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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
10 months
The implications of this article are pretty grim. It sounds like biden is going to use title vii to pull funding from colleges who don't stop pro Palestinian protests which means colleges will Crack down on protesters and ask cops to cracks down as well
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
In classic neoliberal fashion, biden doesn't seem to want the fed to do the thing he wants done but to cynically use funding and bureaucratic mechanisms to force local and state governments to do it - it is how he forced open schools during the covid waves under his presidency 2
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
@projectethos5 @WomenPostingLs The moment she realized her ancestors were raped by the people who kept them in slavery*
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
Internet maoists would've called sankara a chinese compredore... I'm sure they already call him a bunch of names but they would call him this if he was still alive
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@OldManTankie101
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21 days
"I asked the Jewish partisans whether they accept any responsibility for the holocaust but instead they took me down a history lesson of things I already knew" These people are fucking monsters
@jimsciutto
Jim Sciutto
22 days
I pressed senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan on whether Hamas accepts any responsibility for the loss of civilian life in Gaza, which residents have told CNN they believe it does. He wouldn’t answer and instead took me on a history lesson of events he didn’t know I witnessed
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@OldManTankie101
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2 months
Lenin said marxists should exhaust every avenue of change in order to demonstrate 2 libs the correctness of marxism but 2 many people on here won't even work w their friends and neighbors because they aren't already marxists. "Marxism" to these people is just a way to feel smart
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@OldManTankie101
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19 days
I don't think all this should he boiled down to "mass action v. Direct action" or "Marshals v. Marchers" what it really boils down to is "organization v. Spontaneity" Wreckers are trying to force people into violence w cops w/out warning or planning for how to deal with that
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@OldManTankie101
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6 months
@AresRound3 @doodlesdan Then stop crying about people refusing to vote for someone committing a genocide. If you can win without everyone opposed to genocide than do it and shut up
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
How will china recover from having an affordable housing market
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Rebecca Choong Wilkins 钟碧琪
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China’s housing slump is much worse than official data shows. - Government figures = prices for existing homes dropped 6% since August 2021 - Property agents and private data providers = at least 15% drop in prime neighborhoods of cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen
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@OldManTankie101
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2 months
@ScottFarbman @Imani_Barbarin Ope well in that case I guess it is too late and who is president doesn't really matter - right?
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@OldManTankie101
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6 months
@SwampCommunist The last time I got polled on my cell phone I laughed and said "I'm a marxist leninist" and the lady said "ok? Um... I'll put you down as very liberal" 🤷
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
Also also watch this amazing interview from last week with the national chair of @uspcn who have been organizing huge and amazing protests in support of the liberation of Palestine!
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@OldManTankie101
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2 months
If you are in that weird ACP thing or following vocal people on here who are, I'm going to unfollow you because I don't respect you if you are even tangentially related to that money laundering, republican light, careerist nonsense
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
@eanicus @RefuseRaccoon @TheOmniLiberal Dude who defends white supremacy has a profile picture of a white supremecist 🤣🤣🤣 tooooo funny!
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@OldManTankie101
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7 months
@yesokyeahsure @tshugart3 "The 1 easy trick to save on travel insurance that the US doesn't want you know"
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@OldManTankie101
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19 days
Without mass actions I wouldn't have been able to even start organizing. My kid is older now, but he came to everything i did when he wasn't as did my wife etc. We aren't building a fight club - we are building a party for the entire class, including families and disabled people
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
"Marxists shouldn't join any organization because they are all revisionist, manipulative, and just trying to get your money - also dont forget to like and subscribe and consider signing up for patrion page so we can win the revolution one youtube click at a time" 💀
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@OldManTankie101
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19 days
Recently I've seen a growing sentiment on here of "fuck the masses" but I didn't think it would turn into "only able bodied adults who are physically prepared to fight cops and can afford to get arrested are allowed to take part in the struggle" But here we are
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@OldManTankie101
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9 months
Someone on Facebook just accused the "houthis" of committing genocide against the "tutsi" and I don't think I've seen a better representation of how bad the US media has failed at informing people about what is happening re Yemen generally
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@OldManTankie101
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9 months
@Lisasmi03470723 @Pointeh @hrjm69 @freddiesayers @AllisonPearson @BBCNews They'll bomb that too in short order and claim it was a valid target. They've been doing it over and over again.
