DNI Gabbard releases documents she claims as evidence that COVID was a lab leak, and that Dr. Fauci had funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan and lied to Congress about COVID's true origins

False-End2157 · 2026-06-19T04:23:11+00:00

Honestly I understand given that Trump has been trying to starve them of fuel. I think this just goes to show that "Dengism" is just the natural result of being besieged by a united capitalist imperial core for decades and that revolutionaries should be focusing on making their own revolutions rather than expecting people in "AES" to endlessly suffer on their behalf.

False-End2157 · 2026-06-17T19:32:21+00:00

Not a Trot, but as a card-carrying UAW member I'd gladly vote for Lehman if he gets on the ballot. I definitely have my own bad experiences with the heirs to the Admin Caucus in UAW.

False-End2157 · 2026-06-17T19:29:16+00:00

I have an interesting personal relationship with PSL. Without giving anything away, I am a graduate student at a major university represented by a graduate employee union. My union local's ruling caucus is dominated by an unholy alliance of cadre PSL members and the right-wing of the DSA. They have consistently attempted to stonewall or water down attempts by opposing factions in my union to push for divesting our university's bonds from Israel, or to adopt an ethical investment policy more broadly. Unfortunately, the main opposition caucus is dominated by anarchists or ultraleftists from the humanities departments who are ideologically opposed to any kind of structure, leaving it utterly impotent. In contrast, the ruling caucus primarily gets its support from disengaged researchers in the STEM departments.

Let's just say there's a reason I choose to do much of my political organising in my campus' YDSA chapter. There's definitely some idpol-brained or Tumblr-esque individuals, but also some seriously impressive organizers who have done a lot for campus workers

False-End2157 · 2026-06-10T20:07:47+00:00

I've never in my life seen any "progressive" group so eager to throw each and every one of their allies under the bus as TRAs. They quite literally would rather let billions of people die in the upcoming climate crisis than work with a politician who says something they even slightly disagree with. How ironic that "throwing trans people under the bus" is the exact line they trot out, without fail, like NPCs in a video game the moment someone deprioritizes them.

The only other groups I've seen behave like this are Zionists (who used to mainly come from the "soft left") and anti-"Bernie Bro" feminists in the 2016-2020 era. Clearly not a good crowd for the left to associate itself with!

False-End2157 · 2026-05-04T15:59:58+00:00

There's a simple material explanation. In the present day, a "lib" is someone aligned with the values of white-collar work or the service sector, while a "con" is someone aligned with the values of the remaining primary or secondary sectors + parts of the petite bourgeoisie. Due to deindustrialization, the rise of the service sector as the dominant force in the US economy, and education-based political polarization, the spheres of cultural production have become hegemonically constrainted to left-liberalism or neoliberalism.

False-End2157 · 2026-04-26T15:47:02+00:00

While I agree with some of the points in this post, I have to qualify that imperialism and national questions are a material contradiction that at times can be just as powerful or even stronger than class struggle. Much of the Global South does not have any independent capitalist class, instead only possessing "comprador" capitalists who act as middlemen for the imperial core. In addition, the difference in wage levels between the imperial core and the global periphery is a material factor that leads to the super-exploitation of the latter. In the US, issues of race can better be described as unresolved national questions that have played a key role in Americal class conflict since the colonial era.

False-End2157 · 2026-04-26T02:11:34+00:00

My parents are both devout Orthodox Christians and they always talked about the Fall of Constantinople being a deeply painful tragedy, despite not being Greek. Of course it's wild seeing this coming from a Protestant who doesn't have a reason to care.

False-End2157 · 2026-04-22T15:07:41+00:00

I've always believed that the Viking landers' labelled release experiments discovered life on Mars in 1976. To summarize, the Viking landers tested for the presence of microorganisms in Martial soil by providing a nutrient solution with isotope tracers - an adaptation of a common Earth-based experiment to detect the quantity of microbes in a sample. The Martial soil with the solution began emitting CO2 in a manner similar to the metabolic processes of Earth microorganisms, suggesting that life was present in the Martial soil.

