Also thoughts are, maybe I’ll start streaming or something in due time (won’t tie whatever I do to here lmaooooo though… also because on some levels I just ain’t 100% with here- who is after all, we’re leftists). (also, ah woops, meant not 100% on hex- well disaster scatterbrain as usual myself)

But basically: if one thinks about this, while having good mental health and chilling with comrades is praxis, presenting an approachable entry to leftism or to recognizing and tangibly pursuing basic decency and all that jazz is also praxis (Hex and the Grad are nice but def infinitely less approachable than a “less political” space, or rather it’s more for really showing off your power level and effortposting more often than not for me anyways). And introducing material dialectics, historical dialectics, etc to people even when not coating it with Marxism or leftism (but shifting people to understand the world with such a concept as a possibility/frame of reference) is praxis which then leads to the next step, this doesn’t even have to be with talks on “”“politics”“” (it always leads to it, everything is political, etc. I know- but then, it’s a sliding slope that both gets people in, but then also has to be navigated for most and def from the sounds of it for many here for their mental health, myself included). Though then there have been infinite numbers of people who pursued or are pursuing exactly just that, so is nothing new- but figured would just ramble this here since had real good chat with an IRL friend I’ve not talked to much in a long-ass while who def isn’t a commie or wasn’t even quite a leftist (probably brought her to the mindset somewhat just from talking this to remind her the broader context of her/our conditions rather than just blaming ourselves and dwelling in misery as the system promotes).

Well we can always make a non-den, even some (“no connection other than vetted or originally met from the grad”) chill space with blackjack and red guards 😎😎😎

Woah, what :o

Maybe we could reclaim that for a start, at least on some level :o it’s cool that there already was such a initiative!

Not in reaction to the death of the dunk comms whatsoever, tbh (though if anything, the dunk comms were a part of the- probably somewhat bad or unhealthy and stressing vibe of Hexbear/Grad culture/experience that this is supposed to provide a chud-free alternative to. In the sense that always focusing on chuds’ terrible takes, or seeing them up and remembering how shit things are sometimes- sucks like hell.

It leaves me tired, as well. It left someone else tired that was chatting to, or left many actually in hindsight. Which is what led to my proposing this. Like- we’re all(?) dealing with the same heavy shit, now admittedly I have a lot of that dunk culture and general brainworms (as well as cool based gossip/not being opposed to being a non problematic bully to shitlibs aspects) myself- also this doesn’t have to and shouldn’t be centered around me (imo people should probably also grab their own friends from here for such spaces as well as collaborating on a main chill comm).

Basically- the election season, or even prior to that- the past few years, has been tiring. I think it’s safe to say we need a (vetted) space separate and the healthier I get, the more selective (not that I’d leave, this is literally one of if not the best space online) my interactions here get, somewhat? Because while my beliefs and actions have not changed, I also begin prioritizing my own development and mental health to become the best comrade I can be if that makes sense?

Sorry for the spiel but yeah

As the one who is pushing the idea- on one hand, pretty much

Though on the other hand, it’s simply because the political spaces (which would still exist and which would be ideally part of the vetting process/exist as part of a somewhat-framework) will naturally be stomped on when trying to congregate in certain platforms, and also because constantly being in the environment in- well particularly Hexbear perhaps, I feel the Grad is somehow more conversational despite the fact we’re mostly effortposting- but uh, is also frankly very unhealthy, probably?

In hindsight, I don’t know how to crosspost on the Fediverse and that’s probably pretty obvious

They still have a bourgeoisie but there is major proletarian influence.

I think this is where you get it wrong (IMO). They may have a bourgeoisie, but those are not running the show. Personally I would put it as- “They still have a dictatorship of the proletariat but there is some bourgeois (influence/existence tolerated in favor of development over dogmatism)”

The levers of finance remain in the hands of the state. The levers of industry remain in, and where not, accountable to, the hands of the state. The party itself actively works to punish corruption both within and outside of itself, has mass grassroots participation/membership, and evaluates itself and local government/cadres/etc based on tangible improvements in the livelihoods of the masses.