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@OldManTankie101
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19 days
I WISH 17k people could be deployed for a yellow action. It would bring tears of joy to my eyes But that isnt what happened and tricking people into it isnt how we get to a point where it could happen We bring people in by keeping people safe- not by throwing them to the wolves
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@OldManTankie101
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2 months
Ultra leftism is rejecting the necessary work of building revolution because it offends your high minded ideals Ultra leftism isn't correctly recognizing that the US is a prison house of nations and uniting with the struggle against national oppression
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
@PolybiusChamp @shane_bauer @lwoodhouse There would be multiple explosions of distinct size. There were no secondary explosions
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
@mageta649 @codet_t It so bizzar that this is true. I had a zionist student tell me that "israelis" view European jews as weak for "allowing the Holocaust to happen to them" once and I was so flabbergasted, I was speechless
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@OldManTankie101
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9 months
@HenMazzig Because they didn't drug them and that is obvious to anyone not paid to pretend otherwise
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
@crystal4obama @CommunityNotes Yeah and if protesting in support of Palestine is considered anti Semitic and can be used to file a complaint under title VI then it can be used as pretext to pull funding forcing the school to stop protests against genocide. Read what u just wrote in context Hence "implication"
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
@AlexRobotic1 @aseitzwald @shaqbrewster @kailanikm So either support someone who is waging a holocaust against Palestinians or one who supports Muslim bans? Is this really the choice you are laying out there?
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@OldManTankie101
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4 months
@N_inaB @TNGoldenBoy @jaysullivancool They pretend to be the victims otherwise. That's the point and exactly how the occupation functions as well.
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@OldManTankie101
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18 days
Marshals didn't let zionists harass people in the march either... no one tell the anarchists
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@OldManTankie101
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19 days
Just to have a post to share when ultras claim bullshit: No one was kettled at the March on the DNC Marshals did great getting between cops/wreckers & marchers which y they're there The march was a huge success w thousands of people telling the dnc we will not support genocide
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@OldManTankie101
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19 days
Anyone who has ORGANIZED a direct action has seen the real discussions that go on in the background about going to jail and jail support etc. That is how organized direct action happens - not by shoving a grandmother face first into the cops
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@OldManTankie101
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@Solidarity_Star FRSO has the best theory of revolution and is actively putting it into practice with a functioning dem cent structure and multiple levels of membership which creates room for those who aren't able to be as active as others. I recommend every ML join FRSO.
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@OldManTankie101
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
@32digits @eanicus @RefuseRaccoon @TheOmniLiberal Measuring a racial groups worthiness to have rights based on how respectfully they struggle for it white supremacy. Glad i could clear that up for you
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@OldManTankie101
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4 months
@NobleQAli You're wrong on this one. It is so completely out of the ordinary that it is itself a feat of note. If he drops 1 more he arguably has an LP dropped in a week
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@OldManTankie101
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4 months
More Jewish civilians were kidnapped by the cops last night than by hamas on October 7th.
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@OldManTankie101
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9 months
@555_Puddin I see only wrong people have commented so far. To be the first not ridiculous person to comment: China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, and the DPRK are curerently existing socialist countries.
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@OldManTankie101
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9 months
Thinking "israel owns the US government" is not only wrong and based on an anti semetic trope but it also is apologia for the US imperialists and counter revolutionary in where it places the main ire of our fight.
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@OldManTankie101
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2 months
@DanBiancoNYC @ScottFarbman @Imani_Barbarin Weird how only the republican justices voluntarily retire while the liberal ones wait until they die huh?
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
10 months
@elizabeta_film @Bryainiac @saturns_hyades @blakeflayton He was also indigenous to the region and not a colonialist from Europe or the US. While we are denoting things about him.
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@OldManTankie101
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2 months
Seeing people on my timeline fighting about which small group is the "real communist party" is like waking up to a really depressing cup of coffee Neither of u r the "real communist party" there is no "real communist party" in the US & doing what u're doing isnt going to build 1
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
15 days
Frso in the news making reactionaries angry
@MaElviraSalazar
María Elvira Salazar 🇺🇸
17 days
People romanticize socialism in theory, but in practice, it leads to misery. Just ask my constituents! The youth romanticizing socialism are lucky to have free speech in the USA; under socialism, they could never!
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@OldManTankie101
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7 months
@BadSocialisms @EdbieLigerSmith Most farmers are at least petit bourgeois in the US; the overwhelming majority of Americans are proletariat.
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
As the revolution took shape stalin made the point that the more support the revolution has the less amount of violence will be needed to overthrow the state - he said marxists should avoid fetishizing violence.
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@OldManTankie101
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4 months
@OfHomoSapiens @jerlevi It is literally legally battery and using physical force is legally self defense. Unwanted touching of your person or anything on your person is battery and you can use reasonable force to defend yourself against it.
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
What's it going to be liberals, do you support Palestine or genocide? You can't pick both.
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@OldManTankie101
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8 months
Reminder that we actively support the victory of one side. We don't oppose war as an abstract or support "peaceful" occupation, exploitation, and oppression. We understand that war can only be abolished through war.
