As always it's not the "subaltern" that moves the gears of change, but the urban working class of Iran, who are solidly pro-regime even if they are split on religion and morality laws, and unlike the western constructed Arab statelets there's also a very real nationalism in Iran that prevents the totalizing control the west wields over the rest of the middle east
The rural landlord class of Iran and their rich clients in the cities push the culture war and religious mania to try and capture the hearts and minds of Iran's urban working class, while the westernized secular faction of the frustrated bourgeoisie class of Iran convinced themselves years ago that American bombs will free them to play in the American stock market, a delusion fostered by millions spent on converting rich/upper middle liberal Iranians into the worship of an anachronistic international Reaganism
The contempt the liberal Iranians have for the working class of their country is well known by said working class and ironically lends cultural credence to the landlords and rich farmers arguments of social and religious disintegration should the liberals ever get what they want, which keeps the morality laws in play in lieu of the fact there isn't an Iranian left to counter-message against the landlords or the liberals
Anarchist currents (whether they're Iranian or not) are in dire straits if they can't figure out these basic class dynamics at play
The liberals of Iran and their exile networks are not social progressives, they are culturally monarchist and explicitly Reaganite in their outlook toward the working class of "their country"
There is no universe where a fallen Iran leads to the west "letting the people breath" the plans the exiles have for Iran is outright banditry and a copying of the stock doctrine applied to post-Soviet states, they don't hide their intentions, they blame the working class of Iran for the revolution and the way they talk amongst themselves about the "over-populated" cities and eduction system reminded me of the tortured logic of the Khemer Rouge
Actually I did, yapping for twelve paragraphs about hijabs and orientalism while failing to grasp even the basic outline of the class divides of Iranian society, it's bad, it's written for white liberals in mind which is why the author doesn't even use the word class once in the article
And I just wonder why. Why is it that this uprising cannot possibly be what it appears to be?
I mean this sentence alone seals the deal, if the author wants to pretend or is ignorant of the leading role Mossad and western intelligence agencies play in co-opting and subverting opposition in Iran, then the article is a profound failure of analysis and frankly childish in its politics
He's already half-fallen, he has senile squalor syndrome, half his viewers are bots, his old twitch partners have cut contact
The nazi scumbag will absolutely get banned, the cowards in charge of Twitch believe the government will come after them if they do it, so they're waiting for a pin to drop for Trump, which is dumb since the Trump admin wouldn't want the mainstream to view a cockroach like Asmon as the right's standard-bearer
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Normies aren't on Twitter, it's a bought and paid for echo chamber and it's sending false positives back to the ruling class, they're fools to believe it
But there aren't too many of them, aside from the bots who make up the majority of activity, traffic on twitter overall has seen massive declines for three years straight, leaving only the cockroaches and think tank bots visible
You can't use Twitter as a bellwether for gauging the mood of the country, same with reddit, there is fury everywhere today over what happened, but not on botted sites like reddit or Twitter
He has quite literally always shat on gusanos, to the point it was one of the main anti-Hasan talking points by Destiny brigaders who wanted to label him "racist"
Capitalists control media and publishing and they're class-conscious
Popular "revolutionary" fiction will either have the revolutionaries be arbitrarily evil, misguided, obnoxious or, most sinister and subtle of all, simply fight to recreate a staus quo that the story's villain/s had destroyed prior to the hero's journey
Either way, a story about characters fighting to control the means of production and destroy capital will never be allowed to gain widespread circulation
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In 2027, the US will provoke a proxy war with China, have their vassals strike various high value coastal targets with HIMARS/ATACMS/Typhon, and enact a major oil blockade on China by controlling the Persian Gulf.
Iran due to them electing incompetent west-lovers is standing at a solid 30% chance of falling, but Iran still is not an Arab statelet, it's gonna require far more devastation to collapse, something like Syria but condensed into a single year, the 12-day war didn't work, these CIA/Mossad protests aren't working, the urban working class is solidly pro-regime, so I doubt the US can trigger a domino effect in Iran
But attacking China with HIMARS? That means the whole of East Asia will be amputated from the global economy, Iran even with all its profound weakness, still pounded Israel during the 12-day war, imagine what China will do to every US asset in the pacific region
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It's a dumb strategy in the long term, China won't just eventually face the US all on its lonesome, but a united enslaved world of capitalist client states bent on China's destruction
A world where entire continents are closed off to the Chinese economy, a US empire with all the cannon fodder it needs to break Fortress China
I understand that people just hegemonically accept venezuela as authoritarian, but what are the exact arguments and ideas people have? What are the facts?
