They did, wisely (as stupid as the whole ordeal was), wait until it was over the ocean, instead of shooting it down over one of the most densely populated areas in the country.

I think the days of being able to gather all of our news on one mega-platform like Twitter or Reddit are over. There are important accounts which are only on telegram, only on bluesky, only on twitter, and (to a lesser degree) only on the Fediverse. It is a pain, because with the exception of Mastodon (which virtually no noteworthy politicians, state officials, or journalists use), none of these platforms address any of the fundamental problems Twitter has. They simply are less far along in their decline.

This motherfucker can kill hundreds of thousands of Palestinians but won’t kill a single Republican.

Dorner / the guy who killed Shinzo were memed. Luigi was memed. But what we didn’t have with the first two was this tendency to try to latch on to them and claim them, and combat other factions trying to do the same. The takeaway should be that vigilante justice against the ruling class is apparently more popular than ever. When we are getting into the weeds trying to fight over whether an individual spontaneous event was done by our guy or not, it is pure navel gazing. We aren’t doing shit. We are so fucking deep in the couch, just spectating.

They are never ever going to concede to the left just because they lost the election. They want to force you to choose between two poisoned pills, and your freedom of choice is to figure out which one is less bitter to swallow.

The time for this was 2016-2020. Instead, they seem hellbent on putting Rahm Emanuel in charge of the DNC, and are going to run Josh Gottheimer for governor of New Jersey. Completely dead party.

Fantastic. 100%. No notes.

There is also a difference between discussing how we have transformed personally, vs. writing off somebody’s harmful behavior because they “might” undergo a similar transformation at some arbitrary point in the future.

Spontaneity is a form of tailism that reduces the vanguard party to a recorder of events and prevents it from leading a revolution.

It is worth noting that ProkeWiki, being an explicitly ML wiki, is defining tailism specifically in the context of Marxism Leninism. The concept could be applied more broadly - outside of the specific context of a Marxist Leninist organization.

More generally, tailism is when you cater to the most backward elements of a political coalition out of short-sighted expedience. You are following (“tailing”) the coalition, instead of providing leadership. For instance, when the Democrats decide to throw trans people or immigrants under bus to soothe the suburban fascists instead of thinking about how the volunteers they need to actually win an election feel about that. Or when the “MAGA Communists” decide doing the same is the key to winning the hearts and minds of the proletariat (who they conceive of specifically as white guys in steel toe boots [and as a white guy who wears steel toe boots to work, this repulses me]).

Tailism is something we see all the time in the realm of politics, even if it is not described as such. More conventionally, politicians of this mold are referred to as “weather vanes.” They point whichever way the wind is blowing. If a cause is unpopular (i.e. gay marraige during Obama’s 2008 campaign), they don’t support it - no matter how justified the cause is, regardless of the fact that its popularity is higher than ever and growing. They make no effort to actually change people’s minds, and on the flip-side, they will re-enforce any reactionary perspectives that polls above 50%.

Claiming we own this guy is like DSA taking credit for Tim Walz being nominated as VP.

This is such an opportunity to find common ground among all of the proletariat

Nobody told you not to do this. We asked that you don’t make it weird by fixating on the guy. There are plenty of other, more productive directions to lead the conversation. Like the fact that these people aren’t invincible. That they deserve to live in fear. That they are all functionally mass-murderers, etc.

demonized by the mod team as “just a fascist”

This is not what we said.

but it’s cool as hell he killed that CEO and I’m not going to pretend that it wasn’t cool

Nobody said otherwise

is he a revolutionary hero and communist icon for it? no, shut the fuck up that’s not what anyone is trying to say (I’m certainly not saying that)

Nobody accused you of doing this. A handful of posts which you probably didn’t even see because they got removed are what prompted us to say something.

Every morning I wake up, brush my teeth, look in the mirror, and say “I didn’t see nothing”

I had a doctors appointment today and the receptionist said it’s no wonder people are killing insurance ceos

We appreciate the event, and as far as the event goes, his head just did that.

The guy himself is a meme . A very funny thing happened. Things like “we can’t let the right take him from us” or “on this day we are all Luigi” or (sincerely) “don’t worry about all those times he retweeted people who are entering the Trump 2024 administration” are whatever you call garbage in a place which cherishes shitposts.

Hotdog Stand Gang

This post was reported for being fake. It might be, it might not be, but here’s your reminder to be an adult and not believe everything you read on the Internet, regardless of if it is hosted on CNN or Substack.

Israel’s MO is always to take whatever they can get away with. They will not stop unless something stops them.

man 100%ed Fez lmao

These 3D printed guns typically involve printing the inert, serialized part of the gun and building the rest of it out of non-serialized replacement parts which you still need to buy somewhere. But still, leave the gun, take the cannolis.