HauntedBySpectacle

the bloodshed is invigorating the Lich-King President better than any prescription cocktail ever could

They used to use "lira", like Turkiye does today. It was changed to be more Hebrew in the 80s

They don't expect them go anywhere but 6 feet under the ground

I had the same experience, so I just googled "redsails Tupac shakur"

I'm pretty sure the article you're referring to is a section of the great redsails piece Masses, Elites, and Rebels: the Theory of Brainwashing

John Rawls died like 20 years ago but he's pretty modern, definitely a liberal, and definitely not an economist.

That Neville Roy Singham guy seems alright

Friedrich Engels

I read the Manifesto and Value, Price, and Profit when I was like 16, and not gonna lie, it was mostly cause of R E A D T H E O R Y being shouted from the rooftops every day on /r/chapotraphouse. ~~Bullying~~ social pressure works. Then I got The State and Revolution from City Lights bookstore and never looked back.

No gray hairs yet at 20, thankfully, but reading that Ian Wright blog post Capital as a Real God definitely still fucks with my head pretty regularly even after 2 years

Here's a comprehensive source on it:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266855828_The_Snipers%27_Massacre_on_the_Maidan_in_Ukraine

Still holding out on my $1000 bet. I have a feeling he is going to be acquitted, house arrested instead of prison (the agreement was prison), or be reelected and pardon himself. He deserves worse but I don't want justice, I want to stay solvent.

Lookin like a Roald Dahl villain

There's no material benefit to being a leftist in the west

I disagree somewhat. If we're to believe this map posted further up in the thread, any average person who does not live in one of the blue countries would benefit from global communism:

The US, Germany, the Nordics, and most of eastern Europe is a large portion of the West's population.

I think that how this potential benefit is weighed against the real possibility of sacrificing one's life, and potentially entire communities, for a revolutionary cause, instead of simply staying out of trouble and trying to survive, is the more challenging and important issue than a lack of class interest in socialism.

Even in the blue countries, the possibility of living an unalienated life with meaningful control over one's work, community, and society could be more appealing in the abstract for many than simply making more money in a rotten, alienating system. There's more benefit in socialism than simply meeting one's basic needs, as important as that is. The problem for anyone is actually working towards a point where that possibility becomes real. That entails danger and instability.