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Salem [he/him]

@ Salem @hexbear.net

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  • I used to watch this Youtuber, Darkmatter2525, about 13 years ago. His Epstein video popped up on my recommendations recently, and caught a glimpse of Bondi's combatativeness in the opening.

    She came off as a person in deep moral crisis, revulsion, and fear of reprecussions from both Congress, executive branch, and state retribution. Like, someone who thinks better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. No remorse but also quite aware of the difference between right & wrong, and choosing evil out of avarice, prestige, or fear.

  • Hot take: people are giving themselves epstein derangement syndrome (and that is a bad thing)

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  • I have a cynical and pessimistic view of people's future in the US.

    Revolution isn't going to manifest from a disillusionment from both major political parties, ICE crackdowns, or the facade of liberal democracy unraveling before our eyes. In Chris Hedges' book from 2012, Wages of Rebellion, he states a belief that the ruling ideology of neoliberalism is discredited but there is no ideology or course of action to take its place, calling this period an interregnum. A period between ideologies.

    As long as cheap goods and easy credit exist for Americans to draw their sustenance from, even as they face increasing financial distress, the status quo will remain the same but with a degrading and tenuous political legitimacy and subsequent increase in stochastic terrorism and mass violence. Stable, but "enshittified".

    There are mechanisms in the US Constitution and legal system to hold the power elites connected with Epstein accountable, but the rule of law has long been a farce. This was clearly illustrated when the Center for Constitutional Rights sued the Biden admin for complicity in the Gaza genocide when the courts acknowledged the possibility of genocide by Israel & US complicity but denied their own ability to check the power of the US executive in regards to foreign policy. The law favored the CCR but the courts favored power.

    Strikes, work stoppages, blocking ports of air and sea, and protests are the only mechanisms available and the government seems content and willing to just let it come to an exchange of violence - and the state is better at violence in toleration and execution than the masses of ordinary people.

    I agree with your tl'dr but I don't hold out hope for Americans as a revolutionary body or persons in mass distress to be disillusioned from the Democrats enough to engage in mass movement to compel the reformation of a 21st century New Deal.

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    Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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  • Does anyone know what happened to the First Thought Youtube channel? Did JT just retire it?

  • Casual Lib on lib infighting

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  • "party unity my ass" . i.e, I have a Dismissive notion of party unity under Obama.

  • FEELS GREAT, fuck off

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  • Whether it's genuine or facetious, bot or human, the posters in that thread are omitting not only the Democrats' incompetence in losing and preference to preserving the genocide in Gaza, but the party's capacity and power to resist Trump on the federal and state levels.

    As that one poster said in other threads, this is the Democrats enforcing party discipline on its constituents and enacting punitive passivity to corral errant Democrats back into the fold. i.e, "You will vote for us and you will like it whether or not we act upon our promises."

    If you do interact with these persons in Reddit or in real life, inform them that their party is deliberately sitting on its hands and offering no resistance to this administration or the terminal decline and disintegration of American society.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 19th to January 25th, 2026 - Squaring the Arctic Circle

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  • Also provides cover for the IDF to exhume & excavate the remains of the dead - those buried in the rubble or by the IDF during the course of the genocide - and hide the evidence of the genocide.

  • I guess all I do here is post stormfront, er, Reddit slop

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  • that thread got removed by mod and the comments bodied the poster

  • Patreon and the Chapos (maybe?) are shutting down r\Blackwolffeed

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  • Patreon and the Chapos (maybe?) are shutting down r\Blackwolffeed

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  • can you recommend one? I really only used Podbean and Patreon

  • Patreon and the Chapos (maybe?) are shutting down r\Blackwolffeed

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  • The speculation on the reddit thread is that the Chapo hosts got upset at the subreddit dunking on their 1000th episode.

  • Patreon and the Chapos (maybe?) are shutting down r\Blackwolffeed

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  • I don't understand how to use this.

  • bourgeois-enforced social reproduction of proletarian anti-intellectualism lowkey got me feeling hopeless

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  • The weakness of the proletariat is that they are divisible and manipulatable enough to redirect them away from revolutionary activity. This was remedied by Lenin's vanguard strategy in Russia and parties who adopted this strategy in the developing world, but it does take leadership to pull and push the masses to action.

    The caveat is that despite this weakness, communists & socialists only need a segment of the population since segments of the proletariat also adopts the "go-along-to-get-along" and has a wait-and-see approach to new policies and states of governance.

  • ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

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  • the big secret is movements are not majoritarian campaigns but pressuring society and the state (ruling class) to concede or make it too costly to continue w/ status quo.

    Most Americans are go-along-to-get-along and don't have political agency outside a voting bloc.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 5th to January 11th, 2026 - The New Old Colonialism (And Long Live Chavismo) - COTW: Venezuela

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  • Why are conservatives latching onto the Jonathan Ross bodycam footage like it exonerates his murder of Good?

    ICE created dangerous situations, "fear for their lives" , brandish weapons and disguise their identities through facemasks, and now feel free to kill with impunity in such a brazen manner but to the conservative mind disrespect = alienation from humanity = okay to kill.

  • I guess being anti-hate speech and anti-fascist are mutually exclusive on Reddit

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  • They just want life to return to 2014 again.

  • Are there any socialist states that the anti-tankie crowd support anymore?

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  • I think I once read a comment in Hexbear that "tankie" is usually a pejorative used by western leftists against other western leftists as a disciplining rebuke.

    These sorts are social chauvanists. They do not really engage in political, labor, or social activism outside of their desktops/phones. I think they're just embarrassed & disillusioned Democrats, perhaps as we all once were, but still side with the nation state as a pillar of identity and moral North star.

  • is it naïve of me to feel, deep in my bones, that despite how bleak it is now, the Western Bourgeoisie are overplaying their hand

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  • The days after October 7th, Israel announced its genocidal intent. From Herzog, Netanyahu, to the cabinet of ministers, the Knesset, Israeli media and Israeli luminaries/society.

    Israel taught the US and the world that it could just rule through fraud and act with impunity. The masses mobilize to protest but do not stay on the ground in such a degree to actually force a rescindment of support or policy change. They don't do much economic resistance or sabotage; taking to the streets is now ignored and managed and liberal democracies can delay and obfuscate responsibility indefinitely.

    Genocide, brazen, transparent and open in deed and intent was not enough to evoke significant reaction or organize the masses to pressure governments to change course.

    The ruling class believes that it can rule as it wishes, through fraud, violence, and decree, and it is because political activists, organizers, socialists & communists, don't really confront power as it did ages ago.

  • The US is bombing Caracas

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  • This is a tired and facetious counter-gotcha way to justify US domestic and foreign policy by contrasting it with other powers. Hexbear even made an emoji for it:

  • It's not 2026. It's not even the 1890s yet, baby. We're in 1320, motherfucker. YOU ARE A SERF.

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  • I do appreciate that Brace, Liz, and Yung Chomsky put in considerable more effort into their podcast and episodes than Chapo did and does, save for Chris.