I appreciate the idea but I think the eagle is very heavily loaded of unpleasant meanings so I think quite a few comrades feel a little off with the idea. Although to resignify stuff is a worthwhile endeavor but its a tough one

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#did-the-soviet-union-repress-and-kill-millions-of-people Again, why don’t you address nothing that’s been presented here, if you are so sure on your points, you can certainly present a competent argument about why those sources are not to be believed or why the other sources are better, let’s debate history, sources, methodology instead of just calling people dictators and posting wikipedia links, again make an argument for the sources that constitute the wikipedia articles you are mentioning, let’s move the discussion forward, I’m not against the debate, but let’s have one, you are asking everyone to read stuff, but what about you read some of our stuff as well, and let’s have a civil discussion about stuff.

Most certainly, places like this where we are are still extremely niche, but nonetheless vital parts of the resistance. Since social media as you said is in the pocket of big capital, being so the algorithm is tailored to quell the feeling of revolt(for more on that see Mark Fisher’s capitalist realism, or check this out https://yewtu.be/watch?v=f62SRvGCPQo it has English subtitles, it’s a magnificent fellow Brazilian comrade) while setting a looping trap of distraction, so people feel like they are fighting the system promoting and liking the people who look like are doing something, while just being a colorful distraction, the way forward is organization, form/join cooperative groups, communist parties or any gathering of people debating openly this Ideas, specially, if at all possible, an in personal organization group, so there can be real action, strikes protests and factual resistance, or else they will roll us over, the word of order is to UNITE!

I don’t have much to come into mind about the heartache but I’d like to address the beginning of your post, my dear comrade do not ever feel ashamed of talking about yourself in a place like this and in a situation like yours, friendship and love are the strong bonds that hold the revolutionary spirit together. You did not disliked the fact that other comrades talked about their issues and their heartaches, why would yours be any different, know that we are one team every one for each other, and we stand together in both the personal as well as on the collective, that’s what it means to UNITE!

I certainly don’t know all the factors but I can be sure in the fact that the blockade of Russia, the US vs China trade wars (Which the US kindly dragged all his allies into) are certainly part of the issue, the fact that the dollar is on the road to collapsing is could be another factor. And times of crisis the proletariat gets angry and the system tries to diverge this anger towards facism (today somewhat embodied in the Ukraine war) in order to prevent a socialist revolution, which is something that in this moments is essential that is made the focus of the masses. Proletariat of the world, UNITE!

Comrade Dessalines seems to like startpage https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/favorite_apps_and_services.md

What I have to say is to point you towards the Dessalines git post and ask you to find the issues with his sources or his statements wikipedia is not an unbiased or in depth source, look at the primary sources of your information who they were how they got that information. Like Dessalines looked at it and countered it with good sources now you are pointing back at the target of the Dessalines criticism without even acknowledging the criticism. I have no problems with disagreement, as long as its in good faith but you glossing over and huge documentation of criticism and just repeating your point cause Wikipedia says so does not look like good faith

Can I play the KPAID side?

Pretty much but I’m more partial to things like this one or this among others like streetlight manifesto, inner terrestrials (specially the tales of terror album) and the album this machine from the JB conspiracy is quite good as well, if you want more recommendations just ask

Oh and by the way you’ll probably like(if you don’t know it already) the band jer and the channel of the frontman: skatune network, the guy raises the banner (literally) of ska against transphobia

Its not only that, is neoliberal banners too hatespeech, chauvinism and a lot of misinformation,not to minimize the anti communism but its just the same capitalist cocktail of ideas that they pull out when things go bad, I think its important to realize that what’s happened isn’t something new to the system but the system working as intended, communism is a threat to them and they are scared

Yeah I took a while to realize that, so Yeah my bad.

That’s a succinct and well rounded answer comrade, the benefits outweighed the losses a thousand fold, it was a traumatic event, as most breaks from the traditional capitalist grip of a country, but what was built in it’s place was definitely better, is it perfect? of course not, but it’s leagues better than capitalist “democracies”, I’ll tell you that much

I really like ska and skapunk, and am open to recommendations of bands to check out, specially ones with strong political stances (leftist ones it goes without saying)

This guy is a mod on DEATH TO NATO taking up arms to the side of the guys who ended up in a war BECAUSE they WANTED to join fucking NATO???