Western leftism is plagued by a culture of purity. Only upholding failed projects, because they never actually had to contend with the messy realities of governance.

Too small? How so?

Start doing it again! Owning your media is cool and good, actually

I adore my T-480! I put Linux Mint on it, and it does everything I need it to do, with basically no fuss, and no garbage from Microsoft or Google

Lmao what a fucking racist loser! You can’t even respond with anything meaningful

I agree that it’s bad manners. I accidentally hit reply before I was done. Idk what to tell you, shit happens.

But That’s why I summarized. But it’s deeply immature of you to look for any excuse to not engage with someone who is disagreeing with you in good faith.

Russia isn’t even a part of this discussion. I’m honestly more offended by your opinions of teenagers.

But that aside, it’s not about “defending” these States. It’s that your tone is dripping with orientalist racism

I made an edit to my original post that is relevant to your comment here.

But in brief, as someone you might consider one of these “Stalinists” I have no interest in gatekeeping Anarchists. We are a part of the same broad political tradition, and the ultimate end goal we seek to achieve is the same.

I have a great respect for my fellow socialists of other tendencies, be they Anarchists, Maoists, Trotskyists, etc. And consider their struggles to be my struggle as well, and I make common cause with people I disagree with in my own organizing all of the time, despite our ideological disagreements.

What? No, it’s specifically Anarchists who want to speed run straight to communism. Marxists want to seize the state and guide it through a transitional stage (often called Socialism), which will end in the withering away of the state, and thus lead to Communism.

This was the whole nature of the split in the First International between Marx and Proudhoun.

Sees teenagers doing dumb shit, like they have since literally forever

“Is this a plot by the despotic orientals?!”

Fucking listen to yourself. I’m not on TikTok. I just don’t care for vertical short-form video as a concept. But even I can tell you that not every TikTok trend is teenagers being destructive idiots.

I agree that people are often unfairly dismissive of Metal as a genre.

But people are also often unfairly dismissive of Rap and Hip Hop. A lot of the time that dismissal is rooted in racism.

Now, go listen to some MF Doom, and tell me rap doesn’t require talent

How can they be tankies AND give a shit about what the Pope says?

There are Catholic Communists. The world does not conform to your perception of drama on a tiny collection of web forums.

Her name is Yotsuba, and she doesn’t deserve this slanderous association

I’ve been to many a protest, and those put on by liberals (as compared to those put on by further left organizations), aren’t so much focused on leveraging any kind of power, so much as they’re focused on the aesthetic act of protest.

It’s protest as a way to cleanse oneself of the sins of the moment. To say that you “Did something” whether or not that something had any material impact. It’s about feeling good, not doing good.

Is it just me, or is musk profiting off of selling people tech before it’s actually ready?

Today’s vocab word is Vaporware

IQ is pseudoscience

And Marginalia Search for non-corporate, independent, stuff

https://test.marginalia.nu/

Neocities, the Fediverse, and Gemini Protocol sites are where I spend the vast majority of my online free-time, and it’s so much more pleasant than the big corporate slop websites

tbh, their funtion isn’t all that objectionable. Mixed use buildings are cool and good, actually. But the fact that they’re made of cardboard and duct tape, look like ass, and are signifiers of gentrification are what suck about them.

And Hitler was a Vegetarian. Does that mean vegitarians should simp for Hitler because “he had at least one good idea?” I should hope not! Furthermore if they do, even if they only simped for his vegetarianism and not his “political career,” it is gonna come off a bit different than they intend to most people.

Hitler being a vegetarian had nothing to do with his fascism. Mao’s Epistemology was built on Stalin’s synthesizing of Marxism-Leninism from the works of Lenin and the experiences of the Russian Civil War, etc.

There’s actual political philosophy here that we can think through, debate, apply, update, and revise. Mistakes or outright malicious behavior can be learned from or discarded as necessary, because Marxism has within it mechanisms for self criticism and recitification.

You can ascribe to that philosophy or not, I don’t care. But this kind of kneejerk reaction isn’t in line with the way these discussions actually happen within Marxism.

Do dogmatic Marxists who blindly defend bad shit exist? Yes. But they’re commonly denounced and criticized for their garbage analysis.

You’re taking a small subset of, mostly online weirdos, and stawmanning my position, and an entire branch of political philosophy.

By all means, keep those subs dedicated to defending all those atrocities and simping for despots, but people likely won’t be fooled into thinking they only care about epistemology while they say nothing happened in Tienanman Square without a shred of irony

Buddy, I’m not trying to pull wool over your eyes or be sneaky. I literally said to not do this shit. I’m trying to get people to engage with these topics with nuance and critical thinking skills. Not blindly screech uniformed praise or condemnation based on kneejerk, emotional, preconceptions.