• CyborgMarx [any, any]
    ·
    4 years ago

    Just more wrecker shit, trendy aesthetics above substance all for more Patreon bucks

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      trendy aesthetics

      Is that mylittleponyfan-looking dude really trending? Why?

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Trumpism and bernieism isn't "punk" anymore for the middle class trust fund wonderbreads of the world, so they're looking for the NEW THING in political fashion, something that's ostensibly "progressive" but has just enough alt right-Lite DNA in it to keep the edge and hack chan style memes fresh

        The unseriousness of the radlibs meets the posting culture of the Trumpets, the true synthesis of the current moment

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
          ·
          edit-2
          4 years ago

          But it's not cool. It's massively nerd in the most pathetic way cuz it's stupid and wrong and pathetic.

          • CyborgMarx [any, any]
            ·
            4 years ago

            This is what happens when nerds and gamers start getting ideas above their station, they should be whipped for their impudence

  • Audeamus [any]
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    4 years ago

    Theory isn't for everyone and is powerless without praxis. But if people try praxis without at least listening to people who read theory ... they might do the wrong thing.

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
    ·
    4 years ago

    When you could be out organizing the revolution

    AND HOW THE FUCK DO YOU ORGANIZE A REVOLUTION? WATCHING THE AQUAMAN MOVIE?

  • CommunistDog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Don't read theory, just inform them of things you learned about from theory? How is someone going to reach the conclusion that the problem is capitalism if no one is out here breaking down what that means? Without some theoretical basis how the fuck do you even have the words to describe to the worker what's happening? Like, yeah, organizing is super important I'm not knocking that but to disregard political theory is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

    • NotARobot [she/her]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Is that why reading lenin sometimes feels like reading a really good left wing effortshitpost?

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
        ·
        4 years ago

        If Lenin were alive today, Matt Christman would be sliding into his DMs.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      4 years ago

      It's always the people who haven't read any theory shouting READ THEORY

  • DeLaProle [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    i got banned from /r/socialism because i didnt use a /s while shitposting lol

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      That place was really boring. I mean I get it, but no I don't let me shitpost gaddamit

  • CommieMisha [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Umm, actually high literacy rates are bad because they distract people from doing the work in the streets that I tell them to do. that's why the soviet union collapsed; they were all too busy reading to do any praxis 😤

  • Hungover [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Haha Tacoma is weepin-"
    BONK
    You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.

    "Lol he said the n-word in a stream and-"
    BONK
    You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.

    "lmao remember when he defended pedophilia by saying it wasn't any more exploitative than making laptops-"
    BONK
    You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.

    Making a post demanding others stop Vaushposting, and then realizing that you yourself have now Vaushposted
    BONK
    You have been bopped with a big funny clown hammer. You are going to the posting gulag for your crimes.

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    you know i love that while attempting to make a point about how read theory is dumb he had to just write a lot and could have instead used that time to READ THE FUCKING BOOK AND STOP COMPLAINING

  • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "workers have an inherent sense that something is wrong with the system, and all they need is someone to tell them that thing is capitalism."

    A: how would they know that without reading critiques of it, to even understand the interconnection of a lot of seemingly disparate issues, especially in America where political education is so dire?

    B: feels like I am reading some NSDAP crap from the Weimar Republic era...