Chapo_is_Red [he/him]

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  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]tochatOrgs are shit around me
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    4 days ago

    Some aren't, but a lot have one or two things they have a bizarrely awful takes on. And I don't mean disagreements over history, theory or praxis (for example, wsws defending people like Harvey Weinstein as "witch hunt" victims).






  • Hazbin Hotel

    Perry Mason (not sure I'll continue)

    Edit: As an aside, Hazbin Hotel is interesting for showing a character engaging in reformist organizing (appealing to their genocidal oppressor's empathy and reason) only to see that fail and realizing the necessity of armed struggle. Don't want to oversell it but that's literally the arc of the show as of the end of season 1, and I haven't seen anyone else connecting those dots.

    Perry Mason is cool because its about a defense attorney rather than pigs or DAs etc. But I just don't enjoy procedurals enough anymore lol


  • Idiotic article.

    A hero of the working class fights for working class interests, They do not merely originate from the working class.

    Regardless of his class background, Thompson was successful on the terms of the ruling class. This is to say he was successful on the terms of the enemies of the working class.








  • I disagree that they are analogous in their social effect/praxis. Luigi, whatever faults in his posting, had the foresight to make sure his message wasn't muddle by killing randos.

    It's at the level of effect that things actually matter.

    Were most Americans ever on the unabomber's side? No.





  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]tochapotraphousePro Luigi thread
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    11 days ago

    Luigi deserves our critical support without question. If I was on the jury, I'd never convict him. It doesn't matter if he had cringe takes on social media or our critiques of adventurism etc.

    He took the fight to the enemy. His trial will continually raise the question of the injustice of US society under the dictatorship of Capital. It is our duty to take advantage of that.

    They'll try to character assassinate him. They'll claim because he came from a relatively well-off background that therefore he is a phony (while they'd claim he was biased if he was poor). They'll try to claim he was deranged or deluded. We need to continually ignore that and drive home to the point that--regardless of any shortcomings--he acted in self-defense against an inhuman monster, against an avatar of Capital.