineffective, and the bourgeoisie is winning thanks to that.

Keep it up Sir Roger Waters ! And criticizing the Zionist Entity's policy is not antisemitism for God's sake!

It seems the US is on a warpath. They really do want china to invade. Hopefully this game of chicken doesn't end in nuclear annihilation.

Hello comrades,

A few days ago I called in your help to block a neonazi festival from happening in Belgium.

So far the city has cancelled it and it will not happen (in this city, I don't know yet if it will be relocated or not).

Thank you all for helping comrades. Through collective effort, everyone involved made a difference.

Seems like most of y’all just think that since the “capitalist” countries are run by corrupt power hungry pricks that means the “communist” countries must be the good guys.

They’re all run by power hungry billionaires and you’re all being played.

(All the “” are cuz no country is run by anyone who follows the religions i mean economic theories, they’re all run by power hungry people who use the people and pit them against eachother to distract from the fact were dying and working for cults)

inb4 the ban hammer (and sickle?) drops on me

You've probably noticed the increase in posts of upwards of 50 comments in the last few days. All the trolls are out on watch.

As expected, there were braindead takes, but they were getting instantly corrected by other commenters.
I was surprised to see so much people defending working class politics on a mainstream sub.
I would've never imagined this kind of discourse happening just a few years ago.

Crosspost from: lemmygrad.ml/post/346815

Head of Ukrainian Energoatom Piotr Kotin has suggested using artillery to destroy power lines going from the power plant.

At the same time, UAF have began shelling the nuclear power plant with MLRS and plain artillery, as well as the nuclear waste storage.