Haha take that commies.

I was masked in a hardware store. A guy who looked like Tom Skerritt from thirty years ago but taller and thinner looked at me and started ranting about communism with his employee. Did you know that communists want to get everyone dependent on the government? That’s their plan!!

He also said that he had read Marxists and recommended that his employee do so.

This guy also wears some kind of uniform with an American flag on the shoulder every day. I always got bad vibes from him but never really heard him speak. Until now.

I didn’t say anything because I go to this place all the time for work and I see him there constantly and suspect that he may be the owner.

So I just started my first blue collar job a couple of weeks ago. I live in a rural, coastal purple state that has been trending blue for years. I've spent more than a few hours chatting with "the guys," and as a terminal hexbear user I feel like I'm extremely sensitive to their political views. If you want to call them liberals, conservatives, right or left authoritarians or libertarians, it just makes no sense at all to me. They seem to hate corporations—except for the "good" ones that provide their treats. (They're also fond of the large business we work for, or just terrified of even consciously complaining about it.) Some police are bad but others are just trying to do their job. One told me that we "really needed" a new police station that just opened up in town, while he has also stated that racism is bad. One Gen Xer told me that he has "made some money" through cryptocurrency, but he also has a dim view of the USA's future (and climate change) and has said that he'll be happy to just sit back and watch as the country burns down. It's wrong that there are so many unoccupied houses here, but for you to become a landlord, that's a totally legitimate thing to do. Some have asked about my masking, others totally ignore it. No one has been aggressive about it—yet.

What makes more sense to me is just having a spectrum ranging from "collectivist" to "individualist." Libertarians and fascists go on the far right; liberals and conservatives on the right; social democrats / democratic socialists on the center-right, and communists and anarchists on the left. It just seems like this makes my coworkers' political views much easier to understand. They're individualists. They don't like when rich people or the police get in their way. But they're happy to be rich (at everyone else's expense) and to have the same police protect them.

As an aside, I've been doing white collar work since I graduated from college and I only just moved into the blue collar field a few months ago. (If you google my name, you'll see that I'm a communist, which means that it's impossible for me to do white collar work at this point.) I'm writing a book about the whole experience. I would also make videos about it but I need to remain anonymous because there's so much money in this field and I'd like to start a worker co-op as soon as I feel comfortable working with this shit. (There's tons of blue collar work to do, but living here is very expensive and the state is running out of workers because it's more profitable for landlords to have AirBnBs.) I'm interested in training communists, constructing at-cost housing, and doing a political takeover here. We would only need a few hundred people to have enough voters to take over the town, defund the police, and drive out the landlords. These plans are pretty vague though and would take years to pull off, so please feel free to critique them.

Honestly seems too good to be true. Google didn’t really turn anything up and I don’t speak Russian, despite what internet liberals tell me.

The logo in the bottom right might be a clue.

I think the star is also in the wrong place.

I have not actually watched this film (because it’s probably not good). And yes I’m aware that Dracula is actually an anti-semitic caricature of the feudal aristocracy. Doctor Frankenstein is the actual bourgeois, while the monster is his proletarian creation. Neither can actually exist without the other. The monster is the real hero of the story and the proletariat is the hero of history.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/20/jon-stewarts-apple-show-abruptly-ends-due-to-disagreements-over-china/amp/

Sorry to link the NY post but it was actually the only source I saw that mentioned both Apple’s manufacturing interests in China as well as its interest in hawking goods there.

I feel hopeful that the CPC’s policy of hanging the capitalists with the rope they sell them is working. Is it possible, as unbelievable as it may seem, that American journos will one day soon lose their jobs for criticizing China?

Sorry if this was already covered elsewhere. I searched but couldn’t find anything.

The dingdongs I live with keep sending out mass e-mails without concealing the recipients and I want to sign up a shitload of randos for communist propaganda. Does anyone have any email lists they can recommend? The only one I know of is the PSL’s. I know email is, like, so last century but plenty of people are still forced to use it.

