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not even Jeffrey Eipstein could make people form class conciousness (lemmygrad.ml)
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I decided to not be bitter and i followed a liberal influencer for like a week (they dont make political content usually) but today they posted that BULLSHIT about how trump is causing wars as a cover for the files and i had to unfollow. nobody is starting wars over that, theyre starting wars for capital and resources.

what the fuck is a ”eipstein class”? just those guys on the files? are the billionaires who refused or were not invited alright with you?

and of course the religious zealots doing the bit about how eipstein was satan incarnate while churning out money for their pastor to buy a new mansion.

the prolecattleiat is not being elevated to sapience by this situation alone. people have to read theory which is why i encourage them to do so. libs, anarchists and conservatives have the balls to talk about how mao, stalin and other leaders were also pedophiles or ray peests so communism is not worth it either so we just need a matriarchy as if a capitalist system would be fine if women were in charge.

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[–] amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 day ago

I feel you. Venting is understandable, but we need to not confuse venting with doing an analysis. And doing a grounded analysis often requires investigating. But investigating can take time and energy and study that may be largely thankless to do and you might get told you're wrong even if you do. Still, it is something I will beat the drum about on the regular because it matters so much. Sometimes I slack on it myself and slip into poorly supported speculation. But the reality is that in times when what I'm saying is backed by investigation, it is night and day the confidence and sharpness I have on the given subject.

And if this way of putting it doesn't move people at all, consider that having what you say be well backed by investigation is probably going to be more persuasive when convincing others. Somebody hearing "this is what colonialism did to people in the Congo in specific detail" is probably going to stick with them more than hearing a general "colonialism exploited people in other countries." Somebody hearing "here is the documented way these two events are connected and how various factions reacted to them" (a good example of this I can recall is Blowback podcast's series on Korea) is probably going to stick with them more than hearing "this event [fuzzy line to] this event and then now we are here."

This goes the same way in the positive. Being able to drop facts on somebody about AES advances in rights, literacy, quality of life. And then you can drop the framework on them as needed too. "Well why did x happen this way?" "Because [revolutionary theory worldview]."