Receipts Folder: Kira Dalton

I've picked on the Landbackeroos a lot in this series, but they aren't the only shit "comrades" out there. Among others, there are also radfems. And some of them even think that screenshotting my words is a sort of own, as if I didn't resolutely stand by everything I say (pic utterly related).

You know the type. I'm not referring to the average feminist, someone with spicy takes like "everyone ought to be equal." I'm referring to the species of pinkhair that performatively (and sometimes actually) hates men. The sort of person who will wade into an internet fight to uphold women's rights and literally nobody else's, whose political program therefore resembles woman supremacy in practice even if it's hidden behind egalitarian fig leaves.

Today's entry is Kira Dalton, who goes by a plethora of other names on her multiple accounts. A friend of mine raised a valid point, that short men and chubby women are equally discriminated against on dating sites, but that short men can't do anything about it and don't have social sympathy for their plight. Now, the radfem reactionaries (like Kira) would instinctively pick the "leave women alone, fat people are a marginalized group!!11!" line, while the MRA reactionaries would instinctively pick the "short men did nothing wrong, put them hamplanets on a diet" line. Both lines are equally chauvinist and wrong; the correct line is to uphold the rights of both. But saying so out loud in the presence of either is liable to get you cancelled.

Which is why that's exactly what I did.

This Is The Guy Calling You A Nazbol Online

So the Center for Political Innovation held an event in Austin on the 12th of this month.

I was in the group that helped plan it, and I was initially going to take part, but it snowballed massively and I cut myself from the lineup to provide more of a platform to people who know how to use the limelight most effectively.

I only mention that because I need to explain why I was privy to some of the planning details for the event. When the talks were happening, the need for security was mentioned. I wasn't expecting this, but yeah it ended up being the prerequisite to a successful event.

There is a group of woke frat boys called the Red Guards of Austin, and they do absolutely terrible and violent things. They are Black Hammer for white people. Here's a pretty good summation of where they come from, even if that source is written by someone ignorant of communist history and unsympathetic to us. Their ideological foundations go back to a guy named Bernard Rapoport, a financier who worked to obtain labor union and credit union accounts, who bundled donations for various Zionist causes, the Kennedys, Bill and Hillary's presidential campaigns, as well as Planned Parenthood. The last Democrat governor of Texas, Ann Richards, appointed this loon to the University of Texas Board of Regents. This self-proclaimed "capitalist with a conscience" died in 2012, but his bratty ideological stepchildren survive him. So the Austin Red Guards, despite preaching adventurist revolutionary violence, are actually quite integrated into the Democrat machine.

Receipts Folder: Vellum and Vinyl but less liberal

Context: this is the admin of a page that reposts Vellum and Vinyl stuff. Despite the name, they're still pretty liberal. They posted anti-Rogan anti-worker cringe, I corrected them, they banned me because theory makes their fee-fees hurt.

On to the receipts!

Receipts Folder: Cinco Blasi

In today's screenshot dump, I journey to an internet land of anarchists both based and foul to do battle with State Department narratives. Anarchists? Mouthing deep state lines? Whoda thunk.

On to the receipts!

Receipts Folder: Christopher Seadog

This is the first of a new style of post: a screenshot dump.

I have interesting discussions online, and despite my writer's block I never seem to have any problem writing theory for these discussions. Sometimes these discussions are productive, sometimes they're like this instead. But if I'm going to be writing anyway, I might as well get useful content out of it. So here you go.

The context of this discussion is that a friend of mine started a thread about Land Back, and I got sucked into it. What I expected to happen is precisely what ended up happening. But instead of blocking the synthleft weirdo like I usually do, I decided to see the conversation to its conclusion and record it for posterity. Got your popcorn? Then let's dive in.

The politics of fatshaming

Interesting times on the communist right.

Yep, I've decided to take the plunge. Since "left" and "right" have been dialectically stripped of their class relations, and since Haz came out swinging against the modern left at the recent CPI conference in Austin, the time is probably nigh for me to implement one of the ideas I've had on the backburner for a while, but held off on because I didn't figure people were ready for it: self-referencing as being on the "communist right." Also, other communists that I respect are referring to me as being on the right, so there's that.

These days, right and left do not seem to indicate one's position on the class war any longer, but one's position on the culture war. As far as the culture war goes, I'm really a centrist because I'm interested in egalitarianism, plain and simple. But as we've reviewed elsewhere, refusing to go along with every last jot and tittle of woke theology is cancellation fodder. So my centrism on the culture war reads as reactionary and right-wing to the anarcho-mallgoth ultras on the left. Since I'm not interested in organizing the petty bourgeoisie, this is not only fine, but ideal. Owning their hatred gives me an opportunity to talk to workers on the right, since I now have the hatred of pinkhairs in common with them. A lot of politics is just having something to talk about together, and now we can bond over hating liberals. Ergo, yes, in that non-economic sense, I am on the communist right.

Now, the communist right is a new thing in this country again. It's been here before, and it was inevitable that it would return. Communism getting into the hands of the actual working class inevitably results in right-wing communism, a based order. (That'd be a sick name for a book title; I call dibs, no jousting.) And as the communist right comes into its own, asserts its identity and its right to exist and its core values, cultural attitudes taken for granted on the modern left are being called into question.

We've seen this elsewhere, with the transphobic dogwhistling of the Workers' Party of Britain. (Dogwhistling, because Galloway has worked and is currently working alongside trans and queer comrades to advance the class war, but has chosen this particular form of messaging to wedge some Labour voters away from Labour.) And now, we're seeing it with fatshaming.

Liberals have probably gone too far on the issue, making the same mistake that some trans extremists have: saying anyone who isn't inherently attracted to fat people is bigoted. This is incorrect, on the same grounds as gay people not being attracted to the opposite sex making them bigots would be incorrect. In both the trans and fat rights extremist cases, it's the scorn of the jilted masquerading as theory. But nobody owns your libido, or has the right to tell you that you must be attracted to them. Insisting that they do is a bigotry all its own, a classist bigotry of rich people unaccustomed to being told "no" and assuming it must be a new form of oppression.