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  • Fox news asks the FBI to investigate anti-war organizations like PSL and Codepink, labelled as "Marxist footsoldiers"

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  • sincerity posting about this for a sec: while there is of course plenty of cause to worry about internal repression of left wing movements in the US broadly speaking, this article is nothing new. the specific leaders they're calling out are already very public facing and have been smeared in right wing rags before, going back to 2023 shortly after Oct. 7th. 

    being concerned about the ongoing risks of socialist organizing here? understandable. seeing this article as a unique next step in that? nah, that i wouldn't sweat.

  • Fox news asks the FBI to investigate anti-war organizations like PSL and Codepink, labelled as "Marxist footsoldiers"

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  • wait this article actually makes us sound so fucking cool though

    "...the overnight sequence bears the hallmarks of a pre-positioned influence network executing a rapid-response operation. The synchronization of messaging, the staggered release of content across aligned platforms and the immediate transition from online agitation to physical mobilization point to an ecosystem designed not for spontaneous protest, but for ideological warfare."

    (Stavvy laugh) hell yeah, dude

  • Fox news asks the FBI to investigate anti-war organizations like PSL and Codepink, labelled as "Marxist footsoldiers"

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  • PSL "marxist footsoldier"

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    Cuban Revolution 67th Anniversary- Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of January 2026

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  • to every gusano out there in the world, fix your heart or die. i don’t particularly care right now which you choose, just choose one quick.

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    Cuban Revolution 67th Anniversary- Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of January 2026

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  • one of if not the most egregious from the later movies is Frodo falling for some low energy fat shaming on the part of Gollum and sending Sam away, book Frodo would neeeeeeever. also Faramirs near-total character assassination.

    there’s a bunch of other smaller shit that’s there to add contrived drama or corny hollywood shit and stuff that just doesn’t make sense on a plot consistency or like internal lore consistency level and also the whole thing being more action oriented changes the whole tone. but those two things are the most corrosive to the core spirit of the story character-wise imo.

    also must be added on a day like today as a completely unrelated aside but death to the Amerikan empire.

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    Cuban Revolution 67th Anniversary- Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of January 2026

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  • hell yeah comrade

    giving us all some good news on a bleak day

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    US comrades: if there's an emergency protest for Venezuela near you, you should go

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    Cuban Revolution 67th Anniversary- Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of January 2026

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  • boy oh boy cannot wait to walk for a mile or so in a circle today shouting slogans and pretend that's meaningful anti-imperialist resistance

    in sincerity - while they are kinda theater/a production from a sausage factory POV - peaceful marches are an important tactic in the toolbelt for building our ranks, recruiting, serving as a low barrier of entry to the larger struggle to do more meaningful shit, awareness building, etc. but goddam does all this shit feel so woefully insufficient to the current moment right now. why do we all have to live in the bad future

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    Cuban Revolution 67th Anniversary- Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of January 2026

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  • it's not until a high level that it's accessible and it's one of the most common mechanics hacked into either having stricter limitations than the rules as they're written, or just axed altogether.

    but yeah d&d doesn't innately do stuff outside of "superheroic high fantasy focused on combat" super well (you can modify it to be better at other types of narratives/scenarios but that's pretty laborious). other types of RPGs are designed for stuff outside of that, there's like a million different systems/rule sets out there.

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  • damn Return of the King is super short if you don't include the appendices.

    also rewatched half of Fellowship extended edition with my partner (her first time) and i have become the kind of dweeb who has strong opinions about LOTR book-to-movie changes

    Fellowship is easily the truest to the spirit & tone of the book, most of the changes were necessary cuts/condenses for pacing and runtime, reluctant sensitive sadboy Aragorn who gradually learns to be a leader as an act of service to others works well for the film imo, a perfect mythic hero works in a novel that's heavily inspired by myth/that feels like a more modern take on those myths but would feel super jarring in a film (and the movie arguably just moves character development/an arc Aragorn had that was hinted at offpage/in the appendices before the events of LOTR into the events of LOTR), Glorfindel being replaced by Arwen also better for the format for a number of reasons. (It would have been fun if they'd found a way to keep some of book Aragorn's prankster side though lol)

    the worst changes IMO are that you see the beginnings of the flattening of Frodo (and less importantly Gimli and Legolas), which only intensifies as the movies go on - you at least see some of book Frodo's resourcefulness/cleverness in the first movie (e.g. solving the riddle outside Moria) before he's turned into a much more wholly passive character, and Gimli is at least allowed a moment of actual grief/pathos in the mines before becoming more pure comic relief. (Idk if Orlando Bloom would have had the chops to bring book Legolas's mix of playfulness/joie de vivre and world-wise pensiveness even if the script tried to retain that aspect of him so idk).

