RedSailsFan [none/use name]

https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-i-got-the-chess-com-domain-name

TL;DR - I got the Chess.com domain name out of bankruptcy for $55,000 in 2005

an eye watering sum presumably lol

you should point this out in the headline or in the post body then, my original impression was that you were saying they are calling others “bots” or something like that

the NYPD is literally funded like an army they would outright just kill him if he tried this

what exactly is the issue here? the article is complaining about DDOS attacks from botnets and LLM scrapers, seems very reasonable to me

it’s a for-profit website that tries to do everything it can to get you to subscribe to a premium service (certainly sells your data too) whereas lichess has everything free and open forever

chess.com mentioned

if you like chess you should only use lichess.org btw

im not even sure how to do that at this point. live in a very reactionary area, all my friends no longer live here (i only live here to help take care of my dad), and im honestly extremely scared of revealing im a communist to the wrong person that could hurt me and my family. like out of all my 10 closest neighbors half have trump flags

Also, orgs near me

wish i had literally any org near me, closest org afaik is over 2 hours away from me, i tried to get involved in setting up a regional DSA chapter when i was younger but the main organizers fell apart after only a few months and since it was so early in the process + none of the other people involved were even that close to me (within 30 min) i didnt feel like i could take up the torch

think we largely agree here, hopefully final clarification of myself lol but i dont think FD is harmful to the left like i think typical breadtubers are, for instance iirc he has more than one vid in which he makes fun of people that use the word “tankie” which many other people on “breadtube” would never dare to do. when i want him to connect bernie’s (rhetorical) failings towards his failings towards externally colonized people i dont want him to call him Bernie $$ander$$ (as funny as that would be) or anything like that, dont even have to use any mean words like imperialism, just put something in the vid to hint at the connection idk if that makes sense

btw cornbreadtube is one of my favorite yet wasted concepts on yt, ik it was never serious but tweaking breadtubes nose in how white and rich they are was an incredible idea that never really fully came to fruition like i would have liked lol

I think a lot of what he had to say was more relevant toward how one should address the black electorate. Whether it’s for Bernie, Zohranz or a revolutionary movement, if you want the support of these people, the white left needs to get it’s shit together. I think electoral campaigns are good “practice” for doing so.

yes something that (i hope) is implicit in my comment is that these older black voters that are the majority of the black electorate are important in any revolution because they have the most first hand experience of white workers betraying black workers which is something any hopeful revolutionary in the west/the US especially must deal with in its entirety. slight pushback/clarification, i believe white revolutionaries need to learn how to identify which populations are revolutionary and where the most likely betrayals will occur to both try and mitigate those betrayals (i.e. convince as many white workers as possible not to betray for soc dem benefits) and also actually help organize the most populations with the most revolutionary potential (i.e. gain the trust of black workers).

Also, I think you’ll enjoy Signifier going head to head with someone to his left here: https://youtu.be/SPOYP8LnwOU

hahaha i bet i would, deculturation is a part of the “decolonial ML” circle of people i used to follow on twitter, thanks for the link comrade!

i feel you so much there, the reason i call myself a “sympathizer” instead of a full on ML is because i feel like i havent read nearly enough of the important theory in my list to call myself one

yes i should say i think of his vids of “good vs bad” through my mindset as a “decolonial ML sympathizer” lol. his bad vids are all mostly b side channel stuff like this where he wades into more explicit political stuff that i think exposes his lack of serious study into these areas. i should also say I hold him to a higher standard as someone who regularly platforms much more radical people than himself if that makes any sense.

to be more specific i wish he would connect bernie’s weakness in addressing the concerns of black people to his total lack of concern for the colonial subjects outside of the US’ borders, possible i missed this (im drunk rn i will admit). i think i get where you’re coming from as far as the focus on electoralists being necessary for the vid, but i still think there is room to make it more clear without dipping into that territory of doing that lecturing? idk, something like “even many of you more ‘principled’ revolutionary socialists ignore this”? i am not black so as far as exact wording and what not i dont want to make any firm claims lol

i guess my wish is that he will utilize his incredible ability to hit white lib guilt buttons and gently nudge them in a more revolutionary, scientific socialist way if that makes sense.

sorry, i know all of this because i read Losurdo’s book Class Struggle btw

full comment here but i think it’s not even being “pretty poor in race relations” but instead is just a total misrepresenting of class struggle that older black voters are much more likely to pick up on because white workers have repeatedly betrayed them in the past in exchange for these lofty soc dem reforms that i dont think younger black voters will have picked up on because of how younger white people are becoming much more proletarianized again.

my 2 cents: he’s right that bernie sanders doesnt correctly address race issues, but it’s because bernie is a soc dem who (whether willingly or mistakenly it doesnt really matter) misunderstands and misrepresents class struggle, and that to actually combat capitalism ignoring/downplaying the racial aspect of classes in capitalism is to totally misrepresent reality and thus have no chance of actually achieving real meaningful progress towards socialism.

even though he does mention that this vid was specifically directed toward electoralists, he still took a shot at revolutionary socialists anyways so alongside him totally ignoring bernie sanders other glaring issues (laptog for imperialism etc.) which arise from the same place as his lack of attention to black issues, i think this was among FD Signifier’s bad videos

post it to r/trueanon should do numbers there

admins need to pin this to the front page

edit: my wish has been granted. the report button is a powerful tool to get the admins to pin posts…

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