Excrubulent

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

That's it? Just "anti fa and communists talk about jews"? You think that's anything?

What could I possibly want to know beyond that?

Oh gee, I dont know, maybe literally a single thing that they said? Maybe what was happening at the time?

No no, too much, I could dox you with that, obviously.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

You actually think this is convincing literally anyone? Be honest now, I really want to know, do you think you look reasonable to anyone at all here?

Like you can claim that you're the only sane person here all you want, but do you really think this performance is doing anything good?

For what it's worth, I really do think it's good that you're saying this, because it shows anyone who's watching just how vapid, toxic and hateful you are as a representative of the "antifa are the real fascists" crowd.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Ah yes, name and address, clearly what I meant by specifics. I certainly didn't think it would be reasonable to specify the specific behaviours you've seen and in which contexts.

No no, a city and the notion of racist antifa, that's all anyone needs to take your word for it. I trust you.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Something worthwhile like "stfu moron"?

You can't be this un-self-aware.

Actually no, I've seen how you talk. Obviously you are.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Just take a moment to bask in the notion that "it’s pretty plain you’ve never been to Portland" without any clarification implies that actually they do constantly bump into hippies that say, "I’m Antifa and I hate Jews!” or at least something along those lines.

This is so unbelievably unhinged. I honestly think it's bad to remove comments like theirs, because they show so clearly how wrong that person is.

Even claiming they live on the coast as if that explains anything is just playing right into the Fox News canard about "coastal elites" which itself carries antisemitic undertones.

They're being so vague about it, I assume because they live on "THE COAST" and it's all just so intense and self-evidently evil that they are completely incapable of giving any specific details whatsoever.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

Wow, what a rational, level-headed response. You sure showed them.

Everyone here thinks you're the reasonable one. We all take you more seriously now.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

You might want to consider that those who call themselves leftist may not actually be leftist.

For instance, "Nazi" is short for "national socialist". They are clearly right wing, however, if you pay attention to their actions.

So-called socialist states are generally deeply repressive and that is not left wing. They were better at branding than the Nazis, but for instance the USSR neutered the soviets - the workers' councils after which the state was named - very soon after taking power. The state owned rhe means of production, not the workers. It was state capitalist. After that workers had to strike just like under any other capitalist regime, and they were brutally repressed by the state.

Under no honest description of socialist does that qualify. So they failed on both the "Soviet" and "Socialist" parts of their name.

Horseshoe theory is just capitalists happily buying into the USSR and other state capitalists' self mythology about being socialist because it's good propaganda to scare the workers they rule over into believing that there is no alternative to neoliberalism's stochastic brutality.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

They're doing the standard reverse racism charge, because you see, noticing racism is actually the real racism.

In the English speaking world, anti-white racism isn't really a thing.

Some people will swear up and down that it is, but those people think racism is just a set of attitudes towards a race of people, and not a deeply entrenched system of oppression against entire swathes of society.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Contrary to a 'horseshoe' theory, the evidence reveals increasing antisemitism moving from left to right."

"Centrist" only if you use the sense of a median popular political position, which isn't really what it means. Self-described centrists are actually conservative and tend to be weirdly* okay with Nazis.

*weird if you don't understand the link between capital, the state, conservatism and fascism

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to World News in It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine.

Okay.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to World News in It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine.

I'll take this as an admission that you have absolutely nothing to say, or at least nothing you care to say openly.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to World News in It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine.

Okay what?

Okay you agree?

Okay you're being dismissive?

What was the meaning of your statistics? Explain yourself.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to World News in It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine.

Oh yeah, just out of context statistics that don't actually relate to what was being said but just so happen to imply that Russia is better in this regard.

If Russia is running out of young men, that's Russia's fault.

If Ukraine is running out of young men, that's Russia's fault.

Excrubulent , 17 days ago to World News in It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine.

Isn't it weird that the country being invaded has a lot of older soldiers joining the fight to defend their homes and children? Almost like invading a country and being invaded are two entirely different things that can't be easily compared.

Are you actually a tankie for modern day Russia? Are you actually trying to defend them? You know they're just capitalists, right? Like they don't even pretend to be socialist anymore.

Excrubulent , 18 days ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Sure, Biden’s climate policy could be better, but consider what a second Trump term would be like

Uh... those are exactly my politics. I think this is just a misunderstanding about a few word definitions. EDIT: Actually, based on your talk of "candidates", maybe we don't have the same politics. I don't know, read what I have to say and judge for yourself.

I just happen to consider building prefigurative movements to be "breaking the system" and "revolution". They just aren't necessarily one big moment of rupture. Meeting people's needs, doing mutual aid, community self defence etc, is weaning them off of dependence on capital and the state, and it is a revolution in the sense that it is a transfer of power away from the dominant system, even if it is slow, even if it is only about giving people food at first.

A sledgehammer breaks the pavement, but so does a root.

We can expect that when we do these projects, if they become successful enough, they will threaten to displace the enemy system entirely, and that will involve a violent reaction. That may entail a moment of rupture, but that's one step in the middle of it all. Whether something better comes out of it depends on whether the things we've built beforehand are strong enough to survive that moment. But don't kid yourself, we can't avoid violence entirely, even if it's only defensive.

Now, the EZLN and Rojava and a bunch of other projects had their moment of rupture, and they were liberatory. Not perfect, certainly, but they are doing incredible things and they don't have centralised leadership. The way you talk about them being "small cities" when they are large contiguous regions makes you sound ignorant of existing projects and demanding to see something "bigger than 10 million" makes you sound dismissive, like you're a liberal defending capitalism.

I'm glad you're not, I'm glad you're on board with prefiguration, but it is as destructive to the enemy system as it is constructive of the new. When you build the new in the shell of the old, the shell breaks.