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Be me, activist
Want to debate some libs
Set up a tent that says ‘Prove me wrong’
Talk about gun violence
Get shot
Claims to be pro life
Dies
Claims to be a conservative but didn’t conserve his life.
I would say he was proven wrong, 10/10 debate
Dear liberals,
If guns are so bad, then why am I dead?
- CK
From Venezuela
I know we have a lot of Statseian comrades on here, especially now after the deprogram sub ban, and this might be controversial to say, considering the state of the place over the past day or so, but I really don’t care about Charlie Kirk enough to see how it warrants this much meme posting when there is so much other concerning shit going on at the moment.
It makes me wonder if there is a concentrated effort by the powers that be to latch onto this story and push it to the forefront of western discussion to distract from something actually important, like Poland potentially triggering war with Russia, or the fact that the civilian aid flotilla to Gaza has been getting relentlessly firebombed, or that theres a color revolution in Nepal underway right this moment.
I was hoping to find some discussions on these things from a socialist standpoint, but it’s wall to wall kirkposting so far. idk, seems fishy.
I’m pretty indifferent to this type of US domestic drama, but i think a day or two of discussion is fine, we can allow our comrades from the US that much as a treat. But yeah, after that the news cycle needs to move on, there are much more important things happening in the world.
Yeah, honestly I agree. I mean I kinda get it, but it’s a huge amount of posting for a (relatively) minor event. I logged in today mostly to see if anyone was talking about Poland and I was met with a barrage of posts about a guy in the US getting shot. I dunno, I’m not convinced he deserves the fanfare.
Yeah, exactly how I felt. I was thinking “damn, Israel just bombed Qatar, I’d like to see what Lemmygrad thinks”, and it’s the same meme 50 times over.
I don’t even think the Luigi incident got this much when it happened, and imo that was actually more worthy of being memed since it was in a way actually useful as agitprop.
The Kirk noise is going to age like a pointer finger mustache tattoo.
Imo it’s a serious event, but i agree that we don’t need 100 posts memeing about it.
I’m wondering if it merits a megathread, but honestly, I think the old saying should be applied here:
The opposite of love is indifference
both japan and france goverments collapsed today lol
should all go as planned, i’m going to be a full member of PSL in the very foreseeable future! it’s not much in the grand scheme of the struggle, but working with and connecting with a community of beautiful souls who are genuinely committed to building this thing right here in the backyard of my smallish city has really been something 🥲
Congrats, comrade!
TY Cowbee!! 🫂 i hope your own journey into grasstouching organizing has been going well (we spoke about it for a bit on one of my many short-lived, follow-up hexbear accounts lol). once you get past the social anxiety hump, i’m sure your genuine, sincere kindness and comradely nature will be not just an organizational asset, but a real source of joy for your IRL comrades <3
Aww, thank you! I’m starting out baby-steps in organizing, hoping to transition to serious org work sometime next year!
It looks like Nepal just “elected” a new leader via a discord vote of 5000 people (total pop. 30 Million). How this is even viewed as a legitimate means of selecting a leader is beyond me.
Yes, that discord app.
Post source in World news! 👀
I have a close-knit group of friends who are all receiving collective death-threats following the actions of what happened with Kirk.
It’s been pretty much non-stop. Celebrating the death of someone who has worked tirelessly to dehumanize the people that you love and care about. These fucking inhuman insectoids crawl out of their god-damn filth-ridden holes to threaten your family. The friends of friends suddenly showing their true colors. These people who you never would have imagined, people you barely knew in high-school.
The brown-shirts march. Nothing more than ants.
Prob to late to say this but there is absolutely nothing to gain from voicing your political views online with your real name. You should hold a meeting with your vocal group of friends and have them stop, get strapped, improve shooting, etc… At this point, self-censorship is a skill that we must start developing and using, nazis have successfully used self-censorship to grow their movement, why can’t we?
I agree, I have the occasional post or so in real social media but I keep that very separate from any of my social media on here or elsewhere. For me, everything is federated in a way with different passwords/emails, etc. Like, I might seem like a radlib or have the occasional commie tendency on real media but on here is where I have my more “succinct opinions” if you will.
Quite a few of my real life friends were celebrating Kirk’s death, it isn’t just like 5 or 6 of us; a bunch of my old acquaintances and high-school folk who I barely talked to came out of the woodwork to laugh at it with me or say they’ve received lash-back for laughing at it themselves.
get strapped, improve shooting
I’m not ever going to talk about any of this online, especially when I’ve talked about growing marijuana on this profile before. Self-censorship is indeed good when it comes to these things; but at the same time It’s also good to have a general “no trespassing” sign on your fief, get what I mean?
