Here? Nah. I ain't been here a minute but I find that hard to believe.
I downvote because, unfortunately, average people love insults like "low IQ," "b!tch," and many other things that modern socialists find unsavory.
At a certain point we are hurting our own movement by trying to be PC.
There is also no definitive line we draw. You may say that line is with "low IQ," but someone who claims to be woker than you will say that the origins of stupid, dumb, idiot, moron, etc. are all equally ableist.
Not to mention, we absolutely should be taking an opportunity to impune our enemies as stupid, or as useless/cruel (whatever the implication of "b!tch" was in whatever ya'all are referring to), because, well, they are.
Unfortunately, people will often respond to a dunk better than a graph.
Yeah, im not reading all that tankie. Happy for you, or sorry that happened, i guess.
No but jokes aside yeah I catch myself writing something and deleting it midway when I realize what I'm doing. I think there are cases where interacting with such people is worth the effort in a gamble, you know I'm sure out of all the effortposts you've made surely a few fell on receptive ears, even if you didn't see the fruits of your labor. So as an occasional thing I think it is ultimately productive, the most receptive people will be lurkers silently reading who will take multiple interactions with "tankies" before it amounts into a change. But it definitely is not good to do as a habit.
Whatever the reasons the ECOWAS Commander says they need more time, this is great because each day that passes the West starves and grows weaker and less able to wage war.
Their usual favorite imperial siphons are being severed, so they are increasingly turning to unsavory contingencies such as Europe proper, Mexico, Africa. Yet the imperial skeleton has osteoporosis, they may be able to make some truly desperate moves in Europe and next door in Mexico but I think they will find that Africa is not as helpless and readily exploitable as they arrogantly think, especially as Russia and China continue to be involved in the continent.
I wonder if anti-imperialist regional powers like South Africa and Iran will be involved in any way. Alone they would struggle to thwart Western imperial ambitions but with their weight all together I think they could turn this from an inevitable Western defeat into a swift and clean one.
I think there is definitely a difference between anarchists who want the same generally better world that we do and anarchists who want Mad Max style civilizational collapse
Mf mods have a sense of humor give this person $10 and a lemmygrad
Relate. Idk i just kind of am on Autopilot chugging along fighting to live trying to enjoy the small moments because what else am I gonna do while I'm here. Making a coerced choice is no fun but only if you allow yourself to perceive it like that. Sorry this probably isn't the brightest interpretation I'm in the same boat.
Worked 2 jobs, sold drugs, helped a gf w.o a car get to and from work, met some of her friends, watched my aunt's dogs, questionable haunted experience, did way too much drugs, alienated some people, got a call from my best friend for first time in months, walked through the rain, had a panic attack, sold more drugs, did too many drugs, sexual intercourse, tried unsuccessfully to put my phone down, exported some beats, push-ups, met homeless lady, looked at some clouds, sobered up, collapsed from exhaustion, internal battle between theism/atheism, stole extremely fancy alcohol, made some really bomb burritos, disassociated, dispassionate, disassembled and left the pieces lying around wherever, saw Howl's Moving Castle for the first time, procrastinated music, wrote a song, asked myself where the time went. All of that shit I guess.
Hey. Sorry for being gone here for a while. I value this community and I'm not trying to show my uglier sides.
I've been clubbing. Talking to people. Girls, the mentally ill, homeless, gangsters, rubes, tech bros, artists, businessmen, and...someone really strange.
I'm very involved already. I'm trying to define an autonomous life but this guy has the gravitational pull of the Sun. And not for no reason.
He has very good intentions. Truly. A good heart. He is brilliantly smart. He has magic powers. He helps the homeless. But he's corruptible. I can already tell the system is going to take his grand utopian ideals and twist them, slowly, or at least try damn hard to.
I want to be his right hand guy. To be the Marxist Leninist in high places. To seize a position from the enemy and turn it against the system. This guy knows people. He knows Obama. He knows leaders in high industries. He's not some random. I want to infiltrate whatever I can. It's about time the Beast got twisted back. The time is ripe.
