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It’s not like we’re discussing anything too serious on there.

Additionally like the about page on the Substack says: “but this will change as we are currently building a self-hosted server to fulfill our goals while having control over our organizing without a major corporation having access.”

I really can’t understand where this concept comes from because I’ve been up and down the East coast of the US and I’ve talked with a lot of different communities. I’ve found more listening ears and sympathetic people in the hoods, rural communities, impoverished suburbs, etc.

Is there reactionaries? Yes, of course, but the amount who actually want to harm people vs the amount who are relatively good, have no idea about politics, or are willing to hear out your side is vastly stark. Arguably 30/70, or even 50/50 if we are being vague. It also depends on where you go, I’ve found far more enemies in the gentrified downtowns of blue states than I have heavily mixed rural southern towns. Same with the mostly liberal colleges vs the impoverished suburbs.

The big thing is so many get caught up in the frequency illusion, especially with social media. The loudest and most annoying reactionaries online say the most insane shit because they feel untouchable and like they can get away with it, but that doesn’t automatically translate to irl daily life. Those loud mfs are loud for a reason, they compensate for their lack by functioning off bias & anger and only invite the unhinged like them. Most people are not that invested, often because they have too much going on in their own lives or rely on establishment beliefs, or even no beliefs because they’re disillusioned by the system and checked out of it all (which is a large chunk of the US rn).

America may have its higher than usual amount of reactionaries, but that’s because we are a safe haven for them. At the end of the day there is far more potential allies than there is enemies and giving into the political nihilism and doomerism that “everyone is bad” is simply suicidal and unrealistic.

Agreed

I ain’t replying to all this because it would be pointless with a random who isn’t even engaging in a left-wing space like anyone else. The way you act on here, which is the little I can go by, makes me believe this is a fed account just trying to waste my time and further influence random viewers in this site because the feds know we’re by and large heavily influenced by random people who are assumed “Left.” The only few things I will reply to is:

“Defensive posturing aside, it does not seem that your organization is prepared for even comradely criticism” Nothing of what you’ve said in these two comments was “comradely ciriticism,” it was contrarian, dismissive and condescending. Additionally, criticism is done in private among the group itself, as is seen from theory & past examples of communist organizations. Otherwise every little outside criticism can comes from both comrade and cops infiltrating circles online. If we was to have some kind of formal communication and met and knew the work we’ve done, then your criticism would be welcomed - otherwise you’re a stranger online, nothing to distinguish you from an actual comrade or a cop besides the comments, tone, or posts you leave.

The only thing that makes it appear as “comradely” is that latter comment regarding it because it’s a softer tone than the rest of your statements across both comments.

“That’s not a thing. There are communist approaches to theory and praxis and they vary a bit.” Yes there is and its well documented, and while they may vary, they don’t vary by much if you’ve done any kind of reading.

“but you don’t think the feds would target you?” You’re going to be targeted for being a communist in general regardless if you’re online or offline, militant or pacifist. The options is either stay in the shadows and work with a tiny circle with limited reach, don’t organize at all, or be active and use all tools available. You’re arguing for the first which is backwards in this day and age. You call to a past that has moved tf on. Either advance with time or stay irrelevant.

““fill out this form with your personally identifying info”” There is multiple ways to limit using personal information from aliases, burner numbers, privacy focused emails, etc. As schizo as many of us in the cyber security Left are, we aren’t anywhere to the level you are, you need to chill. You have no idea the amount of data the state collects from the average person that it can’t functionally comb through even with AI as whistleblowers have said. If you expect to be perpetually anonymous in a state like the US where even hackers know that’s impossible, I don’t know what to tell you. The most we can do is be as anonymous as possible to force the state to exhaust resources. You have far more to worry about from the fascist groups working in the dark than you do the state because if the state wants to find out something they will exhaust resources to try and do so. Just having any connection to the internet is a danger if you’re that worried about this, but that’s the point of mitigation, prevention and obfuscation.

Additionally, not doing any kind of interview with people to know what you’re dealing with is exactly why the Left has an issue with infiltration because you mfs keep arguing to not vet people coming into things and wonder why shit goes south.

