Any leftist that shit talks Stalin is immediately suspicious in my eyes. Man led a country besieged from all sides not ten years before, invaded by the same fucks that financed the Nazis’ rise who then invaded them and turned the tide of Nazism at an incredible sacrifice, all of which can be reasonably laid at the feet of the west.

Then westerners have the nerve to act like he was a monster based on yet more atrocity propaganda created by holocaust deniers and literal Nazis (thank you, Operation Paperclip and the internationalization of fascism). Fuck off.

ve seen too much of it shit all over people who lack education, context, or ability to understand,

It kinda irks me seeing comrades engage with people assuming they’re arguing in good faith and immediately it turns out it’s just unabashed western chauvinism. The fact that you refer to Debord is just the icing on the cake.

I’ve read Debord, guy had a good fifteen page essay hidden inside The Society of the Spectacle and then over a hundred pages of masturbatory inscrutability of the kind Zizek perfected and good old french chauvinism. I put more stock in the works credited by people who actually achieved revolution and then a better quality of life for their nations through them. A social science requires falsifiability.

On the other hand, there is Lenin boiling down in a hundred pages a very thorough understanding of Marxist thought and the critical steps the revolution must take to defend itself as well as the reasons for it. No fluff, no academicist posturing, just keeping in the Marxist tradition of making the subject only as complex as it needs to be. Then he went and fucking proved it with his practice.

Capital isn’t an entry level text, it is a thorough study of the mechanisms of capital, the value form, the objects of financial speculation and their interaction with the real material economy. Critique of the Gotha Programme, The Poverty of Philosophy, The German Ideology, even Socialism: Utopic and Scientific by Engels are thorough, clear, and concise. And they work.

I swear to god westerners have had over a hundred years to read The State and Revolution and we’re still having the same dumb fucking argument.

In the time y’all take to talk shit about any revolution that actually succeeds you could have read about twenty books on the subject.

What you’re saying is exactly the discourse COINTELPRO promoted in US organizations in the 60s and 70s (when they weren’t outright murdering the party members).

How’d that one work out?

It’s easy to deflect workers off the path of real, lasting change when even the organizers only try to do sloganeering instead of education.

No bedtime, no insulin

Roy Wood Jr. is hilarious and so is Hannibal Buress, pretty much anything from them is great.

Stavros Halkias has good specials, just don’t go near the crowd work (but that’s pretty much every comic).

Aamer Rahman is great and he just came out from hiatus, check his older stuff first and see if you like it.

Michael Che has good stand up too, even if you know him from SNL and don’t like his stuff there.

But then you remember you’re the USA

People still act like that’s a conspiracy theory today. I see mfs insisting it’s not or that it ain’t that bad and I gotta wonder if they’re paid disinfo, which, again, people treat like a conspiracy theory, but the US has by far the biggest psyop reach in the world.

The US did lie about Nelson Mandela being a bloodthirsty terrorist who would immediately genocide all the white people, but not about Hamas. Why don’t you condemn terrorists?

The state department did lie about Libya’s threat and was involved in the horrible dismantling of their state in favor of jihadi warlords, but not in Syria, why are you linking non credible journalists? No I will not check the leaked documents.

The CIA WAS confirmed to have instigated hundreds of coups as recently as the 2010s, but not in Ukraine. You’d have to be a bot to believe such nonsense.

The US did lie about Cuba being a brutal totalitarian baby murdering state, and did downplay how horribly exploitative and violent they were in their imperialism before the revolution, but you have to believe North Korean defectors, it’s not like they’re being bribed to say the biggest lie they can. Btw they had the Korean genuhhhhhh… War coming, they did invade the south of their own country and that’s the part the US wanted.

And you see some of those people here acting like they’re immune to propaganda, that they care when they blatantly disregard sources when presented to them on controversial topics (read: against the US State department line). As principled as they think they are, you talk about anything outside the US or whatever US vassal state they’re from, and it’s back to the chauvinism, but with a pink coat of paint.

I think Roderic Day had it right when he said this was an issue of westerners consenting to their own misinformation because they don’t want to face that they’re complicit by inaction in the horrible shit their governments have done to the third world for centuries and continue on a daily basis. And Zizek does that shit all the time too, arguing for western chauvinist shit but for “leftist” reasons, like he did in Against the Double Blackmail.

That’s literally how this template is, though. It’s basically a madlib.

It’s a play on “my brother in Christ, you made the sandwich”. It’s just a template for people complaining about shit they’re responsible for.

Bruh lmao I just saw the username

https://lasillarota.com/nacion/2018/3/16/como-la-cia-fortalecio-al-cartel-de-guadalajara-financio-la-contra-nicaragense-154335.html

The mexican narcos were utilized by the CIA in the Iran-Contra affair to smuggle cash and weapons into Nicaragua and in return they smuggled coke via CIA planes into US airports where it could be distributed with impunity. The CIA has also been involved in using organized crime as barely-distanced proxies in pretty much every region of the world, as outlined by Douglas Valentine in “The CIA as Organized Crime” in which he explores operation Phoenix among others mostly via CIA officers bragging on the record to him.

In the book, an agent says the CIA doesn’t do anything it can’t possibly provide plausible deniability for, and sure enough, when Camarena got whacked after uncovering some uncomfortable shit for the CIA and Proceso claimed they were involved, it was deny deny deny. Until it was shown that CIA operatives participated and then it was deny that the CIA itself ordered it, not that there were CIA ops involved. Former CIA agents, such as ex Director of the Intelligence Center in El Paso Phil Jordan have asserted as much

Frank Herbert: in my book I created the Tleilaxu axolotl tanks to show how this society violently used women and their bodies for their own selfish gains

Some CEO: Finally, we created the axolotl tanks from the Dune novels!

Man, I hear you. In tropical Mexico, whatever semi-dry goods we didn’t use up by the end of spring will be ruined and moldy within three days of summer starting. Most seeds won’t even germinate in like two months.

The only time I agree with the people going on about how we live like Kings in the modern world (absolutely fucking not) is about how many spices we can just have for cheap and not the cost of a horse.

Coffee. Can’t even stop drinking it when I’m sick bc I feel like ten times worse.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/653495/half-ukrainians-quick-negotiated-end-war.aspx

All of the data is there, they even provide downloadable spreadsheets with the distribution by region.

Bruh are we at the point when saying “I agree with Ukrainian civilians in wishing the bloodshed would stop via diplomacy” gets gringos frothing at the mouth? What the fuck is wrong with y’all