The pro-palestine protests have been a beacon of light for me lately (and China doing forest restoration). What is keeping your hope alive?
Remember this is bloomer thread so try to keep the dark irony to a minimum
Not only do the anticommunist liberals have no understanding of us, the leaked group chat story that's been doing the rounds show that the fascists are even more confused and idiotic about what's going on. We seem to be the only political faction inside the empire who makes any effort to know our enemies.
This is one of the funnier aspects of left-punching liberals. They like to call people Tankies or extremists or whatever as if the fash aren't going to call those libs "Marxists" and summarily execute them for "communism".
Erik Prince made a group chat with like 700 jetski dealers, mercenaries, internet nazis and Kurt Schlicter-esque retired military culture warrior types that recently got leaked. I don't have a specific article or anything, but they talk about it on the newest trillbillies and chapo
WhatsApp... Naturally... You want to imagine that these people are collaborating through highly sophisticated means of communication, but it's simply not true. These are the same people who ask you how to save a PDF. The plans for modern fascism were saved in the downloads folder the whole time.
Here's the New Republic article on it. There was a post here about it yesterday, I'll see if I can find it.
Edit: here it is
I almost said the same thing and I try not to be over optimistic on this point because being stupid does not mean they can’t be vicious or repressive given the right political positioning but with that said I really do have hard time believing that the brownshirts of old were this deeply mystified.
It really does feel like they are high on their own supply and the American states increasing inability to manage its own best interest, regardless of party, really feels like proof positive of this.
Not to mention how fractious and ideologically inconsistent they are. Who would have guessed that when a society privileges ignorance and individualism; you end up with a bunch of privileged and ignorant individuals who are unable to co-ordinate without constantly scamming each other!
The credibility and capability of the United States to dictate world policy seems to be fading rapidly.
Even just a couple years ago before the Ukraine War kicked up a notch, there was this sheen of mystique around NATO militaries in general and the US military in particular. At least to me growing up, there was always the sense of "If the US really pulled out all the stops, they could do untold damage to any enemy, like nothing we've seen before, since all our wars these days are special ops shadow wars."
Turns out that lol, nope. It's cathartic as someone who grew up with dim childhood memories of the disgusting cultural gloating that followed our pillaging of Iraq to see so many of the myths of western military supremacy dash themselves against Russian minefields these last couple years.
Yeah this is such a good point and it feels like something very significant that the U.S. political establishment is totally in denial over, at least publicly.
Growing up through the Iraq war and the lies that the U.S. made into political “truths” in order to get the world on board, I would never have thought we would see so many deep cracks forming in the global hegemony of the Empire.
Echoing what shimmering Koi said, even a couple years ago before the war in Ukraine it was hard to believe that the U.S. would become so dottering and impotent as a world leader but here we are! Let’s go Brandon!
Today the owner of the company I put my notice in at asked me to reconsider because they're having a hard time replacing me and I laughed at him.
I'd just respond with "Would you avoid firing someone if they said they'd have a hard time getting another job?" because I like creating cognitive dissonance.
I just said "no" and then laughed and put my headphones back in. I give them 6 months before they fold lol. It's super inside baseball but their top candidate is literally a scab so I can't wait to watch it implode.
I've never felt such power. They're considering trying to run a specialty coffee roastery without an actual professional coffee roaster lmao.
Couldn’t agree more I don’t care how sincerely cringe it makes me, you freaks and gremlins give me so much hope and I have love for every single one of you.
Me too. The compassionate, brilliant, hilarious community here is a bright spot every day. ❤️
I don’t think class consciousness has grown this much and at this rate in the U.S. for a very long time. It’s no substitute for organization or a party but it sure feels consequential.
Don't forget that organizations like the
are playing a big role in raising consciousness.Absolutely and they need to hurry up and answer my request to join form lol
If there is a chapter nearby, you can try showing up to events that they promote and get involved that way.
