porcupine
there’s a good amount of people who came upon this thread without knowing you were ever banned and coming out of it thinking “wtf is larkin on about.”
that was my experience, and when I explained it, this person immediately went into a megalomaniacal rant about how I’d revealed myself to be part of the conspiracy. you have a truly admirable amount of patience, and I’m sorry you have to deal with people like this.
“actually, I’m a communist”
I clicked into this thread on a whim. I don’t know you or anyone involved in that thread. I don’t know anything about the substance of the original topic in that thread. What I see in that thread begins with you posting an aggressive, insulting reply to the original post. The OP replied to you in a neutral and reasonable tone disagreeing with your initial accusation. Your next response is what got removed, and from what I can see here, it was once again an inflammatory and disproportionate escalation. Yes, I’m familiar with the expression you used. No, I don’t believe you intended it to be taken strictly literally. No, I also don’t believe you chose that specific expression without the intent to escalate and provoke. It is only after your comments that earned you a ban that I see anyone engaging with you in an adversarial way.
What I see from you in this thread is an unwillingness to self-reflect and an absence of humility. You seem to demand that everyone evaluate your words based on how you claim to have intended them, but evaluate everyone else’s words based on perceived slights as only you infer them. Anyone whose review of that facts fails to align with your subjective personal experience is immediately accused by you of engaging in an intentionally dishonest conspiracy against you for some unknowable reason.
Again, I don’t know you, I’m not invested in this, and I don’t intend to engage with you about it. I would encourage someone in your position to take a break and reflect on what about your recent behavior might be causing everyone I see in this thread and the linked thread to have the same shared negative experience interacting with you.
China made me install the new operating system
The fictional premise of Wakanda is an indigenous African nation that was allowed to develop free of slavery and extraction because white people couldn’t find it. The fictional premise of Israel is that if white people can cosplay hard enough as fans of a millennia old historical kingdom to which they have no living connection, they can make the fiction real atop the bones and stolen land of an exterminated indigenous population. One is a story about freedom from European colonialism. The other is a story about the triumph of European colonialism.
the climate is on the ballot folks!
it isn’t. “anti-China” everything is only big in the Anglophone world because the Anglosphere is is made up of colonial powers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States)
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States. The SWP began as a group which, because it supported Leon Trotsky over Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party USA.
Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the SWP was the largest Trotskyist organization in the United States.
During the 2020s, the SWP has defended “Israel’s right to exist” and “right to defend itself”, especially during the Israel–Hamas war. This contrasts with other U.S. socialist organizations, which take an anti-Zionist position and defend Palestinian nationalism.
Not your grandfather’s NATO
this is what happens when our troops can’t have swastika tattoos anymore because of woke