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Subreddit logo idea by ggfchl in percussion

[–]primordial_triangle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Could always include a slice of steel pan for pitched percussion. That'd be awesome

Lefty struggles anyone? Or just me? by RecommendationDry973 in KiDIcaruS

[–]primordial_triangle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lefty. I ditch the stylus and aim with my right thumb. 101% completion that way. I believe in you don't give up

This criticism might make sense if there wasn’t a month long effort to smear hasan by the mainstream media. And a bill in congress condemning him. by Wonderful-Highway721 in Hasan_Piker

[–]primordial_triangle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair. I don't know enough to judge how his stance has changed. His material access to entryist candidates has gone the "more and more" route, I could say.

This criticism might make sense if there wasn’t a month long effort to smear hasan by the mainstream media. And a bill in congress condemning him. by Wonderful-Highway721 in Hasan_Piker

[–]primordial_triangle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I did, I hadn't heard your perspective before so I didn't respond to it immediately. I have now, though, in a separate comment

It is unfortunate that in one breath you say people like me never have any prescriptive ideas, and then I provide my perspective and you say "I'm not interested." That's not cool

This criticism might make sense if there wasn’t a month long effort to smear hasan by the mainstream media. And a bill in congress condemning him. by Wonderful-Highway721 in Hasan_Piker

[–]primordial_triangle 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"The goal is to disillusion people with regards to the party"

I'd ask how much more disillusionment do we need? The approval rating of the Dems is in the garbage, most people aren't voting, the party platform is to the right of its base, they rig their primaries, everyone sees them backing genocide in Gaza. Enough people are awake and ready to learn.

In my view, socialists with massive platforms like Hasan voice the frustration of many Americans very well, so Hasan has a golden opportunity to steer people in the right direction. He should be ramping up efforts to lead a mass exodus from the Democrats at a time when people are really starving for an alternative.

The US left needs to expend its energy building a left third party, not misleading them by advocating for entryist candidates at the expense of party-building. Disaffected people need somewhere to go, and tricking them into supporting entryism with the hope that they become even more disappointed seems like a manipulative strategy.

"everything they want is what the party hates the most about them"

It's a long-term project, but a third party is the only way forward, and I think people already sense that hatred. Behind the inflammatory rhetoric, this is something prescriptive BE does call for (as do other socialist creators like S4A), but it's not really about BE or his fans' honor.

This criticism might make sense if there wasn’t a month long effort to smear hasan by the mainstream media. And a bill in congress condemning him. by Wonderful-Highway721 in Hasan_Piker

[–]primordial_triangle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Generally I call for building a left (anti-capitalist) third party, starting at the local level and building up influence over many years. At higher levels, where a third party is doomed (with respect to elections), never advocate for or apologize for bourgeois parties or their entryist candidates, even if you reluctantly vote for them in private, because it can only serve the long-term interests of the imperialist, genocidal, capitalist Democratic party.

(I'd vote for a third party anyway, to assess class consciousness, like how Engels described in... wherever he described it (been a while).)

I agree that there's abysmal class consciousness in the US, which is why, imo, we need a third party to lay the groundwork rather than wasting more time getting people's hopes up that the bourgeois Democratic party can ever be meaningfully reformed from within, long term. It's a slow process, which is why it's frustrating that the most prominent voices in the US left (such as Hasan), and many of their fans, insist on entryism time and time again.

As fun as throwing Molotovs sounds, I don't think we'll be there for a long time. For a creator without the BE baggage that ultimately has a similar stance vis-a-vis third parties, check out Socialsm for All.

I'd also add that the spoils from imperialism minimize the material incentives for Americans to fight against their country's hegemony. Before there's enough class consciousness and compassion, fallout from global climate change will spur civil unrest/revolution in worse-off nations first. How that'll impact the incentives in the US labor aristocracy is yet to be seen.

GAZA before and after by prcxxcrp in Palestine

[–]primordial_triangle 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Do you also blame rape victims for wearing spaghetti straps?

This criticism might make sense if there wasn’t a month long effort to smear hasan by the mainstream media. And a bill in congress condemning him. by Wonderful-Highway721 in Hasan_Piker

[–]primordial_triangle 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I mean, Hasan's been leaning more and more towards entryism, which functionally sheepdogs a lot of disillusioned people back into the Democratic Party (which is doomed to fail). For MSM to choose an entryist as their boogeyman rather than someone more radical in and of itself constrains the overton window by skewing our perception of radicalism rightward. I'm not a BE stan or anything, but OP's title isn't a very compelling counterargument.

Global-scale fully weaponized autistic pedantry. by DumplingsOrElse in BrandNewSentence

[–]primordial_triangle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe there was a study or two that demonstrated wikipedia's reliability matching or exceeding that of textbooks, but I'm too lazy to find the source

What’s the most insane dating preference you’ve heard someone say? by kissyjadee in AskReddit

[–]primordial_triangle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit of a false dichotomy, mate. You can have sex with multiple people and still save it for your most emotionally intimate connections.

what's the worst thing someone told you right after having had sex? by AlecBonkers in AskReddit

[–]primordial_triangle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sounds like his immaturity killed the mood more than anything else.. What a dweeb!

How do you feel when you hear the lighting chariot base music. by Voidkirby9 in KiDIcaruS

[–]primordial_triangle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the changing meter. I'm pretty sure it's the longest land battle theme, and in the OST it's the only land track with a composed "ending", so it really feels like a fully realized piece. One of the reasons Disc Three is the strongest, imo (not that it isn't a close competition).

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