Russia is interfering with US politics but I don’t think Russia is actually influencing US politics.

The material conditions of neoliberalism lead to the rise of reactionaries and fascism.

The US will create forces like Trump, the alt-right, Steven Miller, Fuentes, with or without Russian money. The seeds were already planted long before Russian involvement.

I’m preaching to the choir here but liberals find it much more comfortable to blame an external entity than reflect on what’s rotten on the inside.

Yeah, that’s why they didn’t include Vizio, and their TV’s are entirely unusable unless you sign up and give them permission to spy on you in every way possible.

The good ole well it’s okay when Uncle Sam does it.

Everyone I know irl, across the political spectrum, is vehemently opposed to more involvement in overseas wars.

I’m very certain that online discourse around Venezuela is dominated by CIA troll farms trying to manufacture consent, but no one is really buying it, yet anyway.

The way I was actually ragebaited for a second there

Great foreshadowing to the twist ending.

Turns out an off-brand copying the most popular brand everyone loves is not going to stop brand loyalty anytime soon.

Exactly what happened in the US with Democrats and Blue MAGA.

They will not learn their lesson.

He’s a fragile-ego manchild who threatens to fire people when his feelings get hurt, which is apparently all the time.

When I was much younger I liked to troll my folks and family on Facebook by posting Bible quotes with Karl Marx’s face, to bait them into telling me how “dangerous” this kind of thinking was.

Please don’t apologize! You did all the right things, something I really appreciate about this website is that people challenge me to be better, and I got lots of great replies. Thank you sharing your time with me!

Yeah you make a great point here.

The problem is that the average USian will lock down when you start using fully revolutionary language. They will dig their heels in deeper. They just aren’t there yet. Maybe it needs to get a lot worse, before they’re finally ready for revolution? Maybe the US is just cooked.

You should do what you’re capable of doing. But We shouldn’t attack people for doing more. We shouldn’t attack people for doing less. Instead we should work together.

Thank you for sharing this, and yes I absolutely agree.

I encourage people to critique me, because I’m definitely vulnerable to my own ego, and it can make me blind towards getting meaningful material results. I want meaningful material results, so this helps me see my own blind spots.

But I am critiquing your attacks on a fellow comrade. I am critiquing our lack of unity in the movement.

Yeah, I think there’s a difficult line to walk here. We want unity, but we also need to hold each other accountable for being our best. I appreciate you holding me accountable too.

It’s like you think people can only be in this for their self-interest and anyone who doesn’t align with your personal world views is a traitor to you.

Not quite anything so intense and black-and-white. I think sometimes someone can have the right intentions, and lose the plot, and it’s important to remember to get back on track.

The creator in question, Madeline Pendleton, imho too frequently leans into TikTok drama slop, and has sometimes wielded their considerable following as a harassment tool against smaller (overwhelmingly BIPOC) creators, so I’m low on patience with them particularly. They stir drama and infighting on a much larger scale. I also think they spread a lot of Marxist awareness and could do better and be more effective. Not a traitor, just a little messy, and being messy isn’t a help to the cause.

I’m myself messy too. I don’t have the privilege/burden of a large audience, so it’s not going to have the same impact, but I would hope to be called out on it. I’m not any better of a person, and I’m trying to get better.

Oh yeah I fully agree with you, and you can educate me on what’s the best way to fight for you and your better material outcome, I’m all ears.

Ah, well “truth to power” itself has been long occupied by Nazis now, since around 9/11.

Elon in shambles rn

Starbucks is adding gay semen to their coffee.

But the specific part about being ruthlessly attacked for “speaking truth to power” is correct and justified and in no way inherently tied to reaction. It’s also a common phrase in progressive circles (in fact I hear it more from progressives).

I have to say I do slightly envy you from living around mostly progressives because I’m telling you, when a Nazi finds out they’re hated for their beliefs, their immediate response is, “you hate me because I’m speaking the ‘truth’ and you can’t handle it”, and they take hate as validation for digging in deeper to their Nazi beliefs. The “truth” being, “race realism”, or whatever way they rebrand their shitter bigotry.

You get the same thing from racist white Facebook Karens, “the lion does not concern itself with the opinions of the sheep”. It’s so common it’s like a corny meme.

I’m also just way too aware of how racists and Nazis act online and it’s not a comfortable place to be either.

Theory is really important, but if you need every member of your revolution to have a PhD in dialectical materialism, you will never have a revolution. You’ve gatekeeped your revolution to the intellectual bourgeoise.

You need revolutionary leaders who can take theory, and distill it down to values that ordinary working class people can understand.

It’s extremely important to recognize the balance to walk here: to encourage solidarity between both the intellectuals, and the proletariat who cannot afford higher education.

Like it’s really about how if you go to a mutual aid group and start talking about communist theory, you’re going to be shunned, stalked or worse.

No. You won’t be, IF you can set your ego aside.

From an abundance of personal experience, you can talk about class consciousness to almost anyone across the political spectrum. We’re pretty much all working class schmucks who don’t like smug insufferable wealthy out-out-touch elites. We all just want our basic needs to be in reach.

Imho the biggest problem that most budding young communists run into is that they want so badly to be a symbol of communism, convert everyone to stalinism, revert all CIA propoganda, and rehabilitate the image of Russia and the DPRK.

You have to pick your battles. You can’t get the average USian to love the word “communism”, but you can easily get them to hate billionaires and federal establishment corporatists.

One person saying something that is an absurd lie does not mean everyone who says it is a liar. You know this. Do you not see this happen literally every day with anti-zionists? I sure do.

Coopting right-wing reactionary language is unhelpful, no matter how right or justified you feel. At best you’ve muddied the waters, at worst the libs are now pointing at you saying, “look they talk just like Nazis”.

On a deeper level, persecution complex is a Western/US issue, rooted in Christian Puritan values. Even for people who aren’t Christian, it’s subconsciously ingrained.

Just let it go, stop feeling bad about yourself because people were not receptive to your message. Rewrite it into a better message. Anti-war, pro-socialism, pro-communism sentiment is on the rise. Don’t be like the Dems and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

When she says that, she explains that she was harassed, stalked and threatened in connection to her anti-war advocacy in the wake of 9/11

Absolutely not okay that happened. Harassment and threats are never acceptable. And in hindsight, their anti-war stance aged like fine wine, as the same warhawks eager to invade Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001 pretend they knew it was a mistake the whole time in 2025. The tides turned and being anti-invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan is extremely popular today.