My people are the poor and working class, and my chief issues are class issues and opposition to war, imperialism, genocide, and predatory, top-down capitalism.
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The United States, and to an extent its various de facto vassal states that make up the "West," has throughout my entire life constantly demanded of us two things:
1. We are to FEAR a perceived threat.
2. We are to HATE a perceived enemy.
Thought experiment:
If you were a COINTELPRO-style agent trying to neutralize the Western left, could you do BETTER than convincing it to treat all troops and veterans as irredeemable monsters?
No defectors, coalition-building is neutered, and the left does the work itself.
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An Observer *Trump's an Epstein pedo* retweeted
Today is Veterans day, which means the same Republicans and Democrats who fund the wars and send people to kill and be killed will be making hollow statements to manufacture consent for more war.
My message on Veterans day is this:
All US-led imperialist wars are based on a lie: They don’t deliver freedom or democracy. They deliver death and destruction all to make the US oligarchs richer.
We must end the US war machine. Our country has no right to wage endless wars to steal other countries resources.
Our country has over 800 military bases worldwide and spends $1 trillion a year on war.
To make matters worse the proposed war budget for 2027 is $1.5 trillion and includes Section 219, which would merge our military with Israel’s military.
At what point are the American people going to say ‘enough is enough’ and rise up to end this?
The U.S. has existed for 250 years and has been waging war for 230 of these 250 years, which is 92% of its existence.
The terrorists are not abroad. They are occupying the halls of our government in both the Republican and Democratic* parties.
If peace is to ever exist on this earth it must start here in the heart of the imperial core and it must start with the American people being brave enough to reject both imperialist parties.
What the US ruling class and both of its parties don’t want you to know is that we the people have tremendous power. We make the economy run, which means we can bring everything to a halt if we rise up together en masse to fight for a better world!
Try not to have any heroes. Not even heroes in fringe or marginalized movements.
Sooner or later, nearly all of them will disappoint you. Especially if they're online commentators who've made it their profession, which tends to impact both their incentives and their egos.
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An Observer *Trump's an Epstein pedo* retweeted
What should be and what is are not the same thing, which is my point. The simple fact is that military service is not stigmatized by society, and the enlistees do not enter service with the understanding that they will be fighting unnecessary and immoral wars.
It may indeed be appropriate to stigmatize the entire line of work (as you say), but it is not appropriate to vent our anger at the young people who were fooled into participating. The phrase "fuck the troops too" is just as divisive as the approach taken by Hegseth when he claims that criticizing the administration's agenda is the same as criticizing individual service members. Both attitudes put service members in the same category as the war machine and those who control it.
If we want to end these destructive and useless wars we need ordinary people to be united, not divided, on these issues. Typical service members are not analogous to mob enforcers who knowingly commit criminal acts for money. They have been fooled, just like the bulk of the populace, and demonizing them does not help. It just plays into the game by keeping those two groups divided.
In the real world, revolutions are won by building coalitions. That means winning over people who aren't with us yet, including troops.
A lot of what passes for radical politics online is just moral outrage with zero strategy. Feels revolutionary! Builds nothing. Never can.
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Online, the most uncompromising take usually wins the most likes. That's useful if, say, you're crowdfunded, or your income otherwise depends on an audience.
So it's worth asking: what does that audience reward? What would it cost to say something they don't want to hear?
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One of the biggest problems with the Western left: social media rewards outrage generously and strategy barely at all.
"Fuck the troops" will always get more likes than "here's what the historical record shows about how revolutions actually win."
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I'm so exhausted by the Western "left." Never has anything calling itself "the left" been more unserious, more ignorant of its own history, or more self-sabotaging.
We need a class-focused, anti-imperial movement that's serious. "The left" ain't it.
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I guess I'll keep pushing the boulder up one more time anyway.
So here's the reality check:
teapawt.net/KB052276/status/212057…
I said this on your YouTube video, and I'll say it here, too, because I feel like this shit is important:
You can't just assume every military member "knowingly enlisted." Most people sign up at around 18 because they need a way to pay for college and/or get job training.
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"Fuck the troops" is such a shortsighted gift to Hegseth and a total dead end as far as revolutionary change.
Some days this feels Sisyphean, trying to somehow convince the Western left to stop sabotaging itself with counter-revolutionary posturing. 🙄
teapawt.net/caitoz/status/21205130…
Screw The Troops, And Other Notes
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is claiming that anyone who opposes Trump’s warmongering hates “the troops”.
“If you want to take issue with what we did in Epic Fury or Rough Rider or NAB and Nicolas Maduro, you’re taking issue with the troops and what they accomplished,” Hegseth told the press on Monday.
If you’re too young to remember 2003, this was the line they used the last time the White House started an unwinnable war in the middle east. If you hate the war, you hate The Troops. And we all know you’re not allowed to hate The Troops. You MUST love the imperial stormtroopers.
It’s such shitbrained war propaganda. Yes, absolutely fuck the war. Absolutely fuck every single person who chose to enter into this ridiculously unprovoked war of aggression. And hey, fuck The Troops too while we’re at it. Fuck everyone who knowingly enlisted in a military force that is literally only ever used to inflict evil in modern times.
