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All great world-historic facts appear twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Grab some popcorn and post fascist fail. From the desperate displays of their cringey recruits, to the vicious infighting and hypocrite purity-spiraling, the dumb clown gang never fails to entertain.

About to post another neo-Nazi pedophile? We already have a thread for them! >>>/praxis/3
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>>1038
Don't get me wrong, it's a total punk name. But last time these jokers went to a punk show they got bashed immediately and chased up the road crying.
https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=50972 (reupload to avoid YT age-gate)
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From 2023
https://itsgoingdown.org/antifascist-art-show-in-san-bernardino-is-a-huge-success-despite-proud-boy-threats/
Southern California antifascists hosted a community art event where they pulled out all the fascist banners they'd captured for people to spray over.
Fascists act like impotent little piss babies and beg for the cops.
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>>1150
>a hundred people and a live band came out to dunk on us omg help!
lol
>>1056
Wait I forgot to say that blooded is wrong, its supposed to be bloodied
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>>1160
'Blooded' is technically a valid synonym of 'bloody', 'bleeding' although I suspect it could be a niche British English quirk, It matches the "Blood and Soil" slogan more closely, but it probably comes off like a spelling mistake to most people so I might give it another shot.

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A thread for all those stray posts that don't deserve one.
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>>1147
This is pretty vague, I have no idea. Which country? Who did you hear it from? What kind of attacks?
The US.  I heard it from folks on alternative social networks.  Beyond that, I don't know, which is why I'm looking for info.
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>>1047
>and a logo of a single black flag
Anarchist version of
Still surprised Musk and Trump haven't been shot dead already. :P
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>>1158
Same, although the list of assassination attempts over both of Trump's presidential campaigns shouldn't be shrugged off.

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The commies are infiltrating our cartoons! Those dastardly college arts majors are brainwashing the kids!
ITT we post Western mainstream media which show socialism in an unexpectedly positive light or have unusually sharp critique of capitalists.

>The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius — Krunch Time (2002)
In the opening scene, there are two clips where there is a clearly visible Soviet hammer and sickle on the label of an opened box in the background, with some unreadable text. No-one really knows why, although I can't help but notice the similarity to Jimmy's shirt design.

>The Ren & Stimpy Show — Space Dogged (1995)
The episode features Ren and Stimpy as pioneering Soviet cosmonauts. Alongside a few jabs at the USSR being a developing nation, it also ridicules US red scare paranoia and their delusion of winning the space race.

>Antz (1998)
This family film revolves around a worker ant, in crisis over their insignificance, constantly re-enforced by their ant society. They swap places with their soldier ant friend Weaver, right as the general begins to stage a coup d'état, sending soldiers units loyal to the queen on a suicide battle.
The class relations are made clear at the beginning. The protagonist complains that, despite Weaver calling the ants the ruling species [empire], he is unfulfilled and envious of the soldiers' glory. Soon, a small group of soldier ants become violent in a bar when two worker ants break conformity. Weaver steps in to defend them, leading to a large class brawl. Later, after switching places, the protagonist blunders their way into becoming a war hero and accidentally kidnapping the princess to avoid being discovered as a worker ant. When rumours of them overpowering the military guard reach the workers, Weaver points out their friend was a worker ant, and Weaver himself was a soldier. This shatters the workers' delusions of class fate, leading to the attached clip where there are explicit socialist themes in the class rebellion. The manager is also shown as an unwitting pawn of the coup plot, who later during a strike still hopelessly tries to convince striking workers to return with scare tactics about filling their quotas, and is basically told to fuck off. The coup is also specifically classist and eugenicist, with the leader of the middle soldier class plotting to assassinate the royal ruling class and genocide the 'weak' worker ants in a tunnel flood.

>My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003)
The second episode, Pest Control, is about a revolutionary lab rat, Vladimir, who leads their fellow comrades into rebellion against their abusive captor. The name, their beard, their cartoon Russian accent and the big ol' hammer and sickle on the title card make the allegory clear. While obviously taking the role of a comical villain, and despite a line or two about world domination, their portrayal is generally sympathetic with even a main hero saying they can't help feeling sorry for the rats.
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I somehow never learned about Dinosaurs until I found this clip in the booru. I downloaded the episode to make a higher quality version of the clip, so I watched the whole half-hour.
Season 3 Episode 3 (Network Calls) makes it clear that the show is a satire, perhaps a bit blunt with the plot at times, but also with some blunt critique of the topic, that TV networks are influential and intentionally keep citizens addicted and dumbed down, for profit, which the protagonist outright calls 'evil'. Judging by the Wikipedia page, it's not too brave to hope the rest of the show is as pointed on social issues.
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>>1020
>episode where everyone gets smart
>instead of just saying "E=mc2 loquacious bombastic cranium", they're actually discussing how "all property is theft" when you think about it
Don't get me wrong, socialism has a real problem with jargon and nerds who can't explain theory without being academic. But it's great that our ideas are symbols of being smart.
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Not particularly socialist or anti-capitalist, but a much sharper jab than I expected in a 90s cartoon.
Then again, as they said for a gender-neutral name joke, "hey, it's the 90s".
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>>1020
The Nuts to War episodes are a sharp satire of the Vietnam War. I think it deserves a mention here for going beyond a mere 'our children dying for a bullshit cause is bad' position and delving into suppression and war-profiteering.

