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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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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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Not sure if this really qualifies, it's more of a little nod.
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>>794
>Even the show starts to make fun of Kyle's 'gay little speeches' and the whole "I've learned something today" bit.
>It stretches the limits of soapboxing towards straight-up lecture.
For those who don't know, the "I learned something today" monologues at the end of 201 weren't censored as some ironic joke, it's actual irony in action.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_(South_Park)#Online_leak_of_uncensored_version
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>>1157
Gave some of this episode another watch, there's a joke where they say the war is going well, "and anyone who says otherwise is on this list: Hoffman, Rubin, Seale, Berrigan, P., Berrigan D., Ellsberg, Kunztler, Fonda, Hayden, Hellman, Hammet, Trumbo, Lardner, Ritt, [...], Zappa and Zimmerman."
They're all real names from the McCarthy Hollywood blacklist. Good shoutout.

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This might be a silly question, but does using the word "liberalist" instead of "liberal" make a different enough impression and stop people just assuming it means "progressive liberal"?
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What a time to be alive, huh? :(
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>>1189
It's outright bizarre to see how many US libs still think the legal system will save them. Absolute historical and political illiteracy, made far worse by uncritical faith in their "national values".
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>>1192
A few of us in my org were talking about this over dinner - some chinese international students were asking why regular people here are so adverse to the idea of legitimate political violence. I think it's a part of being an isolated colony, we don't have strong history or lived experience of dictators and successful invasions (beyond the initial colonial sprawl) so the idea of peaceful transition of power to the most popular party every few years is normal and expected. Political violence has been branded as inherently illegitimate and selfish, undemocratic.
There's an actual crazy anti-communist near me who I walk by about once a month, they talk in a slight posh accent to no-one, rarely even turning to try and talk to people waking by, as if they're on an imaginary phone headset. It's an actual buzzword soup, I heard them twice call something "lying, cheating, stealing", and pivot onto "communism which is high misogynism" and something about "Biden" and "cryptocurrency" and then "Israeli". They're complete sentences, spoken eloquently and with the pacing of a politician, but despite all that it's complete insane rambling. Last time it was something about Disney gay pedophiles.

It resembles an "AI" in it's uncanny ability to imitate real speech. In fact, this person demonstrates the exact opposite of 'artificial' and 'intelligent'.

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post stupid shit said by stupid people.
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>>36 (OP) 
Pretty much any logic that requires X to be destroyed for arbitrarily Y to happen. Where the term "destroy" means a complete halting/nonexistence rather than a change (either quick or long term). 
ex
>America must be destroyed so socialism can happen
>the West must be destroyed so that imperialism can be defeated
the opposite is also true
>China must fall for socialism to truly "fail"
>BRICs failure will equate to continued American hegemony

This logic operates on simplified absolutes that show a complete misunderstanding of scientific socialism
<inb4 not everyone here adheres to scientific socialism
Well most who have this stupid outlook claim to be proponents of it.
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>>1096
>Where the term "destroy" means a complete halting/nonexistence rather than a change (either quick or long term).
If they mean a sudden collapse or violent destruction, then for sure, it's pretty ignorant of how changes have historically happened in the real world. States have lost serious international influence without being destroyed whatsoever, look at post-WWII Europe. (Obviously European imperial ties still exist, but compared to pre-WWII it's night and day)
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I'm not even taking a side here, the logic is just mind-boggling.

Pro-tip: Understand the reasoning and situation behind a slogan before you internalize it!
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>>1203
* Might as well apply that same logic to, say, their military. "Proof they're invading countries and committing war crimes? They are troops! That's what armies do! since when was this a new concept"

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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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fukken injuries, dammit
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>>1153
Update: fukken injuries, dammit!
>>1153
If it's not the biggest momentum killer, I don't know what is. Worst part is getting two injuries at the same time like a wrist and an ankle - there goes most exercises.
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>>1195
Yep. I did in fact have a wrist injury but luckily I've recovered enough to do some pushups.
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>>1196
Good to hear comr8. Stay strong.

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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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>>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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>at small open union meeting
>we get onto the topic of offshoring jobs
>one of them starts talking about DEI and 'woke crap', complete with an "I'm not racist, I have an Asian wife"
For what it's worth, I'm confident they sincerely weren't a racist, it's just that the only language they know to express their frustrations is shared with reactionary fuckers. Luckily, the others and I were able to pick out some of the nuggets of material critique and confirm they were, for example, about prog-liberalist abuse of inclusive concepts, say, Diversity as a cover for offshoring and exploitation of minorities. So that's fortunate, but I wonder how many libs and even communists would alienate them because they lacked nuance and diplomacy.

That's a real problem – liberals misinterpret and abuse progressive ideas to the point they're objectively ridiculous, and people who rightfully critique it but with broad, untargeted strokes might get lumped in with the racist and crypto-racist shitbags using the same caveats ("I'm not racist but") as cover.

Honestly, would be nice if there were resources or an effort to teach people how to spot people they agree with who just use clumsy offensive language to express it.
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Unions are great. Every year or two I end up getting backpay for old jobs it turns out I was underpaid for or that the union negotiated a rate increase for. I didn't know I was being underpaid at the time so I know it's justice but it feels like free money.

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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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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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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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