Don’t valorize employment in a murderous war machine. If you do, you’re only encouraging future waves of young people to enlist. Don’t be a pro bono recruitment advertiser for the US military. Stigmatize that entire line of work.
We’re not doing that shit anymore. You don’t get use “the troops” as human shields to hide the depravity of your military decisions behind. The fact that your mass atrocities are carried out by rank-and-file employees does not magically exonerate anyone involved. Not the people sending those employees off to war, and not the people who knowingly enlisted in a military force that is only ever used to murder human beings for power and profit.
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Senator Ruben Gallego took to Twitter on Monday to proclaim, “Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit.”
When a commenter told him to join the International Legion and go fight the Russians himself, Gallego replied, “No that’s the beauty of this, we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.”
Propagandists claim it’s Russian propaganda to say those who support the war in Ukraine want to “fight to the last Ukrainian,” but that really is their position. Ukrainians keep telling pollsters that they want a negotiated end to the war while western proxy warriors chomp on cheesy carb snacks and tweet from their sofas about how great it is to throw Ukrainian bodies into the meat grinder.
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New rule: if you get to tell me that I hate Jews, then I get to tell you you’re just pretending to believe that in order to advance the interests of a genocidal apartheid state. If you get to tell me about my thoughts and feelings, I get to tell you about yours.
I get to tell you that you don’t believe a single word you are saying in our conversation. I get to tell you that you are lying about what you think and feel in order to marginalize criticism of the state of Israel. Those are your rules. We get to make sweeping assertions about one another’s internal conditions in an authoritative tone instead of making actual arguments.
If you whine about this, I will tell you, “This is the type of conversation you chose to have. This is the interaction you asked for, so this is the interaction you are getting. You’re just upset because you’re unaccustomed to getting back what you are serving.”
Give them back what they are giving, and don’t stop until they produce a real argument instead of dopey “antisemite” ad hominems.
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I ran into one of those liberal Zionists who poses as pro-Palestine but spends half their time concern trolling about “antisemitism” in the pro-Palestine movement. He tried to get me to engage him in this subject and I told him this:
“Address the fact that 99.9% of the time “antisemitism” gets mentioned it’s in reference to criticisms of Israel and Zionism. Address the fact that Israel and Zionism cause many orders of magnitude more damage than the 0.1% instances of actual antisemitism. Address the fact that the overwhelming majority of the 0.1% instances of actual antisemitism are caused by Israel’s genocide and warmongering and would go away if Israel stopped butchering children under the banner of the Star of David. Explain how it is possible to have a 'serious discussion about antisemitism' while these three things are happening.
“You will answer all four questions I asked you in their entirety if this conversation is to proceed. Until you have thoroughly addressed them all, the conversation you are trying to have is nonsensical.”
Back in 2021 I tweeted, “If I wanted to sabotage the pro-Palestine movement, I would make myself a part of the conversation by criticizing Israeli abuses and supporting Palestinian rights, then I’d start going “This rise in anti-semitism sure is concerning though, can we pause and focus on this please?”
That’s exactly what these freaks are doing.
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Reading by Tim Foley:
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An Observer *Trump's an Epstein pedo* retweeted
it’s so funny watching these morons throw around the word communist because someone told them to fear communists when they have no idea what the word actually means
An Observer *Trump's an Epstein pedo* retweeted
when we say “crime is a social construct”.
what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.
An Observer *Trump's an Epstein pedo* retweeted
You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That wealth comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop praising hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.
An Observer *Trump's an Epstein pedo* retweeted
Capitalism: if you don't like how your job treats you, you can just get a new one.
Me: okay I want a new job
Capitalism: oh sorry it's the time every 6 years where the entire economy is destroyed so rich people can łoot it right now. why don't you beg in the street for scraps
I REALLY fucking hate having to speak out in defense of that tool Kyle fucking Rittenhouse AGAIN, but how are people still so utterly ignorant about what actually happened back then?
As a reminder, here are the three "Black people" 🤪🤡 Rittenhouse shot.
teapawt.net/TheZodiacHeir/status/2…
I hope Karmelo walks out free especially if Kyle Rittenhouse got to drive across state lines to shoot Black people using an AR-15 without ANY repercussion.
In a just world Kyle would be behind bars and Karmelo wouldn’t have been racially harassed to a point of self defense.
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X is so full of pro-Musk bots spamming at this point that I've actually just started muting.
Never thought it'd come to that.
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Source: She made it up.
This is about as good as pro-capitalist arguments get. They can't argue on substance because capitalism is obviously a horrifically exploitative, failed system, and people can increasingly see that.
So you get shit like this. 🙄
teapawt.net/pensandpoison/status/2…
The way you can tell that socialists don’t actually want to help the poor but just want to hurt the rich is that none of them actually ever do anything to help the poor in their private lives.
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An Observer *Trump's an Epstein pedo* retweeted
Don't be mean to the trillionaire, just become a trillionaire yourself! All you need is luck, connections, wealthy parents, the ruthlessness to step on anyone who gets in your way, and a willingness to cooperate with murderous imperial institutions like the Pentagon and the CIA!