• Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I said Jimmy Dore was bad months ago. I got downvoted and called a lib. smh my head

    • Sunn_Owns [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Dore is indeed dog shit, but he was right on FTV. Dore is angling for the Rogan of the left, he's casting a big dumb net to catch as many dumb guys as possible. He's all optics, rejecting irony poisoned (Chapo) and NPR-lite (Majority Report) with a kind of shock jock theatrics.

      • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        he was right on FTV

        I've seen not one person say they're actually opposed to FTV. The parliamentarian tactic itself was never the issue, at least as far as I saw.

    • Audeamus [any]
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      4 years ago

      What does Dore have to do with this? Dore was right on FTV. He ain't too sharp, but he's better than the libs whose only instinct is to fall in line.

      • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        All this recent talk of Boogs and "working with the Right" was prompted by Dore interviewing a Boog non-confrontationally and suggesting that there's room for them to work with the Left.

        • Audeamus [any]
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          4 years ago

          Gotcha. Awful idea, but doesn't mean Dore was wrong earlier. E.g., Warren shaking hands with Netanyahu was worse. I'll reserve judgment of Dore until I see what comes of it.

          • read_freire [they/them]
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            4 years ago

            lol you're still 'witholding judgment' after dude spent a year thirsting for prominent nazsuccdem tulsi gabbard, huh

            • Audeamus [any]
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              4 years ago

              thirsting for

              'Cuz she's a girl, huh?

              nazsuccdem tulsi gabbard

              You're too loose with your Nazi labels. Even with the transphobic bill (which came long after Dore's support) she's not a Nazi.

              She has a bunch of rightist flirtations, true, but so do, in their own way, all the establishment politicians that the regular soc dems (Bernie, AOC, etc.) cozy up to, none of whom challenge US foreign policy. Tulsi Gabbard had her usefulness: not to the right, but to the left. And she might again.

              It's important to note everyone's limitations, but if you want to be involved with electoralism at all, then casting everyone imperfect into some hated category - and then denouncing everyone barely associated with them is absurd. There's barely anyone better to choose from - why be such a caustic purist [EDIT] what justifies such an intense denunciation of Tulsi and anyone associated with her?

                • Audeamus [any]
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                  4 years ago

                  I'm not talking about Tulsi - I'm talking about Dore. He stanned her before she sponsored a transphobic bill. Denouncing A because A liked B before B did something wrong makes no sense. It's the guilt by association that I have a problem with.

  • PodcastEnjoyer [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I propose we stop talking about Jimmy Dore. He seems like a hack and doesn't really bring anything to the table other than a small following of divorced LA dads. I think we can go without it.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    For real, if they were worthwhile they wouldn't be Booger Boys

    They know exactly what they want and it don't match up with what we want

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I mean, I'm not particularly in the mood to try and set up a strict Constitutional Monarchy in the Midwest

        Or some sort of Corporate Teslaocracy in California

        Or any of the weird right-wing pudding-brained diarrhea plans Boogers inevitably propose

        • disco [any]
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          4 years ago

          A lot of boogaloo people want to establish what would be essentially a social democratic society.

          The problem is, social democracies don’t usually emerge from societies ravaged by civil war

        • _else [she/her,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          okay teslacracy is a cool name. ill give them that.

          but that's not what they were gonna call it, is it?

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Absolutely absurd some people are even considering an alliance with them.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Why would you even bother? They're very small in number, have no real organization or theory of change beyond "Chaos lulz" and have no political power, financial power, or really anything else they could bring to an alliance.

      Forget the question of whether we ought to ally with them, let's ask why we'd bother?

      • PhaseFour [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Also, let's ask, "who are we?" I'm not an organization with any of you. "We" cannot form an alliance with anyone.

        • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I'd argue "we" are in fact an "organization," made up of posters with a resultant collective hivemind-like structure. While I have to stress that this is useless IRL, the Chapo.chat hivemind does exist and has dialectical opinions (broadly pro-trans, anti-racist, class conscious etc). Despite this website's uselessness outside memes and discussions, I'm happy to see my posting hivemind is coming out against Boogaloo shit.

          That said, we should all be in IRL organizations like DSA, PSL or whatever Trotskyist group you might fancy - to whatever extent is possible for each individual. A goal of this website should be to encourage people on this.

          JOIN UP

  • DookSmellington [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I hate them so much. Hawaiian shirts ruined forever. What's a big, fat, party animal like myself supposed to wear now? 🙁

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Boog boys are just school shooters stuck with online classes. Fuck every single one of them and fuck any socialist stupid enough to trust one.

    • ComradeKingfisher [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Meme that referenced a movie that would typically be posted as [Enter Title Here]: Electric Boogaloo. Eventually on /k/ (4chan's weapons board) it evolved into Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo. It was ironic at first, but once the far-right really sunk its teeth into 4chan (esp after the creation of /pol/ - 4chan's politics board), it gradually became completely unironic and specifically about white nationalism. The rise of the Rhodesia meme happened around the same time too. Oh, and they've co-opted aloha shirts as well, but they can take muh colorful button-ups from my cold dead hands.

      • fuckwit [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        At this point, I'm starting to think every innocuous sounding meme or catchphrase is some cryptic, fascist message.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      Neo Nazi to nazbol group that was born out of a 4chan gun board who want a civil war. Yes I'm 100% serious, that's who they are.

    • Sasuke [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      boogaloo. . . boogaloo bois. . . boog boys

      please tell me this thread is just an elaborate bit

  • Torenico [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I don't understand these people, Boogaloo's and leftists have different goals ffs, boogaloos are full of fash, leftists want to demolish the capitalist system and establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, guess what system are the fascists supporting at the end of the day? CAPITALISM.

    There's no alliance, not even a temporary alliance, with these fucks. They want to throw all of us into extermination camps ffs.

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      But they hate the democratic establishment!!1!

    • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Hopefully not. And preventative measures like this thread can help keep it that way.

  • Randomdog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It's a fucking what now?

    I swear I have less idea what people are talking about on this site every single day.

    Can we do that thing where we just read Marx over and over again? That was better.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      If you're being serious the boogaloos apparently are a neo Nazi to nazbol group that was born out of a 4chan gun board who want a civil war. So yeah.