I'll pass your message along
I don't want to dunk, I have to defend my comrade
Wow great critique, Marx would be so impressed. Let me make this clear. You don't know what you are talking about, like no clue whatsoever. The lengths that you are going to try and deny this fact is concerning. You've known about this debate for an hour while we have been having it for months. Look in the mirror, comrade. Please disengage
ITT we uncritically love heads of state
As soon as she has finished writing her response, I will share it with you. The idea that Maria has been slipshod in any way in her work is fucking slanderous. Don't quote Mao to me. I included an article of her criticisms so she isn't saying anything behind anyone's back either.
If you became 1/10th of the organizer that Maria is, you would look at these comments and feel great shame.
I don't know comrade, I don't know the rules of this game you are playing. But I know this debate and the people involved. Its not my fault you can't keep your facts straight, maybe keep quiet if you're clueless. No investigation, no something something
Maria has been working non stop for as long as I've known her. She's one of the best comrades I've had the pleasure of working with. She is a machine that turns liberals into communists. She has tirelessly organized for trans rights in Florida of all places. She is an anti-imperialist through and through.
She has criticisms of Cuba's government, not the revolution. Read her article. https://reformandrevolution.org/2024/02/17/cuba-between-imperialism-and-socialism/
Did you know that as Marxists we are supposed to engage in critique instead of just parroting whatever view the online left, heavily infiltrated about 1000 ways, decides is correct? Do you think that actors of state are above criticism just because they call themselves socialist?
Maria is my friend and comrade. This is bullshit. She had done nothing but act in good faith and provided factual, well considered criticism and all she has gotten in return is vile lies, insults, fed jacketing and the worse treatment. Leaders of DSA's International Committee, who do not get along with R&R usually, have stepped forward to defend her and her criticisms.https://twitter.com/cearaos/status/1780785735055868107?s=46
This internal debate is already exhausting; to see this appear on the dunk tank, an internal DSA message board is ridiculous. You have no idea what you're posting about, clearly.
Edit: here's a recent article by MUG that criticizes some of her positions while fairly orienting it in the actual debate. Might be a lesson for young comrades who substitute the dunk tank for actual organizing or understanding an issue. https://cosmonautmag.com/2024/03/dsa-in-cuba-refining-our-international-strategy/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3iHS3zLWiURepmhi3xjQQa2Navm-Yni3sdwmblHF5Vig_sGlSCsM-wSrM_aem_ATJUeJnAi-ceSz1vIm1ecVqA3tMFP1ipJdK0lPPavGqimTyA3Zprk7EGqAVYUD657tEQxU8qucT9HMHYxnv5o3EU
R&R are communists. This is from Redstar not Commie Caucus. You literally have no clue what you are talking about. Commie caucus generally doesn't care about DSA internals, they are into renters unions
Listen Jack! Only the strong survive! And everybody knows that the strongest members of the pack are the ones that are separated, alone, and seasoned to perfection
My book club which is expressly communist, reads Kronstadt, 1921 as part of our curriculum. We read it after three books on the Russian rev. The guy who runs the club and came up with the curriculum is kind of a stickler for historical accuracy, so I trust it is worthwhile.
We will actually be reading it in a couple of weeks so if you want to read it with comrades (or any one else for that matter) here's our discord link https://discord.com/invite/mCy6zEAQ
I found the movie kinda bland when I saw it but I just read the book and it was really good. Not sure why the movie made it kinda hard to care about the characters
"Hexbear, will you please repeat for the jury your version of events? What happened to Jackson Hinkle on the beach that day?"
baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo
So do I but I def know where my comrade is coming from. It practically already is in print in 100,000 different ways that nyt is a bourgeois rag. If this is the headline that convinces someone of class antagonisms, awesome. But yeah this isn't exactly news
Real headline: gamers design olympic women's track outfit for nike
A comrade of mine said, "this is why the intercept is going broke. Everybody already knows this shit."
The tendency in DSA is uncritical support of anti-imperialist state or militant action, especially within the international committee which puts out the vast majority of comms on these topics. The "Robin" in this meme, putting forward any formal critique (a fundamental and essential component of practicing Marxism) is very much the minority position.
As usual this is people who don't know what they're talking about, making up an enemy to feel superior to, based on a lack of critical analysis. Common Deprogram L
Don't you think you have a journalistic responsibility to report a fair and balanced accounting of events as they transpired?
Hexbear when it sees someone enjoying their treats: !malcolm-checks !hst-gun !kirby-jammin !frog-no-pretext !trans-gun
Me when I see someone enjoying their treats: !hillary-assassin
I'm not sure what my point is for documenting this, or for documenting this here. Apparently it is of some importance to me because I can't seem to focus on anything else. Maybe this isn't the right comm for this? If so, let me know and I'll move/remove.
Like a lot of people, I picked up some new habits and routines during the COVID pandemic lockdown, some good and some were coping mechanisms. The two categories were not as brightly defined at the time, there's nothing wrong with coping during periods of stress. I often joke that before pandemic, I was a 185 lbs rock-climbing vegan. Now I'm basically none of those things. What I am though, is a gamer. Before covid I would play video games, sometimes quite frequently, but never so much that I became actually good at anything I played. This has changed.
Since the beginning of covid, I have played Bloodborne for something like 1700 hours, Destiny 2 for about 1600 hours, and logged probably around 1000 hours in Monsterhunter World and Rise combined. I have friends who were also in lockdown playing a lot of videogames and interacting on discord, though this has mostly fallen off and I have gamed mostly solo for about the last year or so. Last year when I finally lost interest in Destiny 2, I started up playing Bloodborne again. I joined the !reddit-logo huntersbell community on discord, and helped new players navigate the difficult that, and vibing with veteran players. After less than two months, having completed at least 6 or 7 full playthroughs, including 3 full runs of the optional story chalice dungeons, I became annoyed with the discord server because soulsborne players can be really toxic, left and put the game away shortly after. Haven't played it since this past week.
There was definitely a part of me that misses playing games with good friends. One of the reasons I have so much time in a mostly single-player story, is because the coop was the way I and two other friends spent time. Every day. For hours. The same is true of Destiny 2 and I only played for another season or 2 after a good friend dropped off, and then another. I didn't pick up Bloodborne again a week ago to be social, but it wasn't long before I had rejoined the huntersbell server to try and pick up some games. So I assume I was after some of these feelings of comeraderie. The fact that I was coping with covid, and was feeling antsy after finally finishing MHR and wanting something familiar to play, also contributed I believe.
Well last night I was playing and in that server, when a few of the veteran members pounced on me for seemingly no reason (giving inaccurate/incomplete advice while in the middle of typing it all out.) The whole thing made me so turned off I don't really want to go back at all. Not just to the discord server, but to that game or really any game ever again. There is a finality that I feel and almost a mourning. Although it could all be fake and I'll be back again in a week. I don't know. I can feel the pieces inside of me shifting and reorienting. Its scary because when I feel like this I usually end up with a whole new, multi-years long, absolutely convinced that I'm right and justified, way of looking at the world. If I gave up g*ming I would be fine, and I could stand to smoke a lot less weed too. But I'm afraid to.lose other things, like my passion for social justice, my will and ability to organize, etc.,
I'm neurodivergent (an neurodivergent communist, imagine that) so I simultaneously rely on the specialness of my brain while being extremely skeptical of my abilities in some areas. That skepticism is expressing as worry, and nothing else. I don't have time to have a crisis about videogames ffs but here we are.
Thanks Hexbear comrades.
