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  • Sweet, thanks, I bookmarked that site.

    Yeah, there's a whole gamut of online diversions, sometimes it feels like you're playing a platformer avoiding all the traps and spikes. But in truth, they're more like snares and shadow plays to get you caught up in a Plato's cave, fighting with strawmen, and not advancing towards Marxism-Leninism. If you're not here, ideologically, you've been ensnared, and your energy is being diverted into meaningless chatter. That's why what you mentioned earlier is important, that we need more rigorous Marxist critics. I guess that's what Tricontinental, the IMG, CTW, and other great orgs and channels do.

    There's a realization spreading now in the Global South that we need our own tech, and not to rely on Western, mainly US, tech. I bring this up, cause sometimes either we overestimate online activity or we underestimate it, thinking that real, on the ground organizing is most important. It is at the end of the day, but we spend time simultaneously in both spaces. So we go back to your call, and I wanted to tie that with the pursuit of sovereign tech, because as we've seen with Venezuela, the right has total control of online space. Chavismo has always had a presence online but because the US has Meta and Twitter, they're minimized, shadow banned, etc. So we need our own tools to quell theirs. This can only be done under revolution, like China did. We have to build platforms independent from US meddling. It is a matter of national security in the world today, specially for our AES comrades.

  • I haven't read those, and thankfully don't know about the Hegelian e-girls, Hahaha. I agree, that there's a lot of pseudo-theory out there because of bourgeois academia where like Gabriel often says, it's like every academic has a product to sell; the new, hip theory that's dressed up as ''radical'' but upholds the status quo.

    Thanks for the book recs, I'll write those titles down and look for 'em.

  • Hahaha, there was another one recently about Western Marxism from Losurdo, but I didn't post it, it was from the International Manifesto Group and Friends of Socialist China. It should be on Friends of Socialist China's YT for any comrades interested.

  • Thanks for posting this great article, man. I always appreciate people learning about Venezuela.

  • Yeah, man, that was after MoreTankieChapo got hit. Good times.

  • I sometimes visualize narrative management from libs and chuds like a baseball game with bases loaded, but in which the ''opposing teams'' are not playing against themselves, they bat for each other. I dunno if it makes more sense to think of it as: a team playing itself so that it always wins.

    The idea of nonfalsifiable orthodoxy is one of the most brilliant observations and syntheses that we possess. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. I've watched it working in real time from escuálidos regarding Venezuela. The same show on a gusano channel, EVTV, would say that Kharim Khan, the ICC dude, was in the pocket of the Maduro ''regime'', but also that he was going to finally bury them. They play both possibilities simultaneously in order to cover their asses, and most importantly manage the narrative in their favor no matter the circumstance or result. It truly would make Goebbels' blush at his own incompetence.

    There's another element to it that you alluded to, Nikki. That libs can fill in the blanks. If there's nothing there, they'll place it, horror vacui style.

    This tactic is part of information warfare, as a part of class warfare. It is meant to maintain the status quo and proselytize with TINA: ''There Is No Alternative''. It's very hard to fight back against it in a world with social media. You will wake some, like us and some lurkers, but others will remain asleep. We are ''curados de espanto'', as we say in Spanish, ''cured of fright'', meaning that we know much of this by now because we've seen it play out so often. But it's always worth the effort to point it out, and hopefully, once it is out in the light, it becomes more apparent.

  • As many of you've heard, PR had another massive blackout so I was down for the count for 4 days without net after power came back.

    For the record, I did not kill the pope, looks like JD Vance got to him first.

  • they could’ve just hired Daniel Craig and shaved his hair, no need for deepfakes

    It's funny that it's AI cause they gotta make everything up to fit into lib lore.

  • Ahh, alright, I hope it happens soon. Thanks for letting me know.

  • How did the Hexbear auction go? Cause all my subs went silent, like slop, chisme, etc., but when I go to Hexbear they're still active?

  • Another banger from Arnaud ''Threadmaster X'' Bertrand.

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    Western Marxism and the War of Ideas / Gabriel Rockhill, Ammar Ali Jan & Pawel Wargan on Red Star

  • Great points, man, I wish more people understood Ché's words: ''No se puede confiar en el imperialismo, pero ni tantico así, nada.'' ''We can't trust imperialism, not even a teeny bit, nothing.''

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    Bobalibs Stay Losing

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    Gabriel Rockhill, "Western Marxism"

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    Defending Bolivarian Venezuela against yet another US-led coup attempt.

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    How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism

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    Understanding Venezuela: Chavismo As Socialism With Venezuelan Characteristics

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    II Encounter For A World Social Alternative From Bolívar To Chavez

  • The Space Force, like US hegemony, means, to adopt our comrade's metaphor, to ''Kesslerize'' humanity by caging it in.

  • Yeah, I was more pointing out how the Guy Fawkes mask always shows up among ''anti-authoritarians''/hackers/color revolutions, etc, so it's become for me an immediate sign that things are not good.

  • First pic, and there it is, a Guy Fawkes mask.

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    Can Latin America & Caribbean Unite Against the Empire? w/ Venezuela’s Former FM Jorge Arreaza

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    Ken Hammond, Book Launch for "China's Revolution & the Quest for a Socialist Future"

  • This is just to add a strategy that helps me out.

    The reason I caught on to this ''nuance fetishism'' some time ago was by looking at function. What is the function of nuance? What does it do, and whom does it benefit? What is the function of ''leftists'' who parrot their western media and repeat the same shit the right says, for example? They may claim to be nominally leftwing, but functionally they're rightwing. Names don't matter shit, what matters is what names do. What good am I doing by pissing into the sea? If everyone is criticizing say, China right now, on every news show and YT channel, what is the point, if I wish to counteract their bullshit, of me repeating the same crap those channels are saying? Or lending a shred of credence to their factually incorrect takes? If I want to convince you about my point, will adding critiques function as strengths or weaknesses to my point? In my opinion, they weaken my point, because we cannot give an iota to reaction. This brings me to a related point to nuance which is ''balance''. Balance, Bothsiding and Nuance, are the trifecta of liberalism, and function as the same thing: justifying the status quo. What are they functionally doing? What is the function of bothsiding? When you equivocate, speak from both sides of your mouth, are you to be taken seriously? In words, you're not taking a position, but functionally, you've taken the position of the status quo. What is the function of saying, for example, with regards to Palestine, that ''it's complicated''? To not do shit about it, and condemn those that do, like Ansar Allah and Hamas. This also adds the trick of ''muddying the waters'', of ''equalizing'' opposing forces as both bad. Let's not forget the all time Christmas classic, ''harm reduction'', or more colloquially known as ''voting for the lesser evil'', which are related to ''all governments are bad'', and function as means of quelling change or believing in an alternative.

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    Ex-Israeli PM Naftali Bennett Live Babyrage On Sky News

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    St. Zelensky Watching Himself At UN