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Thank you sleeper agent Trump, we always knew you would follow through on your second term activation.

Ahahahahaha

Yes that is the main book I recommend to people to get them started on a left pipeline!

If you want to gauge the group itself, their sentiments on China are a good barometer.

How about Capitalism, Coronavirus, and War by Radhika Desai? It is modern, relevant, and has substantial portions about the new cold war against China. If a group is particularly anti-China, they will let you know by taking this opportunity to tell you that Chiba is imperialist or something.

Don’t forget the important questions when it comes to messaging!

1. Who is your audience?
2. What do you want them to think / feel agitated by through this?
3. Is there a follow-up action you want them to take?

If working with an org, some of these questions become easier to answer because your audience is usually local and you usually want them to attend an upcoming event like a rally or march or teach-in. The overall goal is usually something like organization building, coalition building, or moving a space in a direction.

It’s controlled in the sense that Democrats tout themselves as being against ruling class interests in various ways but then, of course, do not actually taje action to do so once elected. A perfect example is Obamacare. Obama ran on a single-payer healthcare promise but did the Dem thing of saying it required winning Congress as well (they assume they won’t get the votes and will therefore have that excuse). Only, they did win Congress and with enough votes to shove the whole thing through withiut changing the precious Senate rules, so they had no excuse whatsoever. So what did they do? They found a whipping boy in Joe Lieberman, pretended discipline was impossible, and gladly allowed the ACA to become a slightly subsidized insurance mandate, guaranteeing subscribers for private insurance.

Biden also dragged his feet on initial nominations and his NLRB has maintained a ton of the worst Trump-era decisions.

Most pro-union president btw

My self-crit will be that I don’t tell others to self-crit often enough.

Nice!

Whoah hell yeah. And nearly 50k? Does that mean commiefornia is responsible for half of PSL’s votes or has the total gone well past 100k?

I would suspect that the matrix chats have inadequate infosec. Like the platform is secure so participants are not as careful. For example, I would bet there’s plenty of info on admins’ alts in there.

Never do that to us again!

I have always lived on Liberal Mountain and met hexbears there.

I stay because it is entertaining, informative, and has a good smattering of people that know theory and/or irl practice. And because it’s vehemently pro-trans, anti-white supremacist, and so on, although of course there is room for improvement.

The paint has probably improved its structural integrity.

Stop the steal!

Excuse me but before you made these changes did you even consult the parliamentarian!?

Racists that spend all their time playing Fortnite and [new fad] aren’t the Hitler Youth, they are just atomized reactionary liberals.

Fascists arose in opposition to socialists. They were supported by the bourgeoisie, particularly the petty bourgeoisie, to fight a left that was ascendant and asserting people’s power, taking over cities and taking over factories. With the liberal institutions failing to guarantee bourgeois control, the armed right wing gangs bringing violence against the left were the only other game in town and were funded accordingly. This is how organized crime basically functions as well - it is just filling a space where the state monopoly on violence has been undermined. And later fascistic groups filled a similar role, like with Pinochet, who restored the (largely international) bourgeoisie’s capital control in Chilé through a coup and terror.

Nothing like this is happening in the United States. The United States does not have a left, there are too few of us. All of this is happening without a left and without a bourgeoisie that has been dispossessed. Accordingly, there are no brownshirts, not in any real numbers. They have nothing they would defend in retribution anyways.

But there are other factors that rhyme a bit so that you see what we have in front of us. There is a material decline, particularly for the least marginalized groups, and it requires a false consciousness under liberalism. The classic scapegoating of minorities is not a fascist invention, liberals were doing this long before and after European fascism. And with no left, the only people who could be mass opponents to violence against the marginalized are liberals, and they do so in an ineffectual liberal way. Providing no solutions, not addressing the underlying dynamics at play, destroying the education system, funding and owning social media that blasts right wing conteny while doing their best to censor left content, emphasizing electoralism for their ghouls, these are the liberal “solutions”. They create the conditions for reactionaries to exist, feed into their scapegoating (Dems have always been racist and xenophobic, e.g.), use their power to punch left instead of right.

So what you see today is more the typical liberal order in empire where no left exists. It is a resetting of the terms to the more typical arrangement. “Progress” is not inevirable, it can be crushed and reset, all it tajes is for those in power to have no real fear of the people. And the American people are almost the least fearsome they have ever been, though there are undercurrents of riots that could break out during a recession. If left organizations were just large enough and just ready enough, they would be able to provide direction and longevity for the next mass expression of pain and frustration.

In terms of messaging reality doesn’t matter at all. Just begin asserting it was due to being too right wing, including doing a genocide.

The “why” of losing an election isn’t entirely knowable anyways. Most people didn’t vote at all. Every candidate that loses mostly loses because the majority of people see no value in it. The consistency of this should mean most reflection be about the illegitimacy of American “democracy”, but that is rarely the focus. Instead, all of the air in the room gets taken up by cynical party “strategists” trying to normslize even farther right views to placate donors and get their next gig on the next campaign, now defined as, “we are woke but are against trans people and latinos”.

The “it’s because they’re right wing genociders” line is more correct than 90% of what anyine will otherwise hear. It is also in line with why there are so many non-voters. What is the meaning of being politically “engaged” in electoralism when you don’t see a material benefit to it, can’t really personally do anything about it except check a box for one of two Hitlers, and see correct popular will on important topics routinely ignored despite how the party suckups tell you it works?

Smoosh that stuff together and take up more space!

PS all I’m saying is that nobody would be mad if a new admin named ASOCRAC were, by a stroke of luck, recruited today.

I demand that this resignation be like that of Stalin: a mere formality that is soundly rejected.