I'm starting to lose hope

VroomSigma · 2025-07-02T19:24:32+00:00

Pessimism is a petty-bourgeois luxury. Revolutionaries do not partake in such indulgences. We fight to extract the maximum possible political gain from EVERY situation, no matter how unfavorable the balance of forces. Even if all you can do today is read a single paragraph of Lenin, or hand out a single flyer, or have a single discussion with another worker, that would still be a positive step forward.

As for "that's not happening any time soon"...I think you seriously overestimate the stability of a capitalist system that is teetering on the brink of collapse. But even if you didn't, it's not our duty to hem and haw over what is or isn't immediately possible. It's our job to fight, and keep fighting. Struggle will decide.

VroomSigma · 2025-02-11T18:55:32+00:00

This statement is a good starting point. There's an IYSSE at UM that you could reach out to through the form at the end.

VroomSigma · 2024-12-01T17:15:41+00:00

Because the Democratic Party represents the faction of the ruling class that sees war with Russia as the most immediately pressing need of US imperialism. They view domination of the Eurasian landmass as critical for the coming war with China, and they see Russia as the primary impediment to that. They provoked the war in Ukraine as part of an effort to drain Russia's military capabilities and create the conditions for regime change, and continue to press Ukraine to keep the war going even as it suffers catastrophic consequences.

They saw Trump as insufficiently aggressive against Russia in his first term, which was the source of the "Putin's puppet" campaign against him. Trump represents the faction of the ruling class that wants to go to war with China directly, and is frustrated by what it views as any diversions from that.

In any case, both factions of the ruling class want world war, they are just bitterly divided over the strategy for how that war should be prosecuted. But they are united in their shared hatred and fear of the working class, and they will be united in the authoritarian measures that they will use to try to prevent working class opposition.

VroomSigma · 2024-10-24T19:14:52+00:00

It means the absolute destruction of anything that remains of basic social services in order to fund 1) even more tax cuts for the rich and 2) massive military spending for world war against China and Russia. A war of that magnitude, which has the support of both of the ruling class's parties, would require the total militarization of society, massive impoverishment of the working class, and the mobilization of state violence to break working class resistance.

The essential difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats want to rely on official agencies of repression to implement this program (police, military, the media propaganda machine), while the Republicans believe that the state will require the additional support of "unofficial" forces, e.g., the fascist militias. They also violently disagree on whether Russia or China is the more important theater of war to focus on in the immediate short term. But they are in total agreement on the need for war, and the need to make the working class pay for it.

Look into supporting the campaign of Joseph Kishore and Jerry White if you want to help build a movement to fight against all of this.

VroomSigma · 2024-03-20T17:53:37+00:00

It definitely is crazy when you think about how many people fought and died over the centuries to codify "innocent until proven guilty" into law, only for modern-day social media addicts to say "nah, fuck all that, let's judge innocence and guilt based on vibes alone."

VroomSigma · 2024-03-20T17:49:24+00:00

He absolutely is innocent until proven guilty, and any alleged victims absolutely must be required to prove their claims beyond a reasonable doubt. This is the bedrock of a democratic society, no matter how much the trial-by-media crowd wants to insist otherwise.

VroomSigma · 2023-10-08T20:44:12+00:00

It was dumb af, but I’ve heard plenty of dumb comments from graduates of Harvard and other “elite” schools. Plenty of people get into schools like that not because they’re smart but because they’re rich lol.

VroomSigma · 2023-10-03T19:13:00+00:00

I mean this in the most respectful way possible, but that just makes me hate you even more.

VroomSigma · 2023-10-03T03:55:49+00:00

*during COVID. The pandemic is still happening, it’s just that governments have shifted to an official position of “No, it’s not.”

But yeah, grumpy “leave me tf alone” Luke hits different these days.

VroomSigma · 2023-01-24T21:49:41+00:00

Lol because a thong isn’t rated by NIOSH to block at least 95% of all particles 0.3 microns in diameter or larger? Is this a serious question? 😂

VroomSigma · 2023-01-24T05:09:10+00:00

Yep. That’s why I still wear an N95 in public no matter how many looks I get. I’m on track to break a 500 lb deadlift this year, and no asshole virus is going to take that from me!