I'm scared, of course. Every bad thought about me is coming to light. I have some tough decisions to make. Crime, and organized crime, is staring at me. Insanity. I didn't sleep so much that I hit a new level. It's powerful. Insanity is powerful. My heart is so broken.
The line is a razor'a edge.
I already know what people will say. I already tried to talk about my close ones with it. I already know. It's so complicated. It's not as simple as it seems. It really isn't.
The United States is Hell on Earth. It is the epicenter of evil. Socialism has been destroyed here a dozen times. Socialism has never been achieved in the imperial Western "developed" countries. We all know the MLism is a guideline, not a strict recipe. Every country, every time and place and set of peoples, requires unique circumstances.
The USA will require, naturally according to its position, the most bizarre and unprecedented circumstances socialist history has yet to see.
It may be something we hate that is the key. Something already proven ugly. Gangs, lumpenproles like the homeless, cults, parties, drugs, organized crime, capitalist institutions, fascist fervor, churches, music, celebrities, electoralism, apoliticism, accelerationism, hoteps, consumerism...who knows which of these ugly things may prove necessary.
Did not our heroes do the same, fundamentally?
I'm out here. Seeing the people in these places...it's something else. I'm not a complete rookie to it but...wow.
I want to relay my experience. Regardless if this experiment ends in failure or success. Regardless of my fears or the historical precedent or the logic or the common sense.
I'm just a pawn.
Also, I'm going to be touring the continental United States and possibly other bits of North America. I don't know when or how far out. I'll say again when it's time. I need money first. But if anybody here wants some human experience...just to hang out and chat or anything else...just let me know. I would love to meet any Lemmygrad comrades, for any reason, just as simple humans.
I don't know why I'm writing this. Evidently I am still sleep deprived haha. Or maybe I'm just on my shit. This is my shit. It can't be taken away from me.
I love you all. I wish you the best. We are comrades. We are the pioneer species, the lichens and moss breaking down rocks so that grasses and one day trees may grow on the barren land. Our job is not easy. It is cold and cruel. It is in many ways FEELS against the grain. Against the flow. It really isn’t. I am trying to go with the flow. The flow has never betrayed socialism. I am flushing down my doubts and my inhibitions. It will be necessary. No silk gloves.
I wish you the best. If you want to talk the best way would be my Instagram right now @kigv2. I also have a phone. If you can find the number online you can call or text me anytime ;p
Long live Socialism. Long live Socialism.
Tbf if this timeline happened America wouldn't have had 30 years to plunder the world unchallenged and it would be much further along its decay path than it already is in THIS timeline
To me the process is:
- Kill capitalist hegemony
- Transition resources in this newly (relatively) peaceful world towards R&D
- Pull a scientific rabbit out the hat, deus ex machina, pull up from the nosedive last second, OR if the cataclysmic processes are deep already, just do our best to undo the damage.
We already have the (fledgling) technologies to suck carbon our of the air, to revive extinct species, to terraform, etc., its just a matter of having a geopolitical situation that is comfortable enough to dedicate the necessarily massive amounts of resources towards them.
I know this seems like cope a little, and sure it might be, but I find it to be very plausible. Even if just for my present sanity, I find it good to bank my faith on this hypothetical chain of events.
Sometimes being the loyal henchmen of the Big Bad blows up in your face...
I hope the elite of these countries pay their dues as much as the American ruling class, but I would rather such conditions just lead to the common populations protesting and getting the countries to jump ship. Perhaps the first imperial core revolutions will have to take place in the US's vassals.
You must play a long game or you will die. Infiltrate a bank today, spread your tentacles as the capitalists work tirelessly to do the same, slowly kill them over decades. Not to mention the West is a psychotic, rabid animal that would nuke the entire world before letting communists pluck off their ruling class.
