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  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    Telling me that I’m not a Socialist because I’m not a registered member of a Socialist organization doesn’t encourage me to join any organization. It encourages me to dump you and find an actual mutual ally.

    “Saying I’m only sympathetic to abolition if I’m not doing abolitionist work doesn’t make me want to do abolitionist work”

    Okay what will then, do you want a headpat or a handjob or what?

    The dumped metaphor is great because in this metaphor you weren’t dating to begin with. You were just admiring.

    But seriously if someone questioning your commitment when you aren’t committed makes you react with fleeing somewhere else that is on you.

    Stop saying stupid exclusionary things about your left-wing allies if you want to actually have a movement capable of change.

    If you’re not in the movement you are not a socialist. The movement is a real, organized thing, not just vibes.


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    He sometimes tells his audience to log off and join an org, we get a handful of new recruits occasionally due to the guy.

    So he actually is successfully moving people from being socialist sympathizers to actual socialists (you need to be part of an org to be a socialist)

    That’s all I really know about him, besides some people being thirsty about him.



  • The US isn’t a democracy though, it is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where every election we get to select which group of oppressors will wield state power against us until the next one.

    Also decline is caused by anticolonial resistance and the logic of capitalism breaking down. I would suggest reading Lenin’s “imperialism” and Fanon’s “wretched of the earth”