Basically if there were patty’s with some teeth they would enforce party discipline and education and that would lead to higher quality discourse online.

Not necessarily. Comrades that engage in actual praxis in RL mostly just don’t care enough to engage in discussions online. I can certainly attest to that. Since I started organizing offline my interest in engaging with libs online has stopped almost entirely. It’s time consuming, annoying, unpleasant and for the most part simply unproductive. 99% of people of any political affiliation do not engage in good-faith debate online - including me and most comrades here. The time I have for political activism is sparse and I can do more productive things with it than talk to a liberal who’s just gonna reply with a sissy-pee social credit meme to a comment I took 30mins to write. RL discussions for the most part are much better in this regard, because the human component shines through much more and you tend to pre-select the people you engage with to a much larger extent. Getting into political discussions with people completely opposed to your view doesn’t happen that much, whereas it is the standard online.

Is there anyway to work on like, an online party discipline?

For existing real-life parties going online maybe, but their energy is used much better elsewhere. For a bunch of randos like us? I don’t think so tbh. We are not organized, there’s no discipline, no organizational structure, no mechanisms to enforce things, no participation to come to conclusions and analysis.

I agree that communists in 2023 have to use the online space productively. Creating platforms like lemmygrad, producing content like podcasts, videos, articles, streams, etc is just much more worth-while (and even that’s limited) and lends itself more to concerted efforts than discussions with dorky libs.

Fuckin hell that comment section is such a cesspool I had to comment there for the first time. If I bust a vein from that stress you’ll be responsible for that lethal dose of liberalism, comrade

The absolute effect of liberalism on women’s perception of themselves and their role in the world

Capitalism’s ability to provide moral and ideological cover for the self-commodification of every aspect of humanity is incredible. 100 years ago you’d have to force women to do this, today some are not just willing to do it, but see it as a noble cause and contribution for the war machine of empire.

Mostly DayZ recently and some Rocketleague again for the first time in a while.

Gave TW:Attila a decent shot recently. Pretty good game, TWs just get stale fairly fast for me.

Also tried the HP game a while ago and…it’s just boring. Looks pretty good, there’s tons to do, they put in a lot of effort, but idk. Still feels weirdly lifeless and unengaging to me. Can’t really put my finger on it. On paper it’s everything my 10yo self would’ve wanted from an open world HP game, but it isn’t. Played maybe 8h, haven’t touched it in weeks and I highly doubt I’ll ever finish it.

She’s not relevant and the only reason libs think she is is because she’s a white European who obeys the law

Well put, comrade. Never paid attention to her even when she first came up, because that was my immediate impression. She’s the literal embodiment of white, middle-class European bourgeois sentiment.

As for mixing climate activism and the Ukraine war, I’ve actually seen quite a few speeches and contributions by climate-focused orgs on peace demonstrations outlining the absurd damage of militaries and this war specifically on the environment. It is possible to combine the two to make genuine anti-capitalist, anti-war points. She simply chooses not to.

Go ask what they think of the (still very mild) Extinction Rebellion.

Just look at their response to the “Last Generation” (misguided libs gluing themselves to streets to form human roadblocks; damaged some paintings). German politicans literally compared them to the fucking RAF lmao

Can’t mess with big bad Belarus

Alright comrades, had to do some boring praxis, back for the real shit - what happened during the day? Did a literal coup actually end with the coup’ists going back…to the frontlines to fight a war they were couping for? Is that unironically what this came down to?

Well spitting my drink out at a TPB meme about a mercenary uprising in Russia seeking to remove the head of the MoD mediated by the Belarussian president wasn’t on my 2023 shit-bingo card, yet here we are lol

There you go. As I said allegedly, but RWA brought this video up in their livestream too. Could be random civilians, but RWA is usually somewhat careful with these things so I didn’t discard it immediately.

Could be just a delaying strategy, but still seems weird that nothing’s really being done about them and all the units we’ve seen so far have been police, Akhmat, Rosgvardia and a few VDV in Moscow. You’d expect a convy in rebellion moving hundreds of kms through the country to be blasted apart, when this gets exponentially worse for every minute it drags on.

Edit: Videos of S400 missiles and S300s moving in/to Rostov, which is kinda weird too.

So there’s multiple (?) armored columns moving through the country towards Moscow and almost 24h in there’s been no real, organized resistance at any point. Wagner’s just cruising past the few barriers, is still chillin at the Rostov HQ and allegedly the first video of Wagners detaining Akhmat forces has popped up. Sound’s like substantial parts of the army and law enforcement at least tacitly approve of this.

Airstrike on the M-4 highway

Ka-52 “Alligator” diverted the anti-aircraft missile of Wagner combat vehicle over Voronezh

Several km long column of Chechens heading to Rostov

And thus the most obvious contradiction in the world resolves itself. This is a horrible hit to the perception of Russiain the world. They were able portray an imagine of stability and calm to their partners, investors, population and the economy at large up until now. That just literally blew up

A lot is still unclear, though it seems more serious than the usual reporting.

Rybar reports 3 aircraft shot down by Wagner, aviation is striking at Wagner columns. Footage of a blown up oil depot and a highway crossing has come up. After they took over the HQ of the Southern Military District in Rostov this morning and blocked off the city. Prigozhin met the Deputy Minister of Defence there, what happened to him is unclear.

This is definitely serious. People are dying already.

And all that, because Wagner wants the head of the MOD removed…which is the dumbest fucking reason for an armed rebellion I’ve ever heard.

For real? I’ve not heard about this, where’d you see it?

Was tweeted by a news site, but I looked it up and can’t find the tweet anymore, so might’ve been bs and they took it down again.

Well some parts of Wagner apparently tried the dumbest semi-coup against the MoD. Seems like this was known in advance, because some videos, etc by the RAF were spread immediately. Western media reacted so fast, it looks kinda sus too, especially factoring in that Navalny called on the Russian military to join Wagner.

Also Putin being the revisionist he is dared to compare this to February 1917.

Yes, I, a Westerner living in the West, bombarded almost exclusively by Western media and narratives from the moment I was born, am actually brainwashed by…the Asians or something. Whereas you regurgitating Western narratives your whole life, are a real free thinker.

And because you’re committed about anti-fascism and anti-imperialism you definitely have a coherent theory on what these are and are organizing against them, primarily by agitating against the monopolies that spawn fascism in your own country and especially in the West itself as the hegemonic sphere upholding those monopolies.

Omg yes, your alienated, depressed, average as wage-slave life would be so much better if Western venture capitalists and arms manufacturers could loot and destroy another nation, that would be so heckin based

The whole thing as in there is something happening, just not the Russian army shelling Wagner forces. That part seems fake, but not Wagner doing something and the government reacting. Because people unironically believe all of it is a psyop. The messages by TASS, Peskov, FSB, the generals, Prigozhin - all fake to idk “troll the Ukrainians” or something.

The video showing the supposed shelled Wagner base looks super fake and I don’t think that happened, but I don’t think this whole thing is fake like people on TG say

Statements by Surovikhin and Alekseev calling on Wagners to put down their weapons

Is this 5 or 6D chess yet?