Is this the same US military that killed a million Iraqis or are you thinking of some alternate different US military

Oh, so the US military should intervene in the Palestinian genocide on the side of Palestine, right? And then pay reparations to Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and all the other places the US has slaughtered in the past 20 years alone.

Liberal: “Blah blah liberal nonsense”

You, in retaliation: [entire text of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte]

I did not realize we had a character limit and the reason is because I’ve been amongst trees and sunlight before

I literally don’t know what’s going on and I’ve lurked in every drama thread. Do not inform me. My mind is a pure empty expanse.

Breaking: Iranian scientists have developed multiclassing thus allowing soldiers to use poison attacks

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS

“we settle our differences at the battle box” is pretty funny

Where do I find this information lol

every 40k faction is just a different type of annoying Br*tish person

yeah my experience has been that anarchists online and anarchists working at the food bank might as well be two separate ideologies. The organized anarchists on the ground, at least in the US where I’ve been, are gonna be a lot more idiosyncratic in what makes them an anarchist. I’ve known a lot of self-described anarchists who, when pressed, will admit they’re some type of Christian nationalist. I’ve known anarchists who are UFO cultists. I’ve known a bunch whose primary political animus was ending vaccinations and promoting alternative medicine.

And yet none of that mattered when it came to handing out food together, or helping raise money for the shelter, or helping out migrant families. The common denominator ends up being the desire to build a better world out of mutual interests, with our collective powers. I would take a thousand real life anarchist comrades who might have odd beliefs about crystals or UFOs over a single internet forum anarchist whose every post contains the word “tankie.”

Someone here the other day said the main purpose of the Democrats is preventing any kind of organized left, beating the Republicans is just a bonus. I’ve been thinking about that a lot.

Like they just got tens of millions of people to vote for genocide. There’s that phrase about how Israel is a testing ground for what western countries can get away with. The Democrats are extremely pleased with themselves right now. They just had an admin continuing Trump’s policies, except worse somehow, and now they won’t get the blame for the consequences. They got everything they wanted.

Probably because most western socialists come to leftist politics not through on-the-ground organizing, but rather, some dissatisfaction with their own society that leads them to seek alternatives. The first place to seek alternatives is going to be looking to the past or reading theorists, and then it depends on a lot of factors on who they’ll sympathize with. It’s often just aesthetics because I’ve organized with both Marxist and anarchist organizations and there’s not a whole lot of difference when you’re actually outdoors.

Also there’s a long history of western states using Trotskyism as a cudgel against leftist organizing. It’s cooked into the standard education now that Trotsky was supposed to be party secretary after Lenin, but Stalin betrayed them all. That’s the standard understanding of how things went, so that takes a lot of time to disentangle. The primary operating mode of the western mind is an imperialist xenophobia and depending on how they get over that will say how their political outlook may shake out

Also I can’t stress enough how much of simply an aesthetic it is, at least in the west. It doesn’t matter. Unless you live in like…Greece or the Philippines or somewhere in rural Colombia, there aren’t warring factions of Marxists and anarchists. The only sectarian conflict I’ve ever seen in person were when cops were involved, like the “Maoist” groups that would overturn tables at Food not Bombs or show up at PSL events to call the organizers a bunch of crackers.

On the ground you gotta understand how little of this actually matters. There simply isn’t major conflict. Anarchist and Marxist groups cooperate all the time. They might have disagreements on how to do stuff or what symbols to use, but it basically never matters. The closest thing to a sectarian conflict that I can remember among the groups I roll with is around 2021 some of the anarchists I knew wanted to boycott the covid vaccine. But they ended up getting it anyway so who cares

It’s anecdotal but I have gotten liberals to understand that it was probably a bad idea when the Spanish Republicans started refusing guns/artillery from Stalin. Except I think most anarchists also agree that was probably a bad move.

If that counts

Yay I wrote something well. I’m usually very self-conscious about stuff I type and always think I sound like a doofus

I recognize that neither electoral party has anything to offer me, especially if both of them are complicit in genocide. Both sides have nothing. Both are equally dangerous. I’m not going to trust any promises that they make. Did I put it in civil enough terms for you, liberal?

smug liberal asshole fantasizes about me getting put in the trans camps because I recognize that both Amerikkkan parties are complicit in genocide. I don’t know where you’ve been, but Biden and Harris were shaking hands with Bibi just in July. The arms shipments haven’t ceased, no sanctions on Israel have been proposed, nothing is being done besides token efforts that fail on purpose.

“wasn’t mean enough to Israel I guess” Is it so much to ask that someone not complicit in genocide be the president? How about this, if the Democrats are so open and willing in their genocide of Palestinians, what hope does that hold for people like me? How can I trust any of you liberals? “Oh, we’ll bomb Palestinian women and children, but don’t worry you trans and gay folk, you’re fine.”

Yeah ok, except I remember the “first they came for the communists” poem and it’s certainly correct about both of our stupid bloodthirsty parties. I’m old enough to have protested against the Iraq War and I’ve personally watched how current Democrats have simply become the Republicans. Harris fucking accepted an endorsement from Dick Cheney, one of the most evil bastards who ever lived. Slaughtered a million plus Iraqis. And yet here you are concocting a situation where only one side will put me in camps or whatever because I recognize the simple reality that the Demokkkrats and Republikkkans are both explicitly genocidal against my Palestinian comrades

why are you people like this, you people never learn anything. Fuck off. The Dead Kennedys were right about everything.

I think all 8 of them did vote