My nephew is 2 and he is single handedly keeping my sanity in check.
Kids are great, even if you're not a parent. Trying to convince younger generations they can't have kids is one of the worst things humanity has ever done.
This is totally projection, but my little one’s current thing is to make little houses for her toy figurines out of magnatiles…she’s literally providing them with free housing and ensuring they’re well furnished…”Neal needs a house, I’m going to make it for him”
My kids really do recharge my batteries. I always do a "big hug" with my oldest (3 1/2) before we get into bedtime stories, we count to 20 and then flop on the bed. Last night, she started giving me silly smooches every other number. It was funny, it tickled, so I couldn't help but laugh, which only made her laugh more. Just a pure moment of joy at the end of the night.
Not to be even more cliché, but it really do be like this sometimes:
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Every child of the world is my child. I don't really like kids but I want them all to be protected and educated and fed and happy.
even if it all goes to hell, i'm going to be walking into it a cute girl instead of whatever the fuck "gender" i've been faking for the past 20 odd years
On a global scale, China's peaceful rise (and monumental climate efforts you already mentioned). They try to paint China as an aggressor in so many cases and goad them into conflict, but they've been able to keep steady relations in the sino-sphere. Watching vox pops from people in Taiwan saying they don't want to fight to maintain their 'lauded' status as the US unsinkable aircraft carrier in East Asia.
Seeing Ryukyu (Okinawan) students singing Chinese resistance songs and protesting the US occupation of their islands. Seeing the Serbian reception to Xi Jinping's visit, and the reception that some Chinese streamers had in Syria and of this Iraqi food vlogger called 老王 in China makes me hopeful that it's just the Anglosphere which is poisoned against China but that shit doesn't stick.
On an interpersonal level, seeing my brother's kids grow up happy and healthy with enthusiasm for the world, brimming with silly energy and wonder for simple things like learning how to dribble a soccer ball or learning about animals.
Republicans openly admitting that the US is not a democracy demonstrates that the American civic religion is in decline.
My local small right leaning town has some good people in government positions, and we're getting some pretty nice infrastructure improvements like protected bike lanes and roundabouts
The local insane litterbox conspiracy theorist got kicked off the school board.
Grocery prices are down a lot
After years of looking with no success I just randomly connected with two local lefties in two unconnected events this week what? And they're both just down the road from me.
The fact that the inevitable processes of history spell disaster for capital. The tendency for the rate of profit to fall, inter-imperialist conflict, etc etc.
Obviously climate change means that just because capitalism will come to an end doesn't mean that the ravages of exploitation and conflict will too, but I think that there's definitely enough resources in the planet that, under socialism, even climate catastrophe can't stop a functioning and free future.
And the flag kicker did lots for me. The idea that fascists are so stupid and incompetent makes me feel a lot safer and more hopeful.Burkina Faso gives me hope because despite Sankara's assassination, he lives on in the masses of people, and Ibrahim Traore has pledged that he will not make the same mistake as Sankara.
The beret gang as a whole are the best thing out of west Africa in a long long time
I finally got out of an abusive, controlling relationship and almost feel like I've been born again
that israel is probably going to collapse either from internal contradictions or external pressure within a decade or two
If they attack Lebanon you might not even have to wait that long
Because Lebanon is a much stronger force than Hamas, who they already cannot handle.
Solar panels are getting so cheap that even capitalist countries will switch to green energy, and I'm pretty sure the Chinese government is doing this on purpose, so it will only accelerate.
I had a frustrating conversation with my grandfather this week where he, a usually progressive guy, had a list of talking points about why green energy is bad that he picked up from the propane delivery guy 🙄
When it's dark solar panels don't generate any energy and batteries are expensive/environmentally unfriendly
What is even the point of bringing that up if you aren't generating more than you use during daylight hours in the first place? When most of the demand is, mind?
At least with him opinions are as easy to plant as they are to dislodge
