You can't endorse political violence here! This is the War department!
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2025
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The American liberal, faced with this reality, tends to concede that truth is in fact drowned out by a relentless tide of spin and propaganda. Their next move is always predictable, however. It’s another lesson dutifully drilled into them in their youth: “At least we can dissent, however unpopular and ineffectual!” The reality, of course, is that such dissent is tolerated to the extent that it is unpopular.
Big-shot TV host Phil Donahue demonstrated that challenging imperial marching orders in the context of the invasion of Iraq was career suicide, when a leaked memo clearly explained he was fired in 2003 because he’d be a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” [5] The fate of journalists unprotected by such wealth or celebrity is darker and sadder. Ramsey Orta, whose footage of Eric Garner pleading “I can’t breathe!” to NYPD cops choking him to death went viral, was rewarded for his impactful citizen journalism by having his family targeted by the cops, fast-tracked to prison for unrelated crimes, and fed rat poison while in there. [6] The only casualty of the spectacular “Panama Papers” leak was Daphne Caruana Galizia, the journalist who led the investigation, who was assassinated with a car-bomb near her home in Malta. [7] Then there’s the well-publicized cases of Assange, Snowden, Manning, etc. That said, I tend think to such lists are somewhat unnecessary since, ultimately, most honest people confess that they self-censor on social media for fear of consequences. (Do you?)
In other words, the status quo in the West is basically as follows: you can say whatever you want, so long as it doesn’t actually have any effect.
“Freedom of the press” is another of the principal slogans of “pure democracy”. And here, too, the workers know — and socialists everywhere have admitted it millions of times — that this freedom is a deception while the best printing presses and the biggest stocks of paper are appropriated by the capitalists and while capitalist rule over the press remains, a rule that is manifested throughout the world all the more strikingly, sharply, and cynically, the more democracy and the republican system are developed, as in America for example.
The first thing to do to win real equality and genuine democracy for the working people, for the workers and peasants, is to deprive capital of the possibility of hiring writers, buying up publishing houses, and hiring newspapers. And to do that the capitalists and exploiters have to be overthrown and their resistance suppressed.
The capitalists have always used the term ‘freedom’ to mean freedom for the rich to get richer and for the workers to starve to death.
In capitalist usage, freedom of the press means freedom of the rich to bribe the press, freedom to use their wealth to shape and fabricate so-called public opinion.
In this respect, too, the defenders of ‘pure democracy’ prove to be defenders of an utterly foul and venal system that gives the rich control over the mass media. They prove to be deceivers of the people who, with the aid of plausible, fine-sounding, but thoroughly false phrases, divert them from the concrete historical task of liberating the press from capitalist enslavement.
—Lenin, Congress of the First Comintern
I swear I have seen this before
I mean, a loooot of people are celebrating. You're going to have to track like, 80% of the population there buddy lol
Fr, even my dad who's a chud said he deserved it for being so flippant about gun violence.
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Both Republican and Democratic political figures — including all living former U.S. presidents — have condemned Kirk’s assassination, but a small number of social media users have mocked or celebrated the killing, drawing outrage.
a small number
There's pretty regularly threads with 50k upvotes on reddit mocking it
I’m glad he’s dead and I hope they bring him back to life so someone can do it again
Pentagon has apparently nothing better to do than track people that call charlie kirk a doofus.
Charlie Kirk is a dead ass fascist haha track my ass Heiddeger pedo defender fucking 
1st Amendment understander.
Muh , I am simply participating in the marketplace of ideas. You don't have to like it, but you have to allow me to say RIP Bozo another gender neutral bathroom unlocked.
'Tracking' you mean waiting for people to snitch
volcel police arrest them
hey, Penis Head-Breath, i got a "member" you can track.
blammo, gottem.
Like im not already on a list
can't have anti-regime opinions in public sector and if you have anti-regime opinions in the private sector, pro-regime ppl will get you fired.
similar to third world countries ig, the only decent work is in the public sector, but there you can't criticize the neoliberal regime or appear 'political' in any way.
thank fuck i've got no social media presence LMAO
There's probably some level of concern here, but do remember that Peter here is literally an alcoholic who doesn't know anything except how to torture innocent people. Don't take anything he says with any level of sincerity.
Relevant excerpt from one of those old timey poems that went pretty hard:
"First Envy, Eldest-Born of Hell, embrued Her hands in blood, and taught the Sons of men to make a death which Nature never made, and God abhorr'd, with violence rude to break of life ere half its length was run, and rob a wretched brother of his being.
With joy Ambition saw, and soon improv'd the execrable deed—'Twas not enough by subtle fraud to snatch a single life, puny impiety! Whole kingdoms fell to sate the lust of power; more horrid, the foulest stain and scandal of our nature became its boast.—One Murder made a Villain, Millions a Hero.—Princes were privileg'd to kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Ah! why will Kings forget they are Men? And Men that they are Brethren? Why delight in human sacrifice? Why burst the ties of Nature, that should knit their souls together in one soft bond of amity and love?
Yet still they breathe destruction, still go on inhumanely ingenious to find out new pains for life, new terrors for the grave, artificers of Death! Still Monarchs dream of universal Empire growing up from universal ruin."
- Death: A Poetical Essay, Beilby Portus, 1759
"Artificers of Death" pretty much sums up our modern "kings" and "princes" just as well as it did then. These people truly live by the old idea that they are heroic for killing millions, but no one else better even think it's kinda funny or at least karmic if one of them gets got.
Watch it just be him asking chatgpt every day what the top websites and personalities promoting anti-kirkest thought are.
Cool
Hogseth can’t even keep track of his marriage
Track this, Kegsbreath
Also I haven’t heard shit - but maybe my memes aren’t flagrant enough :(
My government told me that street parties with bunting to celebrate nationalist violence was good and that Nazi vigilantes have a serious human point to make.
Hegseth fight Starmer in the tradition of your people and I shall act accordingly.
