listen honestly it's great if you're getting deeper into left politics through social media and we're all happy to see you here but if you aren't persistently involved in some sort of real world organisational work that's a problem and it has to change
@kayandskittles
That’s because nobody ever literally laughed their arse off, but ROFL was originally used literally and gradually as people stopped laughing as hard due to the crushing alienation of intensifying capitalist crisis there was a residual discomfort among users with figurative use.
@NyLow9
@allforthanookie
Would argue that it’s not a surprise at all as the sort of people who invest this much in individualist competitions tend not to care about “level playing fields” (in sport or anything else), until it hurts them and then suddenly it’s an existential problem.
@srmilesauthor
@classicide
Money represents not only control over our time, but of someone else’s. Lack of money represents not only lack of control over our own time, but someone else’s control over hours. The rich have EXPONENTIALLY more time than us as a result, without getting into average lifespans.
@roun_sa_ville
Also a great anti-fascist leader. She made a stirring speech saluting allied forces for defeating the Nazis. To learn more, search for “Queen Elizabeth Nazi salute”
@mathaiaus
@Bunkers4All
To be honest, most of their professional international PR these days looks like this too. Time was their operation was slicker, but seemingly anyone with the social acumen to do the job well has grown too ashamed to do the job at all.
@thatoneguy2440
Tell them to read Capital Vol. I
It’s a great read for Marxists of course but economics majors who actually sit down seriously to read it tend to find it accessible and thought provoking.
@kayandskittles
Additionally, the renewed visibility of revolutionary left ideology in the Anglosphere in the same period and under the same conditions gave LMAO a boost:
@rejectHisDesign
It’s also incredible how the people who point this out are accused of “helping the Republicans”, and not the people cheering on the Democrats no matter how identical they are to the Republicans.
@jh_swanson
@oveertlyhonest
And who else automatically got sent to said camps! In all the years of soft Holocaust denial on this site, this may be the most reality-reversed soft Holocaust denial yet!
@WalshFreedom
If Churchill was a "racist", then George Washington was a racist and Thomas Jefferson was a racist, because both owned slaves. Would anyone say that? I certainly wouldn't.
Can you believe some people on the left are surprised this man used to be a Maoist? If you hang around with a lot of Maoists, the more surprising thing is that he’s not still a Maoist.
The trans flag: one set of blue and pink represents transfemme people, while the opposite represents transmasc people, and the white represents peace between them in a united ireland
@NotPotBol
Iranians reading this like “firstly, absurd, transparently propagandistic premise, secondly, why is the Joker dressed like a Bedouin to be the Iranian ambassador, but... yes, it’s true that we love the māhī.”
@tgracchus1848
There’s an old joke which goes, a police officer is beating workers on strike and calling them commie scum, one worker protests as he is beaten “but I’m an anti-communist!” to which the cop replies “I don’t care what kind of communist you are!”
@libyajamahiriya
Amazing that his whole argument boils down to “if the US doesn’t reduce other countries to vassal states, someone else will” because even to the extent that’s true, why should anyone who isn’t already thinking about how the US can control the world care?
@TheCityCat
@cringepolitik
Wouldn’t it be great if they applied these standards in real life and not just when defending the status quo? Like if someone offered them a free sample of food they would slap it out of their hands and scream “DON’T IMPOSE SLAVE-FEED ON ME, TRICKSTER!”
@cringepolitik
It means that in their eyes you as a worker don’t even deserve as much as a prisoner or slave, and also it reminds everyone that prison labour is slave labour.
France is literally taken hostage by the PKK, a Marxist-Leninist terror group outlawed in the whole EU
Its sympathisers have been burning Paris down, setting cars on fire and fighting French police for two days straight now
@mitchellichtman
Has your son tried working for a living, like the rest of us? Seems like he should count his blessings he’s not reduced to that drudgery.
