That first sentence you wrote is so poorly worded that I’m not gonna make assumptions about what you’re even talking about.

WW1 literally didn’t start from the archdukes assassination. The assassination was used as a means to fuel already existing European expansion.

Holy shit, you actually used like the most cliche event a historian would point to as an example of how horribly simplified pre college history classes teach WW1.

It also has nothing to do with the potential of revolution in the working class. It’s quite literally the opposite. The assassination of the archduke was used as a means to fuel European expansion. Which, stay with me here, is the opposite of what I’m talking about as “the propaganda of the deed”. This phrase is specifically about an act (often violence) done by an individual in hopes it would fuel the working class to rise up to overthrow the ruling class.

The ruling class can absolutely use propaganda related to an assassination to fuel their interest. Why? Because they are already the ruling class. They have the power of the state. They command the military. They have the ear of the masses.

You have no idea what you’re talking about and you are talking about WW1 like you googled “what conflict was started from an assassination” and then read the first part of the AI response.

I will apologize though. See, when I read something that I’ve never heard before, especially when it’s a phrase placed in quotes, I take a second to read about what it means before responding to someone. I’m dumb I guess. I assume that other people actually care about understanding something before they respond to it. So I should have typed out the entire explanation of the phrase for you.

If you had just searched “propaganda of the deed” you could have saved yourself from responding with a comment that makes you sound extremely ignorant.

Tell me of a class revolution that was started with a single assassination that directly grew from that assassination into a successful revolution that took power.

I’ll wait…

Why do people just think history “just happens” from the acts of individuals? That’s not how the world works. Life isn’t a marvel movie.

We have examples of real class revolutions that were successful. Cuba, Russia, China, etc. All of which were built upon the organized efforts of countless people working to bring about that change. And all of which wrote about the failures of “the propaganda of the deed”. It’s nothing more than anarchist wish casting and has never been successful in bringing the masses to revolution.

Seriously. Learn from the past and learn from history. Don’t just form your opinion on the “vibes” of enjoying some form of justice because it makes you feel good to see a CEO die. It only gives a short and meaningless form of justice that leads to nothing else. Actually learn from past failures and successes on what brings the masses to a revolutionary state.

Single combat… has the immediate effect of simply creating a short-lived sensation, while indirectly it even leads to apathy and passive waiting for the next bout.

-Lenin

I don’t disagree. But its important to know that individual acts of violence are not helpful.

Violence absolutely is a helpful tool of resistance. But only in a manner that shows the weakness of the fascist state to that organized resistance.

A single act of violence on a state or ruling class leader does not help to organize the working class. This was the idea of “the propaganda of the deed”. But has never been a successful means of organizing resistance.

Organized and armed movements that take over factory floors, defend neighbors against ICE, and resist the actions of state violence are the methods that bring about revolution in the masses.

We are at a stage where the monopoly of violence that the state holds needs to be met with violence that gives people MORE protection, more stability, and more safety in the face of the fascist state. This is how that monopoly of violence is removed from the state. When the masses are shown that the violence used to against the state is in their own interest.

Single acts of violence are not personal enough to the masses to connect the “deed” to their own worsening conditions.

An act of solidarity, that protects the victims of state violence, is something that fuels revolution. The masses need to be shown that resistance can work, we can push them back. And every ICE agent that runs away from a group of people with whistles fuels that feeling within society.

We are at whistles now. But we will not be for long. So, save your bullets for protecting your neighbors. Don’t waste them on some politician or oligarch. They will be replaced the next day so long as the fascist state remains.

Edit: Not sure why the downvotes. I’m literally just explaining historically how single acts of violence result in no helpful progress to revolution.

What I’m talking about here is not some undocumented thing. The failure of the “propaganda of the deed” has been written about by Marxist, Anarchist, and even right wingers. It has a long history of failure and does not move the masses to a position ripe for revolution. Lenin specifically wrote about how it often times does the opposite by causing apathy in the population as they wait for the next “deed” to occur.

Yep, more money to be made in a war the US is funding and fighting in directly than in some proxy war. Ukraine will get betrayed by the US again and be put in an even worse position than it ever has been.

Why do people think the toddler in charge is not just being directed by his handlers?

Part of me thinks they have him talking to these new “non extremist” leaders of Iran to keep him happy. They just have some fake negotiations for him to do while they setup their invasion plans. Dude, is clearly having signs of dementia, having health problems, and talking about how he won’t get into heaven. I wouldn’t doubt he’s not just being directed by war capital and Christian Zionist promising him he’s doing the work of God of something.

But its not a bunch of people just doing whatever the old idiot says. It’s a bunch of people directing him for their own self interest and profit. Which is primarily aligned with US war profits, Christian Zionist, and Israel. It’s why what he says doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t have to. It just has to go in the direction that is profitable for a few at the expense of the rest of the world.

You’re really making the mistake that “how things worked” in the past are how things will work moving forward.

First, do you think allowing everyone to have a gun at all times and no longer searching wouldn’t increase the likelihood of someone being able to go postal? But, that wasn’t even the point of my comment. Because I stated clearly that’s NOT what this order is doing. A lot of people keep misinterpreting it as such. So it’s why I addressed that. It was literally an example of what the order was NOT going to result in.

Did you not read my comment or something? Or reply to the wrong one? My comment literally pointed out that this is still approval based. That was the entire point of my comment.

And then I made the prediction that this is to build SS style grunts loyal to the cause and ensure they are the ones armed at all times.

I never said anything about stopping personal ownership either. I’m not sure where you hallucinated that part from…

It’s like you’re responding to someone else but quoting me…

Searches and current gun control will likely increase and go hand in hand with this order to further ensure the SS grunts are the ones running the bases and even dealing with higher ranked leaders if they are seen as not loyal.

