Ball Thrower

He/Him | 20 y/o CPUSA member. Have fun and throw balls

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  • Ball ThrowertoCommunist Party USABill of Rights Socialism
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    9 months ago

    The only way to ensure that would be to kill each American during the revolution, a massive genocide unlike any seen before. You can’t ditch and erase cultural influence, you can’t ditch how the U.S. revised British common law. If you want that, you want anarchism.









  • This realization you just had spiraled me into a deep depression for a few months. This realization is necessary but so hard. The people you love, the people around you who can do so much good for their neighbors and communities, can be genocidal maniacs because the propaganda in this country has made our good fellow working class into this. They see people outside the US on the news and to them, they only exist in the news and they’re just numbers, not people like us. They think people outside this country are almost fictional. It’s horrifying, and it won’t ever stop being horrifying.









  • A culmination of things. I never had a real set moment when I became a communist. I grew up in the south, so the anti-government sentiment was always there. I was a very empathetic kid and I always wanted to help people, but due to severe continuous trauma I lost that for awhile and became one of those edgy Instagram meme page kids. Since I was young and easily influenced I was influenced by the other edgy kids and my conservative father. I always felt terrible about it though and I felt trapped as I had little to no outside influence. Everything around me was just the same and I had no good role models in my life. My mother is completely apolitical. There was a time where the soviets were popular amongst that edgy meme culture and i latched onto it as well, often defending the gulags and shit without even knowing what they were. I ironically knew the correct definition of what communism and socialism were (the dictatorship of the proletariat) and I was in support of it without knowing much of it. But before long that faded out and I was pretty much a standard lib before becoming more radical gradually. It was purely individualist though, and I only really started to understand the true complexities of communism in 2019. But if I were to say that there was a time when I was a set communist, it was right after I read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Disowning that book doesn’t make you a communist, no matter how much you think you are one. Socialism is scientific, the study of dialectics, and materialism. Everything else is just you having “communist vibes.”


  • I’m talking about in regards to events having happened. I’m an archivist and work in collections, so I approach through that way. Some things are debated upon to have happened. Recent news article in my town claims that a notable historical figure walked through a park in town. If we have a picture or video of said figure in said park, then the evidence is undeniable. Now let’s add the bias: we have video evidence that a bomb went off in one place, then the video could be used to argue that bombing is bad because of X, Y, Z that is all demonstrated within the video. For the park example, the fact that said historical figure visited the park could be used as an argument why the park needs more funding, which is an argument that the park employees and board members would argue. History is not biased, the people who write about it are. History is either true or false, what is said based on said history is the bias. However, historians go beyond this and argue their own ideas based on said history. The idea that history is only true or false is to prevent ideas like determinism (that events in history were “fated” to happen, which to us in the communist circle is being against metaphysics) which is the historian’s enemy. In another post I was talking about the hypocrisies of a lot of western academia historians, and being deterministic is why. They make history biased because they don’t look at it objectively. They look at history as “how can I make money off of this?” Instead of looking at it as reporting the truth or not.

    Edit: added more things to make my argument more clear


  • Blackshirts and Reds (but there is some stuff he should’ve expanded upon in the sections abt WW2), The dawning of the apocalypse, The paradox of tarheel politics (lib author, and it shows at points. Very in-depth about how evil white southern politicians are and gerrymandering is), how Europe underdeveloped Africa, and facing the Anthropocene (more oriented in environmental science, but details the history of capitalism and some USSR history). All history books have flaws, and what I consider to be the best sources of all time are written and oral accounts and video and picture evidence of those very things happening. Documentaries and history books can twist the truth to fit their argument through bias. But pictures and videos exist by themselves. Too sad with modern tech they get manipulated and the truth is even harder to find.





  • Doubt. Possible the US will bomb the country, but nuking it? Nah. That’s suicide. But even bombing the country is just a waiting for retaliation. First, the US would have to destabilize the RF even further to where any threats of retaliation are meaningless and hold no weight. A sort of Iran situation, where Iran was under oath to not use or create nukes. They would first have to drain out Russian resources enough through the current conflict and slowly amp it up over time. Of course I’m no war professional but it just seems like something the US would do. The US is a blood thirsty monster but it wouldn’t use nukes as the population of the US is not warmed up enough to the idea of nukes being “safe” and will “never harm the US in return” and will wait after destabilizing the whole of Eastern Europe beyond this already existing destabilization.



  • Ball ThrowertoGenZedong*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    Anarchists stress me out so much bc their lack of understanding of the value of being able to read is so dangerous and a total insult to many people in poverty caused by colonialism. They don’t care. They don’t care about how little they care about people in poverty who want better lives, instead they tell them that wanting better for themselves is the same as the horrors of colonialism. It’s not even stupidity, it’s stubbornness to admit they are wrong and don’t know anything. I’ve sworn off interacting w anarchists online for a reason. They’re too stubborn for me