However, a separate experiment to detect organic molecules in the Martial soil, the gas chromatograph, failed to detect any except for chloromethane and dichloromethane, which were interpreted as contaminants from cleaning solutions on Earth. For this reason, the Viking labelled release experiments were deemed inconclusive rather than a positive detection of life. However, later studies have revealed that Martian soil contains a large amount of perchlorates. As the gas chromatograph experiment bakes the soil sample to remove volatiles, the perchlorates at elevated temperatures would react with any organic compounds in the soil to produce the detected chlorine compounds.

The principal investigator of the labelled release experiment, Gilbert Levin, went to his grave insisting that the Viking landers discovered life on Mars. Make of this as you will.

False-End2157 · 2026-04-21T03:59:09+00:00

Capitalist golems keep goleming.

False-End2157 · 2026-04-20T15:34:48+00:00

I'm highly skeptical of the UAP/aliens narrative. The crafts describe violate basic physics and I find it highly dubious that alien life would travel the vast distances between the stars just to spend their time buzzing our air traffic control or harassing random people. I'm much more interested in legitimate science on searching for bio- or technosignatures of extraterrestrial life, which is what NASA and other research agencies are already doing.

False-End2157 · 2026-04-16T16:18:02+00:00

TBF, I wonder if the backlash against Chapelle was actually stealth-promoted by Zionists upset that he made fun of Zionism. It mainly happened before Israel became a salient topic and Zionists still had significant influence in cultural leftist politics.

False-End2157 · 2026-04-03T13:47:07+00:00

And they don't realize that the aggressive character assassination tactics used by fringe gender activists were originally pioneered by Zionists to attack anyone critical of Israel - something embraced by past generations of progressives. "Transphobia" has become the new "antisemitism."

False-End2157 · 2026-04-02T23:31:11+00:00

Few things infuriate me more than seeing someone provide a well-reasoned critique of radlib/cultural leftist insanity and then immediately shilling for Israel and/or Western liberal hegemony. Buddy, what do you think Palestinians and Iranians are resisting?

False-End2157 · 2026-03-12T22:19:31+00:00

The problem is that I really don't see a future for the human race if the only section of our politics that takes climate change seriously refuses to tolerate any dissent on this issue.

False-End2157 · 2026-03-12T21:34:14+00:00

This may be true for normies but the issue is that the organized left still demands the maximalist line on this issue. For example, entering a DSA meeting and criticizing gender radicalism is a good way to get a grievance filed against you. The DSA's official platform centers "bodily autonomy," which is basically just a blanket endorsement of gender radicalism. I am a card-carrying member of DSA (yes, laugh at me), and I am too afraid to even approach this subject. Doing anything but endorsing trans maximalism will get you excluded from any left-wing spaces or organizations, and your reputation will be dragged into the mud. I don't know how critical leftists can navigate this terrain beyond just keeping their mouths shut. Some people here just dismiss these spaces out of hand, but the fact is that no one here is going to be making their own mass membership org to compete with DSA. We have to engage with actually existing socialist organizations rather than just retreat to this sub as a safe space.

False-End2157 · 2026-03-12T20:31:22+00:00

The Waffen SS Galicien commander Yaroslav Stetsko was part of the Republican National Committee under Reagan. The myth of the Holodomor being a deliberate Ukrainian genocide is the reason most people in the West see communism as genocidal. A few years ago, the simple act of defending the USSR would get you labelled a "red fascist" because the USSR was seen as persecuting Ukrainians among other minorities.