And I swear to God if you reply with “that’s not how that works”. You’re not paying attention to how ICE operates and how our current fascist state does not give a fuck about “how stuff works”.

I don’t know what I’m more tired of. Leftist infighting or the comments crying about everything being leftist infighting.

If it’s “infighting” than make an argument for why it’s unhelpful criticism. I’m willing to hear it. I don’t even know what this meme is referring to specifically. Is it?

But don’t just say “it’s leftist infighting” as a reason by itself. It’s just as unhelpful as the thing you’re critizing.

To be clear. This isn’t “let everyone” kind of thing. He’s not that stupid. He knows some troops would literally just go kill their commanders.

This is about arming and approving those loyal to the cause of white supremacy and his Christian end times insanity. Those are who will be holding freely at all times.

We WILL see additional violence from this. But it will be labeled as patriotic defense against a rogue troop.

Don’t expect the people that should be shot to get shot. They’re arming their loyal grunts.

“Says Iran”.

Dude, says literally every book or law written about warfare since we were using muskets.

The weirdest ones are the ones that say their parents/grandparents “fled communism”; and then you ask them “when?” and they say “1953”.

There is something slightly humbling about the fact that in the face of so much firepower and human “destruction”; that it can be countered well simply by the powers of nature and some human planning.

Basically, yeah, you have trillions of dollars of weapons research and ammunition spreading over decades. Nice. But we’re just gonna use natural geological structures, the best concrete recipe known to man, Toyota trucks, and low cost drones we optimized to all hell for affordability. We’ll be here until you decide to leave…

To anyone that was actually fooled by this, when we start bombing Cuba, please remember to not listen to the Cuban diaspora that cheer on the bombing as some form of liberation. Remember all of the Iranian diaspora that cheered on Iran being invaded? They do not care about the country they or their parents left for the US. And with Cuba, there is a high likelihood they are the children of slave plantation owners that fled Cuba after the revolution.

No one can convince me that the combination of lead in gasoline AND the car depend infrastructure of the US is not at least a factor in the world we have today. I really think it’s contributed to the boomer brain and to an extent the Gen X brain to a large degree.

This isn’t to say it’s not the only cause. The main factor still being capitalism rewarding psycho behavior combined with it has definitely brought us to a really really bad place.

It can be. But it can also be a feeling of hopelessness when inevitably nothing comes of it.

It’s important to have a structures plan of escalation, specific demands, and a realistic goal in the outcomes of a single day strike.

Congress will be essentially irrelevant soon. You can quote me on this. I’ll eat my shoes if it doesn’t happen.

The plan is to overturn the filibuster and pass bills that essentially pass all powers to the executive branch. The SAVE act will be a part of this but there will be more.

There is no legitimate way for the Republicans to hold the legislative branch of government. So these bills will be passed prior to the elections in November. The supreme court will twiddle its thumbs or rule in Trump’s favor in a way that makes it seem “reasonable”. Like, granting the executive branch these powers only during “war time” or something stupid.

Elections will still be held but will be heavily suppressed by ICE and voter ID laws. Democrats will still win a small majority as elections to ensure the illusion of democracy is upheld. But enough seats will be won by spoiler Democrats to make this irrelevant. They will not win majority enough to justify a “mandate” and will speak about “restoring Democracy” while many work hand in hand with Republicans. They will sit on their asses doing nothing as they grandstand on the “importance of the filibuster” and vote to reinstate it in order to cuck their own majority. They will focus more on restoring the systems that lead to fascist take over more than they will actually fighting back against fascism. (This is more speculation, I’m not sure how the Democrats will justify taking no action but they will in some way).

We’ll spend the next two years with the Democrats getting nothing more than “body camera” bills through. The Democratic party will serve to uphold the illusion of a two party system (with some good people still existing in it) and ultimately be useless in combatting fascism. With many siding with the fascist and rallying around “the flag” to support war efforts and turning a blind eye (or finger wagging) as more cities are invaded and more people, including American citizens, are deemed to be “terrorist sympathisers” and put into camps.

That’s my predictive rant. It’s what I see coming and it’s why I am working to organize to hope that I can be wrong and eat my shoes. And I’m also organizing for the scenario in which I am right.

Good. Get out of the military. Two women and two black men that can say they were on the right side of history and were not a part of the suicidal war machine.

Seriously. This is the system giving them a chance to reflect as they get directly impacted by it. It’s giving them just a fraction of the treatment that the US military has to the global South for decades.

Also, Bill Hicks still relevant in 2026.

It’s not about that. It’s about existing manufacturers getting “approval”. That approval likely means it’s got a Palantir backdoor pre installed.

They can still be made outside the US as long as they are approved. That’s all this is about.

Total cuck behavior if they do. This the same country with the leader that made that speech about middle powers working together for peace in the new world order? Same country?

I guess it only matters when the country that is being targeted is a part of the western world like Canada or Greenland. When it’s one of the acceptable victims of Imperialism they can help out.

As an American. We fucking suck. But holy shit do the rest of you western countries deserve us as your leader into the collapse of western hegemony.

My friend. You’re the one that needs to explain what you meant by “bigotry” and what was bigoted. We can’t read your mind.

You’re being given a chance to explain yourself. You, responding with a vague condescending comment, literally just sounds like you’re having a conversation in which you’re only trying to convince yourself of something.

I’m not for “tribalism” if it’s related to a specific piece of software vs. another. But I definitely am on the side of open source vs. a garbage subscription based model of closed source software.