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  • As a political force in the United States there is no left. The left is structurally shut out of power.

    If you don’t think the right has message board arguments about what flavor of right wing is better, calling eachother RINO, saying that SS style Nazi guys should be Deus Vult style Nazi guys, or how frens and groypers are cringe or how parroting Mitch McConnell makes someone dumb you just haven’t talked to or seen right wingers talk to each other.

    Comparing apples and oranges is the most common thing that happens when this kind of shit pops off because it helps diffuse the actual conversations we could have. You see it all in this thread about how for some people Hasan is a large portion of “the left” simply because he’s popular and that’s all they know. These people don’t have real world experience, they get their ideas from online. They’re no different than Kamala Redditors who thought that everyone was going to vote for Kamala because they were too online and instead there was a red wave.

    The reality of these types of conversations is that most online leftists don’t have the theoretical backing to grapple with these types of questions and when the accusations are levied against a popular leftist that makes money off of their popularity it’s in their self interest to shut that shit down in any way possible and that’s what you end up seeing.


  • The more stable, self-sufficient, and financially solvent I became, the more I found myself ostracized by the left

    I’m also in the tech sector and I’ve been part of local leftist organization. From direct mutual aid to anarchist crust punks to soup kitchens to PSL, I’ve literally never had a problem. Not to turn this into Blind dot com, but my net worth is ~3x the US median.

    The difference between Hasan and I, is that Hasan is a poster boy for the left that is making money off of being a poster boy for the left. Nobody is “pocket watching” you as a rando online or in person. Nobody is putting you on trial for your success. That argument is literally the same argument that Elon Musk and other Billionaires make about being punished for their success.

    If you’re attempting to show your class traitor bona fides and defending Hasan as one at the same time, but it’s sounding a lot more like solidarity with the moneyed class. Your resentment is showing.

    Wearing decent clothes would get me side-eyed by those who insist on black bloc.

    Also wtf does this even mean? People don’t dress black bloc for every day dude.








  • South Korea is an even deeper oligarchy than the US. All Yoon has to do is secure the majority of that oligarchy’s opinion and they will essentially enforce the political line through the chaebols (family owned megacorps) they control. Chaebols have immense power over normal people because they’re effectively the only way to be upper-middle/middle class in Korea. Chaebol employment practices are obscene to the point where you can be not hired/fired for being ugly which is why SK has such a high rate of plastic surgery.

    There’s a real play here. The jury is still out if it’s “enough”. You can’t really “vote away” martial law in SK, in the same way you cannot legislate the President to be ethical in the US. Most of the real politics of capitalist societies don’t happen in senate chambers, they happen in backrooms.

    Edit: and it looks like the coup fell apart





  • I think this is a magnitude and direction argument.

    Fashion is changing direction still, however it’s cultural magnitude is much lower because “out of date” styles don’t actually stop being produced.

    The other issue is that for RTW there’s not really any significant mainstream evolution of new clothing, people aren’t really mainstreaming tech wear, they’re mainstreaming tech-wear lite for the finance bro office.



  • Yeah the problem with living in capitalist hellworld at the heart of the empire is that you have two separated insular communities of leftists that are knife fighting rings. One in meetings and one on message boards, and they frequently know nothing about each other.

    While the meetings communists sometimes eke out wins like Kshama Sawant, they often struggle to connect to the message board communists who really should be their base. Meanwhile both struggle to connect to society at large.

    What’s really funny is that most meetings communists I know locally essentially think of him in essentially the same way message board communists think of AOC. Most meetings communists cannot stand his level of yadda yadda when pressed on any specifics he often just goes more general and says things like ‘I just want everyone to have healthcare bro’.


  • Because this is a plain instance of him not being a class traitor to further his own career and desires.

    The reality of the “stop pocket watching” argument that Hasan has successfully deployed on his fans and friends is that it’s the same argument every rich person pulls out when you question how they spend their money and what that practically says about their place and ideas for society at large.

    My argument isn’t that “people shouldn’t live in LA” (okay fine maybe it is a little). My argument is that Hasan made the same choice that every influencer makes.

    Beyond the very obvious influencer argument, how exactly do you think that upper middle class comes to support capitalism as a whole? They get addicted to their level of consumption like every wealthy class has done for millennia.

    So the underlying argument there isn’t “Hasan doesn’t deserve nice things”, it’s that “Hasan’s appetite for nice things is a form of class expression” and there is a point of where that class expression and the addiction to consumption overrides any “do socialism” argument that you say on stream.

    This is literally how the nomenklatura got fat in the USSR, they didn’t have streams but they had their local, national, and general assembly soviets. Every post-Soviet person knows an uncle who was a party apparatchik and stopped saying “do socialism” the moment the wall came down, and he was one out of maybe two/three guys in your whole extended family who happened to have a car prior to 1995. I have 3 of such uncles and 2 of them aren’t even blood relatives.

    Y’all are getting wrecked by the same attitudes that wrecked the USSR and y’all don’t even have state capitalism with socialist characteristics.

    The real problem here is that Hasan doesn’t admit these things. Hasan can’t admit these things because he doesn’t know these things. Hasan is very limited in his knowledge of “socialism”, he’s a guy who just says shit on stream. Being a class traitor is a cool coat he wears along with all his other cool coats.

    I struggle to even call myself a class traitor despite the fact that I have Eastern European thrift embedded so deeply in my veins that I live way below my means. Guess what class expression doesn’t stop there. Being thrifty doesn’t stop you from being compromised by your class. That money doesn’t sit under my mattress it’s invested, which means I’m in a class of people who not only will have private money for retirement but I’m invested in the outcomes of the market like every upper middle class person.

    So I’m sorry that I don’t buy the whole class traitor shit, because neither the fans giving him that title nor he can actually untangle and explain his place in the world beyond saying “stop pocket watching”. It’s one thing to call yourself a class traitor because you bought a cool eat the rich shirt, it’s another thing to actually take inventory of your life and apply socialist theory to figure that out.


  • This is a good case for it being a formerly captive animal - it might just perceive humans as nbd. A mountain lion would probably be far more aware of humans in its vicinity than the inverse. But if it was a young one, who knows.

    The problem is that this is NE. in NE we have a really high rural population density compared to the rest of the country. Our animals are very much attuned to living with humans. Our wildlife politics in the past years have had issues with this because city people moving to rural NE often have to contend with newer “friendlier” generations of black bears and that makes them go insane for whatever reason despite the fact that black bears are just big racoons.

    There was a Mountain Lion that was smashed on the highway in Milford CT 13 years ago. Milford is not rural and stuck between two cities. The mountain lion likely got trapped because there’s a way to get to the place that it was through open space and rural towns.

    When the state researched they found that “it was from South Dakota”, but that’s some bullshit because they typically only travel 100 miles form their habitat and what they mean by “from South Dakota” was that it’s DNA matches to a high percentage to DNA of a SD Mountain Lion population. It’s the same way that Haredi Jews in the US are “from Eastern Europe” if you ran the DNA the same way.

    There’s just missing data and the NE states don’t care to fund ecological research to put the question to bed because it’s expensive.