I think the question is “how astroturfed is r/____?”

That sounds like hell. Its really understandable that you are having problems keeping a cool head. Both sides are mostly wrong but people look past the bad stuff and choose a side for the few policies they get right. Supporting war is bad and so are nationalist purges. This is why god Lenin created Revolutionary Defeatism.

This fight is playing out all over the capitalist world to a lesser or equal degree depending on how close they are to Russia. Liberalism is suffering a existential crisis because the rate of profit is unsustainable and the end is getting close. The imperialist liberals want to fight more wars and exploit the conquered. The nationalist liberals want to turn inwards and start purging marginalized people and exploiting the working class harder. The imperialists have been winning the debate and running things for a while but their strategy has been faltering. The crypto-fascists see the return of trump as a signal that they are in ascendancy.

My guess is all this anger and debate is the plan of the actual fascists. They try to divide the nation along these lines so that people feel bound to their team (35% nationalists 35% imperialists 30% undecided.) Then the cia binds together the worst of both sides to make a imperialist nationalist, pro-nato party with popular support. The new party brands itself as being the synthesis of the parties without saying which policies it supports. The supporters get tricked into thinking their one good policy issue will be supported when the opposite is true. The people who sided with nato because they feared the nationalists’ purges of marginalized people will be thrown under the bus. The people who sided with the nationalists because they didn’t want to support imperialist wars will be sent to fight Russia.

I love how american democracy has devolved into a cascade of Weekend at Bernie’s gags. Feinstein, Biden, McConnel come to mind. What is really strange is that this isn’t seen as a scandal. Getting a BJ from a staffer will kill your career in politics but being a shambling corpse puppet is perfectly acceptable.

Remember when Brian Williams lied about being shot down in a helicopter in Iraq. They had him back on the air in 6 months.

I think she probably leans more demsoc than I’d like but she’s otherwise pretty good.

Fuck bbc and the rest of western media. China identifies a harmful virus and stifles it for decades. It eventually spreads to america and they do nothing to stop it. It mutates to infect other species and spreads like wild fire starts, killing people, starts spreading all over the world and then they blame China because they were the first people to try to stop it. This is the exact same story as covid.

As always with the capitalists, every accusation is a confession.

If I were the pig in charge and I found the real shooter I’d just have him followed somewhere with few witnesses, have an “officer involved shooting” that doesn’t mention the CEO thing at all. Then I’d arrange a patsy that I could control, have him really ham it up and look “evil.”

Few days ago my mom reposted a innocent looking christmas post… from a anti-gay christo-fascist NGO. The founder was a literal klan member, and a few years ago they had to fire one of their execs who was a child molester.

Like she’s my mom and I love her but I wouldn’t get in the way if she was hauled off to a reeducation gulag.

Reddit did to the internet what China did to manufacturing. But China did it better.

Fucking capitalists. This could have started 10 years earlier but instead they waited until the climate change crisis was unstoppable.

What if special 911 line for CEOs had a person working there who liked to rant about their job online?

“I had this CEO call me complaining that the same homeless man is always in front of the coffee shop on main and first at 9am on weekdays giving him the stink eye through the tinted window.”

1 in 3 illegal settlers in northern Palestine are close to being convinced that Palestine will be free.

“Anarchists” who never read a book on anarchism. “They don’t want to control power, they want to critique power”

Imagine Vichy France but they are also running death squads that kill partisans.

the HTS and SNA will genocide/ethnically cleanse the Kurds.

Which is exactly what the usa wants to happen. This is exactly why the usa supported both ISIS, and the SDF. The suffering is their goal. Keep everyone fighting so they can keep oil prices low.

What would be the communist and anti-imperialist thing to do in their situation?

Revolutionary defeatism. Don’t pick any side in the fight between the imperialists and the local bourgeois ruling class. Wait to see if the local government will fail while organizing a communist (not ethnic or religious) resistance to whom ever wins the fight. Save energy to fight when the victor is weakest instead of weakening themselves fighting for promises from the great satan that will undoubtibly be broken.

Horse pretending to be a chicken having a dust bath.

That person doesn’t sound like a socialist at all. Marx rejected ideology as false consciousness. Ideology is the polar opposite of materialism.

HTS won because they had the money to bribe generals and Assad didn’t have the money to pay them to keep them loyal. If Ideology is more powerful that material concerns why didn’t ISIS win the last war? Sunni supremacy was far more acceptable in Syria back then. Anti imperialist ideology is at an all time high in the region.

In What is to be Done Lenin warned about overestimating the revolutionary potential of labor unions.

Labor unions are a great staging ground for agitation and radicalization but they are not revolutionary by nature.

Remember when when everyone said T.V. would rot kids brains? All the people who grew up watching T.V. are now saying Phones will rot kids brains. Either they have brain rot or they are making shit up just like their parents and grandparents did.