Just re-saying my position, I personally could never bring myself to be a patriotic socialist, the American flag makes me nauseous, but I understand the pragmatic arguments, unfortunately the working class of America is incredibly reactionary and need to be suckered into communism by many different paths. There are many niches that need to be filled in this global class war, just like how I wouldn't outright knock Frankfurt-esque communists drowning in academic jargon because their niche is to appeal to nerds. My only question for patsoc is: is it effective? Does it actually work converting conservatives et. al.? If yes, critical support. If not, toss it.
I also think a lot of patsoc characters are treated like dogshit unnecessarily. I think Maupin is unconvincing and uncharismatic in a lot of ways but the guy is not a bigot, his track record is nothing but activism.
Yes, if it becomes irreparably hopeless my official take is "grab what you can and let's GTFO this sinking ship to hell." Up until it reaches that point though, if we have any chance at all, we should fight. Either way savvy smarts, a mountain of resolve and a good splash of luck will be needed for each and every one of us.
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Look already to history and modern day: asymmetric warfare has NEVER gone in America's favor. A few ragtag communist or fascist guerrillas can fluster the bloated, lumbering, and incredibly expensive American war machine, often until they simply throw in the towel as money is the only reason they fight in the first place, thus as it reveals itself to be too costly the eagerness to fight evaporates. For very cheap you can be a thorn in their side.
Another variable to consider is that we are assuming a warm/hot war on U.S. soil against its own civilians. While there would certainly be tremendous effort from the capitalists, the liberal and conservative media/society alike, and fascists to portray any communist revolutionaries as barbaric, butchering, senseless animals from hell, cockroaches to be squashed, the fact of the matter is it'd be a lot harder to manufacture consent to bomb American cities and kill American civilians than it is to convince The People(TM) to do the same to brown people in faraway, foreign lands.
Honestly I'm worried less about the seeming omnipotence of the American military, and more about the broad fascist tendency of the American People(TM). At this point, we would have no numbers, but our enemies would have plenty. I'd even be less concerned about a drone vaporizing me before I knew what hit me using sci-fi technology than the idea of being captured alive by American fascist militias eager to practice a lifetime buildup of depraved sadist curiosity against a victim unable to fight back.
Another issue is willpower. I already do not trust the ability of Americans of any political stripes to be willing to die or even to fight a hard, dirty war sans dying. To be frank this is definitely a part of the capitalist effort to inoculate the country against revolution: we here in America are infantilized, conditioned to be docile, fearful, content. We are showered with gory violence, pornography and ruthless cruelty in our media, yet the uglier parts of life are kept from us; many fellow Americans I know are barely capable of being confrontational, let alone getting physical. Many of us have never thrown nor recieved a punch, let alone a bullet. I'm speaking in generalities here, and I'm not speaking as "holier than thou" as many of these tendencies have been baked into my behavior as well and it's taken most of my adult life to try and pry away from them. And of course these sort of things would change as cracks continue to form in the bubble and we are slowly introduced to an uglier life; revolution is probably not suddenly springing up tomorrow, and a hot war would likely have a reasonably long warmup period. But it's definitely a variable to keep an eye on.
To be frank, at risk of sounding some type of way, another variable potentially in our favor is Latino migrants, who could potentially bolster our numbers and who do not suffer from the same lack of hard life experience as much as we do.
Another variable to consider is the Internet, and the fact that this is the imperial core. While the affects of technology on warfare have been foreshadowed to us, revolution in the imperial core has no real precedent. Knowledge of previous wars and lessons learned are imperative but at the same time there is absolutely no predicting how a revolution would pan out.
Important is also the state of the rest of the world. Who would be supporting us, who would be supporting America, and how? Who would abstain? How far has America and its remaining allies waned?--it's important to remember America grows weaker year by year these days. What of technology--weapons, defenses, A.I.? What of climate change? These variables and many others will set the realm of possibility.
I doubt things will be easy, in fact they could be hellishly terrible, but they could also go surprisingly in our favor. It just really depends what life looks like over the next couple years.
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