  • Like most of you I had (and still have) a lot of doubts about Mamdani, but I'd at least consider this a small initial win

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  • it should be “how can the socialist movement leverage figure X?”

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • but wait…if everybody’s 12 then 30-somethings also 12 and 30-somethings are old so 12 y/o are old so everybody’s…….

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • "what would you tell your younger self" thought experiment except it's me to myself a few months ago (a week or so before my 35th birthday (when i was still Officially Young))

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  • 30s = old

    discourse has gotten out of hand, the algo just fed me a D-tier dogshit meme of Uncle Iroh from Avatar hanging out with literal children that said "me being early 30s hanging out with my friends in their late 20s" like dawg those are barely even different life stages if at all.

    i have early-mid 20s friends through organizing and it doesn't even really feel like that, like yeah it's different hanging out with them in a lot of ways but not to that degree. am i getting excessively riled up about bottom of the barrel engagement bait slop? idk maybe probably but this is the general mega (better known as "PowerLurker's journal") so u gotta deal with it, Jack!

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • ey thank you thank you

    hoping to keep it up in the new year!!

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • oooooh i getchu now. so i have a witness to my precognitive struggle session prediction abilities

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • do i sense the premise for a Last Ringbearer-esque takedown of the Witcher brewing?? 

    tbh i tend to avoid fictional media based struggle sessions/site drama (and used to steer clear of site drama in general before things got kinda bad here the past year and change) but i think something that gets lost in these discussions is that you can (and generally should?) critique aspects of a work of fiction for being potentially problematic while still allowing yourself to overall enjoy the work if you enjoy it. it's also fine for some audiences to not be able to look past certain arguably problematic dimensions because it makes them too uncomfortable or upset, while others can look past them - that's fine and doesn't have a particularly moral dimension, enjoying or not enjoying fictional media is far from any kind of praxis. (like I love LOTR but it's no mystery to me why that's easier to do as a white guy).

    the impression i get is that people on one side of this type of struggle session feel judged on a personal level for something they feel is innocuous (enjoying a particular story), and the other side (including many POC users) feel like their critiques that come from a lived experience of heightened oppression are being downplayed and dismissed by people who on average come from a more privileged position. but idk, if people could take a step back from media consumption as any kind of particularly moral or political act these convos could be had in a less heated way (i guess what i'm saying is reject UlyssesT thought and its consequences)

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle (good but evil book) and The Two Towers just in the nick of time to have completed 8 fictions in the year 2025, which isn't all that much but before this year i was lucky if i finished like 1-2 books so i'm gonna give myself a lil pat on the back.

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • i hate to be the guy who responds to a bitpost with sincerity but you got me thinking and i feel like the common canon fodder monsters (drowners, ghouls, etc) in the Witcher are depicted more like fantastical (& gross) wild animals than actual sapient/self aware creatures so it's closer to killing an aggressive wolf or bear or some shit.

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  • old enough to remember the frieren struggle sessions or me pining for a d&d group on and off for like over 5 years now??

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    PowerLurker [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    lenin, my GOAT

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    PowerLurker [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    NYC hexbears riding the Zohran high: get involved w/ the ICE Out of NY coalition!!

  • badposting @hexbear.net
    PowerLurker [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    help

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    PowerLurker [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    the true reason i started organizing…

  • electoralism @hexbear.net
    PowerLurker [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    PSL Statement on Zohran's Win

    liberationnews.org /psl-statement-mamdanis-victory-and-the-movement-for-socialism/
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    PowerLurker [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net

    !! Vote Socialist in the Bronx - PSL candidate Andre Easton launches campaign for NY-15 Congressional District !!