You too! :D

Admittedly, were it not for voices like those of Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, and Aaron Mate among others (and anti-Zionist Jews I’ve talked to or seen online and in person) it would be hard not to as well. Even as is it is- not hard exactly, but it is a matter certainly resisting and reeling myself back from the instinct when I do see such absolute vileness draped in Judeo-washing (no different from pinkwashing/etc I guess) Zionism.

German police classified Greta Thunberg as “prone to violence”

It’s like they’re trying to inspire the hatred of the world with just how hard they crack the whip for Isntreal… I must admit, even as someone whose partner is half-German and who would want to like the culture, and as someone who knows “not all (or most) Germans” it’s somewhat working, certainly for the idea of Germany as a state (Morgenthau might have had the right idea).

Not even milquetoast libs(?) like Thunberg can escape Germany’s antics, and if I’m not wrong they try to exercise their reach across the west (western govts being more than happy to let them do it and take the blame also, I guess). Germany is truly in a wretched (and infinitely removeded) state.

They did the same (but to a less extreme extent) in southeast Asia (the “golden triangle”) and of course in Afghanistan. TBH wherever there is organized crime (esp. drugs and human trafficking), terrorism, religious extremism and cults, fascism, or tribalism/separatism, look deeper and you’ll find the CIA

This is not figurative. She thinks US government officials are literal demons.

They may as well be, TBH. The US govt is made of humans with the mentality of demons (settlers), and this lady as well as a good chunk of the US populace and that of the collective west (fingers crossed as to whether it reaches majority numbers or not- I feel it’s probably close but not quite there) have that same “effectively demonic” settler-imperialist mentality.

I’m saying this as an atheist who doesn’t believe in demons (seeing the horrors inflicted upon Gaza, it would be awfully nice if there was a hell however). Yeah, sure, this lady is dangerous, and a threat to decent society. The whole socioeconomic framework of the culture she lives in is also equally dangerous and worse, and people like her are a dime a dozen. It’s just the truth of living in the removed west, not saying that’s ideal, but this is the nature of the system and this is what the system intentionally creates and promotes. Decent society would either institutionalize and attempt to re-educate this lady or throw her in the removed pit if necessary, here in the west she could probably make a hell of a career (literally) in politics or showbiz (no difference really)…

Agreed, when and if the empire falls- particularly depending on the circumstances- I would argue that the entire world, and whatever regimes come next for the west, should see to it that all the various mini-Goebbels (and not-so-mini-Goebbels) are hunted down, rounded up, and tried and hung at Nuremburg. They have the deaths of tens of thousands, sometimes even many millions, on their hands- there can be no forgiveness, and certainly they cannot be left alone, they must answer to their crimes.

Agreed, Iran doesn’t have a choice- much like Russia, also. And sooner or later (by the US’ own talking heads’ words, likely sooner) they will force the war they want with China also.

The rest of the world doesn’t have a choice, arguably (accurately IMO) they never did, but now it is more evident than ever before. I can only hope they meet every escalation from here on out with equal and greater force, and end the threat of the imperialists decisively when and if the time comes no matter what is required- even as someone living in the cores, IMO it has to happen or humanity is doomed, likely to extinction but also to many things far worse than it, such that when it comes it may well be a mercy.

I know the spirit once existed (Bandung conference, etc)… and then tragically was lost across most of the world and even amongst many AES, as imperialism started moving to more covert means in most parts of the world. I guess my hope is that it returns, and with a vengeance that will never be forgotten (honestly, if humanity forgets again- we’re doomed, our species’ short generational memories will have doomed us).

Honestly hope we see these sorts of talking points across the global south in my lifetime. Everything the west has is projection, but the world would be infinitely better off if the global majority truly joined arms to defend actual freedom and the democracy and sovereignty of nations, from its greatest enemies (the imperialists)

Seeing Mexicans, Brazilians, and (presumably) Jordanians claiming this- I’m not surprised, as the US basically owns (or influences to such an extent it effectively owns) much of the mainstream “local” media around the world.

How is the mainstream sentiment, though? I know that much of Latin America deals with… considerable amounts of cracKKKerism/comprador-ism, but most countries are not generally as cursed as the imperial cores all the same. Hopefully this is severely weakening these media sources and the western influence on public opinion?

Feels good having these around now… go ahead, eat up, you deserve it