And if nobody has any to recommend then fuck it, I’ll do this shit myself!

Edit: it was the gym teacher who sent out an email to everyone at the school without concealing the recipients lol.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2022/12/12/doom-guy-matthew-council-january-6-capitol-riot-sentence-football-cte/

No jail for ‘frothing’ Capitol rioter who faced mental health struggle

Riverview’s Matthew Council went viral for his Jan. 6 photo, but the former football player faced “delusions.”

[object Object] Matthew Council, from Hillsborough County, is seen in the bottom left corner, as Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021. [ JOSEPH PREZIOSO | AFP via Getty Images ] The tableau of riot police and screaming crowds colliding under flapping American flags makes for a powerful enough news photo, but what really stands out is the red-faced man in the corner.

Drool drips from his mouth. His wincing eyes point up. Even in a giant crowd outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the man seems alone, enraged but also pained. Court documents suggest all that was true.

Hillsborough County resident Matthew Council, the man in that photo, was sentenced Monday in federal court to 180 days of home incarceration and five years of probation. He had pleaded guilty to felony charges for his role in the attack on the Capitol, where he charged a line of officers like a fullback.

Even without his name, Council’s face must have said something about the Jan. 6 riot. His anonymous photo topped articles online from The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Herald, Time and others. And now, court documents reveal even more, offering a grim portrait of a struggling man in the grip of delusions, conspiracies and cognitive decline.

First, though, the image went viral on Reddit, where Council was labeled a “frothing berserker” and became meme fodder. His resemblance to a video game character got him dubbed “Doom guy.” Amateur open-source investigators analyzing Jan. 6 video to assist the FBI tagged him with a meaner nickname, #rabidchipmunk.

Some who commented on the news stories asked about the unidentified man: “Anybody check on the guy foaming at the mouth?”

A worried father

Court proceedings later revealed the man in the viral photo as Council and provided the details of this story. Council’s attorney declined to make his client available for an interview, pointing instead to a sentencing memorandum he filed.

Council is a 51-year-old former college football player who at the time of the riot lived with his parents in Riverview. He survived on disability payments due to a litany of physical ailments and chronic pain said to be brought on by his sports career.

Council and his doctors believe he has CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head. CTE can cause cognitive impairment, impulsive behavior, depression, substance misuse and dementia. The sentencing memo states: “Matt has all these symptoms.”

In 2019, he was part of a lawsuit against Liberty University and the NCAA over concussions.

Council’s father, Claude, calls his youngest child his best friend. On Dec. 30, 2020, days before the Capitol riot, he emailed Council’s psychiatrist:

For the last 6 to 8 months ... he has been spending most of his time on Twitter. He is a digital soldier in General Flynn’s army. And he spends his days trying to convince others on Twitter to believe in Trump and points out the deep state corruption and devious ways. He has been kicked off Twitter many times, 12 or so times permanently. He reopens fictitious Twitter accounts to keep going. Up sometimes at 3:00 AM. He shows us everything that he sends out online and is hyper focused on all current events relating to politics. ...

June and I are in our late 70s and don’t see the meaning in most that he sends out. This really frustrates him. ... Mentally – I will give you a few words that seem to be where he is at. Agitated, loud, gross, impulsive, irritable, paranoid, anxious, depressed, sleep troubles, irrational fears, he won’t do his meds. His mother has to keep the many pills that he takes current. ... The birds on the pond that he feeds are his only friend.

“General Flynn” was Michael Flynn, the retired lieutenant general and former national security adviser to Donald Trump, and more recently, an influential far-right conspiracy theorist and Sarasota resident who trademarked the term “digital soldier” and promotes the stolen-election lie that Council latched onto.

Mental illness runs in Council’s family, and Council has long struggled with it, his lawyer said in a recent filing. By age 10, records state, Council drank alcohol and had tried to die by suicide through an overdose of pain medication. But for a while, football seemed to offer a path.

