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BabyTurtles [none/use name]

@ BabyTurtles @hexbear.net

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  • New UK poll, 407 seats lost for Terf Party (labour)

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  • 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.

  • The anti-mamdani bot radicalized, now its pro-maduro and still anti-mamdani

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  • NYPD Commissioner Tisch’s brother calls Mamdani ‘enemy’ of Jewish people at charity dinner

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  • FBI under Kash Patel has become ‘internally paralyzed by fear’, new report reveals

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

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  • 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.

  • TERF party of Britain says "focus on the worker votes not trans rights" and then they dont win a single seat

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  • All my homies hate the Trans Exclusionary Reactionary Fartfaces

  • I don't even know where to begin with this.

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  • I hate absolutely everything about it, 10/10 ragebait

  • Hey guys, as a Venezuelan ...

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  • This is the go-to CIA format consent manufacturing format:

    • Lukewarm about Trump
    • Promise it is different than Iraq

    It's always these two together.

  • "cumrags lend your critical support for genocide"

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  • You're doing really good work patiently educating people.

  • "cumrags lend your critical support for genocide"

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  • I don't think I've found one good consistent anarchist instance yet :(

  • Why being a Marxist makes you a hated individual

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  • 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!

  • Why being a Marxist makes you a hated individual

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  • 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.

  • Why being a Marxist makes you a hated individual

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  • 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.

  • Why being a Marxist makes you a hated individual

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  • 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.

  • Why being a Marxist makes you a hated individual

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

  • Trump is letting anyone hit it

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  • Elon in shambles rn

  • You're telling me a toffee ejaculated this latte?

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  • Why being a Marxist makes you a hated individual

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  • 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.

  • Why being a Marxist makes you a hated individual

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  • 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.