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TrueAnon being a Democrat mouthpiece checks out per their very open (and aggressive) support of overturning the 2016 election. The real question on my mind is why CTH wasn’t even listed? Rogan gets on here, but not CTH?!?!?
Not sure how bad it is currently in the UK. But aside from your point about feeling like an asshole for bothering a worker to get something for you. As a worker in a big box electronics store in the US, the corpos already have reduced staffing so freaking much while still 1000% freaking out if so much as two people get close enough to even hint at a line forming. While the customers also seem to be of the same opinion as the corpos with the loud moaning about how long it takes to “be helped.” So needing the already thin stretched staff to field even more utterly pointless shit pisses me off. On the plus-side, this open hostility of the rich to workers might actually be the thing that sparks revolts (would really really really love to see mass class awakening and maybe a lot of shit on fire like the French seem to do so well). But with the shoppers also being on team “fuck you lazy workers” and bootlicking the fuck out of the corps. I am guessing it is too easy to just never have popular support so long as all the range is carefully pointed at all of us.
I am in NC and can only hope that leftists start getting extra extra stocked up and strapped up. If a real new Civil War 3 (I stand with the idea that the Blair Mountain suppression of workers counts as CW2), then it would be a real good time to make autonomous socialist zones. Maybe even a mix of various systems (anarchist/socialist/communist) that agree to work together based on which seems to have the most support in that area. Lot of space to try lots of things. But this is all just a thought experiment without real idea about anything past that. …Also parody. lol
Unfortunately I don’t have any books to share. Though I do have a two-part podcast episode that is how I first heard about it from “Behind the Bastards”. Below are the links to their iheartradio pages, but the feed should be on most big podcast app searches or via the RSS feed.
Part 01 - The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
Part 02 - The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
TL;DR first because I got rant-y
Hexbear and Lemmygrad formed to be leftist first and individual interests second. So your take is spot-on. I also think that they get mad that Hexbear doesn’t have the option to downvote. So they don’t get the satisfaction of the power trip and makes them even more pissed off. lol
The funny thing about people thinking we are assholes is that between here, lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad.ml I have found this instance to be the most chill. I find myself more concerned about getting attacked on lemmy.ml for even trying to say something that is not in-line with the western media narrative. I am a bit worried about getting jumped on for misunderstanding or having a bad take on lemmygrad. However I have begun to be better at thinking about how I say/ask things when replying to posts. Which I think is overall a good thing and have better accepted that even if I may disagree with folks, that it is better to learn more about those things over all.
For all the shit that I am learning and seeing that gets said about here and lemmygrad. Those folks on lemmy.ml and the other instances are just beyond quick to just outright refuse to take a moment to consider that they are not questioning shit at all. Just super binary “good or evil.” Even if they agree that their “side” has historically both lied and done super fucked up shit. It is still unwavering “still much better than insert whatever shit they think anti-capitalism has done to so many people.” They completely misunderstand that us “tankies” are just dumb motherfuckers brainwashed into thinking that AES nations never did anything wrong. It also doesn’t help that even “progressive” liberals are so firmly conserned about being super slightly left of dead centre. To go around talking shit about how the hammer and sickle should be treated the same as the Nazi swastika. Still believing that the US is the reason we won the war. Nor do they realize how the Cold War was completely kicked off by the western allies renegging on promises made to the USSR for helping recoup. That the massive build-up of nukes was due to our own war hawks lying about the supposed rapid build-up of anything from the Soviets. Cuba and USSR are always the “war mongers” for putting nukes on Cuba, but the US’s shit in Europe/Turkiey.
Aside from the parts already said. For all the talk that dems have said about how RvW was on the line for basically all of my adult life. They never did anything to set it as anything other than a ruling. Which if said ruling was anything other than a win for its time but always possible to be overturned. Then it shows how little they really care about protecting reproductive rights, and just cared about being able to use it as a trump card to scare a few more people to show up to vote. And therefore it was always more useful to them to keep it that way. Want to have an easy way to make sure third parties never get a chance? Make sure that the people that are truly scared of RvW being lost are riled up to harass and attack/vote shame anyone that says they are voting for anything other than team blue. There are even quotes from Obama (and maybe Hillary but she obviously didn’t try to fight hard while working under him) where they even outright say that protecting RvW by making it law wasn’t a priority.
Always putting our Military Industrial Complex (and more importantly) their weird obsession with being anything other than hard centrist and not upsetting the conservatives. Never ending talk of “bipartisanship” by letting Republicans dictate what does and doesn’t fly. It is always just put back on the voters as being their job to “vote harder” or other bs that puts blame on everyone but them. For all the shit that they say in campaigns and some snarky interviews “dunking on” the right. Much like how protesting in the US is just about some one day marches and speeches where everyone high-fives and posts for clout before just going home. And when people that really give a fuck stick around for longer or anything more than that. They are then told that they are not “protesting correctly” and those same libs side with the right and begin supporting more funding for pigs.
Always riding on the next election as being too soon to push for anything that isn’t safely supported by at least 90% of the voters (of both parties). They could give zero fucks about gay marriage until it was safe to support it. More of that “oh I completely agree with you 100%, but it just isn’t the right time” and “we need to just wait to wait for you to have those rights until America is ready for it”. They are all the perfect example of what MLK Jr was talking about with his speech about white moderates being the real oppressors. It is easy for them to go slow on all of this because it doesn’t materially or directly impact them. Just like the same liberals that vote for them and claim to support X cause just as long as it isn’t in their backyard or otherwise inconvenience them.
The lame-ass libs in the comments checks out, but I also looked at the article and it gets bizarre. Feel free to correct me if I am misunderstanding. But the fascists might have been showing up to support the event that was “gatecrashed”. As the person giving the speech and the event itself seem to have been anti-trans anyway. But the TERFs get completely glossed-over and the lawmakers are pissed about the hateful fascists only. “These laws are part of our unwavering commitment to challenge antisemitism and hatred whenever it occurs.” Just an amazing level of contradictions being shown by liberals/conservative-liberals.