It's largely fruitless to try and make sense of Hasan slander, it's purely parasocial and personality based, 4 years ago a large cohort of online socdems and crytpo-chuds decided they hated his guts and were smart enough to cloak their critiques in leftist sounding language, unfortunately it fooled alot of leftists online, who were already negatively polarized against the very concept of streaming
Hasan consciously talks at the level of newly minted leftists, which to many of us sounds either obnoxious, simple-minded, or for those of us who take themselves a little too seriously, Liberalish
No college degree. Massive gap in my resume (years). FUCKING TRANSGENDER. Fucking beginning of my transition, I look awful, I sound awful, and I have no actual reason for someone to hire me. My CIS friends with NO GAPS, STUDYING are getting turned down for retail jobs. Jobs at car washes. WHAT FUCKING HOPE DO I HAVE?? And I'm ...
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They wouldn't bother expending resources to capture him, they want Maduro dead, and the opportunity to capture him would signal a security failure of such profound and total magnitude, that frankly the Venezuelan state would've fallen ages ago if that was a reality
I'm seeing hundreds of thousands of libs on TikTok doing the opposite, even on CNN's TikTok page, even saw dozens of chuds talking about "I'm done with him"
People on this site really need to get off reddit, it's messing with alot of people's perception of the publics reaction to this debacle
The chuds are not impressed and libs everywhere but reddit are embarrassed and pissed
Just because every single one of the 100,000 ideologically convinced neoliberal neocons in existence post on reddit doesn't mean the site is a bellwether for the country's mood
Pezeshkian: "And of course I'm semi-secretly cheering for the west because 40 years ago I read Milton Friedman and thought Ronald Reagan gave good speeches"
Also one of the "girls team" players has come out about what a nightmare this competition was, someone needs to do something about Mr Beast the evil creepy fuck ...
Of course that dipshit would find a unique way to ruin what was an actually decent series of collective simulation games centered around Minecraft
Where all the other Minecraft simulations incentivized cooperation and collective story building, this capitalist-minded freak wants "competition" without rail guards or organization, because he thinks that shit produces drama and content
That's one of the main reasons I despise capitalists so much, they see something cool, unique and human and twist it into a cheap cash grab, the human version of a pigeon who shits on a gameboard, half out of spite and half out of greed
University of Oklahoma is finished then, there's alot of normies out there who were disgusted by this blatant right-wing slander operation, the blood is in the water and the right-wing sharks will swarm that campus looking for their own little grift
The governments of the UK and Australia can spin this as a victory in the media all they want, but the legal justifications are absolute fascist dogshit and will act as a poison pill for court based institutions in these countries, which over time will weaken zionist support in the country and in the government thru sheer legal gridlock
They're basically just creating legal headaches for themselves and priming the stage for popular free speech victories, the development of a homegrown kind of fascism may be inevitable in these countries, but the imposition of a foreign form of fascism will absolutely be met with intense resentment and hatred
Here's a video from last week where Liora Rez, the owner of StopAntisemitism, says that the the purpose of the organization is to harass people who protest against Israel. ...
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I know we like to say these people aren't anarchists, almost to the point it's starting to sound like well-meaning cope
But, in this case it's as true as can be, that pro-Kerensky line about Lenin being "counterrevolutionary" is the most common refrain from liberal historians and propagandists, particularly those invested in the whitewashing of fascist movements, real cold warrior mentality
No serious historian would ever assert Kerensky had anything approaching a pro-anarchist position, and the deliberate attempt to erase agency from fascist powers points to a very ugly kind of personal liberalism that is about to mutate and turn this person into an outright fascist
That's all reddit does these days since the covid purges, spread fascist narratives
He then went deep on his decision to perform in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging “I’ve been getting a lot of grief” and specifically calling out Bill Maher: “I’ve never said this publicly but fuck that guy. I’m so fucking tired of his little smug, cracker-ass commentary.” ...
In the mid 2000s Hollywood slammed some doors in his face and the open Islamophobia and anti-blackness ticked him off, but since he's a rich individualist all he could come up with in response, was to stew in retirement for 10 years and then returned to find the landscape changed and preceded to take it out on the rest of us
The man is utterly disconnected and atomized, plus he's old, when your best jokes are about Bill Clinton 25 years ago, you're cooked
China and India were the most important places on Earth for almost all of history. The "Near East," the "Far East," Africa, and the Americas all had advanced empires at times, and most outstripped Europe technologically for most of history. The Ottomans famously made use of gunpowder before Europeans, but the Chinese were (of ...
Spanish diseases wiped out 90% of the population of the Americas
Did the wealth sucked out of the Americas allow the Europeans to do something that would've been previously impossible (or at least not worth the effort)?
