source: Bellablackbrabbit on rednote
Someone posted this on Reddit and one of the comments was something like “love seeing the celebration of two resistance badasses in this image: this kid and Barack Obama
I keep telling libs about Obama trying to increase the ICE budget so much that even Congress was like “whoa buddy, calm down”
Idk if they don’t believe me or just don’t care or what, but bro was definitely part of the problem even domestically and I’m old enough to remember it clearly. Even libs were hating on Obama while he was president, especially the second term.
and Barack Obama
That’s not fair, Obama resisted financial regulation after the economy crashed and he took office
he also resisted occupy wallstreet
you got me so bad. I had to read this three times
Responding to hexbears by agreeing with them in the style of a moderate liberal disagreeing with them has unintentionally become one of my posting habits
GOOD bit
Barack “Resistance Badass” Hussein Obama
this really fills me with hope for the futureWhat is this referencing?
Kid in a school was walking around shouting “I support ICE” and filming it. Kid in the picture walked up told him he was gonna deck him, guy said he’ll get in trouble for it so the kid said “okay” and decked him.
Just saw the video, that’s amazing
back in 2008 the obama campaign made these “hope” posters in this distinctive style
I never saw this version. It’s surprising to me that Occupy Wallstreet failed.
It failed because it lacked a vanguard. It was ideologically incoherent and had everyone from frustrated radlibs to weird libertarians and some of the loosely organized left. It could not have succeeded because there was no cohesive ideology holding the movement together. It was an infarction point of the working class and they had no framework to succeed. Our job is to make sure that the next time it happens we can guide that energy and concentrate it into a revolutionary mass.
Source: I was there
It also scared the Epstein class and they brought out the counter terrorism units. I’ve started wondering if this scared them into astroturfing the alt right.
Tea party were the ur chuds who went insane seeing a dark skinned man in the white house
It was very individualistic. Its also incredible to me that it took 5 years to mount a vaguely recognizable movement to take action after the economy crashed and the bankers got huge bonuses for crashing it. That’s one of the signs that we are further along as a movement, although we def have a long way to go.
Chalk another one up for the Marxist-Leninists being right. I still remain an anarchist at heart but I take very seriously the “by any means necessary” part in my pfp
Were you there when they presented that poster to Obama? That’s the 1905 battleship moment.
Like physically? No lol. I just remember when it first appeared. I just assumed it was something from his campaign team. Also what is this about 1905? What does the Potemkin have to do with this lol?
falling for this shit was so cringe even in 08
I mean I was skeptical of course but I did vote for him because at least at the time he was promising to shut down guantanmo which was only a few years old at that point. He also promised to prosecute Bush for war crimes. Of course we all knew both of those were long shots but his campaign was more revolutionary than even Bernie in 2016.
The best thing about '08 was a lot of us learned a hard lesson. Electoralism is a dead end and political power grows from the barrel of a gun.
This is a message to all of you on either side of the Mamdani thing too. It does not fucking matter, he might do some good for NY he might not. None of that matters in the big picture and getting so wrapped up in electoralism makes me want to
I want to do everything in my power to eliminate the Republicans. That group is responsible for so much pain in my life. They are a cancer on our society and they’re never going to be on our side.
The problem I have with this right now is there are some truly repugnant people running for office. Like people that are doing awful things to our trans friends. I’m not saying that Democrats are even good on this issue, but it feels like a betrayal to not participate in trying to get rid of these bigots.
There’s something fundamentally incoherent in pretending electoralism is a dead end while armed revolt is on the table for the American left, that couldn’t be further from the truth, there is no extant American Workers Party to organize armed workers and the US military body is still cohesive and massive
Armed revolt is a viable tool for the Third World, not the Western left. The American masses are electoralist in political mode and outlook which means the left must be there to contest that ground; otherwise they’ll fall for fascism
There’s something fundamentally incoherent in pretending electoralism is a dead end while armed revolt is on the table for the American left
I don’t believe either of these things are true tbh. There is certainly usefulness in electoralism on a case by case basis but not as any revolutionary strategy. I think at best we can mitigate harm by building parallel power as the empire declines and cannibalizes itself.
I know that lol, I’m old
Is rednote the same as XiaoHongShu?
yeah it’s the English name of the company that they chose. literal translation is “Little Red Book” but that is too heavily connoted for a western audience
I don’t think I know a single person who isn’t a real leftist who would know the significance of that phrase.
i know a nato anarchist who thinks they named it after that but is too ignorant to realize the chinese name of mao’s little red book is something else so that doesn’t make sense as a name for what was intended as a domestic service.
it’s programmed into the boomers but they really dialed back the “Chicom” scare stuff in the mid-to-late 70s. let’s just say America’s gerontocracy would not like it
