You should definitely listen to Trillbilly Worker’s Party

Trillbillies is way better

Goddammit norm stay in your lane

100%

Yeahwe may not have institutional power but the only thing keeping some of these fucks safe is our understanding of the limits and futility of adventurism

Honestly that is pretty funny. It sucks but I could not help but chuckle. Hopefully he comes around.

Better than my brother doubling down on transphobia because he “has trans friends who are totally cool with slurs” like bro I assure you they are not.

To be fair even the revolutionaries in China in the 1940s didn’t just kill all the landlords. In fact many of them capitulated and sided with the revolutionaries and were given an equal share in the land redistribution thereafter. We have to remember not to be so bloodthirsty even if the conditions are different here. When the chips fall if there were a powerful left force here in the imperial core there would probably be a similar phenomenon.

Being surrounded by a bunch of communists with guns can be very persuasive.

They frequently call anarchists who are unsupportive of the US state department line on practically anything tankies.

Deeply unserious people that unfortunately do not only exist online.

The meme is well designed, love the chaos star especially and love to see more balaclava girlies. And I can sympathize as I’ve certainly encountered very bizarre takes by terminally online internet leftists in favor of weird shit like being in favor of the Ukraine invasion or thinking the DPRK is some secret paradise.

However, by and large I’ve gotten to the point where anytime I hear the term ‘tankie’ thrown around it feels thought terminating. I’ve been called a tankie for being opposed to the US invading North Korea, or for supporting indigenous land return. But here’s a bigger problem I’ve encountered: I volunteer every week at a local free store run by anarchists and I also have done organizing work with local ML parties. Anytime the local MLs want to get involved in the free store, or collaborating on any mutual aid projects the Anarchists have going on its cold shoulders all around “Oh no, those people are Tankies. We can’t trust them.” It’s gotten to the point where everything is separate and there’s no talking to each other. One time a Communist party member mentioned they knew someone who could do free glasses repair and thought it would be good for them to come to the free store, and when I brought it up folks just didn’t wanna hear it or criticized “the company I keep” as if that would taint them. It’s just disheartening because all these MLs locally are almost all LGBTQ, poor/working class, disabled, etc. Just like the Anarchists and want a lot of the same things. I really think anti-communist propaganda has created such an unnecessary divide in our organizing. I’m not asking folks to all just get along and agree, I want different orgs to have their autonomy and own ways of thought. I would just want people to focus their ire on people who ACTUALLY make life shit for us, especially here in the west, which is our own capitalist state and the capitalist class.

Thank you for indulging me by reading my long silly comment.

I have encountered this sort of thing as well in my grass touching endeavors, and it is really disheartening.

Honestly that would be funny as fuck and not undeserved.

This is exactly correct and describes both parties in the US as well. The old true believers did not actually believe the shit they were peddling but now we have people like MTG as sitting congress members who are true believers of the bullshit their fascist predecessors peddled.

An 18 year old coworker that just started is already taken to my reading list.

As much as I love talking heads I am pretty sure Byrn was a fed asset.

seriously

Tarantulas are super cool though and largely (pun intended) Harmless.

I used to do rock climbing for fun and have climbed some pretty tall mountains but laying down on top of half dome in Yosemite and looking down its face freaked me out.

That first episode twist was masterful

Loved the first season

“In healthy embryos” sounds kinda like erasure of intersex people. You should probably do some self crit on that front.

It is a nonsense term and I am inherently skeptical of any leftist that invokes it. We already have terms like recuperation and cooptation that better describe what you are probably thinking of.

“Identity politics” was literally coined by reactionaries.

Have you ever heard of the 18th brumaire… wait where are you going?