Not always 100% with Shea but worth reading
I used to read Shea for a good laugh, but he’s gotten (openly) bad enough for me to not even get a laugh out of.
Like bruh I’m gonna be honest with you I have talked with Shea and this kind of shit makes me sad, he seems neuroatypical (if the Adventure Time fanfiction comic did not give it away??? (???)) and can be engaged by regular ass conversations. If I had the energy to type all your stuff out to him I would. I just exchanged a few sentences and mentioned how depressed I was that this time around we have 3 crazy old people in the Dem primary/Greens (who r dem voters let’s b honest lol) versus Biden. It’s like a walking joke. RFK Jr, Williamson, West, they’re all kooks!
At any point during that time did you attempt to reason with the man who has only two comments on his substack and a dozen faves? He’s almost 15% of the way to figuring something out! People like this, once you renovate them, blog away for you in absentia. That is unless you decide to have a struggle session in absentia where nobody sees it? Makes me sad for both Shea and Hexbear. Lol. Posting is about bringing ideas together!
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To start off, you’re only beginning to approach a real criticism of what Shea was saying here and you all went off talking about your opinions on Trotskyists. “Not always 100%” could be taken to mean the MAN HIMSELF is not always at 100%. He clearly belongs to the category of GrayZone contributors who have their little articles and haplessly become Blumenthal’s bitches in the hopes of getting what they see as important messages out there. Mate seems like more of an operator. Nevermind, unread that sentence. Let’s continue.
INDONESIA IS A PERIPHERAL COUNTRY. Any amount of military force and death is almost justifiable if it can still conceivably enclose the entire country. To (mis?) quote Stalin every historical parallel is perilous, this one is asinine. Militarized killings of communists continue in Indonesia to this day. The US does not need a Jakarta method, it has the PSL, CPUSA, DSA (if you ask me).
I disagree with the notion that PSL ghosting the Uhuru movement and then scheduling a march to draw attention away from theirs isn’t harmful. The best you can really say about the PSL is they are keeping their sponsors and participating in electoralism while also being as visible as possible activism-wise. If you start looking into their webs of funding and all these organizations like ANSWER it’s a really small world.
I don’t think this is going to lead to an Indonesia-style mass killing. That’s insane. But Shea isn’t advocating any solutions here either. Just kind of implies people should try harder?
You want to know what my solution is? Fuck you! I’ve been waiting years for yours! I am moving to VIETNAM!
The dude just strikes me as a useful idiot or fed. The weird hate on PSL (going back for months), arguing for a Red/Brown coalition (not the cool POC kind) and all the vulgar materialist and Patsoc takes he’s rattled off give me really bad vibes. His rare good take is not immediately dehumanizing Russians and Ukrainians.
arguing for a Red/Brown coalition
Am I supposed to know what your particular use of this jargon means here?
@culpritus@hexbear.net @sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net Stragglers who MUST BE PINGED pls see above thread. This proves how bad the Lemmy format is for continuing conversations that don’t happen at Discord speed. It’s like the article got hit by a car LMAO.