“Those who are most interested in “gun culture” are mostly reactionaries. They inflate their hobby into an identity, generally by definition by a juxtaposition of who they are not. Going after “gun culture” accordingly reads as tailist, as if they are your audience. I would hope that in reality, you want a different thing to exist as a result of your work and that it would not be “gun culture”, like communist organizations trained in firearms.” This whole section is glowy. I don’t give af that you don’t give af. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this but the nations conditions doesn’t care about your feelings on this matter when clearly the cultures and conditions formed under them need to be infiltrated by the Left. The Left, which has historically been militant and armed, needs a return to that and we happen to be in one of the nations with a pro-gun culture that needs to be seized by the Left and oppressed communities.

“that also keeps membership lists” Literally every single organization since the Bolsheviks kept membership lists to keep in contact with people. Your obsession with this is counter to history, efficiency and material reality.

“bad infosec and presumably opsec given the location and pictures.” As someone who heads the topic of infosec & OPSEC, has wrote about it, and teaches people about it, I say this firmly when I say you have not even the slightest idea what you’re talking about here. There is almost nothing you can get from that photo or any of our content because we go through a rigorous process to keep it that way.

“local community safety” except it’s not. We are a national org who are building cells and training people outside our primary state. The Maoist “form a local cell and build from there” doesn’t work in conditions of this size and stature.

“You do normal organizing work. It is harder work than anything you’re describing but it is much more productive.” As we have done before because of our involvement across the US, “normal organizing” isn’t just the fancy idea you have in your head, its everything that organizes people online and offline to do events, build programs, fight for victories people want, and so on. We have far more skin in the game than you think and I’m not here to appeal to a random who came at us negatively.

“1: Your organization lacks discipline in how it communicates externally (a basic communist org practice), letting members vent without principal instead. This is a baby leftist mistake. 2: Your organization does have this discipline and this is what it came up with through deliberation.” We aren’t a communist party, we aren’t running for elections or local boards - we aren’t limited in how we present ourselves or do the liberal “polite politics,” we are militant and keep it that way. The organization has discipline, yes, but this is solely, as one of the heads of leadership, my response to you. I have the same tone and approach given to me by both the old Leninist vanguard who taught me and the veterans I’ve been around and organized with against war. I don’t know you, you came at us harsh, and you’re upset I matched energies. And as I said earlier, there is literally nothing to distinguish you from a comrade or a cop; and I’ve dealt with plenty online & offline people, and factions in my previous organization, to know who is genuine and who gives off weird ass vibes.

Trust me I fully understand. Between my content, work, Red Rifle Collective, and the think tank - I have no free time, and honestly I am happy since political work is my love. I hope you can in the future, we’d love the extra hands with this project.

I fully agree and I’d love your involvement with the work we’re doing in this. I don’t know if you saw the Redline Media invite link at the bottom of the piece but that is where we’re working from temporarily until we move to self-hosted servers. We need as many people involved in this project as much as possible.

Idk if you’ve been in literally any Communist organization but almost every one uses historic terms like “politburo.” Especially if they’re Leninist. Hamas has a politburo, are they larpy?

If you think groups like ours, a community defense group, a organization that is barely different from SRA (despite we aim to do more in training and community work than they do), shouldn’t advertise I literally have no idea what you expect from us because we aren’t doing underground crazy shit like feds would expect from the kind of behavior you’re demanding. Not to fedjacket, but if the shoe fits. Which I mean for a 5 year old account that has 1 post and over 300+ comments it feels like that.

I find it funny how you talk about infosec and opsec like we don’t go to extreme strides since majority of our leadership is also tech & cyber security people because we’ve been organizing for over a decade.

It’s weird you make comments like this because the Left as a whole needs to learn how to protect itself and be involved with groups that serve to protect communities, crackdowns are just more a reason to protect ourselves. How are we to get the Left to do that if we don’t advertise? Do you think it just happens magically? Are you so scared of crackdowns that you think we should stay scared in the dark? Where is your backbone like the Left always had?

“but it is not essential for praxis unless you are defending groups in an organized way” have you learned nothing from the “theory & praxis” method? You can not protect communities without study and practice, you can not let alone protect yourself in a successful way without theory and praxis. Do you want gun culture to always be right-wing and scare off those who need guidance most on using lethal and less than lethal ways to survive?

