Trump on Hasan Piker:
Hasan Piker is a terrible liability for the Democratic Party.
He is a communist — there’s no question about it.
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2101041913562378324#m
https://files.catbox.moe/bb1zsz.mp4
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I think there is more revolutionary sentiment than people realize, I’ve seen average libs calling for “impeaching every Republican” and cheering on Iranian strikes on Amazon’s facilities, the Mangione fans, etc. They talk about “getting money out of politics” but probably the only way that would be possible would be through a socialist revolution. I do feel heartened by people’s attitude lately, though I’m in a bit less racist area than a lot of the US.
I think there is anti-imperialist sentiment, and even genuinely socialist sentiment for sure. I guess I’m being literal in that i dont think Americans in general have the appetite for the kind of violence that comes with a literal revolution. Curious if it is more than a terminology difference between you and I, though.
My vibe is that historically socialist revolutions have happened at the imperial fringe among populations living under brutal conditions. The imperial core will have its own path, but getting the empire to be even somewhat less hungry to genocide the global south will dramatically change the conditions for our comrades in those countries.
I agree, but I think this is typically the case. Good people characteristically aren’t looking for an excuse to commit gratuitous acts of violence. Revolutionary violence usually takes the form of self defense, rather than a spontaneous righteous crusade against the status quo. Consider Minneapolis in 2020. After Derek Chauvin executed George Floyd on camera, people did the “proper” Liberal thing and assembled non-violently to pressure the government to bring criminal charges. For three days, they were surveilled and assaulted with batons and mace and “less lethal” munitions. Without this egregious overreaction from the state, the situation would have never advanced to the point of acute physical skirmishes between activists and police departments reinforced by the National Guard across the country. Within the span of a few short weeks, the situation transformed from the uneasy calm of the Covid quarantine, to the largest domestic uprising seen since the assassination of MLK. The largest Millennials have ever seen in their lifetime, anyway.
This is the pattern I expect to continue playing out. The government is losing its finesse and is reacting with brutality to political forces it was once comfortable ignoring completely. More recently, the crackdown against anti-genocide protesters on college campuses has been another example. Another case of tens of thousands of people applying the “proper” Liberal methods, non-violence, free speech, assembly, and being attacked with lawfare, expulsion, surveillance, SWAT teams, skirmishes with vigilante mobs, chemical weapons, imprisonment, and deportation. While this didn’t advance to the same level of acute crisis, it did transform a handful of largely academic and self-gratifying (for lack of a better term) encampments confined to university grounds into a continuous series of national headlines and much more mobile and chaotic wave of demonstrations.
We saw this again with the skirmishes between anti-ICE activists and “Operation Metro Surge.” We’re still not at the point where we’re just wasting pigs in the street, but acute physical confrontations between the state and the public are becoming much more regular. People are getting killed in these skirmishes. Doctors and mothers. We are already catching visceral glimpses of the battle to come.
We’re far away from having a people’s army, but I think people in general are much more prepared for a rapid pivot to “Plan B” than they were 10 or 20 years ago. The fantasy that any of our problems can be fixed with a march on Congress is thoroughly dead. There is a unanimous inevitability to it. It is only unclear what will be the spark. Which will be the situation that gets totally out of hand?
It is true that some of the people I talk to say it semi-jokingly. These are people who look to me for historical/theory knowledge lol. Sometimes I’ll have a rant and then they’re like “thats cool, but maybe we should just get guns and etc…”. They make me look like a lib (not that there’s anything wrong with that!).
I wonder how much itll fizzle when the demo charge back the next couple elections, I was so wrong and disappointed when everything fizzled in 2020.
It likely will fizzle a bit, however this time feels like a repeat of Biden’s election in 2020. In particular it depends on who runs. Is it going to be Kamala again or a similar joke of so-called democracy? There are cracks forming ever since Biden’s handling of COVID and his support of the genocide which has been unpopular all the way through his term.
How much it fizzles might depend on how effectively the Left proves the case for the bourgeois solidarity held between the Dems and Reps. Once it becomes common sentiment that it’s not only Trump but the entire bipartisan group, there will no longer be a scapegoat and it will be hard to contain working class anger.
True, like I’ve said before liberals are pissed to a completely new level because they trusted the plan and voted Biden, voted Kamala, and ended up with Trump (but even worse).
I think that given all that, AOC has a solid (unlikely, but very possible) shot at a presidential run in '28. It’ll be interesting to see what could come out of that situation. Could it be an FDR “stabilize capitalism during it’s worst crisis” sort of thing?
Sentiment is one thing but power and organization are another. Have to create a way to enforce sentiments.
The sentiment has been there for a long time, but class consciousness is rising as the concessions for demsocs are eroding on global scale
Organization is still lacking, but even that feels more effective than at any point in my life before
The revolutionary sentiment should exist within the leftist parties for a successful revolution to happen. But leftists who are organizing have learned not to call for a revolution because it will get their org and its leaders targeted by the state.