I just want a headphone jack, wired earbuds, and my healthy thyroid back. Dead serious

Thank you for providing a great example of the propaganda tactic often called “accusations in a mirror.” This is more often referenced with the term projection.

This, unironically.

If your “circle jerks” involve discussing the nuances of history and political theory, that’s just a discussion.

If your “circle jerks” involve spreading imperial lies and frothing at the mouth for genocide, that’s a problem.

Unfortunately, it seems the latter is much more acceptable on the Internet overall.

This question only serves to enable mudslinging while hiding behind a homophobic term.

The term is so loaded with homophobia that’s it practically useless.

There are communities where leftists can openly discuss leftist theory and (to a lesser extent) praxis without being permabanned for thought crime like most spaces.

I find that fun. I haven’t had the opportunity to join a circle jerk, but it sounds fun to me. So, in that sense, the answer to your question is a tentative, horny yes.

Not even just left to the streets. Many cities are death marching the homeless around, arresting, terrorizing, and stealing personal property of the homeless every step of the way.

https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/

Ah, the same Reporters Without Borders gaslighting the world about journalist deaths in Gaza?

You know how it’s frustrating when far right reactionaries roll up in lib spaces on reddit spewing propaganda the sources of which they haven’t investigated critically? That’s you. You’re doing that here. Please stop.

Human Rights Watch? Seriously? Do you look into your sources at all, or are you just happy to spread imperial apologia?

Wikipedia is a terrible source for current affairs.

Your attempts to smear the three gorges dam project are part of a tradition older than the Internet. Of course, the human rights watch was all over that propaganda.

but the tianaghur squarocide or something. I heard it on a podcast gimme a sec

Yeah the us would never force anyone off of land.

Also the first thing I said was that it will not be allowed to happen. That pretty clearly indicates I don’t believe in it, at least in this place and time. Nice snark nonetheless

You kick started this by saying “there’s a reckoning coming for Democrats” lol this thread is not overall about that shit

Haha I relate to that. I recently started applying to something, got hung up on a question, and realized I had started the process already and gotten hung up on the same spot

Yeah, that shit’s a perversion of socialism. Good luck beating the capitalists at their own game!

If only the feeding part were consistent

I read this as muh education which works too

Department of Obfuscation although that applies to so many

Those polls select from us adults who are registered democrats. What makes you think the party elites give a shit what they think? I know it’s not past precedent. Democrats typically use polling to justify not changing things. The way they fought Mamdani clearly demonstrates this. One anomalous Mamdani cannot reasonably justify hope in electoral reform. Capital will do all it can to extinguish Socialism as it always does. This system was made by and for capitalists and cannot be used as the sole means of establishing a socialist system.

Yeah, I butchered it also.

“Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organisation that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism. There is no ground for assuming that the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of Social-Democracy. There is just as little ground for thinking that Social-Democracy can achieve decisive successes in battles, or in governing the country, without the active support of the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. These organisations do not negate, but supplement each other. They are not antipodes, they are twins. Fascism is an informal political bloc of these two chief organisations; a bloc, which arose in the circumstances of the post-war crisis of imperialism, and which is intended for combating the proletarian revolution. The bourgeoisie cannot retain power without such a bloc. It would therefore be a mistake to think that “pacifism” signifies the liquidation of fascism. In the present situation, “pacifism” is the strengthening of fascism with its moderate, Social-Democratic wing pushed into the forefront.”

Source: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/09/20.htm

I am interested in your perspective on differences between the original writing and the use of the phrase today.

I started by asking myself, who have the capitalists revealed, through words and deeds, to be their greatest enemies? Then I started trying to understand those conflicts which made me realize that some of the people I was scared to listen to are actually intelligent, well-read, and earnest.

The rage only lasts as long as the addiction to the 24 hr news cycle allows. So, like, it’s already over.