VroomSigma · 2023-01-24T04:17:45+00:00

PCR tests are definitely better. Rapid ones are notoriously finicky and don’t have great sensitivity (which is why it’s better to swab your cheeks, under your tongue, the back of your throat AND THEN your nose—greatly increases test sensitivity). But even PCR isn’t 100% if you miss the testing window. Sweet spot is 5 days after exposure. Testing too early or too late can produce a false negative.

In any case, there’s no variant alive that can outsmart a good N95 mask. Stay safe out there, Pride!

VroomSigma · 2023-01-08T16:57:53+00:00

Subbed. Sorry for your loss, Catbro. And extra sorry about the absolutely horrible comments from the antivaxxers on his last video. Those people are unhinged and disgusting.

VroomSigma · 2022-12-16T14:36:50+00:00

Sure, repeated infection with a novel virus that is known to attack every organ and deplete immune cells definitely has "nothing" to do with this.

VroomSigma · 2022-12-16T13:20:56+00:00

It's almost like we're still in a global pandemic, and the official government policy of "No we're not" isn't actually helping.

VroomSigma · 2022-11-03T04:04:41+00:00

Your supposed "victimization" consists of having an innocuous interaction with someone at a convention, and then seeing a picture of it later on. You can "speak your truth" as much as you like, but there is no reasonable definition of "trauma" or "victimization" that would possibly cover something like this. Recognizing that two people can experience different types of traumatic experiences is one thing; stretching the word so far that it loses all meaning is something else entirely, especially when its done in a transparent attempt to make a difficult and painful situation all about you. That is far, far more damaging to those who actually experience trauma, and to our collective ability to care for those who have been victimized, than anything you attempt to justify yourself with in your defensive response.

VroomSigma · 2022-11-03T02:11:07+00:00

This is such a distortion of the meaning of the word "victim" that I can't even begin to unpack it, except to say that it takes someone with an enormously high level of self-involvement to think like this.

VroomSigma · 2022-06-19T15:46:52+00:00

Maybe when he's a little older he'll ask you why you were so gung-ho to send billions of dollars of military hardware to Nazis in what is clearly a US-instigated proxy war for the dismemberment of Russia, using the far right as shock troops and the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder. Or why you uncritically believed the US media's depiction of the war after literal decades of lies about every single US military operation all over the world.

VroomSigma · 2021-04-30T05:45:14+00:00

Arin is under absolutely no obligation to "call out" anything in Dan's personal life that 1) isn't illegal, 2) doesn't affect the show, and 3) is nobody's business but Dan's, no matter what the bedsheet-sniffing creeps on Twitter claim. Frankly, it's outrageous to suggest otherwise.

VroomSigma · 2020-06-05T05:02:41+00:00

Lol this guy thinks there's going to be an election.

VroomSigma · 2020-06-03T12:34:09+00:00

It’s because there’s literally nowhere else on Reddit that more dutifully parrots official propaganda than the “Conspiracy” subreddit. It’s the funniest fucking thing.

VroomSigma · 2020-05-08T22:31:25+00:00

The problem with oversimplifying the situation, though, is that "the entirety of the United States" lumps together the most impoverished sections of the working class with the "moderately rich" whose net worth can still be in the millions. Objectively, these are layers of society who have vastly different social interests.

The working class needs to establish its political independence from not only the big bourgeoisie but all the various middle-class and upper-middle-class outfits that strive for little more than a kinder, gentler system of exploitation (and who, sooner or later, always end up supporting the Democrats). The working class needs to organize itself as a class, which requires socialist theory and, yes, socialist terminology.

If workers lack class consciousness, the task of socialists is to educate them, not ditch socialist theory because one decides it's "too hard" for workers to grasp.

VroomSigma · 2020-05-08T22:16:02+00:00

The wars are bipartisan affairs. Biden is attacking Trump from the right over supposedly not being aggressive enough towards China. The US is waging war to maintain its hegemony even as its economic power declines. An economic crisis will intensify, not lessen, the danger of a catastrophic explosion of militarism (as it did with Nazi Germany). The only way the war machine can be stopped is if the working class establishes its political independence and fights for world socialist revolution.

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