This as a defense of anything is such a dogwater take. If we shift the topic away from communism, are we going to excuse the hierarchy where straight/cis/men are at the top? Is that "in our nature" and "part of being an individual" too? Not even going to mention white because lord knows these people don't care about POC.

Yeah, the tutorial is not good. I learned the game by spending hours playing it, followed by watching YouTube tutorials after I had a decent grasp of the basic concepts (to better understand everything) - it's too overwhelming a game to try to understand everything all at once. All that took a whole day of my life though.

Interesting polling. Guess they're trying to learn which demographics to target with their propaganda next.

The difference is that Reddit is either actively pushing or is being pressured to push the ruling class' narrative that killing a CEO is bad. No one here is saying that, they have issues with the shooter because of who he allegedly is, not what he did.

That's why it's so easy to get people to vote against their own interests. These people are so propagandised that slapping the name "Obama" onto any initiative means droves of people can be made to rally against it, regardless of what the initiative actually is.

The American people are cooked, the propaganda is not going away and these people are not going to be deprogramming themselves any time soon either. They're just going to become increasingly more radicalised in the interests of capital, as they have been steadily over the last several years.

They're propagandists. Journalism and propaganda are intrinsically tied, and western journalists are responsible for poisoning the minds of entire populations.

I've always felt like the vast majority of struggle sessions (though not all) are about such online shit that they're not worth spending time on.

I always see the death of journalists as a great tragedy and injustice when they're targeted in the name of imperial interests. But man, American journalists need a goddamn purge.

More like great country guys

Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. What's stopping them from doing the same thing to Luigi? What's really going to be different?

Not trying to be a doomer, I sincerely hope that these outrageous acts all push the people's revolution counter up by 1 and it'll eventually hit a breaking point.

True but Epstein represented the decades-strong conspiracy theory of the existence of a cabal of wealthy and influential pedophiles. Pedophiles alone are pretty much universally hated, let alone people using their status to prey on children. Killing Epstein as brazenly as they did was a huge fuck you to the world and they got away with it fully.

They were stupid to kill Epstein the way they did, it was so transparent that it would be hard to find people who genuinely believe that he killed himself. People make jokes about it to this day - yet what really came of it? What changes even if they behave brazenly and people know?

Poor things must have been freezing, what with his lizard blood and all

This meme has had a great run

He's no longer in the world, therefore it's a better place. It's not rocket science, is it?

It might not be transformatively better but that's because there are thousands of other pricks just like him left.

Who cares, it's gold, we should spread it around everywhere anyway. God knows they'd be doing it if the shoe was on the other foot.

As an aside, reading that article filled me with disgust. They glaze the dead fascist and turn the protestor into some kind of boogeyman with barely any mention of the fact that he was executed by police. There might be little we can do about such acts of state injustice, but surely we can wage an online framing war against the pieces of shit who write these articles?

Most people in my life at least take the author’s side

Most people in your life probably parrot whatever the media tells them. When it's a rich white dude, it's "nobody deserves to die," when it's brown women and children, it's "Israel has a right to commit genocide defend itself." Ask them how they reacted when Bin Laden was killed, because as far as I remember the crackers were all celebrating then. Now how do we make that harmonise with "nobody deserves to die"?