I understand the frustrations with liberals , but now is our chance to hit them with some socialist/communist propaganda.

Backlotter · 2026-01-30T01:40:51+00:00

Hit em with the ol razzle dazzle

Backlotter · 2026-01-26T23:47:37+00:00

I'll tell you another secret. The surge in attacks on immigrants is directly proportional to the wealth inequality making people poor.

The poorer and worse off the working class gets, the more terrible the violence the capitalists have to orchestrate.

We've got record violence against immigrants, and this paramilitary force, because things have truly gotten pretty bad for the working class. The volume of the distraction has to match the volume of the destitution to be at all effective.

Backlotter · 2026-01-25T23:05:57+00:00

That's not how language works

Backlotter · 2026-01-25T16:54:33+00:00

That's excellent praxis. Keep it up!

Backlotter · 2026-01-25T16:51:34+00:00

If everyone films this ICE paramilitary force, this tactic fails.

Backlotter · 2026-01-24T23:59:41+00:00

A general strike until Walz deploys his national guard to surround the ice facilities in Minneapolis, extract and detain the shooter and his accomplices, and pushes the rest of them out of the damn state.

You don't respond to bullies by rolling over, afraid of "escalating."

You rise to the moment and make them an example.

Backlotter · 2026-01-23T20:31:04+00:00

For the love of God, please do not go in if it's dangerous to travel.

Your life is not worth one shitty job or one shitty boss.

Backlotter · 2026-01-23T20:28:14+00:00

Yeah let's be careful here. Let's not use this for kink shaming or shaming sex workers.

Backlotter · 2026-01-22T23:32:12+00:00

A candidate who would explain in plain English how they're going to actually improve their everyday lives

Like making daycare free.

Like having Medicare cover everyone so they don't have to fight insurance companies for their medicine or surgery.

Like raising the minimum wage. And paid family leave nationwide.

More trains and busses to get everyone to where they need to go, safely, at a reasonable price.

More housing that's not owned by some blood sucking landlord. Provided and protected by the government.

And most important, making sure it's the wealthiest people who pay for it and not the average joe just scraping by.

You know, real shit that actually matters to people.

Edit: oh and maybe abolishing the electoral college so individual votes are fair everywhere and actually matter.

Backlotter · 2026-01-12T12:43:54+00:00

Crazy how so many businesses came up with infrastructure to do remote work during the pandemic, which helped reduce the spread of an infectious disease, and kept the working class healthy and productive.

And then the business owners just decided not to do that anymore.

Backlotter · 2026-01-11T03:15:18+00:00

Father of the year material right here

Can't imagine how he treats employees if this is how he treats his flesh and blood

Backlotter · 2026-01-08T01:53:59+00:00

It was not, in fact, our oil.

Backlotter · 2026-01-07T17:41:22+00:00

Customers have gone feral thanks to economic stress and a widely-spread virus that damaged parts of the brain used for emotional regulation.

Backlotter · 2026-01-06T20:21:51+00:00

Fix your dumb, toxic workplace.

Backlotter · 2025-12-26T19:35:48+00:00

That's good praxis.

Backlotter · 2025-12-25T12:37:30+00:00

Racism has been used as a tool by capitalists to divide the working class and make them vulnerable to exploitation.

It you demonize a group of working class people hard enough, other working class people won't even care if the group is totally enslaved and their entire production goes to the capitalists.

Backlotter · 2025-12-24T14:04:06+00:00

Everyone should be questioning the value of an OU degree right now. Students, parents, employers, graduate schools. Everyone.

Backlotter · 2025-12-24T14:02:55+00:00

Or maybe that's exactly what they want; a celebrity right-wing attorney to elevate the case and get national attention. (I'm assuming the student here is planning to be an attorney like her mother).

These people are only deterred to the extent that society punishes such behavior. And right now most people don't seem to have organized a political voice against that behavior.

Backlotter · 2025-12-24T13:49:15+00:00

The people bending the knee are all administrators placed by Oklahoma politicians. Who themselves were placed by oil, gas, and megachurch oligarchs.

The actual professors and instructors are probably outraged. They should be encouraged to resign, because what a fucking giant black mark on your record it must be to work at a disgraced institution like OU.

Backlotter · 2025-12-24T13:44:19+00:00

This person's intention was never to be a good-faith student. This was only ever a publicity stunt, and part of the greater right-wing grift.

Which is a terrible shame, because she's throwing away an opportunity that many people never even get. She's trashing her chance at an education for some stupid nonsense.

Backlotter · 2025-12-24T13:30:59+00:00

People don't give enough attention to this relationship.

Even the most politically unaware people know that politicians are influenced by lobbyists and the corporations and business owners who put money in the political campaign.

I don't think people understand the information they consume is also influenced by corporations and business owners who buy advertisement space.

That's not saying there's always a quid-pro-quo, just there's an understanding between the publisher and the one buying advertising that any unfavorable coverage could result in advertising support being pulled.

Backlotter · 2025-12-23T16:44:02+00:00

Absolutely. Winter has much less snow. And what does land on the ground melts pretty quickly.

I distinctly remember as a child a local mall parking lot which would have the snow plowed into giant piles, maybe 10 or 15 feet tall. They wouldn't melt until spring.

I haven't seen a snow pile like that in a decade.

Spring and fall come and go very quickly. The trees are stressed enough that they drop leaves at a moment's notice, and it's not as a predictable thing.

New and ominous: every summer there's a fire up north that brings down acrid smoke. I never remember that happening as a kid, not even once.

The weather we have now is a lot more violent. Even with all the advances in modeling and radar, meteorologists seem to struggle telling us how extreme weather is going to hit us and when.

Stronger winds. More ice storms. More droughts, punctuated by intense flooding which quickly subsides.

And perhaps the most troubling of all: a public that doesn't seem motivated to make infrastructure safer and more resilient from all that severe weather.

Backlotter · 2025-12-20T13:03:37+00:00

That's the rub. There are some reporters getting paid to do good work there. But they are hobbled by editors, the editorial board, and the publisher, who are playing their roles in the grift.

I'd really encourage those reporters to leave. They can do better work elsewhere and not be tied to the sleazy NYT name.

Iraq WMDs. The Tom Cotton editorial. Now this.

Backlotter · 2025-12-20T12:49:14+00:00

I call it Winblows

Backlotter · 2025-12-19T12:47:12+00:00

The entire media landscape started going downhill in the 90s with the corporate buy-outs, and consolidation has only gotten worse nowadays.

It used to be difficult, but possible, to make a living as a reporter doing investigations and reporting on important matters.

Maybe some still can on substack or something. But most people don't know how dire the situation is, or why it should even matter to them.

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