Struggles with mental illness

Council helped John I. Leonard High School in Palm Beach County go undefeated his senior season. The running back earned a scholarship to West Virginia University, but transferred to Liberty after an incident in which he drunkenly smashed a resident adviser’s car window. He played well, scoring four touchdowns in one game. He met his first wife and had a daughter. He had what his lawyer called “a few strange behavioral incidents.” He dropped out.

He worked in sales, but would always abruptly quit. He got divorced. He earned certification as a medical assistant and found his way to teaching at a vocational high school, which is where, his lawyer wrote, Council “truly thrived for a time,” helping coach football and track.

In an online fundraiser he organized to help his medical assistant students get better equipment, he wrote, “The first time a student told me she was homeless, I was in the middle of telling her she could not pass the class if she didn’t turn in a major project. ... I had to quickly leave the classroom so I didn’t cry in front of her. ... I could fill a book with stories of their hardships, but that would overshadow my kids’ accomplishments.”

Even as his second marriage deteriorated, Matt and his wife adopted three children out of foster care, worried they’d end up on the streets. “His conscience ‘could not leave them in the system,’” is what he told his lawyer. After the divorce, he sent most of his teacher pay to his ex and the kids while he lived in a rented room, ate from the dollar store and rode a bicycle to work.

His first delusion, his lawyer wrote, came in 2016. Council believed the school’s football players had been raping a girl and that he needed to investigate. Then he got worried he’d be falsely implicated himself. None of it was true, but feeling a great deal of pressure, Council tried again to take his own life.

Rarely alone, but alone on Jan. 6

Matthew Council After a hospitalization, Council left South Florida to stay with his parents. “Matt was almost never alone” in those years, his lawyer wrote. It was somewhere in this time he began devouring political content online.

Council traveled to D.C. on Jan. 5, 2021, with his brother-in-law driving. They’d discussed wanting to see Trump’s final speech as president, a historic moment. They joked and laughed. Council had a couple beers and went to bed.

But when Council woke at 3 a.m., his brother-in-law later told a lawyer, he “snapped.” Council insisted they go to the National Mall right then, long before others arrived, and he spoke incessantly about the “deep state” and a conspiracy to remove Trump. He said Trump’s speech would reveal secrets.

In a later interview with the “Sovereign Souls” podcast on Parler, Council said he expected Trump to expose “like, the flies with the cameras on them” — that the president had conducted surveillance of election tampering with fly-mounted cameras.

After the president’s speech, Council’s brother-in-law wanted to head back to the hotel. Council insisted on marching to the Capitol. He was alone.

Chaos at the Capitol and the photo

Prosecutors documented Council’s movements through the Capitol chaos with surveillance stills, news photos and public social media videos. Their records sometimes contradict Council’s own, more flattering accounts in post-riot interviews.

Council was pepper-sprayed outside the building, multiple times — once on the West Plaza before his viral photo. Prosecutors, in asking for a 30-month prison sentence, pointed to that as a moment when he could have turned back.

Council claimed in a podcast that protesters weren’t toppling barricades or looking for confrontation, but video shows thousands had surrounded the west side of the Capitol, climbing scaffolding and hurling projectiles onto officers’ heads. Council himself is seen trying to shove a barricade aside.

By 2:28 p.m., the police were in retreat, prosecutors wrote in a filing, and rioters were in control. Council followed a torrent of people flowing into the building. He later said he used his size and strength to breach the door. The scene in the hallway packed with Trump supporters and flags, he said, “gave me chills.”

A still from video taken inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 shows Matthew Council holding up his phone, seemingly recording. A still from video taken inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 shows Matthew Council holding up his phone, seemingly recording. [ U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ] He told an interviewer he “backed the blue” and protesters were never there to hurt police. But, “Soon after Council entered the Capitol through the parliamentarian’s door,” prosecutors wrote, “he decided it was in fact permissible to attack the blue.”

Council made his way to the front of the crowd, where a line of police officers blocked the way. He lowered his head, stuck out his arms and rammed into them, pushing them 50 feet back, in his own estimation. He fell, and immediately surrendered to arrest. Officers described him as cooperative and remorseful.

