I had back problems since I was a teen. Worked construction in my 20s and hurt my back moving concrete slabs one day. It fucked me up for life, tbh. Sometimes I nearly collapse just from walking. Worst pain I’ve ever known. Lots of people here have chronic work injuries; many are far, far worse off. Doesn’t seem there’s much I can do beyond stretching, so I accept that I will just live with it.
Chao ban tu Viet Nam
ICE has been killing non-whites for decades and libs called it ‘maintaining law and order’. Amerikkkans literally get more vocally upset about disappointing video game slop than virtually any number of dead brown children. Still a century away from any meaningful form of revolution. The social consequence of believing in nothing.
Honestly? Judge Holden never even stuck out to me as the most horrifying aspect of the book. He was at home in a brutal landscape of racism, depravity and genocide, but not the architect of it. Everything about that book is horrifying. It’s horror twisted into macabre and often stunning poetry. I think the way it ends sort of spotlights Holden, but my feeling was that most of the characters vicious psychopaths. Maybe Holden only crossed the line on what skin color was acceptable to hunt?
Amazing book. Hope to get to read it again some day.
Had to read that a couple times to get your meaning. Thought you were suggesting AES countries manufactured consent to invade Venezuela.
But I’ll go further. Fuck every single person who was stupid enough to buy into and promote the fake Amerikkkan “leftist” plants who openly:
People like Chris “1984” Hedges, AOCIA, Bernie Sanders, Mamdani, Chomsky, all the fuckwit breadtubers, etc. These motherfuckers said that shit to your face. Libs cosplaying as “leftists” fell for it again and again. You know who you are (I bet a few will identify themselves in the comments): Learn this lesson and stop licking the boots of grifters and morons who vaguely co-opt a “leftist vibe”. Harden yourself, stick to the line and declare war on them.
No, but I have seen very little western political awakening on Ukraine; painting their faces blue/yellow on instargam didn’t count for much. By the time 10/7 happened, westerners seem to have become very entrenched in the fake US narrative. It’s been extremely difficult to dislodge them from those positions with any amount of evidence.
In this case, replace the 2 & 4 with TikTok and instagram. At some point 3 transitions into selling your labour to someone who constantly threatens you with unemployment and homelessness. I get it.
They’re definitely not happy or functional people in my experience. The impression (maybe even analysis) I keep returning to is the Infinite Slop Machine they’re chained to has left them so intellectually and socially underdeveloped – coupled with no desire to address those deficiencies, gives me no hope at all. If anything, they’re closer to become better slaves than revolutionaries. Not even a western thing, It’s becoming like that here too.
History is far too dangerous to the empire to let people learn it.
I was talking to some mid-20s white suburban american kids that we invited over to our home a few months ago. It was bleak. We came away from the experience thinking of them as slack-jawed tiktok-brained zombies that were barely able to make eye contact or communicate at even a basic level. They were borderline illiterate. We tried to cover a lot of history to find something they knew anything about, which was almost nothing at all (which for a ML, can be a moment of great opportunity). But it was just a couple of dead neurons staring at their feet who didn’t show even a modicum of interest or belief, nor would they accept any primary sources of any kind; not books, videos, documentaries, declassified CIA documents. Nothing. We gave them copies of Marx, Lenin and a book about Uncle Ho. We know they will never read them, but fuck it, you have to try, right?
Couple things I found interesting:
No CIA cleverness to be found in Venezuela.
It reminds me of Allende in that regard. Open imperialist thuggery and they just rely on the empire drones to be too racist to care.
Yeah, for the most part. I’ve had a few conversations which fall something along the lines of ‘Zionism is not Judaism -> Zionism is a political movement -> America used to be a good country -> Zionism has corrupted America’. Maybe it’s a weird nuance of some kind of neo-antisemitism, but I’m leaning more toward some people being unable to accept daddy amerikkka has always been like this.
It’s quite useful to tie this event to the Zionists Entity, too, considering they’ve never been more hated than they are right now.
Since Chavez, the zionazis have had Venezuela in their crosshairs due to them exposing Israel for what it is. Machado openly declares herself a puppet of Israel all the time. Machado requested Israel overthrow the Bolivarian government in that leaked letter. The Zios have even been hysterically claiming Venezelans are Hezbolla, Hamas and Iranian which is a real 🤔 moment. Showing the connective tissue between US imperialism, Israel and Venezuela could be a good entry point for people who’s political awakening is on the Palestinian cause.
To be clear, Shitrael is a rabid dog proxy of the US (not the other way around). I hate how much of that shit I’m seeing lately.
compradoring
I disagree. A comprador sells their country out to a greater power. I think it would probably be fair to call Yeltsin a comprador, but that really doesn’t apply to Putin or Russian politics since. Russians, both culturally and politically, have an intense sense of independence and sovereignty, as well as a generally good grasp on history.
Putin has spent a lot of his political career trying to wrestle power back from the oligarchs/mafias that were created out of the fire sale of Soviet collapse. You can certainly accuse the oligarchs of being petty compradors for the interest of western capital. The funny thing is that the sanctions kneecapped the oligarchs and strengthened the Russian governments regulatory power over capital formations that have lost access to much of their capital. Whereas no such thing has happened in Ukraine, which is basically wholly owned by Blackrock, Jamie Diamond and their ilk now.
By the time Putin came into power, the political and economic landscape (read: material conditions) had greatly changed. There was little political will to recreate the Soviet model and the new question was how you can realistically integrate and cooperate with your neighbors. That’s the reality that the Russian Federation was born into. If anything, Putin was naive to think Russia would ever be treated as a member at the table, instead of a grand entree when the European line go down.
Putin is not a ML by any measure, and we are not ideologically aligned. But, no offense, it’s pretty absurd to point to the Putin or the Russian political will in the present moment, and ignore that Russia (and the DPRK) are materially doing more to counter imperialism than pretty much anyone else. This is an existential struggle, and Russia is literally fighting a fascist comprador regime that has captured their neighbor.
Whatever language may be used to call the conflict in Ukraine, it’s fundamentally anti-imperialist. Breaking lines on anti-imperialism is some lib shit you should not engage in. Critical support.
There’s a major historical lesson there from anyone who want to learn it. My biggest criticism of Putin was that he was ever naive enough to think the Fourth Reich would act in good faith on anything.
Lib rule #1: Never let reality get in the way of some shit you just made up.
It’s only “aggression” when you’re defending your sovereignty from imperialism. In which case, I look forward to a massive amount of Venezuelan “aggression”
Thanks comrade, see this kind of thing gives me a feeling of hope too… which is something I could really use a lot more of.
If it makes you feel better, the UK is threatening to come to the defense of the US as a NAFO member if Iran retaliates (and they sure will)
Just… wow. I didn’t look at who wrote it. By the time I was 1/2 through, I was like this is a random mentally ill person glowing with hitler particles.
No one can argue this form of “democracy” works if, even only once in 100 year it produces such an outcome.
A rapist, a liar, a plagiarist and a snitch walk into a bar.
The bartender asks, “How’s the book coming, Mr. Orwell?”