it’s guys, plural, you can hate one of them

I only make communist are in GIMP, sorry sweaty

yeah it can feel pretty fucking bleak!

same, I have a job in a restaurant so it’s actually fine for me, best year of sleep i’ve had working where I do now

I aint saying nothin’

I dont really see the use in arguing the semantics of what is or is not a mass casualty event, considring many of what you mention as mass shootings in the popular consciousness do start out with the shooter killing people they know (often women) in their home, workplace etc.

this post reads pretty conspiritorialy, they’re not hiding the a mass shooting is 4 people number, it’s there for anyone who cares to look. obviously there’s some hyperbolic shit in the media, but by this statistic, someone like Kyle Rittenhouse is not a mass shooter, food for thought.

i’m not sure if this is the mindset where they’re taking our guns, we need them, rah rah revolution is the base, but do you know what we need a whole lot more than guns? comrades we can trust. communities that are organised and ready to support each other.

I’m not from the USA, but i’ve seen friends argue about this, and i’ve especially seen the impact these semantic like points have had on friends who have lived in the USA. Talk of condemning ourselves to pointless slaughter if we’re not armed, its unhelpful, it’s only driving us apart and keeping us at arms length.

The individualist drive to arm every man woman and child in school, churches, and supermarkets, in their bedrooms, for their protection, does nothing but line the pockets of the arms dealers who would have us all on the frontlines sooner than you could say I will not fight my working class brothers and sisters in Vietnam

sorry that’s scattered and a bit ranty, but I absolutely consider someone shooting their partner and child to be a part of the issue we’re up against, the conditions we face, capitalism, imperialism, white nationalism, and oppression of the powerless.

haha dark and awful, but we’re almost discussing if a shooting is more impacting, if say, it were taken out on a large, christian family, 10 kids or something, uh, #greatreplacement or something I guess.

whew i’m glad I’ve finally taken the time to articulate that, even for myself.

brb installing a bump at the frontdoor so the counter terrorism officer in a wheelchair and disabled k9 unit can’t get into the house

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yeah! put those free neo-Marxist-government legs to work!

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Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung OPPOSE BOOK WORSHIP

May 1930 I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

It won’ t do!

It won’t do!

You must investigate!

You must not talk nonsense!

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_11.htm

I so distinctly remember being told in highschool, about Soviets doctoring photos where red army soldiers had been wearing two watches

and the idf is just like sheroes dance on tiktok with items taken from the dead allegedly

is one of the dancers wearing a keffiyeh (or similar) around their waist??

here’s Billy Joel’s actual account, not just what’s on Wikipedia

In a Weekly Wire preview of last week’s Billy Joel show at KeyArena, Erika Hobart recounted a well-trod story, first reported in The New York Times, of the piano man throwing a total hissy fit onstage in the Soviet Union in 1987, overturning his instrument after bright lights flooded the auditorium, and declaring: “It’s my show!” Our write-up implied that Mr. Joel was upset with audience members and had likened them to characters in an oil painting.

Well, Mr. Joel—lounging, apparently, in his hotel suite with a bowl of green-only M&M’s and a fresh copy of the Weekly, as per his hospitality rider—called our editorial offices last week to contest that version of events. Seriously, he did. Here is his rejoinder, as transcribed by an awe-struck Mike Seely:

“Remember, this was the Soviet Union in 1987, and they’d never had a major rock concert before. There was a film crew filming a documentary, and they turned very bright lights on the audience. The audience was having a good time—until they turned the lights on. They froze; they turned paranoid. There was a lot of anxiety—why are we being looked at? And whenever they turned the lights on, anyone who was overreacting was being pulled out of the audience by a security guard. I wasn’t yelling at the audience—I was yelling at the film crew. So I threw the piano, and that got their attention. Then they stopped lighting the audience, and everybody started rocking out. That was the reason for that action—not because they looked like an oil painting. That was something I said to a reporter after the big shots in the Communist Party, despite our best efforts, sat in the front row at one of the shows. They looked like an oil painting. The regular people in the back were rocking out. Hey, I hate the camera being on me. If you looked like me, you wouldn’t want the camera on you either.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20080117165213/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2007-11-14/news/letters-to-the-editor.php?page=full

anyone who believes this was unusual or would only happen in soviet russia, has never been to a certified rock conert

I can’t tell if this is a legitimate concern, but with this being so long ago, it feels to me that this would have been during the period where boyinaband was was doing some of their prolific colaborating, before all the context and drama came out, and from what I can see Jaiden’s colab video only exists in reuploads (why do people do this)

I wouldn’t hold it against them personally, boyinaband is also a decade older than Jaiden which makes it feel even slimier imo

I feel pretty similarly about Jaiden going to pewdipie’s wedding or whatever

i’m really tapped out of youtube drama now though so I might be missing a lot of context

surely you’re not suggesting Jaiden Animations has a bad bone in their entire body 😭

probably a better assessment if I really think about it

this tweet is from one of the hosts of Red Scare, I haven’t listened to it in years, but they were vaguely dirtbag leftists, funny folk, ya know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare_(podcast)

he wanted state mandated girlfriends, but not like this! 😭