In asking for a sentence of probation in lieu of prison, Council’s attorney, family members and doctor portrayed him as a loved son, sibling and father in the throes of mental illness. They say he has finally stabilized his delusions through medication, supervised care and sobriety. He’s no longer a danger, they said, but he risked relapsing if sent to prison.

Council’s diagnosis, attributed in court documents to forensic psychologist and defense expert Scot Machlus, is schizoaffective disorder, characterized by delusions and hallucinations.

Aftermath and conspiracy theories

Things got far worse for Council after Jan. 6 before they got better.

In one episode, he believed his parents’ neighbors were pedophiles who had stolen his marijuana. When his father intervened, Council pushed him down and was arrested for battery on a person over 65. The charges were dropped.

He was involuntarily committed to a behavioral health facility in Tampa after hearing voices at the jail, saying he had seen guards point guns at him through the cell door and identifying himself as an admiral in the Space Force.

Around this time, far-right, independent media began interviewing him. He seemed to fit into a story they wanted to tell about the mistreatment of accused Jan. 6 “political prisoners,” and a liberal conspiracy to incite the Capitol riot. Though Council admitted to being delusional at points, he described what he believed were corrections officers tormenting him with music and chanting, tapping guns on his window and raping people nearby so he could hear it.

Out of his parents’ house, Council barricaded himself in a hotel room as deputies tried to serve him court papers and caused thousands of dollars in property damage. He claimed people were trying to blow up the floor beneath him. He was hospitalized again. Council now lives in an assisted living facility and, his attorney stated, has turned a corner with medications, regular treatment and sobriety.

“I truly thought I would never get my dad back,” Council’s daughter wrote in a letter, before saying that he has “done a complete 180.”

She wrote: “A punishment to him now, for something he did during that time, would be like punishing a person for someone else’s mistakes.”

Prosecutors argued that Council’s crimes on Jan. 6 “were not an isolated event in an otherwise law-abiding life.” They said his actions while awaiting trial show “a propensity towards substance abuse and violence,” and his social media statements after Jan. 6 “are those of a man girding for another battle and seeking to overthrow the current government.”

But Council’s lawyer said Monday that the judge took Council’s mental illness into consideration when handing down a lighter sentence.

How to get help

If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or chat with someone online at 988lifeline.org.

Liberals: “China’s economy is collapsing!” China’s projected GDP growth for 2023? 4.5%.

Also liberals: “Bidenomics is amazing!” The USA’s projected GDP growth for 2023? 1.5%.

What am I missing here exactly?

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/putins-war-vanishing-goals

Hey libs, make sure to do the reading before you start arguing with communists 😉

You know your enemy is losing when he occupies a third of your territory and most of your productive capacity. Ukraine will be de-nazified and de-militarized when all the Nazis there have committed suicide by charging Russian artillery in open fields. And no, not every Ukrainian is a Nazi, but the government is certainly run by Nazis.

(don’t pay attention to how Data answers her)

Hi everyone, we're running into the same arguments from our liberal/fascist friends over and over again, so I thought I'd put together a numbered list of responses to deal with the silly clichés they keep throwing at us. Every link listed here comes from an establishment source. For example, when encountering a lib who insists, despite having not read a word on the subject, that Nazism and communism are the same, feel free to direct them to number 8. Not that any of them will care, of course, since liberalism/fascism is based on mysticism rather than science, but I still thought I'd put this together to make responding to these people quicker and easier. Enjoy!