What you are arguing, at the end of the day, is for any group in the Left involved with guns to stay in the dark and away from the majority of the Left who needs the training, and for communities in need of a Left gun group to learn from to go without. This is at least liberalism and at worse fed behavior. Go touch grass.

I use both. I use Linux, element, and signal for my computer, communications and planning with the comrades, and the popular social media’s specifically for propaganda and reaching out to comrades to bring into the organizations our group is building.

Ok

Everything you said I fully agree with and it’s why, as someone deeply studied and experienced in social media and various IT issues, me and my comrades are building what we are building. I have my think tank which deals with a lot of these issues, and then my comrade has our IT agency for teaching on the issues of cyber security, websites, etc. Both of our organizations will bleed over to each other at times but that was the intended purpose.

A piece I posted back in April, which is something I’ve been discussing with them for a year or two now, is “the biggest weak points in the Left” and it goes over some of this. It’s why we are building as much as we can and inviting as many into it as we can because we need to solve these issues. https://islamicsocialist.substack.com/p/the-biggest-weak-points-of-the-us

That’s awesome, thank you for it being made, we needed our own space for video content.

Which can only really happen with a primary space sharing tips and tactics to do so without as much or any censorship. That’s why I made Redline Media Institute. And for the rest of the Left who doesn’t make content, that’s what spaces like this one and the others is for. A place to speak freely and plan and then know how to carry ourselves on the corporate sites as we spread influence.

Facts, this was exactly what I did after I studied theory and got self-activated to organize with the organizations I belonged to.

I never said not to use popular social medias, but to use them specifically for the purpose of spreading ideology. The sites like this one where we aren’t censored or as censored need to be spaces of planning, discussion and getting propaganda. Then we should go to popular socials specifically to spread these beliefs and propaganda into communities outside our own echo chambers.

“You need to see every corner of the internet as a city to influence and people to bring towards the movement as best as possible. That’s our biggest weak point in the Left in terms of influence, the lack of mass mobilization and spread of influence.”

Oh that’s awesome! I didn’t know that. You the one who made it?

I have been saying this for a while and it’s why I made Redline Media Institute. I’m not going to just wait for the Left to come around, I’m going to help build.

We need a wide range of different propaganda for different purposes. Our group has guides on social media strategy, psychological warfare, and memetic warfare.

We have and need more propaganda centered on left-wing communities - defending AES, talking about Marxist economics and philosophy, theory, etc.

We need propaganda for the progressives to move them left - micro-dosing ideology, challenging liberal notions, etc.

We need propaganda to influence normies to the left, usually a combination of the previous two but in smaller micro-doses and said as a passing piece in content that isn’t even political.

Like I said “What makes a pipeline a pipeline is the many entry points into it that leads to specific political communities.” We need to pull in people from anywhere.

Thank you! If you can, share it around.

Thank you for the list of people, some I follow, some new ones I need to follow.

I’m sorry but that’s just wrong. I’ve been writing on Substack for 2 years now and the majority of that site is left-leaning or left-wing people. Content creators and regular readers. Just my newsletter has gone from 400 to 1,580 in a year.

Even if it was, and the case for Rumble, I do not agree with this notion that because it is dominant with the right that it can’t be used if its a low-censorship site with no specific political devotion. You’re just arguing to leave spaces online untouched by our infiltration and means to radicalize people away from reactionary backwardness, which is basically a spit in the face to what Mao said. We did that before irl and it’s one of the biggest reasons the influence/power vacuum in rural communities openned up and was quickly influenced by far-right efforts to divide political beliefs between the cities (left) and rural communities (right) - that tactic is so well known its mentioned by the far-right in their own propaganda.

And I gave my Rumble as an example, I’ve got blatant left-wing content on there, I just don’t post video stuff consistently and don’t have the tech yet to do streaming (despite I plan to). https://rumble.com/c/c-2318824

Rumble has such a low censorship that I uploaded blatant Hamas propaganda to test the waters and it’s still up: https://rumble.com/v4ltle2-our-beloved-ones-by-shadi-al-bourini-palestine-resistance.html

Like I said at the bottom of the article: “We need entry points, propaganda spreaders, into every space across the internet. Nothing should be out of our reach.”