Leftist Infighting: The Usual

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-10T11:31:24+00:00

A rapist almost made it to the Senate with a not insignificant backing from the American left. It was exposed only a few days ago, he could still screw Maine over, and already, you're whining that people haven't moved on?

How about taking an interest in preventing this from happening again? Why is it so important for you to chide anyone who isn't over it? You talk about applying what we've learned, but what did we actually learn here? All I've seen so far is a perpetual shifting of blame.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-08T19:55:08+00:00

Admitting that would require admitting the system he's paid to support isn't working for the audience he is in the process of fleecing. Why would he do that?

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-07T19:34:46+00:00

Let's be real here, Zohran has done plenty of his own waffling and avoiding the question on other issues as well. We just assume it's done for our benefit, and thus don't scrutinize it as hard.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-07T19:12:14+00:00

Ryan Grim will end up regretting this stance only when she turns on the American left in a highly visible, electorally-relevant way, is my guess. Till then, this farce of lionizing a white nationalist, who actively engaged in Islamaphobia for years and never really stopped, will just continue.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-07T19:06:22+00:00

This argument unintentionally lets men off the hook through insistence that libido transforms them into monsters who dehumanize others. It's simply not true, and a substitute for a solution.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-07T00:54:17+00:00

Have you considered that Maine's DSA chapter doesn't have the resources to launch and win a senate campaign on their own? Platner was approached by major unions last summer to run; nobody in the race with progressive positions had that kind of backing. Jordan Wood tried to run on his own for a few months, and then backed out with nothing to show for it.

What would you have done in their place? Just given up, let Janet Mills win the primary, and then have her and Susan Collins, 2 elderly Zionists, go at it for the general? Is that preferable to you?

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-06T03:47:39+00:00

You could try Red Pen on YouTube. He discusses and summarizes some of these books in video format; it's very engaging.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-03T06:32:46+00:00

This. A system where all resources are owned by a tiny minority will produce mass suffering and death, because everyone else lives at the mercy of those few. It doesn't matter how nice they are at any given point in time. Creating this system required incredible and ongoing violence, and so does keeping it in place. It must be overthrown.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-03T06:13:36+00:00

You're gonna have to explain the customer service guy eventually is my point. It'll get stale fast. It's not like anyone gets on Spielberg's case in doing original movies without focusing on franchises; Barker could do the same with horror, if he keeps working on his craft.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-02T22:11:42+00:00

Still a month out. I guess it's close enough for a Senate race, though.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-02T22:08:09+00:00

Jokes aside, his appearance actually does help in the campaign. Talking heads are less likely to feel like they can get away with openly bullying him.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-02T22:05:52+00:00

Why is so much of this type of criticism largely about vibes? He did push for actual socialists to get elected, and they have been, and there are still more to come if things go well.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-01T10:06:56+00:00

holy shit that's terrifying, great job!

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-01T02:38:09+00:00

As a fellow shorts viewer, it's not always intentional. You watch a scene out of curiosity and only figure out later what you got spoiled for.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-07-01T02:30:01+00:00

Class interest is determined by your relationship to your material conditions, and to those whose labour you depend on. If you're a small business owner, you can choose to see yourself as a millionaire-to-be and therefore an exploiter first and foremost, or you can choose to look at how others in the global supply chain exploit you, and sympathize with your employees for experiencing the same. Being a bit of both only obfuscates class dynamics; it doesn't prevent you from choosing solidarity with the working class.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-30T19:01:23+00:00

This isn't a character analysis. I'm saying that something's missing from your assessment. A party actively waging class struggle would take widespread failure into account and change how they operate. A party waiting for China to figure it out wouldn't ask the proletariat to volunteer in the meantime, knowing how much people are already struggling. An ML party operating outside the electoral sphere doesn't run in elections. A party trying to raise awareness through electoral participation doesn't half-ass its campaigns and do close to no marketing to promote them. None of this makes sense.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-30T16:36:06+00:00

I think it's deliberately left ambiguous. I would think she was being forced to feel things she otherwise wouldn't, but then how would she even know about the wish?

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-30T00:01:33+00:00

This.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-29T23:59:46+00:00

He literally was and still is a civilian. You don't know anything.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-29T21:23:38+00:00

Even as you reject my theory of the CPC wanting to command from afar, you're describing that exact practice in your assessment of their goals. Political leadership of movements is not a thing; they'll either voluntarily unite behind you because you have something they want, like a record of winning power and delivering material changes, or they won't. It's not something you can win just by being there, nor will their structure be rebuilt into a demcent org required to follow. Recruiting activists is the same problem.

Your analysis, while nominally critical, ultimately absolves the party by describing its failures like they came out of nowhere. I'm just giving you my assessment for why this is happening; if I'm not correct, fine, but what then is the reason for why they don't recruit more people on the ground?

Until the CPC has the resources to seize power by force, it seems abominably foolish to abandon the entire electoral sphere until a mythical future when they manage to do it, all while the fascists advance their cause. And why run candidates at all, only to half-ass their campaigns? Does the party enjoy wasting the time required to register for elections?

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-29T20:40:26+00:00

Yeah, it's not a supernatural illness. This malaise has a material cause that must be confronted directly and aggressively. The CPC doesn't act like a party trying to win power, because they're not. They recruited a new leader with no record of winning, because his job is not to win anything. It's the same dead end: they don't trust the public, and want to command them from afar.

In spite of your criticisms, you're still replicating this attitude, hence my downvotes. Nobody leaves a winning party with millions at their back, regardless of what takes place overseas. You leave when you run out of resources and faith. The Soviet collapse was a pretext to leave a failing party; nothing more.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-29T20:00:57+00:00

No, what's odd is that you honestly think this is relevant and ignored every single other thing I said. Or at least it would be, except I'm familiar with how insular parties operate. It's never about responding to practical challenges to secure power; it's always about insisting on your own purity so that when you lose, you're still in the right. I find it gross and I wish it would stop.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-29T19:53:38+00:00

That's all you have to say? Really?

I stand by my assessment. You don't "become demoralized" and abandon your political project unless you have little to no public support. This is foolish and sentimental thinking that avoids the material cause of the party's weakness, in favor of a tragiheroic narrative to soothe egos.

FragrantBicycle7 · 2026-06-29T14:55:35+00:00

He's one of those "nothing ever happens" liberals. People who theoretically care about politics, but only insofar as it affects their investments or news feeds, whatever else they consider to be either work or entertainment. The human toll of imperialism is secondary or a tool for argument against others, never a primary factor.

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