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They are coming down hard on protestors because the powers the be are scared and weak. They are stretched thin and are incompetent. They lost Vietnam, they lost the Middle East, they lost Cuba, they lost North Korea, they lost Ukraine and they'll eventually lose the world.

You are currently in the claws of the beast and the beast is dying. You will be free of it's clutches, keep biting its hands. It's squeezing you because your bites hurt it. Do not give up.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 59 points 4 months ago (5 children)

we are all trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is shitting out its doodoo ass

[–] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I open up my wallet,

And it’s full of coom

[–] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I open up my wallet

A fly comes out

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 months ago

Comrade fly

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

That's my secret friend

I am always shidding out my doo-doo ass

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

we fed the cows the horrible machine doodoo

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

You know, OP’s beast metaphor was thought provoking. But this - this is poetry!

[–] wickedrando@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I took one long hard laugh at this one.

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'm just gonna keep farting in my bosses corner office. That's the most praxis I can do... For now

temmie

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ussr-cry Your bravery is inspiring. Keep farding for justice

[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

One time I ripped a nasty one and ran off after I fixed his outlook. When he returned, he gagged and was crying for air freshener.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The kind Vladimir Ilyich would've sharted in you boss's office. kind-vladimir-ilyich

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit, my brother mentioned this to me data-laughing

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 months ago

You know what is to be done...

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago

thank you for your service 🫡

[–] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 months ago

Comrade Lenin would be proud.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago

This deserves its own post rat-salute-2

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I haven't taken my own life despite feeling like the world is designed to convince me to do that and that's a fucking victory in my book

I wish I could do more to help other people but I am struggling to find a reason to live and ngl seeing a bunch of college kids out there fighting for a better future is inspiring and makes me want to stick around

[–] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In the same boat. A few months ago it got so bad I sat on the window parapet contemplating whether to do it or not, but seeing students stand up for what is right and the empire beginning to show massive cracks reminded me of why I’m still alive and why we must keep going

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This was me and watching the police get absolutely overwhelmed by the BLM protestors. We really are stronger than them if we work together.

[–] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 4 months ago

They’re afraid. They know their empire is crumbling. Communism will win

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

You are very brave and I'm proud of you meow-hug

I hope that doesn't sound patronizing, I mean it

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Keep fighting the good fight, comrade.

One thing that helped me when I was severely suicidal a few years ago was to remind myself that this is an altered state of consciousness and the dark thoughts are not me, or at least not the me I want to be. Looking back the mind frame I was in back then is more foreign than any drunken stupor or high. This was a very bad, very long trip but it did end.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

That's something important I should keep in mind. My depression is as much an altered state as drunkenness

[–] red_stapler@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago

This is the sort of de-volition posting I needed right now. bloomer

[–] RamrodBaguette@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was feeling like shit about the state of the world compounded by personal life anxiety in general, so thanks comrade. kitty-cri-potato

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

meow-hug IMO change is always inevitable. Especially with an unstable system like capitalism

[–] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reading this at first I thought "no it won't fail without intervention". But this time it's different (also arguably we just ignored fascism last time but whatever). It's not just a single country or two, it's basically the "world government/police" that is fascist. But we are also no longer in a mono-polar world, people have non-state affiliated media, and within the empire the lives of the empires subjects are falling apart.

The "good guy" narrative is falling apart.

But we definitely need to organize before things get too bad.

This has been thoughts whilst pooping (a subsidiary of TED talks).

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, absolutely. I never said we should sit idly and wait for collapse to come. That's why I said not to give up. Do what you can, organise, be there for your comrades.

[–] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 months ago

There is a course called organizing for power through the Rosa Luxemburg foundation. But be worth a look for anyone who needs help getting started.

It looks at organizing through the lens of Unions, though I suspect it's mostly to make sure they don't get shut down by the freedom loving German police

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago
[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If that feels like it's not much, all of those losses are a relatively short amount of time. In terms of how long systems last, ~70 years is a very short time. The Fall of the Roman Empire probably did not feel like a quick, cataclysmic event when it happened.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

And the Byzantine Empire specifically lasted over 1000 years, it must've felt unchangeably immortal when it fell.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

In fact, organizing is how we beat the fash and prevent their desire to become popular terrorists against us. Keep up the fight! We only win if we build.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 22 points 4 months ago

They also lost the East Turkistan thing!!! Death to the CIA!!!

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

Yes..hahaha... YES! sicko-charging

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

If you ever feel disheartened, just zoom out and look at the world as a trajectory. Study the critical flaws in Capitalism, view the cracks in Imperialism, and look to see which way the winds are blowing. Read theory, organize. Within the crumbling walls of an Imperialist state, every tool of the Bourgeoisie will be employed to retain power. Do not let them.

We can and we will do this, comrades!

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

yeah if it wasn't for climate change or the fact that nearly all parts of the worlds seem to be speedrunning who can take off the lib-mask fastest and mass media wasn't getting better and better at lobotomizing people I could maybe believe that.