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https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/nathanallebach/status/1809281898386018565#m

Dae only wanna critique a genociding regime. Too bad no power for you sweetie.

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[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Dumbass hobbyist genocide protestors you don't know anything

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago

they have no theory

Gee all these years of telling these social fascists to read theory means nothing then. Our theory is backed by actual revolutions, theirs is just pontificating about how the system™ works if you vote hadd enough

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-201-the-conservative-faux-erudite-rise-of-nuance-trolling-a4406833cc47

The problem with that, aside from its bad faith, is that it fundamentally gets the causality backwards in a lot of major issues, which is that historically, the way things change is not through eggheads and lawyers figuring out the details and then things change. There’s a broad political movement, a popular movement, to change X, Y, and Z, and then that is agreed upon. And then there’s a deadline set for that change, and then the eggheads and then the lawyers come by afterwards and sort of figure out how best to implement it. And what the nuance trolling does is it sort of inverses that. It says, actually we need to get all the eggheads and lawyers to sign off on something as a way of creating political impotence and undermining political will.

[–] flan@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a good take about any large project. If you get too into the weeds too early it just leads to stagnation. Everything is possible so anyone can have an opinion and things go nowhere. Once you have a vision and you have a mandate then you have something you have to work backwards from and the eggheads and lawyers can come in and their work will bear fruit. Before that it's a futile, masturbatory exercise.

[–] Antiwork@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, DSA to a fucking tee

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

imagine taking advice from a ned flanders impersonator who thinks a pic of him adjusting his glasses is a good profile pic

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

I’m taking my protesting advice from a guy who pays $9 for a checkmark

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Isn't this the whole thing that liberals do at their protest? I could see this as viewing the spectacle of peaceful protest as a goal in and of itself, but communists generally are the first to say fuck peaceful protest the workers are the power of the state. It's actually such a stupid viewpoint that clearly lies and misrepresents reality so that they themselves are the heroes of the story, rather than a smug asshole content to drink champagne as the world burns.

It's just so stupid to say goddamn Marxism has no theory of power. MARXISM! The smug aura of this person infuriates me.