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starkillerfish [she/her]

@ starkillerfish @hexbear.net

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  • "How do you take any leftists seriously?" from r/ZeroCovid

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  • The left is not in any position to organize society along health-friendly lines, yet every lib in that thread seems to think they live in a reality where that is the case

    yes but people in orgs have the power to organise in a safe way. is that not true?

  • "How do you take any leftists seriously?" from r/ZeroCovid

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  • If you are in an org you have the power to make that org accessible / safe.

  • Will I ever stop having cringe takes?

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  • I guess like how I used to consider myself a liberal, but now I don't

    Ive met people who went ML -> liberal, but that to me means they never fully internalized what Marxism means.

    Ultimately it's not important, but I think my curiosity comes from discovering new bubbles.

    There’s a thing that if you ask 3 people about socialism you will get 5 different tendencies. They can be hyper specific on an individual level. But this is a very individualistic view of ideology. Treating it like a personality or a flavor.

    This is why I encourage to join an org, because you will get to experience how ideology is actually applied.

    For reading about other ideologies you could always look into Socialism Utopian and Scientific by Engels. Or Left wing communism: an infantile disorder by Lenin.

  • Why Is Zohran Mamdani Endorsing Strikebreaker Kathy Hochul? - Left Voice

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  • Yup I totally agree with you

  • Why Is Zohran Mamdani Endorsing Strikebreaker Kathy Hochul? - Left Voice

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  • i think there are some positive experiences of communist parties in lower levels of executives, Kerala for one. but it is true that there is a lot of pressure from the federal level that is not sustainable in the long run. it would be crucial to strategies around that

  • Will I ever stop having cringe takes?

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  • Does this go away eventually? Or are y'all constantly refining your understanding, so you always dislike your views from a year ago?

    education is a constant process. but as you progress, the scale of the "cringe" decreases. so for instance my takes a year ago are not super different from my takes now. as opposed to my takes a year before joining a marxist org and a year after.

    If folks leave, where do they go from here? Are they just picking their preferred flavor of communism/anarchism? Are there other categories of leftism that they're heading to? I'm sure some backslide, but I mean heading somewhere new - like I didn't know people actually liked DPRK until I heard about "tankies." I saw a group that doesn't believe in objective reality?

    1. what do you mean by leave?
    2. ideology is not a supermarket, you dont pick a flavor.
    3. im not sure wha "heading to other categories of leftism" means

    I'm not really expecting to look at anything new and not be a Marxist, but I'd like to know what's out there to be sure.

    i would really recommend to look at marxist orgs in your area

    I just wanna pick one goddamn worldview, never change it, and still be right about everything all the time. Is that so much to ask?

    thats not how self improvement and science work. it is important to always keep refining your understanding of yourself and the world

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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  • antivaxxers harm is primarily to themselves as paranoid petit bougies

    do you not understand how diseases work?

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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  • china doesn't understand the world it inhabits (or does), russia doesn't understand the war they are in

    im sorry i didnt know you were dr. big world understander

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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  • not news

  • Why Is Zohran Mamdani Endorsing Strikebreaker Kathy Hochul? - Left Voice

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  • I agree. But also I think executive positions are okay if you are in an actual workers party. There is discipline.

  • Why Is Zohran Mamdani Endorsing Strikebreaker Kathy Hochul? - Left Voice

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  • Mamdani justified the endorsement through an appeal to party unity, effective governance, and the need to maintain a cooperative relationship with Albany to deliver reforms.

    for the people here saying that being a Dem is just a label and doesnt matter

  • Japanese Communist Party – Campaign Manifesto

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  • Focus on developing their own productive forces, reach out to their own people struggling within the imperial core, provide them with their needs, you need to be present within those movements. Use them to target imperialism, support anti-imperialist movements that are happening right now in AES countries, in South America.

    there are parties and movements doing just that. i dont really understand your point about a vanguard being impossible

  • Japanese Communist Party – Campaign Manifesto

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  • i think you are confusing the concept of a vanguard with progressive force

  • Starting to care less and less about cis people

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  • I don’t know you’re specific reality on the ground. I can’t help you. Do anything you want. But you don’t have to whine about cis people while you do it.

  • Starting to care less and less about cis people

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  • Trans people in the global north have on average much much greater access to healthcare and transition support than in the global south. The struggles are not the same. What I’m trying to tell you is that your logic is shit because you’re just trying to do oppression Olympics.

  • Starting to care less and less about cis people

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  • using this logic, why should we care about anyone in the imperial core

  • TrueAnon - Special Report: Minneapolis

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  • what resistance leadership

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

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  • And what tactical or strategic advantage is offered to working class movements we are involved in

    Who is we exactly

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from January 26th to February 1st, 2026 - A Powerless Ukraine

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  • cuba and china have different histories from venzuela. different political / economic contexts. you cannot just copy paste policy