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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair it is harder for commies to do things because leftism is openly suppressed by the state unlike right-wing violence which is cultivated.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I also still don't believe this Luigi guy is not just a patsy. So much shit is inconsistent, or just plain weird about this whole thing, and I would not at all put it past the NYPD to just act on a tip on someone that vaguely looks like one of the two, also inconsistent supposed pictures of the alleged shooter, and plant a gun and a hastily drawn up manifesto just so they can pretend they didn't get bamboozled and give anyone else ideas.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As justifications for conspiracy go, "American has incoherent politics" is really thin

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I am not speculating as to motives or the guy's politics, but way too much shit doesn't add up. All I am saying is the NYPD are corrupt as fuck and I wouldn't put it past them to try to put this matter to rest by railroading some random guy.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

My gut tells me that this is copium because those eyebrows are very distinctive and I think Chris Moltisanti was out of town at the time

still you could be right

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I feel like 'conspiracy' is a strong word to be using here — police will very often collar anyone they can for a high profile murder, because the overriding priority is to catch someone asap. We don't know tha's what happened here, but we don't know that these particular cops eat donuts either

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

He already refuted the police’s claims of what he had on him when arrested, claiming they must have planted the money and denying that he had a faraday bag. I could see it being him, but it definitely seems a bit convenient. It’ll be interesting to see the trial if they let it be public

[–] OrganisationLeader@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sure, go nuts on conspiracy theories and wild infantile speculation based on nothing but your wild imagination.
It serves no purpose since we don't know the facts (yet). But anyway you can remove this comment for pointing that out as you usually do.
They made you a mod after all. (for some reason?!!)

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

They made you a mod after all. (for some reason?!!)

I was here from the very beginning and one of the first mods. Don't like it fuckin leave.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Cool your harsh browns

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

How dare you, I have done plenty of praxis.

As the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Wyoming (Posadist), I led the charge in breaking away from the revisionist Communist Party of Wyoming (Maoist Third Worldist) and calling Hasan Piker (or someone that resembles Hasan Piker) a lib on the street.

[–] OrganisationLeader@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Book clubs and doing nothing"
Must be the reason why americans shit their pants and get all Mc Carthyist and fanatic when they suspect something's remotely communist.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Critical support to the Ultra that's wasting millions of Imperial funds by having an FBI, a Homeland Security, a CIA and an NSA agent spying on them reading Bordiga in an armchair.

[–] OrganisationLeader@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's time to not focus on Little Luigi and his motives but start making it about wasting millions of Imperial funds by having the FBI, Homeland Security, CIA and NSA and every cop in the country look for someone who only killed ONE guy.
Can we have a justification for why only a rich victim deserves all these resources?

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

A terrible curse, I tell you, being simultaneously strong and weak in the eyes of :freedom-and-democracy:

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Book club/twitch stream/YouTube channel/podcast

Lol. Just find the leftist media ecosystem a bit sellouty

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All those damn sellouts getting rich off of book clubs, building book club mansions with their book club millions

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only included book clubs because the joke is continuing on from the twitter comment. Like how do I need to explain this

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but the tweet was only about book clubs not about leftist influencers, making it a total non-sequitor to begin with

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I mean book clubs are great tbh. People get to go outside and engage in a productive activity simultaneously.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Those darn Book Club Bourgeoisie!

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

JT going from making amusing apolitical science videos to tanking his own ad revenue and Curiositystream bux by pivoting to anti-capitalist content is the antithesis for general sellouty-ness of American leftists but yeah there is a trend.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Yeah I definitely respect the genuine believers like JT but even the people that are partly doing it for the money I don't really blame them. And even some people like Hasan (who I genuinely respect and recognize has done a lot of good and far more good than I'll ever do) have some really dumb takes (specifically about his wealthy lifestyle and how he justifies it, but failing to recognize there is a valid criticism and its environmental and not monetary because the environment can't support a lot of first world lifestyles). We are all capitalist subjects and pretty coerced into most of what we do so I don't actually have too much shade for the lefty media ecosystem. At least what they're putting out is good. Sellouts that go pure right wing are just trash obviously.

A bit rambling but I do find the streamer podcast etc phenomenon interesting. Like it's so much a parasocial thing.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

twitch stream/YouTube channel/podcast

I honestly think these things are the modern equivalent of the newspaper. In many cases reaching many more people. The issue however is pace of content production doesn't match print whatsoever. Several of these should have drastically expanded their operations using extra income that they don't personally need in order to produce content at the kind of rate it deserves. But instead of expanding the operation many are just pocketing it like every independent streamer is.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the WSJ should be writing articles about how ad revenue from Bad Empanada and 500 other youtube channels is arming third worldists; but instead they are just armchair quarterbacking AES countries.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Breadtube are modern Trotskyists confirmed.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago
[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah even non political stuff from the left would be great. Nothing like listening or watching a video before realizing the creator is a bit of a libertarian and therefore everything coming out of their mouth is probably infantile nonsense lmao

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

They hated him because he told the truth etc.

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I keep missing bookclubs due to work and life circumstances. :(

Praxis can actually be easy once you get a foot in the door through.

[–] theblueredditrefugee@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tbh I think they just pinned it on a non-communist because they're under some kind of illusion that it'll prevent a pattern

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

which person seems more likely,

an american with a jumbled set of contradictory beliefs

or, an american with a principled understanding of a political theory (but not that principled, cus this is still adventurism)