Just adding to crit’s response, you can still check the retweets on Nitter without an account.

https://nitter.net/prolewiki

Complete layman here too, but maybe it’s related to deforestation? Maps really well to this other map.

I think the main issue is that “Trotskyism” means very little without additional qualifiers. There are many many strands of Trotskyism that are mostly united by rejecting the USSR and similar states and some interpretation of permanent revolution. Other than that they can range from social democrats to syndicalists to radicals, and they all hate each other.

What I see a lot in the imperial core is the same as those moderate “anti-authoritarian” social democrats trying to pass as “anarcho-syndicalist” without a miligram of revolution in their bones. In Latam it’s usually the opposite, with the Trotskyists around here usually being militant radicals with effective local practice, who have a Marxist understanding of authority, but horrible international policy.

They can’t even agree if they like Lenin.

He’s not gonna live in poverty because of his failing business. Dude was well off enough to start it in the first place, he’s still making money from the podcast and has that means.tv thing going on. Worst comes to worst, he’ll have to downsize, stop wasting money on expensive offices and stock footage, and maybe get a part time job or freelance work with his frankly exceptional video skills, not go to sleep hungry. Second Thought isn’t a person, it’s an organisation, a company with actual employees. I don’t wish him I’ll personally, but I can only see a positive outcome from his “activism” if his dream to be “Vox for leftists” fails and there’s a clear double standard in how these folks are treated as either leading voices for Anglo leftism or just some dudes based on convenience.

He’s making at least 10K a month from the ST patreon alone, plus sponsorships. Until he’s actually putting himself at risk for socialism like my actual comrades, my sympathy for his “plight” will be pretty limited. I’ve had acquaintances murdered and family members denied employment due to politics, a suburban US YouTuber making a sad face due to being unable to pay his writers ain’t gonna pull on my heartstrings. He’ll be fine.

He makes cute 20min videos. They’re also massively expensive, take very long to make and not even that in-depth. Their call to action usually ends up being “donate”. I don’t hate him, but he’s just another careerist left influencer and maybe going bankrupt will mean he’ll re-evaluate his tactics.

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Are my tactics and strategy as a militant ineffective and in need of re-evaluation?

No, it’s the people who are biologically inferior.

This is what substituting a party for a podcast does to a mf. I’m so glad that Second Thought is in the red.

If you’re reading this, you are now breathing consciously, feeling your tongue in your mouth, and remembering every time you saw a liberal think they’re smart by citing Umberto Eco’s Ur-fascism as a definition.

only state actors can correlate an IP address to a physical address because they need to ask the ISP.

(I know I’m being annoying but) not necessarily only state actors, but if those state institution or the ISP are infiltrated or also have bad security that can also happen. Sounds redundant, but the difference is that the guy wouldn’t need to be important enough to piss off the state, this can happen just by pissing off smaller neonazi orgs, and also gives the state itself the benefit of the doubt. Happened recently to one big communist figure in Brazil that a neonazi org threatened him with emails coming directly from government accounts.

The Zionist non-profit here could even be a red herring.

If the USA collapses from within, a lot of digital infrastructure will have to be redesigned from the ground up in many countries around the world. Think of all the jobs this is gonna generate. I can already see the lines going up, maybe those tech investors should help out.

It’s like a mastodon replacement, basically

The strange case of anarcho-socialdemocratism, way more common than it seems.

Lots of chatter in OSINT channels about CENTCOM deployments. Expect some sort of US military operation In Iran or allied regions soon.

So, to argue against using a platform supported by Nazis is “high minded moralism”?

Yes. Not much to add here, it’s a moral argument not a practical one. And trying to make it a practical argument will yield very poor results.

Convenience and mass usage is an excuse for that support?

Usage does not equate to support, most people aren’t even paid users. Besides that, it’s not just a matter of convenience, it’s often a necessity. Try being a Latam journalist without an Instagram, a tech workers wiwithout linkedin, a communicator without YouTube. Absenteeism’s only effect is giving you a warm fuzzy feeling of moral superiority. For serious militants, if you want to have an effect on society you will unfortunately have to engage with it.

Besides, this discussion started from arguing that a guy being beaten up by the police due to being doxxed by either Zionists or Banderites is somehow justified because he… Uses twitter? If you can’t see the frankly absurd implications of that, imagine if the same happened to Richard Wolff, Vijay Prashad or any other communist who has an account there. Or any other random person with an audience, in fact. Imagine if Jenny Nicholson, NileRed or any other non-left non-politics influencer randomly decided to oppose Zionism and Banderites online and got physically attacked, since you agree YouTube is just as bad. Not even getting into MS Windows users. Are they all Nazi collaborators?

I truly hope you simply haven’t thought this through. Sorry to tell you, but hiding away in a commie forum with 200 users and belittling anybody out of it is not praxis.

Twitter was adopted pretty quickly by academics all over the world as a good platform to effortlessly share articles, pre-prints and small results and discussions, as it was much better than Facebook or old Reddit for that. After years being a hub they’re now a captive audience.

It’s become a good habit for many scientists to include a “check twitter” task on their routine to stay up to date on the goings on of the scientific community. And back when I used it there were lots of cool trends for science communication whose history would be lost on migration, like the #ArachnoThreads listing cool facts about specific spider genera.

Consumer activism and absenteeism will get you nowhere. Same argument applies to Meta platforms, YouTube, Reddit and whatnot. Merely existing socially in capitalist platforms does not equate to supporting the ideology of those platforms. There are a myriad reasons why one would remain on twitter despite the current state of the platform (academia, for exampl, still relies a lot on it), and this high minded moralism won’t change that.

Inside you there are two wolves. One does ruthless criticism of everything that exists. The other follows party discipline. Both are Lenin.

This reads like when I tried to make chatGPT make music.

God I hate this new censor in YouTube that silences banned words like “murder” or “suicide”. First off, removing the word but maintaining the context changes absolutely fucking nothing, regardless of the type of content. Secondly, it actually calls more attention to the word itself because of the sudden sound cut and your mind quickly fills the blank, so you’re even more likely to go “oh, suicide”.

I understand (though still find stupid) silencing swear words, though it should be a client side optional thing. Silencing “bad words” is just stupid and can make serious videos about serious topics (like, say, a documentary about war) sound horribly silly with every other word silenced out.

Sounds like this:

James ____ John three times in the head ____ing him instantly. Two years later he was charged with first degree _____, but was eventually acquitted. In this lecture we’ll explore this famous ______ case.