Frank

Don't normalize the regime! Don't normalize the regime! Don't normalize the regime!

What's his example of things people normalized? State surveillance? Violence against undocumented people? The Muslim ban? Assassinating protestors? No. NO NO NO NO.

What does he use>?

FUCKING RUSSIAGATE!!!

This man is being upheld all over bsky as some kind of fucking "authoritarianism" whisperer and he's a complete fucking hack. Some absolutely fucking arcane nonesense made up bullshit that is NOT ACTIONABLE. People can't do shit if the POTUS wants to get information from the fucking FSB. It's not in the scope of their lives.

"do not obey in advance" do not fucking obey what? Do not obey the president called Vlad to get drinks? How do you do not obey that? Fuck this fucker. Nothing about resisting the cops, nothing about immigration, nothing about security and surveillance, nothing about anything that fucking matters! FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

This is exactly, exactly, why I made this fucking thing

Fuck. FUCK LIBERALS FUCK THEM FUFASKLFGEJ:FJKL:ASEFGJHK:ESFpaerwuipa fufkcing liberal scum collaborator vichy shitstain fucking fucks they're going to stay home eat brunch and sell out eveyrone fuckadjkgfa;lkdsgj fuckckckckckk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtS3M_paWhI

INSTITUTIONS HELP US PRESERVE DECENCY. HAVE YOU NO DECENCY? DECENCY! DECENCY! DE CEN CY!

FUCKING COP. COP COP COP. COPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP FUCK YOU SYNDER FUCK YOU AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

"They're only here to protect us in so far as we see ourselves in them" IT'S A FUCKING BUREAUCRACY TIMOTHY IT DOES PAPERWORK IT'S NOT THE FUCKING POWER OF FRIENDSHIP YOU GODDAMN NERD!

None of this is actionable. None of this is material. NONE OF THIS IS USEFUL. It's religious clap trap. It's the fucking American civil religion! On no he's fucking whining about Jan 6th COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

"Lean in" *farting noises*

Jesus christ this is the most vibes based bullshit. Look I'm not trying to be a reddit atheist shit but we need to go to DC and defeat the Lincoln Memorial in combat dark souls style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jNOevQIboY

This man is a fucking menace,. Yes we'll just ask the fascist militarized police and genocidal imperialist military to practice mindfulness and just not do fascism please idfk this is so bad. This is so fucking bad this is so bad. I guess on the plus side this only has like ~10k views so no one is actually seeing this shit but god damn.

And he's still whining about j6. What a fucking loser.

There's a lot of text in this one so I'm going to do the main body here instead of alt text

Orrr... not damn that didn't save. Sorry. I'm burned out right now if anyone could do the alt text for this I'd appreciate the assist.

Regina George is riding a bright pink tank. Emblazoned on the tank is the Hexbear logo and the words "Look at this dope ass bear". Above the tank are written the words "get in loser!" and below that the words "We're developing a pretty basic materialist understanding of history based on reading books that weren't written by anti-communist cold warriors and for some reason that's going to piss everyone off and short circuit their brains".

Cat

Edit for clarity: I'm not asking why the Tankie/Anarchist grudge exist. I'm curious about what information sources - mentors, friends, books, TV, cultural osmosis, conveys that information to people. Where do individuals encounter this information and how does it become important to them. It's an anthropology question about a contemporary culture rather than a question about the history of leftism.

I've been thinking about this a bit lately. Newly minted Anarchists have to learn to hate Lenin and Stalin and whoever else they have a grudge against. They have to encounter some materials or teacher who teaches them "Yeah these guys, you have to hate these guys and it has to be super-personal like they kicked your dog. You have to be extremely angry about it and treat anyone who doesn't disavow them as though they're literally going to kill you."

Like there's some process of enculturation there, of being brought in to the culture of anarchism, and there's a process where anarchists learn this thing that all (most?) anarchists know and agree on.

Idk, just anthropology brain anthropologying. Cause like if someone or something didn't teach you this why would you care so much?

I'm struggling to find numbers because Google has been enshittified and will only show me local rental advertising, but, like, if I understand this the cost of food, since Biden took office, is up like 20%, and rent is up ~30%, medicine and childcare are still totally unaffordable, and everything else is much more expensive. Meanwhile wages are up like, idk, 20$ a week or something.

Cause, this all adds up to me as people are drastically poorer than they were four years ago, but the economics perverts on bsky insist people should kiss Biden's shoes because wages are up 4.3% and "The ecnonomy is good."

Can someone help with numbers I don't know how to convince a liberal that people need to eat food or they'll die.

There's so much text here I don't know how to alt text it but it's a list of 17 bluesky block lists I'm on because I'm a evil cryptofash tankie authoritarian trump supporting jill stein voting blah blah blah and it looks like I got on an anti-ukraine list somehow?

Just started this, dunno how it'll turn out. But it's kind of neat to see a depiction of later samurai, long after their swords had rusted in their scabbards and they had to find real jobs. It seems pretty light hearted so far. Crappy jobs, every day heroism, overbearing grandparents, and dreams that are just out of reach.

When you're scrolling through social media please keep in mind that Social Media users, especially Reddit, Twitter, and Bsky are deeply strange freaks and may not be representative of the general population. There are lots of normal people in America too. Admittedly, Id on't know any of them because I haven't touched grass in years, but they exist.

Just thinking about what quick, digestible document I could throw at libs who are panicking and desperate for something to hold on to and i can't really think of something that's written for treat demons but still actually communist.

Any thoughts?