Secondthought_JT [he/him]

My money’s on Yugopnik (unless Hakim is armed with pocket fentanyl)

Oh my goodness what a sweet little critter. I can’t imagine how difficult that was. You and your partner are doing a wonderful thing. I love dogs. My two heeler/pit mixes are rescues.

Good question, I get so many weird comments. I got a one the other day that said “capitalism doesn’t exist, can’t exist, and will never exist. Capitalism is created as a strawman by communists to deflect from their equally impossible communism.” Like…what?

Pretty much always left since my radicalization. Living in the US I’ve had plenty of libertarian friends who tried to convince me of their bizarre worldview, but all it takes is watching one of their presidential debates to see how goofy they are. Their rhetoric boils down to “Seatbelts are government overreach and I have the right to sell my child god damn it!”

Thanks for stopping by! I’ve actually never heard of those people. What’s their deal in a nutshell? As for dealing with the CIA…that’s a tough one. I think spreading awareness of their crimes is essential - there are plenty of books that go pretty deep into the atrocities they’ve committed. Killing Hope by William Blum is a good one to recommend people. I’ve found that talking about the shadowy world of the CIA is a good way to get your foot in the door towards deprogramming right-wingers.

I’m deathly allergic to cats, so I don’t have many opinions on them other than that they’re cute 😔

Thanks! I thought about making one, but I haven’t gotten around to it. Currently still doing my shitposting on Twitter, generating traffic for God Emperor Elon

That pretty much tracks with my experience. Great radical local branch, constantly disappointed with the liberal takes of national.

I don’t think so. I believe it works like anywhere else - once the internal contradictions become too acute revolution becomes inevitable. Places like the US have the advantage of centuries of exploitation of the third world, which has allowed the accumulation of tremendous wealth and relative political stability, but as the imperial core’s grip on the rest of the world begins to fail (see China’s rise and the forging of new international alliances without the US), the fascist tendencies of the imperial powers will turn inwards, rapidly accelerating the decline of standard of living for first-worlders. It’s only a matter of time until the hegemony of the US implodes, it’s just a matter of how dramatic the fall will be. Could be a slow and painful decline or a massive spectacle. We’ll see.

Generally very positive. TLDR, any effort to oust a fascist and/or imperialist regime in favor of a more egalitarian project is a good thing in my opinion. There were certainly failures and excesses during the cultural revolution that followed, but the creation of the PRC has been a huge step towards building an international socialist bloc, especially since the illegal dissolution of the USSR. China is currently our best shot at rebuilding a global communist alternative to capitalist hegemony.