Maine, especially Western Maine, has lots of dense forest. It would be excellent for a guerrilla war, but the problem is that everybody in the countryside is reactionary. It’s also cooooooold.

In Cuba you mean? That might not be a terrible example.

When have settlers ever radicalized in large numbers though? Usually they just have to be driven out, right?

For the record, I spent weeks feeling like Trump was going to win. Then, yesterday, I suddenly started feeling like it was going to be Kamala. I thought that the bourgeoisie would want someone more stable. But (in retrospect) capitalism is of course fundamentally unstable, so we’re getting instability regardless of who wins. Even if Kamala had made it, things would have continued to fall apart. The difference now is, I think, that some liberals at least will go back to pretending to care about things. Others will cheer on the various genocides the USA is committing everywhere. Some will radicalize permanently and join us. With Trump, we might get American Civil War 2. With Kamala, we would have gotten (more) WW3. But who knows. Trump basically said that he would surrender Ukraine to Russia, but the dude is a fucking liar and a lapdog of the imperialists so yeah, no telling what will happen there.

Trump’s first victory devastated lib me. I radicalized within about eighteen months of that. I also have to wonder now if my lib friends and family members, whom I either don’t talk with at all or barely talk to, will become friendlier now. I haven’t been able to talk with my lib parents specifically for political reasons. There’s a chance that we’ll be able to mend our relationship, but if they’re just going to veer back into liberalism when the Democrats run Cloned Hitler for president in 2028, what’s the point?

Thanks to RCV, this year I voted PSL, then Cornel, then the Greens, then nothing. I also wrote in Nasrallah and Sinwar for the federal-level elections. The lady who helped me scan my ballot was the mother of someone I went to high school with. I was worried she would see what I had written.

Thank you! So far the prolewiki link has been more helpful, but I think I’ll use that to help understand the quotes you’ve provided from Marx.

This is interesting to me because although economists like Michael Roberts talk a lot about the overall rate of profit falling, they don’t talk as much about the overall rate of surplus value falling. Could that be because profit is declining while surplus value is actually increasing, although the surplus value is just going into the increasing cost of labor…?

“Actually the recording is fake or Epstein was just saying that to sabotage Trump.”

My job requires me to visit people’s homes every day. At least once a day someone remarks on the niceness of the weather. It takes so much self restraint on my part to just be like “yeah.” Halloween where I live is always noticeably and sometimes even shockingly cold. Not today.

Lol

The trotskyist who helped a lot to radicalize me (I later became an ML thanks to hexbear) got a good job with the teamsters and is now just a standard liberal as far as I can tell.

I think all of us were assuming that Biden would lose in 2020. I know I was.

Harris is already exterminating every last person in Palestine. How can Trump exterminate them more?

Gotta get me some BRICS bux.

It’s so white I smell cheese whenever I open it. Someone showed me that like 1,500 people had blocked me there because all I do on bluesky is call liberals nazis for supporting genocide.

Spider man is a cop sadly and only has a problem with the bourgeoisie when they’re immigrants.

If not voting for Harris means I’m voting for Trump, then not voting for Trump means I’m voting for Harris, so libs can shut the fuck up, because I’m not voting for either.

Living in a city is then made a crime punishable by death

Who else is here for the republicans’ inadvertent transformation into the Khmer Rouge?

Twitter has also become 4chan.

Articles like these ultimately make things worse since they never mention where disinformation comes from (corporate media), nor do they explain that people have no trust in the government because it seemingly exists only to send money to Ukraine and Israel. It’s not really surprising that they happily address the nazi conspiracy theories that meteorologists control the weather or that the federal government instantly puts all immigrants in mansions where they are waited upon 24/7 by countless beautiful harem sex slaves, but these articles never mention the endless money dumped on imperialism while peanuts are left to deal with worsening “natural” capitalism-caused disasters.

Still a pretty interesting and bizarre story though. QAnon never went anywhere, it just stopped calling itself QAnon.

If they’re doing this, Jill Stein is a serious problem for them.

We desperately need a union where I work. Whenever I brought it up I was shot down. All of my coworkers are white (including me). The ones I work with the most are all men, most of whom are at least 45 years old, many of whom are close to destitute despite working in the trades.