Rednote is a private company.

A joke that hasn’t aged particularly well, given the current state of the Israeli government.

ChatGPT translates it

Well, you get what you pay for.

Winnie the Pooh is literally nothing but positive. lovable bear. yet somehow its offensive.

Cheetos are delicious crunchy snakes, and yet conservatives will ban you from their community for posting

Real mystery. I guess some people are just too fat, stupid, and ugly to accept a complement.

It’s really curious to see how Americans will post “Haha, your President is a funny color!”, then applaud themselves for being bold and transgressive.

But when you see an American posts “Jesus, that’s some hollow, ugly, bigotry. Why are you attacking a person for their skin color? You should know better”, they’re bombarded with downvotes for being hack while implicitly accused of being an agent of a foreign power.

Really illustrates what “Freedom of Speech” amounts to in a Settler Colonial state.

Old Soviet-Era joke. An American and a Russian meet in Berlin for drinks. The American says to the Russian, “Don’t you ever long for freedom of speech in your country? Why, back home, I can go on the telephone or radio and say all sorts of bad things about our President Ronald Reagan. Nobody stops me.”

The Russian takes a sip, shrugs, and replies, “Comrade, I don’t understand the problem. In the USSR, I can go on the telephone or radio and say all sorts of bad things about your President Ronald Reagan, too.”

Cuban social media is completely out of control. We should invade immediately

Nope. If it’s bad, it’s because of outside agitation and enemy propaganda.

America is exceptional, it can’t do anything wrong except stop being American

They banned sending US Citizen data to adversarial nations

create data collection regulations

Americans simply cannot grasp the difference between Not Collecting Data To Begin With and China Bad

TikTok was one of the few places I could actually watch live journalism from Gaza documenting the genocide

Undermining your trust in the US media and political leadership. Ergo, Evil Chinese Propaganda.

Studied computer science. The answer is yes.

NP = P, folks. Pack it up and go home.

what kind of savage are you

You’re buying Obsession by Calvin Klein out of a gas station bathroom dispenser. Cavemen would be horrified.

There’s a reflexive instinct among Americans to denigrate people by attacking their intelligence while lauding them for their wealth-hording obsessions and their elitist social theories.

A lot of the uglier eugenics theories that Elon has latched onto come out of this cultural affect. Kindness and cheerfulness are luxuries you only get to express when you’ve “succeeded”. Everyone else needs to be as clever as they are cut-throat in their mission to climb over the tops of their neighbors.

Imagine a century from now as your great-grandchildren are trying to explain the etymology of “The United Canadio-Pacific People’s Magastani Republic” to a refugee from the sunken islands of “X, The Everything Florida”.

it’s giving him exactly what he wants, attention.

He seems to want worship more than simply wanting attention.

all collectively ignore him

I don’t think Elon is a problem you can solve by shoving fingers in ears and squeezing your eyes shut.

Most of his Carney Act is pointed at your Congressmen, not you personally. And they’re happy to use him as a tool for money laundering, whether you look at him or not.

I just don’t see a route for people to organize working class folks under a banner when all the banners have already been tarnished for 60-70% of the people

I don’t see the problem of banners being tarnished nearly so much as the Right Wing Wurlitzer media blinding and defeaning its audience at a scale no small community outreach organization can compete with. It’s less that anyone has an entrenched view of <insert ideology> as dirty and more that - at any moment - a talk radio host can unload a shotgun full of sloppy diarrhea in any direction.

we the working class are being robbed endlessly by the elite ruling class and it has to change

At some point, people do need to understand that they control the means of production in a very literal sense. Their hands are on the rudder and it is their collective effort that moves the ship. But building that class consciousness is hard. At some level, you aren’t trying to build a giant ideological social movement. What you’re trying to build is a network of people around you who like and trust one another.

That’s significantly more impervious to shotgun blasts of feces from a national media organ, because its no longer a contest between Army of Loud Mouths and Guy You’ve Never Heard Of.

Id worry if you expand it beyond that you lose a lot of support.

I think you have a large deficit of trust, generally speaking. There is no Perfect Messaging Strategy you can use to shape discourse. There is only the sheer volume of discourse blasted out over a wide audience. YouTube filling up with random right-wing hacks doesn’t happen because the hacks are incredibly good at their job. It entirely because the billionaire donor class is willing to spend enormous amounts of money to spew this message everywhere.

You, personally, can’t do anything about that. But you can build up a local group of friends and neighbors who like one another. Having a community around you who like and trust one another is the best defense against this kind of aimless hate. Sticking up for one another at every opportunity builds trust and confidence. Finding new opportunities to make new friends and expand your circle is all you can really do.

You’re going to implement a “No Elon Memes” rule. We’re going to get some of the dankest memes you’ve ever seen in your life featuring Elon. And then…

You can’t organize the working class with a “Marxist” reading list

If you don’t read theory, you’re going to have a hard time with praxis.

I just said dont say marxism or communism because a huge percent of the population are literal sheep who have already been told thats bad

I tend to find that labeling things is a lot of wasted effort, but shrugging and owning the label other people give you is a powerful method of reclaiming the language.

If you’re an affable, compassionate, well-organized, and appealing organizer, and someone comes around calling you a Far-Left Sicko Commie, then that’s actually pretty great for Far-Left Sicko Commies everywhere.

The struggle I see, more often than not, is with individuals who come into an organization dogmatically adhering to a party line that lacks a party. The dogmatism in the name of Marxist Theory (or Anarchist Theory or Liberal Theory or whatever personal staunchly held belief you’ve decided to cling to) is what ends up wrecking an organization. Theories can only inform your actions, but at the end of the day you need to tackle your problems practically and make your case materially.

People bickering over the ideological underpinnings of the Spanish Civil War, then spiraling into calling one another Tankies and Scratched Liberals and such… not terribly helpful in the long run.

I probably hate Joe Biden more than most Republicans do. Unlike them, I actually know some of his policies.

Every day I get down on my knees and pray to the Sweet Baby Jesus that we get the kind of Far-Left Super-Woke Anti-Imperial Anti-Racist-Baby Red Diaper LGBTQ Sicko Pinko Communist that the average FOX News Republican keep insisting Democrats elected.

Trumpists: “We did it! We won! Trump is President! What’s the first step to Making America Great Again?”

Elon: “I think we’re going to increase the number of H1-B visas.”

Vivek: “Definitely more East Asian immigration. That’s what this country needs more than anything.”

Trump: “Sounds good to me.”

Trumpists: “… wtf?”