1. “Now I’m as left as they come, but these crazy tankies think it matters that Biden has dumped more than $75 billion on Ukrainian Nazis! What do you mean Ukraine was considered one of the most corrupt countries on Earth until virtually the day the so-called invasion began? What do you mean Ukraine was threatening to construct nuclear weapons if it wasn't allowed to join NATO shortly before the war began? Don’t tankies know that it is literally impossible to stop Nazism, that Nazis are everywhere, except in communist countries (for some mysterious reason) and that Nazis are also in Russia where rehabilitation of Nazism is legally banned? Don’t they know that Zelensky is Jewish and that Jews are physically incapable of supporting Nazis (what is the Jewish Ghetto Police? what is race science?)? Don’t they know about the Nazi founder of the Wagner Group who very curiously hasn’t been seen anywhere since 2016? Excuse me now while I have my eighth very public online meltdown for the day about that tennis player in China who vanished for a few hours. Don’t these fucking commies also know that history literally began five seconds ago and that the US Proxy War in Ukraine is definitely not a direct result of the USA succeeding in its near-century-long mission of annihilating the USSR, the said mission beginning when the USA invaded Russia unprovoked within months of the October Revolution?”

2. “Kill all landlords? That’s insane! We have to help the mom-and-pop landlords fight the evil woke globalist elite corporate satanist landlords. All violence is wrong except for the structural violence which funds my treats.”

3. “Capitalism always naturally rewards those who work the hardest and smartest, which is why I am a billionaire and not wasting my life arguing about subjects I have never read about with internet strangers who are curiously rather well-read on these subjects and constantly outmaneuvering me and exposing my embarrassing ignorance. But as we all know, intellectualism is a communist plot, nothing actually exists, everything is a matter of opinion, gravity for instance. I truly believe that reality isn’t real, which is why I don’t get angry at all when communists threaten to take away my treats. Because nothing actually exists I am happy to give you everything I possess. It is easy for me to describe the difference between capitalism and so-called crony capitalism because I know all about the history of capitalism and don't think that it has simply always existed everywhere in exactly the same form since the dawn of time.”

4. “Covid is mild (currently the fourth-leading cause of death according to the USA's notoriously under-counted statistics), the treatment is worse than the disease, we must purge society of the weak in order to make room for the strong (what’s eugenics? never heard of it. isn’t that something nazis did? but I can’t be a nazi because I’m the main character in the universe and a good person, while nazis knew the whole time that they were bad, this could never produce cognitive dissonance, I am a human psychology expert, I have read Jung, I have a meme saved somewhere listing logical fallacies), not being able to scream at waitresses at Applebees was so traumatic for me, I am blissfully unaware of how even a mild covid infection can damage practically every organ in your body (including your brain) and how each covid infection gives you a ten percent chance of contracting long covid, we need to go back to normal (the world of 2019 was a golden age!) and rescue the economy even though China’s economy has outperformed the USA’s by two or three times since the pandemic began and they instituted their draconian lockdowns which traumatized children who need to be in school where they can be subjected to casual indifference to deadly disease and profound intellectual stultification and abuse/neglect and white supremacist stochastic terrorism produced by the FBI as well as income inequality and capitalist alienation.”

5. “You think communism is good? Well what do you think about this you stupid tankie?” * posts article they haven’t even read which is written by the CIA or its puppets in the corporate press (Operation Mockingbird) which either quotes no sources, quotes “anonymous sources say,” quotes defectors who have been repeatedly shown to just make stories up about their home countries, quotes the Black Book of Communism which was disowned by its own authors (see Weisel Commission report page 48), or quotes bible-thumping CIA lunatic Adrian Zenz *

6. “Just because the CIA rescued over a thousand Nazis after WW2 and gave them new lives and hid them for decades and was never reformed and no one was every punished doesn’t mean that the CIA is untrustworthy! Everything magically got better at some vague point in the past and I will get angry and accuse you of incivility if you ask me to be more specific about when that point was!”

7. “Brigading is when anyone so much as raises an eyebrow after I express an opinion which would make Hitler blush (as a result of my marinating among the fascists of r*ddit for years without receiving the slightest pushback for my appalling beliefs, meanwhile it’s been years since anyone has even looked at me in the real world unless I have paid them to do so or unless they hope to inherit some money from me some day, this is the best of all possible worlds, it is completely natural!).”

