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Ghost requires a soul. It will be an llm based on him running on a rack of gpu’s on the back of a very shiny Boston dynamics robot, and it will not endorse, because it will be the Democratic nominee. His running mate will be nick Fuentes, or a similar llm based on Otto von bismarck and Reinhardt heidrich, to signal both branches of the now dividing right that they’re heard and will have a voice in this new administration. Everybody (who counted as human when they were alive) gets a voice here.

Did you just use the failure if the USSR via self-rat-fucking to justify the imperialism of the USSR? I get the names mixed up sometimes, so genuine question.

Those excel nerds do not fuck around when it comes to ergonomics.

Omg! You too!? It is fate! We are now best friends forever!

They were fucking socialists. They came in with paratroopers and tanks to kill socialists. It was not a lib revolution, I dont have a problem with dead CIA puppet libs, this was socialists who wanted autonomy. This is why a lot of anarchists can’t stand tankies.

Edit: List the things the USSR did wrong. It existed for seventy years and covered eleven time zones, so there’s no way, even if they were the best ever, that its gonna be a short list. If it is a short list, consider that you might be rationalizing and covering up and lying to cover the fuckups of an empire thats been dead probably longer than you’ve been alive, and most of the pieces have been to war with other pieces since. Why? Its dead and gone, you sound like how libs sound after throwing an election. Let’s do a post mortem so we can do better next time, let’s dig deep into the fuckups and fucking learn from fucking history. There were cool parts too! And let’s learn from those too! But you can’t take either in isolation, that’s not honest, and its not useful.

what question to ask

And how/where to ask it, now that web search is dead. Good luck figuring shit out!

This was a loooooooong time ago, and I was reading or listening to basically anything I could get my hands on, but i was already definitely an anarchist and vaguely a communist, had been the former since single digit years and the latter since at least age 16 or so. Uh, I think the ‘revolutions’ podcast had a non-objectionable thing on the Russian revolution, but idr if it covers this much.

I’ve come across podcasts that cover bits of it more recently, if you want me to DM links. No I didn’t have mentors. Not political anyway. I had some punk friends but they weren’t into history or theory. Mostly got radicalized by experience being varying degrees of alone; was lonely and alienating as fuck. I’d rather not get more personal publicly on this account.

If youre genuinely curious, I can dig some stuff up for you, but I’m not sure it will be what I read 10+ years ago. I have some interesting theory that explains what I specifically think, but I was already firmly in the ‘authority is not okay’ and ‘private property is just feudalism with extra gaslighting’ camps.

As an anarchist, how it went for me:

Read history. Have intimate relationships with at least two tankies (all my relationships end badly, so its a sure way to build a grudge).

Marx was cool though (sometimes), and I’ve got some ml comrades who are doing pretty much the right thing, and most importantly: I’d rather be murdered by my hot problematic ex in a few years than some shitty nazi tomorrow. So if there are firing squads for the anarchists, my last wish is that one of my exes do mine, please.

If I get my way, you guys can run the trains.

If none of this makes sense, read some less myopic history. The USSR was unquestionably better than the czarist regime, by a lot, and it was the worst most reactionary group of communists kind of giving communism a bad name by being generally shitty about being bare minimum decent¹. Also the bolsheviks killing all the other communists, not just the anarchists. Yes they moved Russia, technologically, farther in their short life than basically any civilization in history, but they did it by shitting on the core ideas of communism for some peripheral crap Marx said was ‘probably a thing you need sometjing like to get there, I think’. There’s an opportunity cost thing, and I’ll give them more understanding, but they do not get a full pass for bad behavior just because they were communist. What’s the incident where the term ‘tankie’ was born? Remember that one?

Yes they were better than the other world powers, but by as little as they could get away with while still calling themselves communist, like they relished the misery, fetishized the sacrifices, and frequently missed the god damn point. They ruled for a people they weren’t willing to trust or like, a lesson robespierre had already fucking taught us, and that poisoned the idea of communism, or at least the word, for a lot of people. Thats why I still have to call myself an anarchist instead of an anarcho-communist if I want to turn libs.

¹which, yes, set the entire rest of the world against them. They had a few teeeensy difficulties. They still used it as a license to be otherwise just as awful as everyone else, and handled their problems in utterly deplorable ways.

how to convince a liberal people need to eat food or they’ll die

Lock it in a box without food with another lib who’s already been in the box for a week. Let it out when the first one dies. Not sure anything else will work.

Genuinely fucking yes, but its not a strong claim.

These are the monsters the dems surrendered to fascism to protect.

Just ensuring none of us will ever deal with these shit sticks again.

Look, were all in a relationship here, and if that means arranging us by internal volume and voring each other sequentially, maybe with some chanting and killer incense, I think it would be weird of me to be the one who breaks the chain.

Am I enthusiastic? Not really. But I’m willing to give it a shot, just in case its fun, or you enjoy yourselves and its worth. I’m doing this for you.

Well, you do feel better about yourself. And self care is what matters.

They are entitled to us. We do not have freedom of choice, we should take their empty words and be grateful. How dare we not!

We all knew electoralism wouldnt save us.

We all knew the fascists were here.

Now is the time to organize. Well, years ago really, but, now is better than later.

Nothing really changed; the stakes just went up, and a few more masks came off. You still need to organize.

Pass out sandwiches and make the world better. Be the fucking vanguard and set an example. Or do some illegal surrealist street theater/performative crime to nurture the imagination.

Now is the time to act. It will be easier. I promise you can do this. You just need to start, even if you feel silly at first. Use this fracture in normalcy to act.

Nope. I light some incense. You unhinge your jaw and cover me in lube. Might need two tubes of pure oxygento respirate through while you do.

Honestly progressive compared to some of the shit they talk about in silicon valley.

She had several words to say about it. I met a few of her victims. So much fucking removed.

Er, that word gets censored, but its what happens when you put trans people in the wrong gendered prison.

Almost like these people never mattered, dems were never going to do anything for them (us. Shit.) and they just saw them (us. Fuuuuuck) as kind of their fucking property, like they’re fucking entitled to something for nothing.