Can confirm. As CEO of Antifa I have put all our AI bots into fueling fascist infighting.

I might be proving your point by disagreeing with you (well, not really but maybe clarifying). But, here it goes anyway.

I think what you’re trying to describe is just reactionary ideology. What you’ve noticed in reactionary conservative thought is specifically the attempt to restrict vocabulary. There is no room for them to allow language to evolve as society evolves and progresses. It’s a tool used to attempt to restrict thought into a “common sense” appeal.

For the case of a “women” it is appealing to a prior state of history in which nonbinary and trans people were forced to hide their outward expression and conform to society. Often times out of fear of individual or even state violence.

As that has changed the reactionary attempts to appeal to definitions of the past. To appeal to a group of people that grew up as children learning “girls have a vulva and boys have a penis”.

Which is a definition as simple as “a^2 + b^2 = c^2”. It’s a true definition for right angled triangles. The reactionary mathematician wants to live in a world in which there are only right angled triangles. So their “obsession with definitions” is nothing more than a restriction on what defines “a triangle”.

It is a suppression of language and defintions more than is anything else. It appeals strongly to those that are afraid of the world that they don’t understand and are looking for a scapegoat to direct their fear and blame onto.

I’m pretty certain I read before that Dyslexia and ADHD are highly coronated.

You guys haven’t been stealing at self checkout for years already? God damn. Do your class duty!

I don’t disagree in general. However, my mom has been running Linux with a Windows XP skin for almost 8 years now without knowing she’s using Linux. Literally just keeps her from running a random .exe and she does everything on a browser anyway.

Some blue checks are still unpaid legacy ones. But that’s usually large celebs. Probably not the case with this guy.

With all due respect. Because we probably agree on a lot of things. However, the “Americans are too stupid/lazy” take is the excuse used by stupid/lazy Americans to avoid making effort for change. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

The Mike from PA take finally getting the respect it deserves.

That’s kind of my point. All effort is placed into changing a party who’s purpose is to dissolve any progressive momentum.

It’s not about the ability to do both. That can be done. Clearly. The problem is that 99.9% of the eggs are being put into the basket of democratic party reform. Something that the Democratic party is literally built from the ground up to prevent and supress.

I ask this whenever someone mentions “No kings”. It is good to go to. Keep showing up. But between now and the next one; find another protest or organizations event to attend. We need more people helping. Just one. If everythone that attended No Kings found just one day between them to go out to something else. We’d have significantly more support each day.

The difference between now and with FDR is huge though. Even if we elected FDR today he would not have as much leverage to get stuff done. One of the main reasons the capitalist class paid lip service and allowed social reform was not because of FDR. It was because they genuinely feared a 1917 style October revolution in America.

In those days there were militant unions. Literally workers that would arm themselves and take over the factory floor. The thought of that happening today at Amazon is sadly laughable.

I guess what I mean, is that unless the material backing like unions, workers parties, communist and socialist groups exists than the electoral politics is all for naught. Which is why I get frustrated by all momentum being in electoral politics and almost none in local organizing (though I am seeing that grow slowly).

FDR wasn’t some savior of the working class. FDR was the protector of the capitalist class. He convinced them that reform was needed in order to prevent revolution. And he was absolutely correct.

Since you have the right take, I’ll ask you something. Do you think it’s possible to actually “flip” the Democratic party?

Personally, I don’t think the analogy of the MAGA takeover with the Republican party works with a progressive takeover of the Democratic party. I just don’t think you can move left like that in the same way you can to the right.

Moving left fundamentally changes the main class interest of the party. Moving right does not. That’s why you’re correct in saying the worse thing that could happen to that party (from the perspective of its leadership) is a progressive takeover.

I just, don’t think it’s possible. I think what is being planned right now is working towards a Gavin Newsom presidential campaign. Which, in my opinion, is nothing more than business as usual for the Democrats.

Their focus is not on winning or doing good policy. It’s on giving left wing movements a place to be suppressed and neutralized of their momentum.

I think its a mistake that the progressive wind we have right now is not being directed as throwing that entire party in the trash.

Would love to know what you think the answers are.

Would love the “Oligarchs” language progress to class based vocabulary. The oligarchy pretends as if a certain concentration of capital is the “breaking point” in which the control is bad. As if, we need a “limit”. There is no limit. The result of these systems will happen over and over again as we have learned from history. It is only through the vocabulary of class conflict that we can describe what is happening AND why it has happened again.

I can understand this language in a broad vocabulary for the masses. But we’re talking about politics in the internet.

It’s late night Lemmy comment time. I made an edit to my comment that replies to all the comments I received in whole. But yours is the main I’d probably reply to. So just giving another response specifically if you care for the response. Can read my edit. Would respect your response. Interested in the “Hitler did human things” response.

I’m ok with it. They’ve been using language like “communist” and “terrorist” so much they have become numb terms to the average person.

When a real left wing radical communist terrorist group finally overtakes the US we’ll hopefully welcome them with open arms. Anything is better than this garbage we have now.

I think the media and Washington are so out of touch that they don’t realize that the average young person does not actually want to defend the “democracy” that they live under. It’s done nothing for them but lie, get them sick, and tell them to work another gig job while it sends all its money and resources to bomb brown kids and pay for handouts to the rich.

Yeah. This is literally just quoting Carlin and then saying we need to change the system after.

https://youtu.be/C_FQZUSy1Vg

Part the OP is saying verbatim is around 3:30

Nah, lie to the police. But do it strategically. Especially if they are just treating you as a witness. Nothing wrong with getting the color/make of the vehicle wrong. Some people have bad eye sight or memory.

Lie to them. But especially if you’re white. If you’re a white person. Lie to them. Lie to them so confidently. Waste their time.

SRA. You can learn to defend yourself without having to be surrounded by MAGA hats at the range.

Sometimes I wonder if Hitler was a similar person. It’s hard to know because of how different we see leaders today. It’s not just some news article you read or some speech every once in awhile. We get constant exposure and also constant exposure to so many different people talking about them in different ways.

Like, I don’t think Trump is like Hitler. Not in the way we think of Hitler from the way he’s taught in history. But, materially, he is creating extremely similar results. I don’t see Trump as very passionate on his hatred or racism. Like, I think he’s more concerned with what being racist and hateful gets him.

I don’t know where I was going with this thought. But I guess my point is that it’s weird to see a modern day leader implement almost verbatim the same policies and propaganda as the Nazis did. While, idk, being so incredibly, almost, apathetic about it? He seems to be so focused on only what benefits him and gets other rich people to like/respect him. Which is odd, at least in comparison to how we think of fascist leaders of the past. Most being portrayed as extremely passionate about their hatred. Maybe he’s just old? His heart seems less in causing pain but more so, apathetic about it, as long as it benefits him in some way.

Edit: reread my comment later and it’s obvious now that what I was trying to get to was that history is told outside of class conflict. The important part missing is that the idea of Hitler is this idea of “pure evil” in order to exclude his actions from being connected to the capitalist class and it’s interests. It’s to treat him as a “special case” and not understand what his material interests aligned with.

This isnt to say Hitler was less bad than portrayed. It is to point out that the great man theory of history is using him as a scapegoat for the interest of the capitalist class and it’s concentration in favor of capitalism at that time. Which, well, we are seeing again today.

I think some replies here missed that. Talking about human aspects of Hitler’s art or otherwise. Which could easily be said of Trump. I think what is missing is not a personal analysis. It’s class analysis. Trump and Hitler’s class position align.