• CriticalResist8A
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    Hey Global Network, you know you can just send me a DM and I’ll explain everything you want to know? Why does nobody ever do that? Is this how ‘research’ is conducted nowadays?

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      It’s wild how liberal journos do all those ethnographic interviews of fascist groups but don’t seem to do the same for communists nearly as often.

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        You’re right, they go out there and meet incels and fascists and try to dress the portrait of the “misunderstood kid”, meanwhile we get reduced to a congealed mass that exists solely on the computer screen (but is somehow still very dangerous)

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          I can’t say it would be a good use of your time (arguably, it would be actively detrimental to us all) but you probably could get a response if you reached out to the people who did this paper, if you were interested.

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            We should instead publish our own response paper accusing them of being tankies. That’s a thing academics do, right? Like diss tracks?

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              Yeah, a “Poverty of Philosophy” type beat, except they have given us so little to work with that it would be difficult to make anything substantial.

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              Major “The Incoherence of the Incoherence” vibes