if only there was some powerful hegemon willing to stand up for the rules based international order…

I have wanted this for years but no developer has the balls/ovaries to do it except from the occupier side. I think the best I’ve found (besides some board games) is actually a text based game by Tarn Adams, one of the devs who made dwarf fortress: Liberal Crime Squad - “To some a dream come true, to others an offensive piece of crap.” you essentially play urban terrorists loosely based on the Symbionese Liberation Army complete with police shootouts and kidnapping and psychic torture with LSD. It’s pretty funny with surprisingly satisfying gameplay.

“fuck it one struggle” - the actual pope

well there’s also the whole thing where it’s an antediluvian Walmart that warps the minds of those within it into hollowing out their societies and leaving them defenseless to the encroachment of soulless technology that’s literally made of condensed and corrupted life.

damn I wish they would have leaned more into the cosmic horror side of things with that series

the only line really worth is felix’s “RIGHT TO WORK” but I personally love how the DE devs totally got one over the chapos and paid them nothing cause they wrote the project off as just some dumb indie game and didn’t ask for any compensation for the few VA lines. Will was seething about all that coke money he missed out on when the game got huge.

they are ready to so fucking hard right now if they could

Unfortunately I have anecdotal evidence to support what you said and in that case the scandal basically destroyed the entire org since the leadership was involved

How many comrades of the past met each other through the Soviet Party or the Communist Party of China or in Cuba or Vietnam? Probably millions.

I would not be so sure. From what I have read party members in the Indochinese/Vietnamese Communist Party explicitly described themselves as having a sibling-like relationship with each other and sleeping around in the party would cause scandal. At least one man was executed by other party members when a woman comrade reported him, though there might have been some SA behavior going on in that case. I’m pretty sure that the CPC was similar in that regard too. I also believe Trotsky had somewhat of a “reputation” within the Bolsheviks for that sort of thing, which seems to indicate it wasn’t that common there either (or that could have just been made up one of his many haters).

Not saying it never happened in history but ultimately people should be there to work and it’s the same problems with dating at work, and those problems multiply when you’re trying to run the party as an honest to marx people’s liberation army. It did seem more acceptable later when those parties transformed into government bureaucracy though.

Don’t take it so personally. sure EVs have a role to play but if we’re to be serious about tackling climate change and environmental sustainability it’s going to require massive infrastructure redevelopment projects, not asking everyone to please swap to rechargeable batteries. It’s not about being “right enough” it’s about recognizing a non-solution and also on a policy level a blatant scam. All these EV subsides the liberal Biden administration is throwing out are an obvious hand out to the failing American auto industry to try to keep them competitive and desperate ploy to their quickly dwindling supporters for them to look like they’re doing anything worthwhile on climate change at all.

Having every American buy a new electric car is just going to make a few auto executives rich as hell and not even reduce overall global emissions because those cheaper ICE cars that can’t be sold in America are just going to go to other parts of the world that don’t have EV infrastructure but have plenty of already existing gas stations. And there’s all the emissions of actually building the damn things. No, they need to put their money where their mouth is and build some fucking trains.

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Seriously, where was the option to stab the faction you helped in the back and take power for yourself? After you win the war for them you just go back to looting zombie burial sites like a loser.

The atrocity propaganda has been happening since the dawn of modern war and even before that.

“Do you condemn the Irish Catholic rebels?”

I expect “Operation Prosperity Guardian” to be really boring actually. Yemen shoots a few drones at the coalition fleet, the fleet intercepts them with 4x as many missiles worth enough money to end world hunger overnight. Maybe they drone strike an abandoned firing position or elementary school in retaliation like they normally do. Rearm and repeat for weeks. No warships sunk but also still too dangerous for merchant shipping. Half measures all around.

Though ansar Allah could have some clever plan or just score a lucky hit, in which case we may have some decades happen. But tying down three US carrier groups is impressive enough on its own.

