Anticommunism leads to liberalism or fascism? I'm hearing this for the first time, terrible news, terrible news. It was a great instance, a beautiful instance.
This post was banned from dbzer0 for being "Tankie" lmfao what a joke of a so-called piracy instance
Yeah, I just. It's fucking annoying. To be clear too, from what I've noticed, they benefit from red bashing so I don't think it'll end, only escalate. They get both the social credit of moral purity, and if I'm being honest these are mostly pretty comfortable people who if there was a shakeup of how the economy worked, they would lose out heavily, so they benefit by not having to challenge the hand that feeds them fundamentally.
Yeah, it's depressing as hell. The only "radical" community I know of is overwhelmingly white and filled with these clowns. And it really is just like, a small, annoying, and vocal minority who won't shut the fuck up, but the part that hurts the most is others' indifference to it or eventual compliance after being beat down emotionally. It's making me realizing that recruiting by trying to scrape off the surface of social scenes is maybe a start but not a feasible long term strategy, but, we don't have unions nor connections into them. I feel like we've utterly lost any base as far as I can understand, except for other "intellectuals". We really need to wait until things get far, far worse to begin getting the numbers we need because that's only when our message will resonate, I think, but until then? I'm so fucking lost, personally, but I don't want to depress my comrades with it. This Palestine stuff has been great, but, our victories are for the media, our pressure isn't working. I don't know, I'm so god damn lost.
For the record too, I'm white, I grew up in a small rural town (sub 5k). I've understood the depravity of white people as a result of white supremacy for a while now, but only in short bursts where their mask falls or on an intellectual level. This is the first time I've understood the depravity of whiteness on a real, sustained level. I don't even know how I'd organize outside of that, I don't want to just be like some white person trying to enter other communities I've never been a part of. It's a depressing position, frankly.
Oh wonderful! I thought you'd begun ignoring my messages lmao
Fucking christ, I don't want to doxx myself more than I may have with the crumbs I've left behind on my current account, but, I've had to deal with these god damn losers to much too. I've made myself a pretty public face in a lot of local scenes which contain a lot of white people calling themselves anarchists; and when I joined PSL and started being open about like "Hey we're organizing this for Palestine" I got nothing but hate from these crackers. They're chauvinistic, deluded motherfuckers who pick on women and minorities because it's easier. I genuinely don't know how to deal with these fucking people, it's bizarre, there's so many connections that I considered friends but as soon as I started actually doing what I've been preaching (I've been an open communist for years, everyone knows) I'm suddenly enemy number one. It's been absolutely fucking terrible and has eroded my mental health, for what it's even worth, severely.
Right now I think we're finding that ML organizations are beginning to gain steam because there's people like me who've become completely disillusioned with the anarchist and "horizontal" organizing that's lead to jack and shit getting done or accomplished. ML organizations are the groups which have been able to articulate most meaningfully how this struggle is connected and have, in my experience, worked most successfully with local Palestinian and other anti-imperialist groups; this is why I joined PSL for god's sake! But jokers like this, useless self-defeating white chauvinistic people like this, I don't know what the hell to do with them. If we're not able to get past people like this as a movement for liberation, we'll get nowhere, their anti-intellectualism and adventurist tendencies (as well as general tendency for dramatic bullshit) are so counterproductive that it will lead to a new failed left if there's not a well-reasoned, articulated, and popular resistance against people like this. Fucking sick of it.
Edit: And to add, I've had to deal with so much paternalistic bullshit from white guys in their 30s who consider themselves "very serious organizers" who after lengthy conversations simply fall back onto thought terminating cliches (authoritarianism) or just outright threats of violence towards me and my friends. I have so much frustration built up it's ridiculous, I wish to god there was a clear solution but I nor anyone around me who's in a similar position can articulate it.
I've also had the displeasure of having to deal with these overwhelmingly white anarchist groups. They're by and large useless, not to say that anarchists are useless, but these overly sectarian overwhelmingly white jokers completely are.
No, in my experience, despite anarchists still being the vast majority of the irl left (including sectarian jokers who, in my experience, will limit their work to admittedly awesome adventurist bullshit like this), in my area they completely dropped the ball and haven't sufficiently worked with SJP, whereas PSL has.
Yes but fiat currency has the violent backing of the state. It's not that it means fiat currency is a strictly good thing, it's a tool used by States, but crypto has no state backing (The El Salvador thing is a meme lmao).
I mean I had to lose a lot of money on GME to have some sense knocked into me too, so, I can't blame you at all. I only hope you don't screw yourself over like I kinda did myself lol
Actually all of that is just pretty normal. I'm vegetarian too, but the oddest part was your caginess. Okay but like, genuinely not gonna make fun of you for this, how are you a crypto guy but found hexbear and made an account on it. Like, surely you understand the zeitgeist that exists against crypto, for ecological and anti-gambling/anti-scam reasons. How do you juggle using a leftist space and also being pro-crypto. Like are you literally just personally invested because you stand to gain a lot of money or something? If we're being absolutely clear, I also threw money at a woo woo gambling thing, I lost thousands on GameStop back in the day. Just like, how, I'm not even gonna make fun of you dawg