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Campist is the slightly more left version of tankie. A term used by global north leftists to shame other global north leftists into compliance when they refuse to compromise on anti-imperialism. These days I just wear it as a badge of honor.

I agree. Infinte gulags upon everyone who partakes in it.

Its intersection with capitalism is a technofeudalist nightmare that deserves a lot of critique. I am most concerned about the environmental damage, its military, policing and surveillance uses and the pressure it puts on workers in an already hellish economy.

However, it’s still a tool and it can have legit applications that genuinely benefit society. I also think that some of the backlash is overblown, especially the sloplist obsession with scanning everything for the faintest trace of AI use regardless of context. Also the clanker shit is just people loudly signaling that they are frothing at the mouth waiting for an opportunity to say a slur and I get unconfortable around these types.

I use it at work (software development) for boring, straightforward busywork, debugging assistance and the like. It’s good enough and saves time when used in a context I am already familiar with and I can easily review and verify what it spits out. I also use it at home to help me debug when something goes wrong with my Linux installation and 5 mins of google doesn’t cut it.

I have stuff going on and don’t have the time and energy to get in the posting trenches but you are correct and I uncritically support your struggle to make westerners seriously analyze class relations in the global system of imperialism.

Venera 13 was just mindblowing. Two full hours of operation in the extreme conditions on Venus. Completely unmatched almost 5 decades later.

I wholeheartedly believe that the Soviet space program was the single greatest achievement of human devopment in history. A backwards nation of illiterate peasants, devastated by WW1. Followed by a long and bloody civil war. Followed by bearing the brunt of the most terrible war ever fought, on its own territory, with the express purpose of commiting genocide on its people. And not only did they survive, they conquered space within like two generations from the end of the civil war.

For me this is the living proof that socialism works and a better future for all humanity is possible.

The complete dismantling of the United States and the eradication of the rotten American culture of chauvinism is a necessity if the working subjects of the empire wish to join the international workers’ front in solidarity. Anyone who supports imperialism by even the slightest inkling is an enemy of the global anti-imperialist liberation front.

Truth nuke. The greatest hurdle for the left in the US and its vassal states is overcoming chauvinism and pursuing complete solidarity with the anti-imperialist resistance.

Colonial terror turning inward as the empire’s grip on the world weakens. The Jakarta Method applied to white people on american soil.

This is it. To achieve full nightmare mode, add being neurodivergent and having no idea why your emotionally immature caretaker randomly explodes at you, while any attempt at trying to advocate for yourself or ask for an explanation of what you did wrong is met with increasing hostility. Took many years of my adult life to somewhat fix the crippling social anxiety, while overworking myself into recurrent burnout cycles in order to achieve autonomy from my family no matter the cost. I still have nightmares of being trapped in my childhood home every now and then.

I am sorry that this happened to you comrade. We all deserved much better. Children’s rights are such an important part of building a better world and we are seriously lagging behind still treating children like property of their parents and making endless excuses for abusers.

I feel you. The sheer amount of not-even-crypto-anymore-fascism I have to navigate at work just keeps growing. Dudes proudly letting me know they watch Azov combat footage over lunch. Dudes going on a screed about immigrants and how we should take notes from the slightly more openly ethnonationalist country next door. Dudes glazing Milei, holy shit shut up we’re on the other side of the world. Dudes joking that I’m listening to ***** music in the morning with the hard R because they heard some hip-hop when I took off my headphones. Dudes being very concerned about the accurate portrayal of eUrOpEaN cUlTuRe in the new odyssey slop (a wholly original opinion they came up with based on their knowledge of Homer who they’ve totally read). Dudes absolutely do not rock.

Yes, it does get overdiagnosed. Woman with CPTSD? Slap her with borderline. Neurodivergent traits that differ from the male standard presentation? Also borderline. While it is a legitimate disorder that requires psychiatric care, we cannot ignore how the way it is diagnosed harms women, perpetuates harmful gender stereotypes and stigmatizes female specific patterns of reacting to trauma. And outside of actual psychiatric practice, the general public absolutely treats it as the modern day version of hysterical woman syndrome and loves to armchair diagnose women who step out of line with it as a form of social control.

But i understand where the impulse to go Trotskyist comes from. You see that communism is the right way to go but you’ve been told too often that Stalin was evil and that the “Stalinist” socialist system of the eastern bloc was evil, and it’s too difficult to question that consensus and expose yourself to accusations of supporting “authoritarian dictatorships” so you fall back on the old “if only the good communist had taken power instead of the bad one, everything would have been perfect”.

