PowerLurker [they/them]

whoa Chat Pile jump scare in the end credits of the newest V/H/S, ha ha that ruled

as someone in a different org with a very different structure and theory of change & as someone who is very critical of the DSA, if it’s the only thing near you you should definitely stay active, it’s 1000% better than doing nothing or just posting (but then, i repeat myself (ha ha)). idt it’s ever been polled or anything but i’m fairly confident the good majority of people on hexbear haven’t ever organized, at least not seriously. hostility on the internet is often a libidinal outlet for people’s feelings of powerlessness - i hope my own participation in the electoralism dust-ups didn’t cross into that realm, and if they did i apologize.

if this site is getting to you too badly then yeah just step away for a bit and logout. idk the internet sucks, it’s inherently alienated and antisocial terrain and hexbear is only somewhat better than the rest and it has its major problems. like for example almost posted a cringe & relitigating metapost but i’m just gonna leave it at that, take a break when you need to and try not to take a fundamentally flawed format for community too seriously.

hell yeah i love my fucking Party

looking forward to more of these from the PSL and to doing my part to bolster these campaigns and their immense base building and consciousness expanding potential

ah yeah makes sense it’s popping off across the left internet in general w/ Zohran’s recent statements, i’ve been off twitter for quite a while now and don’t really leave the niches of bearsite, r/trueanon, and lemmygrad. and fair enough, there’s almost always better uses of time than rehashing these arguments online. i’ve regretted posting plenty of times but have rarely ever regretted logging off lol

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lol nah lets stop playin around yall, its supposed to be dang SPOOKY season not dumb ol’ electoralism struggle sesh season! let’s get a lil freaky and festive with it my boils, ghouls, and enBOOs!!

posting is evil, posting is a waste of time, I have had many, many bad experiences on this site - and I will soon quit posting for good. these truths cannot be denied…

but!! when the trenches of post call with the siren-like warcry of Electoralism Struggle…i can only hope my last dance on this fetid plain holds some usefulness for my terminally online kin: that my bloodied feet & weary voice might nudge you - if imperceptibly - toward greener, more fertile fields of Theory or even (dare a wretched creature dream!) Praxis…

ergo, in an exclamation quivering and frail, the shriveled & pitiable thing utters: “succdems gonna succ, demoKKKrat moment, objectively the moderate wing of fascism…”

the problem I see with this is that every capitulation to imperialism also has the socialist label openly tacked onto it when you run unaccountable Democrats, and that runs the risk of just siphoning the US working class into a “chauvinist social democracy = socialism” form of crude, underdeveloped class consciousness that throws global south proles under the bus. it also runs the risk of alienating portions of the US working class who have been directly impacted by imperialism (e.g. many immigrant workers), not to mention potential international allies of any future American socialist movement.

without a firm line or party apparatus holding these candidates accountable it seems that this kind of thing can just run amok without real consequence. and I’m frankly not sure how interested many DSA rank-and-file are in reigning in these types of chauvinist brainworms and concessions.

some of you are cool…don’t go to c/electoralism next week

it’s a cynical ploy with dangerous ripple effects though. if Bernie Dems like Zohran are what the average working person thinks of when they think “socialism,” then their vision of socialism (and their potential participation in it) is one where imperialism continues to operate unabated. he also didn’t need to do this whatsoever, even from a cowardly electoral optics perspective - he’s on track to win basically no matter what.

extra grotesque when you consider the very real currently ongoing escalations toward Venezuela from the Trump admin and the brutality that could lead to for their people. there’s no justifying this whatsoever.

any day now

posting is evil, and i’m going to quit doing it very, very, very, very soon

what if he’s just saying this to get elected?

that’s just describing one of the processes by which the dem machine consumes people, IMO. I don’t think it’s a meaningful distinction.

Like, it doesn’t matter if Zohran is the greatest dude ever in his personal life & the sentiments of his heart are Super Communist and he’s just hiding his power level. if the pressure from the dem machine forces him to take a public position & actions that are aligned with imperialism, then he’s just being an imperialist. extra perplexing/spineless in this case since he’s slated to win handily.

yeah there goes my last lingering benefit of the doubt completely unforced error

join a revolutionary org if you can, and/or do your part to rebuild direct institutions of working class power (both in tandem would obviously be ideal!)

the answer to what our class has to do is hard and scary and a long road, but it hasn’t changed and this dem entryism fantasy really needs to be put to bed.

i fw knifepoint horror pretty heavy but my one big gripe is that Soren gives such heavy overeducated white dork vibes that the narrative voice of his stories generally feels pretty samey, both in terms of writing style/character and also his literal spoken voice. (also my dude loves the (frankly middling) word “utterly” way too much)

well yeah if you don’t then the ideal point will wear off, can’t have that

ha ha no, a text altercation with my most recent ex did not make me cry today at work, why r u asking that?

ah shit sorry. i forgot i promised to quit posting. maybe after this one, i’ll do it for real. fr fr.

i do not want this heat for u but ur an adult capable of ur own choices, strugglebait responsibly