csverdad

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[–] csverdad@midwest.social 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] csverdad@midwest.social 15 points 5 days ago

I try to read an equal amount of theory and history as I do news. Context is everything. When you read about these bastards doing evil deeds, read too about Mussolini hanging from a bridge. I enjoy learning about coups perpetrated by the CIA last century (there’s 70 of them) and all the horrendous fallout it caused so that I can taunt nationalists with facts about the nature of the empire that they’re only just now recognizing.

News is only a part of the process. Theory, praxis, cadre, in equal parts.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

SAKO TRG 22/42 A1 a good home defense tool for light sleepers.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago

Capitalism is going to kill us all if we don’t kill it first.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

There’s a novella by Ursula K Leguin called The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas wherein there is a utopian society that is able to exist because of the misery of one child who endures all of the hardship and sadness of the society. NK is that child for the world. They are kept like a specimen in a cabinet of curiosities warning everyone against communism, making the “free” in the West thankful for what modicum of freedom they’ve managed to preserve.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I built a company from nothing over the past decade and it’s all I can do now to make myself go into the shop and do what I used to love to do.

The only thing that has helped is dedicated, disciplined study of political theory and history combined with direct action informed by that knowledge with a group of similarly-minded revolutionaries. Let this radicalize you, not lead you to despair.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

A political ideology with cult-like tendencies.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social -4 points 3 weeks ago

In the US in 2025 it bears a strong resemblance to a hobby at times. No shade intended either. I’m a card-carrying member myself.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social -3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh interesting. Tell us about your time in Iran.

[–] csverdad@midwest.social 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The most widely celebrated circumstance in the world is being rid of the British government. It’s spawned many holidays.

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