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
Maybe don't support genocide? Good on those students for holding the person lecturing them accountable
@sfmcguire79
Steve McGuire
10 months
The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.
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@OldManTankie101
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8 months
@NathanJRobinson They've thrown in the towel. I'm convinced at this point that they don't want or expect to win. The genocide of Palestinians is more important to their interests than winning and they know they need a republican to do it without outright ending their party.
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@OldManTankie101
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15 days
trots holding FRSO as important enough to call for us to be abolished is a win. Trots hating something is a sign the masses like something
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@OldManTankie101
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@drawn_daggers So don't come to the protest
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
@Solidarity_Star It's a children's book written by a racist, homophobic, anti communist cop... It is Harry Potter for people who grew up before harry potter
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@OldManTankie101
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@CallaWalsh Palestinians don't have a right to have a peaceful protest? What chauvanist buffoonery is this?
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Mr. Tank E. Talk
1 year
@MaryGao So y was poverty so drastically reduced in China while growing in the US and other places? Is ur argument that Chinese people r just more hardworking or ? Seems like an odd argument when the government's policies would appear to he specifically aimed at achieving the outcome
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@OldManTankie101
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9 months
@ChannaHelaZiyon @FuzzyPiano1 @bookdellector Like those 3 who were killed waving a white flag recently, right! Oh wait, that was the idf killing civilians like the person said above. 🤷‍♂️
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
A major shout out to all of my mutuals who have organized, attended, or materially supported pro Palestine protesters over the last couple weeks. You're amazing; you're proletariat heroes and comrades; keep fighting! We have a world to win.
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@OldManTankie101
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5 months
What frustrates me about ultra leftists isn't that they represent some other path of struggle that I merely don't agree with. It is that they represent NO path forward because for all of their bluster in dismissing the actual work getting done they never DO anything but complain
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@OldManTankie101
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3 months
A marxist not in an organization is like a flower without roots. Podcasts, fan clubs, and purely reading groups don't count - that's like be a flower without roots placed in a cup with no water.
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@OldManTankie101
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I try to avoid anarchists on here and going through quote tweets of posts about yesterday is reminding me why. Least serious people
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@OldManTankie101
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And that isn't to say we can control the cops but we all say fuck the cops when they beat up anyone for any reason. The divide is whether we believe in organizing foreseeable confrontations w them or just try to force people into it. The latter alienates people
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@OldManTankie101
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You know what a marxist is called who disregards the importance of winning over and serving the masses and thinks they are some kind of lone soldier super revolutionary. A liberal Don't be a liberal
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
@32digits @eanicus @RefuseRaccoon @TheOmniLiberal Well black people still are treated as second class citizens and you are still arguing that their tactics are why just as white supremecists always have. Hence blah blah blah you know what you're doing
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11 days
Haywood noting that the US NEEDS a strategic alliance between the nat oppressed and multi nat wc is important for a bunch of reasons but one that I think a lot of people - both ultras and rightists - ignore is the point is that neither can have a successful rev without the other
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
5 months
@geofffhughes Cops are in both pictures - they're just not in uniform in one of them.
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
10 months
"Israel isn't committing a genocide!" Then what are they doing? A month in & they've achieved nothing but murdering civilians and destroying civilian infustructure? Using modern guided weapons, they've done nothing but what someone would do if their goal was to commit a genocide
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
I'm looking for about 2500 friends. I'm that old man - tankie... my account got hacked and deleted.
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@OldManTankie101
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2 months
In Left Wing Com. Lenin points out the distinction between something being theoretically irrelevant and practically irrelevant. This is a really important lesson for ML to keep in mind. Just because something isn't relevant to U doesn't mean is has become irrelevant to the masses
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@OldManTankie101
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3 months
I think stalin was right in marxism and the national question and I think haywoods writing pretty neatly explains how the black belt fits it. The critiques I've seen of the former seem tangential at best and critiques of the latter are usually just white chauvanism
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@OldManTankie101
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4 months
@micahinATL I hope the flames are ok
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6 months
@VisionofT @briebriejoy Netanyahu is from Philadelphia. Isn't he American?
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
The idf doesn't believe over a million people can just get up and pack into a small area with already over a million people in it Their order is a sarcastic joke they came up with when some western countries told them to minimize civilian casualties
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
Most countries r turning their back to the US in the UN, diplomats r saying relationships w the gs are irrevocablly destroyed, bidens own staff is asking 4 forgiveness 4 working w him. No one believes Israel didn't bomb that hospital
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
@AlexRobotic1 @aseitzwald @shaqbrewster @kailanikm Lmao yikes. And you'll claim they voted against their best interests while admitting one side is COMMITTING A GENOCIDE.
