I was re reading some not so old Hexbear comments from back when I was a lurker, and alongside the liberal zionism issues it shows the rot. Thread was a struggle session where white disabled people allowed for nuance about someone with Tourette’s saying the n word in front of a mostly black audience. That they could say “yes it was offensive, violence even, but he didn’t mean it” shows an inability to consider the experiences of others when you’re not racialized, assuming you know it all. Pure centering of white feelings.

Feels like the stories about gun violence in the US where the latest deranged incel chud suburbanite who shot up his 97.8% white school in Lynching Tree, Florida gets a discussion about mental health and gun regulation, but the “inner city” criminal trying to get by is a sign of “parental issues.” They’re so un-self conscious that it’s a sign of the lurking but un acknowledgable specter of racism that this discussion is about white disabled people having the right to a discussion on intentionality, while those who from the jump are inferior not even human get nothing. They use civility and both siding on incredibly specific distinctions you need to be comfy to go in depth about. Again, reminds me of the ongoing “discussions” about the extreme complicity of the Jewish community in the latest western atrocities. White people get agency (or a lack thereof if convenient), and it’s never allowed to be about whether black people were harmed, it’s about white feelings and white innocence. Hexbear’s answer to this then and now is the false peace of locking the thread. While letting Fox News esque racist sentiments in woke language go systemically unchallenged. God damn it.

The FBI isn’t sending their best, folks.

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Youtube comments, they’re just AI engagement bait?

Tbh I want to do this but as a Pynchonian novel about regime change and diasporas and shit

Only in the USA

Liberalism’s superstructure consists of the most annoying self centered I know better smarmy I did this alone type mindset. I’m sure feudal lords and clergy were frustrating, but they didn’t have the means to socially reproduce this totalitarian impulse worldwide. Who was their Bill Maher? The guys coming up with universal human rights were also like buying stock in the East India Company and shit. The human was freed from god and his bag men, but had to be again caged into colonial racial castes and inferior national identities and ‘savagery.’ So human rights is the right of the defined human to engage in a public sphere life of trade and a private sphere life of solitude.

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines

—Dag Hammarskjöld

These diaries are so fascinating, again, I appreciate the effort to translate

Stay in your lane asset

Hegemony moment. A fascinating historical case study would be the 60’s DRC. The Soviets provided some logistical support to an anti-colonial government there, Cuba¹ sent some forces to help a rebel group but left disappointed in a lack of political and military discipline, and Nkrumah and Nehru had all efforts funneled into the UN. The typical narrative of a cold war proxy conflict looses coherence. Its reliance on canards about the anti-colonial Congolese government as communist agitators bubbles to the surface, propaganda spread by white internationalist² interests like William F. Buckley’s American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom-Fighters.

Instead, we notice the CIA helping Katanga’s secessionists smuggle in French made fighter jets, used to strafe UN peacekeepers. At the same time official policy is opposing the secession. What gives? In the CIA station chief’s memoirs, a good limited hangout explanation of overall goals is explained. The US wants:

• Anti-colonial leader Lumumba dead
• A regime that can supervise the flow of cobalt, copper, uranium, etc north and westwards
• A bulwark against independence on Africa’s dividing line
• The subordination of Belgium, France, and Britain’s capital to the US-led world order

Such demands were won. But it required supporting many sides. Using the UN in controlled bursts of force to prevent the European-South African proxy of Katanga from creating an untenable situation for long term stability. Using the secessionists to kill Lumumba. Using Mobutu to clean up the mess.

In the end this raises questions about US military interventions in Korea, Vietnam, or for that matter the GWOT, where playing both sides became an essential tactic. Was the point simply to get a pro-US regime in charge, probably impossible? A more interesting explanation would be fracturing countries to boost the western economy and prevent sovereign development.

1. Interestingly enough the CIA was sending Cuban exile pilots to crush the same rebellion Che was temporarily embedded in.
2. In the sense of the fascist international. Networks before and after the Second World War demonstrate links from Ukraine to Canada, Germany to America, and Europe to South Africa and regimes like Welensky’s Rhodesia.

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• Never pay your guys

Pynchon character

It’s genuinely shocking the dregs of dreck that got concentrated campaigns of acclaim during the cold war. From Orwell and Arendt to Red China Commie Plot Brainwashing pulp schlock. Sovietologists were getting paid to make shit the fuck up.

State capitalist bureaucracy bonapartist stalinist

This is your mind on California

The name democratic socialism itself says a lot. Firstly that other socialisms are undemocratic, and secondly that the parliament they’re in is.

A: There must be suffering for change to happen

B: Most people past to present have lived in misery. Yet they did not or could not immediately reshape the world.

Synthesis: Change requires a fracturing in the status quo plus the motivation by progressive elements to take its place.

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