Excrubulent

Excrubulent , 19 days ago to solarpunk memes in This meme was inspired by the response to a meme I posted on r/worldjerking

The frustrating thing is that most of it was CIA propaganda at one point in time, it just happened to also be true, which made it much more effective propaganda. It's a big gift the USSR gave to anti-communists.

Excrubulent , 19 days ago to solarpunk memes in This meme was inspired by the response to a meme I posted on r/worldjerking

I gave them the text as published on the anarchist library, but they didn't seem to appreciate that either. It's almost like they just don't want to learn history that isn't their revisionist version of it.

Excrubulent , 19 days ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in International Public Opinion on Climate Change: Household Climate Actions – Adoption and Barriers, 2023

Yay I can go to heaven now 🥰🥰😇😇🙏🙏

Excrubulent , 20 days ago to solarpunk memes in This meme was inspired by the response to a meme I posted on r/worldjerking

Oh yeah, that is confusing lol. Glad to help :)

Excrubulent , 20 days ago to solarpunk memes in This meme was inspired by the response to a meme I posted on r/worldjerking

Assuming you're trying to ask what that term means, it's short for Marxist-Leninist, it's a polite way of referring to tankies, where you accept their rebranding of what is effectively Stalinism. It was after all Stalin's term to coopt and puppeteer the legacy of two dead men to give legitimacy to his reign of terror. They will try to tell you there are principled MLs but if they think there is any merit in the concept then they are doing the same kind of historical revisionism that all tankies do.

And you can see this person was in fact clearly trying to defend Stalin, if only indirectly.

Edit: Also look at the username - they're from lemmy.ml, where the .ml is the Mali country code but in this case it definitely also stands for Marxism-Leninism. It's a tankie instance.

Excrubulent , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Just Stop Oil supporters found not guilty in petrol pump case

This should be a claxon in the ears of the ruling class that they are facing dire consequences in the near future if they don't change shit like yesterday.

Jury nullification is powerful partly because you need to get a group of 12 strangers together who have been vetted to remove bias, to all unanimously agree to say, in effect, "fuck the law". The more people realise this is an option, the more it will happen, and the more it happens the more it will become obvious that we are being screwed and our oppressors want it to happen. They should be shitting themselves right now.

Instead nobody's reporting on it, not even the centrist style conservatives, and the very wealthy have clogged their ears with reactionary rhetoric that will stop them hearing the alarm until it's far too late.

Excrubulent , 20 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to solarpunk memes in This meme was inspired by the response to a meme I posted on r/worldjerking

There was no dictatorship of the working class. They defanged the Soviets - you know the workers' councils that the USSR was named for.

You don't have to watch a video, here's the script text for the entire series:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anark-the-state-is-counter-revolutionary

MLs love reading, don't they? Oh but wait, that's anarchism. Go ahead, tell me it's beneath you and I should read On Authority. I have. It was underwhelming to put it nicely.

And yes, the system they built was on the back of and patterned after the authoritarian monarchist regimes they followed. That's not a favourable light to put that system in. Was it marginally better than a monarchy? Sure, why is that relevant to anything? We live under neoliberal regimes of which none to my knowledge has ever been toppled by an ML revolution.

That ideology is centuries out of date. Anarchists saw its downfall before it started. It's failed.

Even if you're combatting some bizarre strawman about absolute dictators, it's equally bizarre that your response is to attempt to rehabilitate Stalin's character. That puts you squarely in tankie territory.

Excrubulent , 20 days ago to solarpunk memes in This meme was inspired by the response to a meme I posted on r/worldjerking

Rather it was the people using the new system to settle old scores or for personal advancement.

Lenin, Mao, et al look at how many people had gotten into the party entirely for the purpose of abusing their positions for personal gain.

How was that allowed to happen? Did they build a system of oppression that was ripe for takeover by petty tyrants, some of whom became actual, fully fledged tyrants, whilst simultaneously shutting down the mechanisms by which workers could have power over their own lives?

This isn't about whether Stalin personally gets into heaven, plus the absurd strawman that people think he did anything personally shows a complete lack of systemic thinking, which was ironically one of Marx's great contributions to political thought. It is about whether the systems we build are liberatory or oppressive.

The State is Counterrevolutionary

Excrubulent , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to World News in Israeli military rescues four hostages alive from Gaza, including Noa Argamani

Yup, see the person below you saying almost exactly that in more clinical - but clearly sincere - terms.

Edit: When I say they are "sincere" that is not to say there is any merit to what they are saying. I'm pointing out that they actually believe this garbage is justification for the mass slaughter of children.

Excrubulent , 21 days ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Just Stop Oil supporters found not guilty in petrol pump case

It seems like it probably was. Since none of their defences were allowed, then the jury had to simply decide factually whether the acts occurred. "We didn't do that" is one type of defense, so it stands to reason they didn't offer that defence and the acts themselves weren't disputed in the case.

This article says specifically that:

[The court] has ruled that mass loss of life from climate breakdown and the government’s failure to act on the science are irrelevant to the circumstances of an action, for the purposes of the defence of consent to damage to property. That is – protesters deeply-held and factual beliefs are no defence.

So the defendants weren't saying they didn't do it, and why would they? It was a demonstration, and claiming it never happened would defeat the purpose.

So that means that as a simple matter of law it's open and shut. They admit they did it, and they don't have any legally allowed defense for their actions. However, the jury are judges of fact, and the only way they can find them not guilty is if they determine that actually no they didn't do it.

That flies in the face of the cases presented to them, so it has to be jury nullification. I assume there was someone in the jury who knew about that loophole and informed their peers.

I don't see any mainstream outlets reporting on this - shocker I know. The neoliberal hegemon isn't going to want people talking about this, because they avoid jury nullification by just not talking about it and implying in court that the jury has to follow the law. If this news starts to spread and people start talking about it, it's going to get harder and harder to find juries that don't know about nullification and then these acts are going to get very hard to prosecute in a way that is seen to be legitimate.

Excrubulent , 21 days ago to cats in Are ya winning son?

Okay, I think I can see it, sorry. I was tired last night.

Excrubulent , 21 days ago to Fediverse in In response to the lemmy.ml moderation polemic: beware of bad faith agents!

“de_ml” implies pushing against ml

So you can understand then why posts about the crimes of British and US imperialism are off-topic there, right?

Like, I don't expect much here, but you've given me this little hint that you could in theory understand if you wanted to. I don't think you do though, do you?

Excrubulent , 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Just Stop Oil supporters found not guilty in petrol pump case

They didn't lose the support of 12 out of 12 jury members. You're lying about something we can all see right in front of us. This verdict proves you're wrong and is a massive win for this movement. So weird that you chose this story to get on your high horse about.

Also terrorism? To who? Petrol pumps?

Excrubulent , 21 days ago to Fediverse in In response to the lemmy.ml moderation polemic: beware of bad faith agents!

You said they pinned "fuck tankies" to the sub. (Not an instance btw)

You know the sub is called "de_ml"

You obviously know what it's about, that's part of your point, that it's an anti-tankie sub. But then you want to have it both ways.

Who are you trying to fool?

Excrubulent , 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to Fediverse in In response to the lemmy.ml moderation polemic: beware of bad faith agents!

Holy shit, you're still pretending you're not a tankie. Not a tankie, but you chose the name volodya ilich, which is a deep cut about Lenin's childhood nickname.

And you're still pretending you don't understand what was wrong with your posts. Who are you saying this for? Do you actually think anyone believes you? Is this an elaborate troll? I wish I knew but this is beyond parody. If you are doing parody: you didn't make it obvious enough. I'm so sorry.