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I’m feeling a lot of the same anger I felt in 2020, and with stuff like the ongoing “heat” in LA and San Diego a couple weeks ago I really think things might get crazy this summer. We should be ready as socialists to take advantage of it.

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 49 points 6 days ago

We're not going to be ready for it, as socialists. You need a vanguard party to give political coherence and demands to spontaneous outbursts like that, as well as the ability to turn them into sustained projects. We need a party more than anything;

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago

The police are feeling emboldened by Trump and acting even shittier than usual, people are getting more pissed off at them than usual, so it’s definitely possible that the nothing ever happens crew could soon be in shambles.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 29 points 6 days ago

Despite earnest efforts from many actual socialist groups, I think we're still on a backfoot. It's gonna be a hot summer, but not for the pigs.

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago

Photo from yesterday right at the moment a flashbang went off: (from https://xcancel.com/jeremotographs)

There are clips on that page from today in Paramount, CA where agents met pretty decent resistance, people aren't having it, these aren't black bloc or any sort of dedicated revolutionaries mostly it seems like, just regular people, which gives me some hope. But it does seem to be escalating.

[-] AF_R@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I am 100% open to being shown otherwise, however my current view is that no conflict will occur.

Liberals will show up in droves with their Ukraine and Taiwan flags, stand around shouting platitudes, do nothing, demand nothing, and get sent home when they’ve been beaten up enough by the state security forces without ever fighting back.

For all practical purposes, there is no Left in America, and the ones that proudly proclaim it are too busy condemning each other online for not conforming to their perfect idea of the ideal Marxist proletariat (because that is totally our greatest priority in a political state where leftism doesn’t even exist) because god forbid they help a real person instead of telling other Marxists they deserve to be “proletariatized” for having a STEM education and are a fascist, actually, for consuming an egg.

Liberals are the majority of these crowds and they fundamentally cannot change the system they are themselves supporting, as we all already know.

The only thing left is collapse IMO.

[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago

It's been pleasantly cool here this year actua- oh you meant something else.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago

Yep. Literally and politically, what, with all that summer wildfire in Canada spreading here and there

That must be a symbol and literal symptom to come.

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago

Gonna be so hot we enter The Cool Zone cool-zone

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

Hot couch summer

[-] hogslayer@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Maybe. I think there will have to be something huge to kick it off (again).

There's no lockdown this time, and people don't have time after work to burn down a pigstation.

[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

i think it's gonna be a Cruel Summer. the o.g. bananarama one, obv.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

There's fresh snow on the mountains, it's fucking cold here

[-] FettermansFinalStroke@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

cries while turning up the AC

[-] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

People say that every summer now. Its already June and I'm not seeing it. I think hot like a badly managed compost shack breeding moskitos in pools of standing goo.

I’m not sure, it’s just vibes but at least in my area people including the baby leftists and borderline libs seem PISSED

[-] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago

Well I hope you are right and I'm wrong.

Remind me bot 3 months

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 6 days ago

Hey, I can't help where I live.

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

no i don't think i'll be getting la- oh you meant something else

[-] 9to5@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

lots of rain so far

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