If you don't get the final joke, it's a reference to https://youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs

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We need you in top shape before the revolution, comrade! Tell us how you're cooking, playing, running, riding, rowing, swimming, lifting, and all the rest!
"We are engaged in very important business."

Resources
https://thefitness.wiki — Official wiki for r/Fitness and r/weightroom on Reddit
https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html — "The /fit/ sticky"
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Getting to a routine of daily pushups until I sort out a proper lifting schedule which will complement my other sports. It's not much, but it will do for now.
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Fitness goals: https://lefty.pictures/post/view/23083
Started going to the gym for about 6 months and I'm feeling great, but I'm focusing more on strength and aerobic trainings. I'm not that interested in turning into a bloated protein balloon that has little to no physical endurance.
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>>988
>I'm not that interested in turning into a bloated protein balloon that has little to no physical endurance.
Lots of people aren't interest in that either. There's a huge gap between reasonable athletic fitness and the absurd bodybuilder physique, people don't become that by accident.
>Started going to the gym for about 6 months and I'm feeling great
Excellent to hear, comrade!
fukken injuries, dammit

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This is a thread about parties, orgs, unions, aid and all the rest.
Post your experiences, wins, questions and rants.
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Helped out the union lads yesterday. Was interesting to talk with them, seeing which areas of the company were their prime targets and which were filled with people who think they'll be the CEO one day.
>>797
Just got another three. These are mostly old ones people aren't looking at, but it's nice to purge them.
Going to get some stickers of my own to mark territory with. There are already a few AFA and anarchist ones around, but they're starting to show age.
>>718
>SHAME!
That's just a general rally thing here. Even the leftward centre party and unionists yell it.
https://spencersunshine.com/2025/01/27/guides/
>A Guide to Guides: Over 30 Activist Guides You Might Find Helpful When Opposing the Far Right

>1. Community Responses to Far Right Organizing
>2. Responding to the Far Right in Schools and Libraries
>3. Documenting and Reporting Far Right Activity 
>4. Opposing the Far Right in the Streets and Online
>5. Taking Digital Security Measures
>6. First Aid
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>>473
I think this silly moron is back, found a plain oversized label sticker with "child groomer" written in marker on it, placed over an org event poster. So, uh, that was easy to peel off in half a second. Hopefully they remain too dumb to actually damage the poster.

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Post some socialist comedy works. Films, comedian sets, parody, culture jamming, whatever. It's not too hard to find regular writers sneaking in socialist inspiration but far less openly socialist creations.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is an Italian play set during the Years of Lead. This performance is by an English socialist theatre group Belt and Braces. It's a great comedy and very bluntly political too, which is an excellent combination to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p10xejjf0pw
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>>6 (OP) 
<Accidental Anarchist
This is legitimately one of my favorite TV-plays ever made. There are a bunch of great clips of this as webm's around i cut up and posted on /leftypol/ a few years ago.
Been wanting to upscale it to a more modern quality, along with can dialectics break bricks, if anyone has any info on how that is done?
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>>113
>A few of the jokes by Monty Python makes me suspect that possibly one or more of the writers were socialists. Some examples are:
>>the end of the Bicycle Repairman skit, an obvious jab at anticommunists
>>the constitutional peasants in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, who formed an 'anarcho-syndicalist collective' ('oh there you go bring classes into everything again!')
>>the Judean People's Front/People's Front of Judea splitting (although this is politcally agnostic, it shows an awareness of the splitting of nicher radical political groups)
>There's also a generalised mocking of mass media, conservatives and the upper class.
All of these things would have had an image in contemporary British culture of that era, whilst they probably had leftists tendencies the references really were not as obscure and niche as they appear today through our, relatively, young eyes.
>>909
I messed around with upscaling about eight years ago so the technology has probably improved since. The main requirement for image AI is GPU VRAM, so if your computer has a decent amount (or you're willing to rent one online) you should be able to experiment with that. From a quick check, it looks like the most recommended free tool is currently https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x
The quality of the source matters, so try to find the best quality copy of the film first (that doesn't necessarily mean the nicest looking - someone might have increased the saturation to make colors look better and lowered the quality in the process)
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>>913
Cheers for the software anon, yea, i'm just waiting to afford and organise to rent online, no idea how long it will take, need to do the research properly.
>>909
It's unfortunate that a lot of modern renditions are toned down and deradicalised, since the original won't be the easiest upscaling project given its VCR-tier quality.