Am I overreacting or does “we will financially ruin anyone organizing a peaceful protest” not logically lead to adventurism?

it logically leads to more than adventurism, it leads to whole organizations choosing to operate underground. He’s inadvertently creating a market incentive for rebellion

on the other hand, there are a lot of orgs whose “praxis” is an utter dead end and squanders the potential of those passionate activists and end up burning them out after years of bashing their head against a wall with nothing to show for it. Their leadership of these orgs are often old heads who never got over the fact the cold war ended and love hearing themselves talk about “the good old days” when SDS “took over the campus” or just whoever had the most time on their hands and ran unopposed (usually the most online in the whole party too). If you do find an effective and active leader, more likely than not they’re an actual federal undercover who is so active because their ass is literally getting paid to be there and take notes on you. So you will spend your valuable time doing useless shit like trying to sell newspapers on the street corner (what fucking century is it?) or knocking on doors for your local “progressive” democrat who will immediately sell you all out anyway. Maybe you can co-opt a few protests somebody else organized, good work Lenin. And party discipline? yeah right. good luck getting people to show up to meetings with them also trying to manage their lives in hellworld, half the time the only thing keeping the org running consistently is because the leadership is all in some ridiculous clique/polycule that inevitably collapses in a shower of bitterness and maybe SA allegations that takes the whole org with them on the way out. Not every org deserves your respect, and moreover your energy, time, and money just because they call themselves communists.

Now not to be entirely cynical, there are definitely some notable exceptions. Ethnic identity orgs are some real disciplined heavy hitters in the American activist scene who know how to get shit done. Black Panthers, Brown Berets, AIM, hell look at groups like SJP causing congressional hearings right now. They’ve all learned valuable hard-won lessons from the white nationalist police state trying to roll them over, though if you’re a complete cumskin you’re probably going to stick out a little (a lot) trying to join one. DSA and PSL aren’t bad, it does really depend on the chapter it seems- it’s a good sign if they have more than 6 people in it and they aren’t all fucking eachother. Do not get into extremely online arguments about soviet agricultural policy, its annoying to everyone else and more importantly irrelevant to the current political struggle. Ironically anarchist groups tend to have their shit together more often because they don’t take themselves so fucking seriously like some trot or ML orgs do (who are nearly all completely irrelevant cranks and losers). FNB does real easy and good praxis and they have all been chill as hell. In reality if you are getting out to demonstrations in your locale you are probably going to eventually be meeting with other like minded orgs in your community, and you could and should be judging who has the most juice and invest your effort in them accordingly. rarely do they care about your “personal ideology” as long as you aren’t annoying about it and you are putting in work, everyone is desperate for more people like OP said.

So respect yourself and join orgs that respect you, its the people in them that matter and not whatever is on their pamphlet, we’re all just trying to fight against this rotting genocidal empire in our own ways. And until we get an honest to god revolutionary vanguard forming in this country I don’t think you should be afraid to walk away and stay away from an org that you feel is wasting your time or draining your fucking lifeforce. Left wing political organization is still very nascent and many of them will go the way of the Trudoviks (abandoned or absorbed into a more powerful party) once a legitimate class conscious proletarian force starts politically coalescing around whatever party (or whatever it will be called) in the future. You’ll know when you find some real comrades- they’ll earn your loyalty and you will earn theirs, and it will be beautiful. And that’s what will change the world.

(keep shitposting on hexbear in the meantime tho I need my slop)

DOD builds a second Pentagon that costs over half a billion dollars

professional-managerial liberal officer corps VS machismo-chud crayoneater grunts

who will win the grand prize?? (the privilege of paying for reconstruction of the American exclusion zone)

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CPUSA has been deeply infiltrated by feds for decades. I have no idea why anyone would waste their time and energy with them in 2023 when it’s obviously a honeypot

the building refused to condemn hamas

gotta keep non-state actors at the kids’ table, wouldn’t want those uppity terrorists to make our esteemed warmongers and genociders look bad