Yes, but this has to be paired with the super profits of the Atlantic Slave trade, equivalent of $1 investment resulting in $1700 of profit, nothing in economic history has come close to it
Pedophiles are effective and safe intelligence assets, the US and Israeli intelligence services probably stumbled on that fact early on in their histories and have actively cultivated pedophilia among the elites, while also raising up low class pedos as disposable agents
It's widespread because it truly works as a means of control and blackmail
The neuroscience concerning wealth and it's negative effect on the brain also plays a role, while money doesn't make you a pedo, it does seem to indirectly physically damage the empathy centers of the brain which leaves these people open to a kind of social pedophilia (sex for control and access, not necessarily pleasure)
Intelligence strategies of control and the already vicious nature of the capitalist class fully explains how the Epstein phenomenon came to be, no coincidence it reached its height at the same time the US empire reached its zenith
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Article from 2022 by an Iranian Anarchist discussing some underlying issues which may be contributing to the stuff in Iran right now ( immerautonom.noblogs.org )
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What’s your take on the 2020s so far?
Since we're real deep in the decade right now.
Throw all G*mers in a Pit
Hasan link
US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker in North Atlantic and 2nd tanker ( abcnews.go.com )
ICE Shot Woman in Face in Minneapolis ( www.kare11.com )
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That million will get gobbled up by medical debt
18+ :trump-ahegao:
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Looks like he finally lost his patience with the liberals and the average, everyday US Americans. A bit too late, I guess. ( m.youtube.com )
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"Tankies tell me the "capitalist media" is hiding the truth from me. Asking what, specifically, is a bannable offence." ( lemmy.world )
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Why can't I find any revolutionary fiction?
Despite the seemingly large percentage of AT LEAST progressives who view Lenin favourably, how come there isnt any popular revolutionary fiction?
Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 5th to January 11th, 2026 - The New Old Colonialism (And Long Live Chavismo) - COTW: Venezuela
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China calls on US to release President Nicolas Maduro and his wife at once: FM - Global Times ( www.globaltimes.cn )
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Genuinely why are people calling maduro a dictator?
I understand that people just hegemonically accept venezuela as authoritarian, but what are the exact arguments and ideas people have? What are the facts?
What is Venezeula's military capabilities?
What can we expect from them?
Oh, shit! Finally found a real one, y’all!
Real anarchists block hexbear 😤
Who are you voting For? ("V24 is giving out our 1st annual Anti-Western Activist of the Year Award")
Tweto ...
Sir, you've been in a coma since 1990
Link
How the fuck am I supposed to get a job
No college degree. Massive gap in my resume (years). FUCKING TRANSGENDER. Fucking beginning of my transition, I look awful, I sound awful, and I have no actual reason for someone to hire me. My CIS friends with NO GAPS, STUDYING are getting turned down for retail jobs. Jobs at car washes. WHAT FUCKING HOPE DO I HAVE?? And I'm ...
Heroic warriors of Lemmy
How is Lemmy so hilarious sometimes? "I will fight Russians with fists, guns, words or downvotes". Missing their Walmart katana on the list
I will not be judged
Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 29th 2025 to January 4th 2026 - A Bold Step Forward For The AES
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Iran in ‘comprehensive war’ with US, Israel, Europe: Pezeshkian ( www.trtworld.com )
This war is more dangerous, more complex, and more difficult than the war with Iraq between 1980 and 1988 ...
[CW misogyny, Mr Beast] Soulless fucks are reinforcing the patriarchy for views and engagement from children? Shocking
Also one of the "girls team" players has come out about what a nightmare this competition was, someone needs to do something about Mr Beast the evil creepy fuck ...
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK OOOOOOOOOOFF
Liberal economists continue to rage bait me omori-furious
University of Oklahoma fires the graduate teaching assistant who gave Samantha Fulnecky a 0 on homework assignment
'Globalise the Intifada' is now an arrestable offence in latest crackdown on Palestinian solidarity ( www.thecanary.co )
Ms Rachel loses contest; Tucker Carlson wins StopAntisemitism's "Antisemite of the Year" award for 2025 ( www.mediaite.com )
Here's a video from last week where Liora Rez, the owner of StopAntisemitism, says that the the purpose of the organization is to harass people who protest against Israel. ...
Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 22nd to December 28th, 2025 - The War on Christmas - De-Decemberization
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I Had No Clue How Far Gome Reddit Anarchists Are
The fuck did i just read?
(cw transphobe) Dave Chappelle releases surprise Netflix Standup Special, ends the show by saying that if he ever says "I stand with Israel" then he is being blackmailed ( www.hollywoodreporter.com )
He then went deep on his decision to perform in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging “I’ve been getting a lot of grief” and specifically calling out Bill Maher: “I’ve never said this publicly but fuck that guy. I’m so fucking tired of his little smug, cracker-ass commentary.” ...
Why did Colonialism happen?
China and India were the most important places on Earth for almost all of history. The "Near East," the "Far East," Africa, and the Americas all had advanced empires at times, and most outstripped Europe technologically for most of history. The Ottomans famously made use of gunpowder before Europeans, but the Chinese were (of ...
you've met me at a very chinese time in my life
Ok, so it turns out that in order to be rich in this country you need to be into children?
And hang out in Epstein’s plane, with Bill, because that motherfucker is always there? ...
Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 15th to December 21st, 2025 - Never Trust A Western Peace Deal - COTW: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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