It's in a private subreddit, r/enougholiverspam which tracks the obnoxious anticommunist u/Olivermarkusmalloy, so I can't source it. This fella was making Ukrainian far-right apologia and questioning the idea of information warfare existing in my thread about a clear sockpuppet propaganda network. I'm becomin the jonker.

  • Civility [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Got school tomorrow

    You're arguing with a literal child.

    It's great they're already engaged with politics and open to communist ideas.

    They don't have to be a well read theoretically grounded Marxist Leninist scholar by the age of 18.

    I sure as fuck wasn't and I like to think I turned out alright.

    Edit: I looked at their profile.

    They're an 18 year old NB kid in Calgary Canada. They were recently homeless (they might still be) and just got out of a really bad shelter.

    Rhetorically beating good materialist takes on Ukraine into them is not high on the priority list of what we should be doing for this person.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I don't think there is anything productive in engaging with them online. They will either stumble into good materialism or not. They still have 'le Western Civilization', 'fullon communism doesn't work', and 'humans just be greedy' memes floating around in their head. Engaging with them won't work, just ignore and post around them imo.

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      ...who runs most of the anti-Trump subreddits using a network of sockpuppets in a one-man red scare. There's a reason I follow it.

  • Tervell [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    literally progressive but ok chief

    i think i will find a job in the war industry

    famous bastion of progressivism, the fucking war profiteers :matt-jokerfied:

    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      The Canadian war industry. Those weapons could never be used outside our Slobber Urkrainy troops in NATO's antifa army.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Every single person that uses the word "progressive" tells on themselves. This is not a demsoc, not even a socdem, this is a neoliberal wrecker.

  • Zodiark [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Are you really worked up over a teenager? Just have some sympathy for them and move on. Their naiveite will eventually be crushed by life experience or their fortune will turn transforming them into quasi-political liberal professionals as a best outcome for them.

    It really doesn't matter if they're hardcore MLs either. The Western left are not the primary, secondary, or even tertiary vanguard of social change in terms of fighting global capitalism. Everyone in the developed world who calls themselves leftist - of any tendency - is still effectively an anarchist in terms of organizing power. It seems that Cheetyo is willing to mildly blaspheme against the dogma in that reform "I love you but we need to talk" way; life will eventually radicalize him further or, if his prospects improve, just turn him into another liberal democrat that votes for the Liberal Party of Canada as a routine.

    It'd just be wise to let this obnoxious response go. Or put it in the dunk tank.

  • aaro [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    https://redsails.org/tankies/

    ^ drop this every time someone calls you a tankie

  • Godzilla_vs_Jerboa [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    destroy everything

    Individual ownership: job creation

    collective ownership: DESTRUCTION AND DEATH 💀

    while the west unites against actual fascism

    https://libcom.org/library/against-anti-fascism-amadeo-bordiga-s-last-interview