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here’s a news story so it counts: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/08/04/sankaras-revolution-rises-again/

If you think about it, they aren’t even trying to teach proactive pro-Nazism. Just convince people that going along with it doesn’t require you to be a Nazi, so they’ll go along as their society nazifies while they tuy-tut away, like the good guys in the Wehrmacht.

If this movie is about anything other than fragging and/or defecting, the creators are miserable fascists.

It could be about them being demonically evil and suffering rightfully for their crimes at the hands of the USSR or even the Americans. But I’m not optimistic.

Cre-a-tures

You said we were being “obsessed” and I took issue with it.

That’s fair, I’m not trying to demean comrades and I apologize for that phrasing. I’m referring to the general trend on the word conflict (and war) that extends much beyond Hexbear.

Nobody said anything about banning.

But people are literally saying “it’s not a conflict” and “it’s not a war”, and that obscures more than it illuminates.

There’s no lack of clarity on the subject in this thread. Using the word “conflict” sometimes in no way undermines our ability to call it out as a colonial genocide. What is the nature of the conflict? Colonial occupation and genocide supported by history’s most violent empire. If we only ever called it a conflict in order to obscure the nature of what’s happening, I’d agree. We should critique the way imperialist media does exactly that.

But it’s not not a conflict, and using that term to refer to the whole situation concisely amongst ourselves - knowing how we as anti-imperialist communists actually analysis - in no way gets in the way of how we discuss it. There is no single term that can describe it without leaving some potential ambiguity or missing important details. Call it a genocide, but it’s not just a genocide. Call it an occupation, but it’s not just an occupation. Banning the word “conflict” doesn’t help us at all in communicating amongst ourselves.

We never could have seen this coming

I really don’t understand this whole obsession with the word conflict. Calling it a conflict doesn’t mean it’s not a genocide. Calling it a war doesn’t mean it’s not a genocide. These are not exclusive or opposed categories. There are clearly two sides in conflict with each other.

That’s how all British men look

no, they think those are the same thing

Thank god! I was worried the environment and indigenous lands might not be poisoned to protect the profits of the apocalypse-creation industry.

Thank you! I’m gonna read this whole thing

It means they showed up to a protest where PSL did all the work and was mad they weren’t handed the mic when they stormed the stage

nice

Are there any good parties in Finland?