Pretty much the correct read of Solo Slopeling.

It’s got no originality, but doesn’t pretend to it either, so it’s perfectly fine that they’ve all-in’d on animation.

The x files episode “never again” uses Jodi Foster for the psycho voice in a guy’s head. Truly amazing work there.

I have the loop experience, they’re a little pricey but I feel like it’s perfect for concerts.

Yeah it’s like adopting a fucking chimp (not even a true predator that) and being surprised it killed you. Or grizzly man. I think it basically supports the thesis.

Pretty much. It can be coopted because fascists love extrrninationist ideologies, but it’s closer to a world where a Venus flytrap or other predator that uses guile to entrap prey evolved beyond humans. I haven’t seen anything in the lore to suggest otherwise. They aren’t ontologically evil they are literally “evil” like a tiger in the jungle.

Blowback Season 3 helps a lot too

Seems pretty straightforward. There were other ppl in the movement, there’s no need to hang on to this dude AFAIK.

However, the replacement should also be from the movement, people like Huerta or others. Ideally ones that didn’t hate the undocumented.

Jury nullification folks

National elections in the US are fundamentally scuffed. However, like you note - local referendums and protests are still valuable for actual harm reduction (versus Kamala vs. Trump style choices).

I think that most electoralism as change dies right now at the national level (i.e. house of rep/senate elections). Until either a proletarian party emerges or the dems do purges, no amount of left candidates can actually achieve anything since they’ll just be rotating villain’d.

However, I do think that a succdem prez could potentially be interesting if they were willing to wield authority to punish ICE, etc. Doubtful, but who knows, maybe dems will put up a candidate worth voting for just for revenge against fascists.

So Vodka tops then, because her ornament is on her right there?

The red variant is cool too, maybe :scully-commie:

Submitted a screencap from the actual file (versus my shit phone) to the emoji comm. If I find some other good moments, I’ll try to grab 'em. Definitely need a :spooky: for Mulder and maybe a :skinner: and :cigarette-man:. :deep-throat: also, he’s a classic (though I’d have to go back to S1 to see if there’s a good clippable image of him). Also, if there’s a good shot of The Lone Gunmen I’ll try to find one.

Here’s a better crop maybe

Maybe :scully-lockedin: ?

I checked the dates when I saw it, it’s a year before Eva, so Ritsuko might be aping her!

We know it’s the right approach because it’s animated.

I also think, to maybe be more charitable to Hasan than he deserves, there’s something to “some arguments should be had in left-only spaces.” I love the struggle sessions here (I’m a ), but part of why they’re good is they happen in our space with (minimal) interaction from outsiders. He’s mentioned the thing about how PSL is superior to DSA because they don’t air their grievances publicly before, and in some ways there’s a similar vibe. He’s in a public space, so airing some esoteric left critique is counter-productive.

BTW - if Hasan ever crosses red lines on genocide, M4A, war, etc. then I think it’s open season. There’s some things we shouldn’t ever compromise on. However, to my knowledge, he’s been remarkably consistent in his anti-imperialist bona fides.

Are you an accelerationist? If so that’s fine but I really don’t see what the “left” is at a statewide or national level in America. Should we all vote PSL even when they’re polling at 1%? I’m not going to say that there’s not a time and place to do this (there is), but if you’re an electoralist or interested in something other than accelerationism then sometimes voting for a dem (who as a candidate refuses to support genocide or war and supports m4a) can ever so slightly remove the boot of fascism from ppl to help with organizing.

I think it’s interesting you ignore the real material gains of zohran (I mentioned this in a diff post, sorry I didn’t mention it here earlier). Would a mayor that didn’t bother to get their constituent freed from gestapo custody be better for “the left”? Seriously interested in what you think about this.

Has Hasan ever supported “vote blue no matter who”? Generally he has supported DSA-aligned candidates like Zohran who in some capacity are trying to push democrats towards a proletarian party. It’s also about pushing the entire left in America so the bare minimum is no genocide, anti-war, pro M4A. And he’s uncompromising on these things! It’s not like he’s supporting freaks who support “medicare for all who want it.”

I’m listening to him now, and he’s literally arguing “more than half of the Democrats in the caucus are also on board with this initiative [to attack Iran]”. How is this supporting “Democrats” in the abstract? Specific candidates with left policies within the party are worth supporting, but that’s the extent of his support! He didn’t even support Kamala as some sort of squishy harm reduction shit because he’s uncompromising on the things that matter!

If that’s all they will do (vote democrat), it’s still better than them being chuds. If they, however, use the fact that he namedrops Lenin to go further, that’s also a good thing. Also, I don’t think his readings are “lies” they’re just readings! It’s like saying you are Martin Luther and have the correct interpretation of scripture. Lenin’s works are a text, and while there’s doctrinaire readings, perhaps he’s flexing the truth to get people to approach the works.

I don’t buy that they were “heading left” necessarily either - what’s that even mean? Is it abstaining because accelerationism is the best principle? Unless “heading left” is joining a union, building the organization, and creating strike power, I literally don’t know what you’re talking about here (and that’s not mutually exclusive with voting for democrats). is obviously a very minor thing, and he’s doing work to platform progressive candidates, but if “heading left” is just voting for the most communist candidate - most people who he gets in would have never done that anyway! Meanwhile, when he emphasizes unions, organizing, and building actual power, he’s actually moving people left.