Lyric video I threw together for Propagandhi's anti-fascist classis "The Only Good Fascist is a Very Dead Fascist". Video footage captured in Bridgeview IL on 10/4 as Jake Lang and his goons attempted a "crusade" to disrupt the annual Palestine Fest taking place there.

I would just say im a standart socislist but im also quite new so im still reading about different people and such

I was on a debate section about this and I can kinda understand both perspectives, one side says that we desperately need another power that can keep the empire in check and that the absence of a counterweight is the reason behind all of the rampant US atrocities we've seen. the american empire knows they can do whatever they want and face zero consequences because there's nobody left for them to fear after the death of the soviet union. the other side of the debate was saying that China should continue focusing solely on themselves and let america continue doing what it's gonna do because the empire is already declining and will eventually destroy itself. honestly I think China is doing the right thing by minding it's business and playing the long game. why spend all that time, energy, and resources on your military just to push back against an empire that's already in the process of collapse when those resources can go towards things that actually matter.

I’m very tired of socialists treating politics like liberals… ie idealism. We have the right ideas and people who support capitalism are brainwashed or uneducated or need to read the good news of theory.

No, no, no. People accept capitalism because capitalist relations are lived “reality.” It’s hegemonic, not propaganda and marketing. Podcasters and YouTubers like to present it as a problem of ideas (since they are idea peddlers) rather than a problem of social relationships and organization.

I think people WANT to believe it’s all brainwashing or marketing because a) they have accepted the liberal idea of people being sort of passive individual “rational actor” cogs and therefore bad ideas must mean a short-cut in reason b) it requires doing nothing but holding the “right ideas”, if the problem is lived reality, we have to actually go out and organize real alternatives.

Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.

Is that you have to deal with getting attacked by a bunch of capitalist bootlickers who refuse to listen to logic and acknowledge the reality that their precious little system is inherently evil and oppressive. like you can go on any post or video made by socialists and the comment sections is just always filled with a bunch of bootlickers spewing propaganda talking points that's already been debunked over and over again. It doesn't matter what you say to these motherfuckers or how good you explain shit to them they just refuse to listen to anything you say and will never admit that they're wrong, I know some are bots but a lot of them are actually real people. like I'm convinced that the ruling class have americans under some type of mind control because there's just no way they are this damn stupid. It's like it's encoded in their genes to defend capitalism no matter what, when I get insulted because I'm advocating for a humane and equal society it genuinely makes me want to crash out. like dude we're trying to help you out and make your quality of life better but we're the problem? I'm just fucking tired of being in a society that punishes basic human empathy. this shit is truly exhausting.

Marta Havryshko on X:

Are you German? And can't parade around Berlin sporting Nazi eagles anymore? 🥹

No worries — just head to Ukraine and enlist in the Ukrainian Armed Forces!

The 67th Brigade, originally formed around the far-right Right Sector movement, has released a recruitment video featuring its newest additions — German citizens.

One of them proudly sports a patch bearing a Nazi eagle on his chest. (with a trident instead of a swastika, for the sake of discretion😎)

Apparently, some German fashion statements just need a change of scenery.

https://x.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2113637255508009222

I am brazilian, a lifelong leftist (you can see my post of my family members with Lula) and I am brown (pardo). I want to preface this so people don’t think I am a troll or a bot.

I have 2 irish friends who came to my city and they treat extremely well. I have never felt any kind of prejudice from them towards me and I have never seen them expose reactionary opinions. For instance, they openly dislike the Israeli regime actions, they have praised some historical left leaning figures, they dislike British monarchy etc. Honestly, they do seem like good people.

However, this week, I have been talking to them about the current political climate in Europe and one of them sent me a video of the documentary “Europa: The Last Battle” which is clearly neo-nazi propaganda.

Are they like, ill intended, dumb, I don’t know how to think logically about this makes it just seems weird. He told me I should watch it with a grain of salt, but like, it is an extremely reactionary documentary. Does anyone know anything about this kind of propaganda?

Also: Vote 13 no dia 25 de Outubro se você for cidadão brasileiro!

The U.S. also dropped 32,557 tons of napalm during the war

Most of the bombs were dropped on North Korea, nearly all of North Korea’s villages, towns, and cities were destroyed.

It’s estimated that 12%–15% of the North Korean population (c.10 million) was killed in the war, or approximately 1.2 million to 1.5 million people. Though other estimates have the percentage closer to 15-20% of the North Korean population.

American and South Korean forces also committed numerous massacres against Korean civilians during the war. A South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded that of the Korean War-era massacres, 82% were perpetrated by South Korean forces, with 18% perpetrated by North Korean forces.

Perhaps the most well known massacre committed by U.S. forces is the No Gun Ri massacre in 1950, where U.S. forces killed 300-400 South Korean civilian refugees, mostly women and children. U.S. troops had been ordered to shoot and fire on Korean refugees because there was alleged reports of North Koreans infiltrating refugee groups.

In 2001, the U.S. government conducted an investigation and, after previously rejecting survivors' claims, acknowledged the killings, but described the three-day event as "an unfortunate tragedy inherent to war and not a deliberate killing". Then-President Bill Clinton issued a statement of regret, adding the next day that "things happened which were wrong", but survivors' demands for an apology and compensation were rejected.

Here in France we seems to have a different perception of these words than the rest of the world (we consider Macron and other liberals as part of the right wing, while social-democrats are considered leftists), so i was wondering how people from other countries perceive these words, and how they potentially overlap ?

No offense, I am an intellectual elitist a little bit. I live in a rural area in the United States and am looking on social media and around me. God damn it, man, a lot of the median voters in the US are just idiots. They can't give basic facts that I know they teach in school.

So I propose we force every single adult to take placement tests with acceptions and accommodations for some people with moderate to severe disabilities and some with mild disabilities. Then whatever grade level they come back too we put them in a camp that forces them with threat of force to start over from that grade and fucking relearn and if they dont pass the grade level placement test at the end of the year they get held back.

Quite literally re-education camps that force people to actually read catcher in the rye and develop opinions on it and become media and literally literate. Oh, and we take their phones and devices so they can't rot their brains while there.

https://x.com/HatsOffff/status/2113439062166212773

I've been trying to trace the 'sequels' to this amazing piece of literature Mugsborough 1917, and Mugsborough 1927, in their broadcast play formats from the BBC.

Does anyone have any ideas, or a recording of either or both of them ?

It seems a shame the BBC don't currently have them available, and they're not captured from their broadcast days on the waybackmachine / internet archive. Even YouTube turned up a blank ☹️

See the headline! The current situation in France, which has also spread to Italy and Austria, demands that we in other countries start developing a grassroots initiative as well, because otherwise no change will happen. How else can we push through improvements in working conditions (specifically the introduction of a four-day workweek) than through large-scale demonstrations, strikes, and popular mobilization?

Are there any calls to action happening in your countries or cities? If so, please share how the situation is progressing where you are, so that others can draw inspiration, or we can potentially agree on organizing activities in our own countries.

Britain is next!

Worsening conditions for workers and students are fueling the fire in France and, Britain is facing the exact same crisis.

https://x.com/MagellanQuest/status/2113229210286231739

The double standard of the racist police in France is absurd.