It’s a mix of purity fetishism, being attracted to the failed communists because they never held power so never had to make compromises, and being psychologically unable to let go of and deconstruct anti-communist propaganda because the peer pressure is too great so you find a way to “side-step” it instead, a way to square the circle: “yes those communists were bad, but not us”.

I’ve had a brief anarcho-communist then trotskyist phase when I first started getting into politics and this was it. I had internalized all the anticommunist propaganda to the point where even considering that Stalin was a normal human being whose decisions can be analyzed in a historical context instead of a mythical demon was unthinkable. What got me out of that trap was reading theory and studying the history of the 20th century with an anti-fascist mindset.

Once you break free from these anticommunist brainworms, all the scary shame inducing words liberals throw around like tankie, stalinist, authoritarian, etc are ultimately just a modernized accusation of witchcraft. If the label does not scare you, it quickly becomes obvious that the people weaponizing it have no actual arguments apart from the social pressure to confirm to the officially approved worldview.

The cars, man. It’s a much more lite version compared to the COVID days, but during holiday season when a lot of people are away and there’s less cars everywhere it’s so peaceful to be able to walk around the neighborhood and hear my own thoughts instead of constant traffic noises. At least for a few days it feels like I am not a second class citizen in a city built for cars. It’s so refreshing while it lasts.

Shout out to all my peeps with sensory sensitivities who had to dodge these growing up.

I say this as a Leftist is anarcho-NAFOist version of I am not racist, but

The narrative of Putin mind controlling grandpa through facebook memes is copium that appeals to liberals because it allows them to LARP as citizens of a civil democratic society that just happens to have an unfortunate nazi problem caused entirely by nefarious outside influence. In reality, the states in which these narratives are popular have a long tradition of homebrewed genocidal ethnonationalism that culminated in enthusiastic participation in nazi crimes. These reactionary ideologies did not simply phase out of existence after the war, what we see today is simply the continuation of these historical tendencies.

Beyond the copium, white supremacy is the foundation of the imperial core and eastern europeans know exactly what they are doing. Countries like Poland, Romania, the Baltic states, etc are not manipulated into consuming far right propaganda because of a Putinist plot to destroy the west, they are actively and willingly turning up the nazi dial while looking at the core for approval and support. The prevailing worldview is that they are honorary aryans temporarily embarrassed by socialism (which was forced upon them by evil russians) who will claim their rightful place in the world hierarchy through a mountain of mongol blooded orc corpses. The militant ones like Azov will literally film themselves explaining this in detail.

In my city there is at least one org that I know of that offers social services for queer youths, including therapy, career counseling, support groups and funding for professional training. Are there any similar services in your area that you can access?

Solidarity to you, wish I had more useful input because I’ve been trapped in a similar situation in my teens and early 20s and I know how much it sucks, but the economy wasn’t such a hellscape back then and I don’t want to sound condescending and out of touch.

I understand the feeling, I’ve lost people to far right radicalization too, including one I had previously considered a comrade. He was also a decent person who went through a lot of shit and was genuinely anti-capitalist and supported the anti-imperialist struggle but they got to him with homophobia, transphobia and unhealthy ideals of masculinity. I would spend hours patiently explaining things to him and he would snap out of it for a day or two, then get back to ranting about how they are coming to trans our innocent children and indoctrinate them with gender ideology. It’s terrifying how you can spend so much effort, patience and goodwill only for it to be undone over and over again by sensationalist fascist scare propaganda.

While it can be genuinely hard and painful to do so, please prioritize your own mental health and wellbeing and don’t feel guilty about reducing contact if it gets too bad. You are doing your best as a friend and communist, but it’s material conditions and class intrerest that have the greatest pull on what each person chooses to believe and if you find yourself in an unfavorable engagement it’s fine to pull back from a losing battle.

Hugs and solidarity to you, I hope the dude snaps out of it, but if he doesn’t remember it’s not your fault.

Good morning, friend. Israel will perish.

It’s extra funny because these are the types of people who were smuglording whenever any sort of high value Russian asset got hit by Ukrainian drones or missiles far behind the frontline. Whoooops, turns out this kind of threat is genuinely difficult to defend against and it’s not just an issue with the inadequacy of the orcish brainpan, who would have thought.