Moo Deng Thought

Not at all cause it's already here

I don't want to idealize the slop of the past, but I miss the old television series format. 24 episodes every year until it got cancelled. Like, Rick and Morty takes 2-3 years between seasons and it's stupid as hell. Every Netflix series is the same and cancellations are frequent. If a show was popular and you liked it, you very likely had something to watch next year.

Lie, lie, lie.

Stop drinking and driving.

They didn't catch you doing anything. They caught alcohol in your car. That doesn't mean anything. They didn't catch you drinking

American Liberals are above all else defined by a smugness that is backed by a total and complete naiveness of the word without the inability to understand that Socialists/Communists still exist in the world outside of the US and China. American Liberals believe there is only one opposition to their views, the uneducated unwashed masses who is backward in character and without any virtue.

American Liberalism is largely a belief of credentialism that simultaneously somehow proves their moral virtue.

This feeling is liberalism leaving your body.

This is why I don't think the John Olivers of the world are part of the radicalization pipeline.

Like if you have a problem with support for Hamas, you have not accepted the severity of the crimes being committed on the Palestinian people. Any movement to stop the Genocide needs to accept the severity of the crimes being committed or they will be diverted the moment liberal Queen AOC comes down to the protests to pretend to care.

Meanwhile, a notably large “No” campaign against the Family Code was led by the churches and right-wing dissident groups through social media. While the referendum passed, “No” received 33% of the vote, which is remarkably high for a government initiative in a one-party state.

Like what?

edit:

In many ways, the Family Code represents the bureaucracy working at its best. They corrected an error in the party’s stances under the pressure of LGBTQ Cubans and the international movements for those rights, used mass meetings to influence public opinion and respond to it, and mobilized the party and its mass organizations to advance a “Yes” vote to expand womens’ and LGBTQ rights. But a lack of independent organizing or popularly-controlled institutions means that this was necessarily a slow going and top-down process. Put bluntly, Cuba’s transformation on LGBTQ rights was facilitated in no small part by Mariela Castro’s position as a prominent figure in the party bureaucracy with a famous family name.

You see, this good thing they did, is actually bad.

I skimmed some portion of Maria Franzblau Criticism of Cuba

https://reformandrevolution.org/2024/02/17/cuba-between-imperialism-and-socialism/

We should be critical of socialist and anti-imperialist forces when necessary. Most times this should take place internally when other parties take actions we disagree with strategically. But when a leftist party actively betrays socialist principles, such as by attacking abortion rights or supporting Israeli apartheid, we should be willing to make our disagreements public. As for reactionary, anti-communist forces like the governments of Iran and Russia or groups like Hamas and the Houthis, we should make crystal clear our fierce opposition to their politics while also condemning imperialist aggression against them.

Most egregious considering the Palestinian genocide.

The first weakness is in our analysis and understanding of Cuban socialism. There is no shortage of inspiration we can draw from positively appraising the Revolution’s gains in literacy, healthcare, education, and more. We should not deemphasize the role of the brutal US embargo in the country’s crises. But one simply cannot understand the full picture of Cuba this decade without also understanding the political repression of independent organizing, the threats that private business and austerity pose to the socialist economy, or the crisis of legitimacy the government faces. If one were to attend this delegation and fully accept the party line put forward in our itinerary, the political side of this crisis would go completely unmentioned.

Having it both ways, the embargo is bad for the economy but also the threats that private business and austerity pose to the socialist economy

Second, it limits the effectiveness of our external messaging and organizing, especially in regions of the country with large Hispanic and Cuban-American populations. While it is true that there are large sections of these diaspora communities, particularly Cuban exiles, who are hardcore reactionaries and have petty-bourgeois class interests, it would be a mistake to treat these communities as monolithic or immovable. In my own experience organizing in Miami, there is a large presence of Cubans in every local struggle, whether it be university students and faculty walking out against our far-right state legislature’s censorship of education, or local Starbucks workers’ struggling to unionize their stores.

DAH POCS. like fr what do you mean?

https://reformandrevolution.org/2024/02/17/cuba-between-imperialism-and-socialism/

If you hate heads of state, why would you go on a delegation who plans on meeting one? Organize your own shit instead of riding coat tails losers

My NATO funded research has found that there are 0 queer and trans people in Russia and China and the Third World. 0. Please subscribe to my Substack.

edit: I am continually impressed by a White Western Person's ability to see whatever the hell they want in regards to their Western Chauvinism despite their professed values.

Like have you never had a job before? Like if you're gonna accuse people of being out of touch, stop buying $10 bananas

We haven't had libs in years. Lib binging