At this point, self-censorship is a skill that we must start developing and using, nazis have successfully used self-censorship to grow their movement, why can’t we?
Honestly, as time goes on, the only reason I keep certain media is because the people I talk to aren’t exactly…tech-literate. Family too. I’ve considered just shuttering the profile and keep it completely private, should probably do that.
I can’t say I don’t enjoy fucking with chuds as I’ve never actually experienced a lash-back from it. Paper tigers and all that, but there’s a reason I know how to defend myself beyond “guns” which of course doesn’t mean much when one is on the table.
I think that’s the reality of living in America these days and is going to. You can just get shot, stabbed or blown up over your favorite niche tendency having a “war” against each other instead of actualizing any class consciousness; not that we don’t try to for sure. It’s funny, I think I’ve had quite a bit of success having a somewhat of an online presence to persuade some of my old high-school friends, acquaintances, work-mates to appeal to the ideals we have and it’s worked quite well!
But yeah…on the flip-coin you get this. What do you think? Always appreciate hearing from you.
If it persists, it might be worth it to get a lawyer. Tell these chuds they could lose their treats and they’ll quickly shut the fuck up.
Already did, the telling the chud he’ll lose his treats part… Chud has three kids and a vast criminal record.
I’ve also politely reminded him that I’d gladly bathe in his blood.
Stay safe comrade. 🫡
I appreciate it, but you’d better hope for their sake. I’ll be fucking damned if any god damn buck-tooth inbred threatens me or anyone I love.
“random fella from highschool whos a dipshit zionist”
Is he spreading hasbara for free
Mind as well be.
fella dming a gun to my friend
The Belgian city of Gent cancelled a show of an Israeli conductor. He is also the conductor of the National Israeli Orchestra, and is therefore a representative of the state of Israel. The city festival did not want to give a place to such a representative, and therefore cancelled his gig as they could not 100% conclude that he is against the genocidal actions of his state.
The media framing, however, is that he was refused because he is Israeli. This has led to a lot of ‘RACISM!!!’ reactions, and discussions about the topic are now endlessly more tiresome than they need to be.
From Brazil!
The city government cut down trees in my city to make way for some dumb public transport adjustment despite the neighborhood and experts agreeing that it is not necessary. They went ahead anyway and the neighbourhood protested. A huge police force showed up to intimidatie and abuse the protesters. Our local party leader for arrested and held in captivity for up to 8 hours for whatever bullshit they could come up with.
The government held a city hall meeting the other day and our party asked questions and wanted apologies. The city government just went: ‘this is the only way to get things done’.
Now, this is about some trees, but it’s concerning how the city sees intimidating and abusing residents as a way to get things done.
Toronto?
Belgium mate.
I got a new job y’all! Thanks for the well wishes last week. Comes with a decent raise, better benefits, unionized, more predictable schedule, & less job responsibilities. It’s also good for a resume builder to get where I want to go in my career. Very happy.
I start my vacation now - my cousin is gonna do my hair & I’m gonna take a nice long day trip on Wednesday. Then I leave the state to visit my best friend for a few days. Things are looking up!
Let’s goooo
OoOoOoOoOooooo
Seen in a protest in France
It’s really nice to see this board get an injection of life from the shuttering of the DeProgram. It’s actually really scary as I had to end up saving a lot of the content about DPRK that was on there. If some of you aren’t aware already, we have a wiki of our own! Prolewiki!
Awesome resource for reading about theory, M-L perspective and debunking your typical anti-communist myths, just like the DeProgram had!
In the end I think it’s better more and more people can get away from a censored, controlled environment where you can freely speak your opinion on the death of fascists and zionists without a ban. Wasn’t it such a smart idea of Reddit to do this?
Mural art shared in a Cuban Telegram
Hot take: countries that don’t speak English natively where they teach children English in school below the age of ten are too Americanized/westernized.
Same goes for countries where they have to have the English translations on all road signs and information signs
i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized. Tho at this point, mandarin should be part of the curriculum too, i would say it’s far more important than english at this point since for really 99% of industries, if you want to acquire machinery or some input, you’re going to need to get a chinese supplier.
i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized.
Here in the Philippines, it’s both😭
When I was in Elementary, our schools had an English-Only Policy where speaking our national language (Tagalog) outside of Filipino classes was penalized. We also have an entire market for overseas work (OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers)