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Discuss how to survive inevitable capitalist crisis and collapse.

>How to form a communist tribe or gang to protect yourself
>Mutual aid and where to get it
>What to put in a bug out bag
>What essentials to actually stockpile
>Skills needed to gather food and water
>What food to grow
>What to do if you dont have a home or your own personal albanian bunker
>Makeshift shelters/squatting
>Where to go/stay

USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST Warning: I love the enthusiasm but please don't fill here with off-topic reposts from /Δ/ and /AKM/

>How to form a communist tribe or gang to protect yourself
Start today. If you can't find and networks with socialists today, how will that become easier during a crisis?
>Mutual aid and where to get it
lol mutual aid isn't something you simply get, it's something you are part of, something you help build. That's why it's called 'mutual'. You give, and you get. Again, it comes down with local networking, building connections and trust.

Many of the other questions really depend on local conditions. Some food which grows naturally near me won't survive near you. All I know is, these problems are so much easier to solve as a collective, that's why the first two steps matter.

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This thread is for discussing sabotage, its theory, its history, tactics and stories.
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>>1073
Cool stuff.
>Opportunities will present themselves if one looks at their surroundings in a different light. For example, disabling the productivity of an entire workplace may at first seem impossible, but if the saboteur were to unplug a single wifi access point within a space, work might grind to a halt.
It's easy to think like a defender and notice cameras and guards. But when you think like an attacker, there's weakness in the system everywhere.

Capitalism, in broad strokes, evolves businesses this way by rewarding the cheapest path. If a business puts in the time and money to build defenses, another doesn't, and neither gets attacked, one has wasted money and is more likely to fold. States can intervene to try and force security through regulation, and there are other exceptions, but the trend remains. So most businesses are pretty soft on security once you're in the door, and filled with these single points of failure, like a router or server or service payment. Look at Crowdstrike and Cloudflare misconfigurations to see how devastating a well-placed accident can be.
>>1073
Most of these just seem to happen as a matter of course
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>>1073
<bullied nazi dogwhistles:
>"88 hel hitler the joos!"
<working class hero dogwhistles:
>*splash* "oops..."
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I’ll let you use your imagination.
>>1073
The simple sabotage is interesting as a tactic because of its low individual risk, even in a surveillance-heavy state.

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how bad was bush sr ?
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>>349
Please crack.
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>>48
Young people can learn quickly that Reagan was an actor and Bush Jr. was a sequel, but it's pretty surprising to see Bush Sr. was in charge of the CIA. And I definitely didn't know about Prescott Bush. What the hell.
From https://www.democracynow.org/2022/1/26/jonathan_katz_book_gangsters_of_capitalism:
>JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Jonathan, didn’t [Smedley] Butler also claim, in addition to these corporate leaders, that there were folks like Prescott Bush involved in this, the father of George Herbert Walker Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush?
>JONATHAN KATZ: So, there’s actually a kind of a game of broken telephone going on with his name being involved in this. So, Bush was actually — Prescott Bush was actually too much involved with the actual Nazi Party in Germany to be involved with the business plot.
>[...]
>And because Brown Brothers was part of a separate investigation, they end up sort of in the same folder at the National Archives, and then it ends up sort of getting mixed up in a documentary that came out about 10 years ago. So that’s actually a misunderstanding. Butler never brought up Prescott Bush’s name. But it was
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On the one hand there are specific things H.W. did that you can single him out for, like the Gulf War. On the other, it was in the last analysis mainly a continuation of the new order that had already been established. As a person (vs an administration), Bush Sr. was of course a gigaspook who got up to all kind of evil shit in his career. So in that sense he's way worse than his son or Trump for instance. You can also blame him personally for both Dubya and Jeb!, since they both came from his balls and were propped up by his clout. If you want to get a little more tinfoily (but not that much tbh), you could point to H.W. as the moment where the "deep state" assumed direct control of the presidency. Probably a lot of stuff that's not public info happened when the head of the CIA got elected POTUS.
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>>664
>If you want to get a little more tinfoily (but not that much tbh), you could point to H.W. as the moment where the "deep state" assumed direct control of the presidency. Probably a lot of stuff that's not public info happened when the head of the CIA got elected POTUS.
We get all the collective amnesia in the news about how Putin was a former intelligence officer, and yes it is true and relevant, but then we notice it was the same for Bush Sr..
>>45 (OP) 
Both he and Ted Cruz’s father were in Dallas to watch JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald get whacked.

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