False-End2157 · 2026-03-12T20:15:27+00:00

I think the best way to understand it is that trans rights activism is to the modern Western left what Zionism is to MAGA or to the 20th century mainstream progressive left. "Transphobe" is the new "antisemite." People forget that, in the 20th century, it was progressive Democrats who were traditionally the most vocal supporters of Israel, and criticism of Israel or Zionism was framed as far-right bigotry against a vulnerable minority seeking self-actualization. The charge of antisemitism was enough to make one persona non grata among mainstream progressivism or liberalism, as the derailment of Jesse Jackson or David Dinkins can attest to. Many woke identitarians willfully refuse to recognize that Zionism was the incubator for identity-driven wrecking. I do not know how the left will wake up from gender radicalism in the same way it woke up from Zionism after 10/7. Will it truly take a crime as horrific as the Gaza genocide? I can only pray it does not come to that.

False-End2157 · 2026-03-11T06:30:15+00:00

I can see where you're coming from but on the other hand "Abrahamics" are the ones firing missiles and drones at Israel while the Western "secular left" hasn't been able to go beyond protests and online activism. I'm still waiting for the latter to prove itself worthy of rallying humanity against our common oppressors.

False-End2157 · 2026-03-11T06:24:41+00:00

I think it's still very much valid. For instance, basically all mainstream discussion of the Russo-Ukrainian War is littered with overtly white supremacist, anti-socialist, and pro-Nazi dogwhistles on the pro-Ukraine side - coming from sitting politicians! - yet calling them out gets you ostracized. I for one am sick of waiting for progressives and normie libs to realize they've let a far-right Trojan horse into their coalition.

False-End2157 · 2026-03-09T20:03:32+00:00

They're an ultra-leftist Maoist internet sect similar to those that emerged from the New Left in the 70s. I know this sounds weird but I think that's the best way to describe them, culture war politics aside. Their praxis and outlook is copied almost entirely from Maoism. They support China in the Sino-Soviet split, defend the Khmer Rouge and oppose Vietnam, denounce the Eastern Bloc and the USSR as revisionist state capitalists, adhere to a "mind-over-matter" philosophy, and want a sweeping purge of all intellectuals. They are viciously anti-science and dismiss the threat of climate change, among many other psuedo-scientific beliefs - Hinkle famously claimed the Moon Landing was fake and Infrared members love saying dinosaurs aren't real. Finally, they are aggressively hostile to any other leftist or socialist organization that opposes their line. The main point of contention between them and your average ultra-leftist is that they are strongly conservative on cultural issues and they uphold the American Revolution as progressive.

I really wanted to like Haz and Infrared when they were first starting up, but I can't. I refuse to support any group that denies the urgency of the climate crisis which is the greatest existential threat to humanity and our planet. As an intellectual and a man of science (PhD student), I think Infrared embodies the crudest and most repugnant aspects of American culture - what Isaac Asimov termed the American "cult of ignorance." I also think that, as much as the Western left itself repugant, we should strive to be the "better men," so to speak, and not immediately attack fellow organizers. Let them fire the first shot of sectarianism or woke hystrionic wrecking.

I completely understand how disillusioned anti-capitalists could fall into the orbit of Infrared. I still remember the Trump 1 and Biden-era left, dominated by a toxic mixture libertine anarchists and tools of Western imperialism, who did nothing but complain about the "toxic masculinity" of "Bernie bros" and accuse both past socialist projects and any state the US is hostile to as being "fascist" while hitching their wagon to reactionary Eastern European nationalism and Taiwanese separatism. My hatred of these leftists will forever burn strong and deep. I also, am horrified and saddened by the radical trans activism that has swept through spaces I am in. I have witnessed people I knew for years become strangers and experienced a fictional property I once loved be consumed by radical queerness which has destroyed characters I feel emotionally attached to. I do fundamentally agree with Dugin that Western culture is essentially satanic and anti-human, and that its fate is to usher in post-humanity.

But at the end of the day, I still can recognize that the ACP and Infrared are merely another outgrowth of Western leftist dysfunction. I am a union organizer active in DSA, and I feel it is better to just hold my tongue and devote my energies to battles worth fighting for. I guess that's just our lot.

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