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
I'm sitting in class reading about a hospital being bombed, seeing over the shoulders of my classmates that they're playing video games, while my teacher talks about contract damages and I'm getting kind of freaked out at the juxtaposition of it all
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
@elizabeta_film @Bryainiac @saturns_hyades @blakeflayton There are Jewish and Christian Palestinians and they are slaughtered by the occupation along with the Muslim Palestinians. Religion isn't the defining characteristic - colonization is.
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@OldManTankie101
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1 year
I joined FRSO during the struggle for cpac right before the unity ordinance of ecps was won. Correct analysis and application of the Nat Q was a big part of this historic victory. I wanted to be a part of an org that sets material goals and wins - I've never felt disappointed
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@OldManTankie101
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10 months
For those who don't get it - the hostage trade is a huge victory for the resistance. It is the deal they demanded weeks ago. It is the product of "israel" achieving nothing in the way of military objectives because of the resilience of the Palestinian people.
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
1 year
A few weeks ago there was discourse about the need to put theory into practice because devoid of practice theory can lead to a blind allies that hinder practical work - the last week I've seen people use theory to make excuses for why they cannot take part in practical work
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@OldManTankie101
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9 months
The only way to believe the "left" is full of purely online, unserious, people is to admit that your only exposure to ML is being online. There are active, principled, and militant ML revolutionaries all over the country doing more work than any1 could reasonably expect.
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@OldManTankie101
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We have "marxists" in the US who unabashedly take the position that the genocide of Palestinians is not only fine but MUST be actively supported because the alternative is fascism in the United States. Just sit and think about that for a second.
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@OldManTankie101
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@JoshLeopol38328 @AssalRad They are. This is the US saying they won't abide by it, just like the occupation is, in more acceptable language.
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@OldManTankie101
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5 months
"🤔I'm starting to think these college kids didn't just go grab the camping gear they had in their garage. What is this, some kind of planned protest tactic and not a spontaneous camping trip?! 😡" - this clown
@BruceInMiami
MiamiBruce🇺🇸🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈
5 months
Something odd about those campus tent encampments. Almost all the tents are identical - same design, same size, same fresh-out-of-the-box appearance. Which suggests that rather than an organic process, some organization has supplied them and organized the event.
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@OldManTankie101
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@DanteAtkins @lucehoneychurch But he isn't. That's the point. You just said exactly the point under a post where you pretend you don't
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
10 months
Statement from the Palestinian leadership of the Alliance in support of Frank Chapman's statement
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@OldManTankie101
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11 months
Or if hamas had done nothing. Or if hamas didn't exist. Or if hamas was made up of nothing but clones of Gandhi, mlk, and Mandela. Etc etc etc Complete genocide and ethnic cleansing is and has been the goal of zionism since its inception
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an actual goblin
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israel still would've flattened gaza even if hamas had only killed soldiers
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@OldManTankie101
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I'm considering restarting my youtube channel but then I see any other ML streamer and really don't want to be anywhere near to being in that company.
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@OldManTankie101
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4 months
Since, "what even is class?" Discourse is happening. Here is how the frso program goes over it which i find very helpful. Monopoly capitalists:
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@OldManTankie101
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The history of frso is really interesting.
@NCMEnjoyer
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Family Tree of FRSO, simplified and less simplified. Obviously has flaws (trying to shoehorn in a way to talk about the ORU's technical connection the the old CP was a non-starter and arguably the RWH was founded in '77 as a faction) but still better than the old ones.
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@SwampCommunist I picked the wrong one. The correct strategy is to struggle along side the masses and internally in mass orgs with the masses to demonstrate the correctness of marxism. I think that is better represented by the first option
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
10 months
The Palestinian resistance achieved more military goals in 12 hours on 10/7 using guns you can buy at walmart in texas and gluiders than "israel" has in 5 weeks using the most sophisticated military tech the west has to offer.
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
10 months
@ellethescorpio @nypost Wants to press charges because Karen had a bad day dream about someone pulling a knife which never happened 🙄
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
1 year
Anyone telling you to not organize is an agent of reaction; if they're trying to get paid for telling you that, they're at best an opportunist. Join frso and actively struggle along side the masses in a mass org as well.
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
10 months
There are no shortcuts to winning over the masses. u can call for a general strike until u're blue in the face, if the workers don't trust u it doesn't matter. u can proclaim urself the king of any kind of struggle you want, but if the masses don't trust you, it doesn't matter
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@OldManTankie101
Mr. Tank E. Talk
6 months
@VisionofT @briebriejoy I was born on a cruise ship. Am I from the ocean? You're from the country your parents left to occupy Palestine, clown.
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