8. “Nazism and communism are the same, this isn’t Holocaust denial what you are you talking about, it’s not as though Mussolini was funded by British intelligence in order to fight communism, it’s not as though Hitler was funded by American capital and drew inspiration from the USA’s genocidal extermination of Native Americans and enslavement of Africans, it’s not as though the Soviets destroyed the Nazis and did the vast majority of the fighting and killing and dying in World War 2 and liberated the concentration camps almost single-handedly and forced Hitler to commit suicide and signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact only after the allies had already appeased Germany and only after the Soviets had begged the allies for an anti-Nazi alliance, everything they did was because of Lend-Lease (that’s also why the French did so well in Vietnam, the USA fronted almost the entire cost of this totally justified colonial war), communism has failed everywhere it’s been tried, capitalism is human nature, the mitochondrial Adam and Eve were literally McDonald’s franchise owners, God is literally the great investor in the sky, I’m a highly rational atheist but I will get extremely angry if you accuse me of worshipping the market as though it is a god, that’s why I’m not desperately consuming every news story I can find about how any second now China is bound to collapse (it’s not as though a number of prominent media personalities have built their careers off of making these predictions and being wrong literally every single time for decades), plus China is actually capitalist anyway because everyone knows that more than a billion Chinese people are too fucking stupid to know when they are enslaved (I'm the least-racist person ever to walk the Earth), China is genociding Uyghurs even though there are no pictures of this (except for weird satellite photos which were totally not abused in the lead-up to the Iraq War) despite the genocide having apparently begun decades ago and despite the fact that we should be somewhat skeptical when the USA, which has murdered millions of Muslims around the globe in the last two decades (a claim nobody denies), makes these claims, especially in light of the fact that the corporate press lied repeatedly about WMDs in Iraq with absolutely zero consequences for anyone involved.”



9. • responds with ableist insult revealing a casual comfort with eugenics *

10. “Democracy is when you vote every two or four years for candidates who are all owned entirely by the bourgeoisie and when even your peaceful protests are met with murderous hordes of hogs. Any country which prevents American corporations from buying their elections is an evil totalitarian authoritarian dictatorship which ignores democracy and human rights!”

11. “Biden can’t actually do anything sweaty, he is literally the most powerless person ever to walk the Earth (even though Trump, who occupied the same office, was a totalitarian authoritarian dictator who ran roughshod over the precious institutions and norms of our hallowed democracy!), it’s not as though the Defense Production Act allows the president to seize and control any company and even set prices with the stroke of a pen, it’s not as though he could pack the courts to keep them from fucking with him, it’s not as though Nixon himself used this act during the stagflation crisis (which places fucking Biden to the right of Nixon!), it’s not as though this act was used at the beginning of the pandemic to force companies to produce enough ventilators (with zero pushback from the SCOTUS), everything good is impossible, just don’t pay attention to the fact that most of the fucked up shit that happens in the USA ONLY happens here! This is the best of all possible worlds and you should be locked up in an insane asylum and have the key thrown away if you even raise an eyebrow in response to my saying this!”

12. “If you care about trans people but think that dumping money on the police is bad then you are actually a fascist since fascism is anything I personally dislike, for example when my ex-wives go to court to force me to make alimony payments on time or when my children refuse to speak to me because I am a truly terrible human being.”

13. “I know all about Marxism because I am literally an expert on everything and read and understood every word of Capital in college which is why I can easily explain the difference between MCM and CMC for example without sloppily plagiarizing the first PraegerU results I find on google.”

14. “Socialism is when the government does stuff which is why all of us need to get down on our knees and suck the cock of the nearest police officer right now.”

15. “Imperialism/colonialism is when a country does something to undermine the USA and succeeds which is why the Russian Federation, which was virtually created by the Clinton administration, is imperialist and colonialist and why we must ally with the most appalling monsters ever to exist (the CIA) in order to destroy them. 'America bad, haha, imagine thinking that a country with hundreds of military bases around the world and one which freely admits to overthrowing countless governments going back almost two centuries (the most recent official regime change was Pakistan in 2022 according to leaked cables) has the slightest influence on global affairs.'”