We talk about Israel as an exceptionally bad society a lot—and it is—but this pattern is common to any country with a trend towards fascism entering or well into the mainstream. The fascists call the liberals traitors and the liberals do all they can to be accepted by fascists…
An anecdote about flags and racist liberal Israelis:
Many (most?) of you had heard about the large anti-Netanyahu, supposedly "pro-democracy", protests that swept a significant part of the Israeli public in 2023. But you probably don't know why it was always so full of Israeli
Barely feels worth highlighting at this point but none of this is new. “Communists” who count the Chinese party as “comrades” are like 40 years late on their news.
@PunishedGenetic
Even setting aside the whole “the Bible is a land deed” nonsense, the secular political record is so clear that they still have to constantly appeal to an absurd mythologised history:
@AllezLesBoulez
life in germany most days: “god DAMN fuck this country why does everyone have a cop mentality???”
life in Germany when a question about arresting Israelis is posed: “fuck YEAH God bless this cop country!”
@PunishedGenetic
“So if you think about it, through the Ottoman state’s annexation of Sudan and Palestine, any Palestinian state would be a successor state to Mahdist Sudan, so really the Palestinians started the conflict and Zionism is self-defence.”
An Israeli ex-soldier infiltrated Gaza alone & unarmed to fight Hamas single-handedly
He walked 500 meters unimpeded, then an Israeli drone bombed him into pieces after he changed his mind & walked back
His family: "Why kill an unarmed man? Where are the open-fire regulations?"
@jewdas
Love the subtle implication that blonde Europeans can best prove their commitment to anti-racism by hating Arabs more and not less than average in their countries. Joining the RN to prove you’re part of the anti-racist vanguard in France.
Yes, good point, the Nakba has a lot in common with the Armenian Genocide, in that they are both real genocides which are widely known about but which the perpetrators think they can laugh off as fake while boasting that they’d happily do it again.
@Marxismmmm
So basically, Hegel's logical method conceives of reality in terms of a series of oppositions that people's brains generally conceive of things in: being/nothingness, inside/out, etc. but each of these things are actually defined in opposition to the other
@kayandskittles
That’s because nobody ever literally laughed their arse off, but ROFL was originally used literally and gradually as people stopped laughing as hard due to the crushing alienation of intensifying capitalist crisis there was a residual discomfort among users with figurative use.
and Filipino Maoists and Indian Maoists and Turkish Maoists and Russian Maoists and Bhutanese Maoists and Sri Lankan Maoists and Mexican Maoists and Argentinian Maoists and Afghanistani Maoists and Haitian Maoists and Indonesian Maoists and South African Maoists and Iranian Maois
“Yeah the SPD killed Luxemburg, and they also said putting Hitler in power was no big deal, but they made this poster which implies they fought both with equal ferocity, so you see, ACTUALLY…”
@vindu_mace
@PhilosophyCuck
Not quite. The SPD fought all authoritarians seeking to replace the rule of law with one of political torture and murder. Yes the fought the Communists but not just the Communists.
@nytopinion
@FrankBruni
oh no! was it "screechy" when people made fun of the dead guy whose entire career was belittling everyone who was different to him, to the point of mocking their deaths??? OH NO!
@GirlfriendHaver
@veerbatims
Their wives can sleep with whoever they like consensually and it is not the cops’ job to decide if that’s okay. Only you can consent for you, ladies! Unsurprising though as this sort of attack on women’s sexual agency tend to correlate with the sort of bullies who end up as cops.
PKK: "we didn't do the Istanbul bombing, and our condolences to the victims"
PYD: "we didn't do the Istanbul bombing, and our condolences to the victims"
the bomber: "I'm with the FSA, my family is with the FSA, and I was arrested by the PYD in Syria for that"
@christapeterso
@ChelseaPoe666
If this were almost any other minority group, this would be one of the biggest scandals the BBC has dealt with in years. They will probably not have to deal with it as such, however.
@Danielxrk
@SMohyeddin
incredible what pudding you people have for brains. The tweet is a quote from the article and doesn’t refer to a specific crime, but the Nazi-esque ideology of the camp operators, and you’re like a dumb little hasbara soldier parroting the one ace in the hole you think you’ve got