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I generally like but am sometimes amused by the transcripts here. Example: calling Italy's fascistic prime minister (Giorgia) Meloni "Maloney."

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I often use the transcript without listening/watching, but transcript readers have to be cautious. At about 20:11 I was shocked by reading billionaire “mosques” by the transcript bot. I had to listen to find out you said “Musks” as in Elon.

Christian Fundamentals may not “believe” in evolution, but those I know support and believe in the surely divine blessings earned and received by the grace of god through Social Darwinism.

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Maybe one of your best talks about this messed up place we’re at. This is having worldwide repercussions. Something that keeps coming to the forefront of my observations, is how did this unelected creep get all these non governmental schills into the OPM, Treasury and other governmental offices and take over operations. Talk about the deep state. The Dems are totally missing in action and why were civilians without any clearance allowed to enter these government offices. No one is talking about how this took place. There is some really dark shit going down and it is not isolated to one duopoly party. I can’t wrap my head around it. To reiterate. How was this able to happen? I am sure any right minded person will be shell shocked at where things have arrived. There is not the level of resistance happening on the national federal level a democracy would expect. This is looking like a unresisted coup. Hakeem Jeffries is content that god is on the throne. Trump?

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It is head-spinning for sure. Like I always say, who needs dystopian political science fiction in the Age of Trump?

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Hello Paul. How do you deal with the contradiction of being opposed to all structures of oppression but are seeking to implement a dictatorship, a state ruled by a class of people (with a supposed superior ideology, whether true or not) that's going to require aggressive enforcement and oppression? The only thing that changes is the ideological driving force behind it. I absolutely cannot see that being a solution or a path to a solution of the problem here. Sure a change in the culture and the game being played can lead to improvements but it doesn't address the core structural issues. That's leaving out the impracticality of getting there from where we are now. In this mess where is the enlightenment and the renaissance for a cultural change going to come from? We live in an informational shitstorm where most are corrupted, lost and confused. You have no control over or chance of controlling that. Using terms like communist revolution (a term that many have been brainwashed to fear and hate) is further decreasing your chances of success. Ideological wars are going to divide people and create conditions for genocide, oppression and more of the same. Full circle!

Correction: Ruled by representatives of a class of people who have their own interests within the oppressive social structure! I don't see a path to a win here! Frustrating and true it is. How am I wrong?

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Just completely bizarre to think that a socialist revolution would not involve structural change ....how about the abolition of capitalism in both mode of production and political superstructure?

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Oh and I forgot, have you rested your case, do you dispute nothing else?

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Not what I said, re-read it. The abolition of capitalism is the change in culture and game being played that I mentioned. That leaves two of the constituent parts in place, the state and the people operating within it, the bureaucracy. How people behave in relation to these institutions(their self interests) their size and function remain fundamentally the same. You said so yourself, it's a switch from a dictatorship of capital to one of the proletariat. Too much emphasis is being put on a "system" as if that's the only problem, far from it.

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I found your initial comment hard to follow. Where is the cultural juice going to come from? Well, so, perhaps you are familiar with Mao's insistence that a formal and freshly achieved dictatorship of the proletariat is just the beginning and that huge party- and government-led social and cultural struggles are required to deal with the very real overhang of bourgeois, petit-bourgeois, sexist, racist, and imperialist beliefs and ideology, which do not just magically disappear because commies took power. (This is where most US and Western lefists I know lose it and shriek "totalitarianism!") There were errors in the first attempt at a proletarian cultural revolution -- including an unfortunate clinging to subjectivist "class truth" and more -- but the idea behind it --- the sense of the political and institutional revolution down to the mode of production as actually just the beginning of a continuing struggle towards a world beyond class and other forms of exploitation and oppression --- is critical. Check out Avakian's draft constitution for a socialist republic of north america: https://thebobavakianinstitute.org/constitution/

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To sum it up I'm saying that a liberated society doesn't naturally follow from a dictatorship of the proletariat. I understand and agree about the struggle for that society and think that realizing it is far fetched and remote via a communist led revolution. It's too dependent on humans behaving differently within the same basic context. I think party and government led are key words that demonstrate that. I think the forces working against it are significant and unchangeable unlike the system. I read into that constitution already and it has good ideas but is mostly a work of fiction. It's theoretical and projecting into the future.

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I wouldn't be so adamant about this if I didn't see a better way. It doesn't look like I'm going to convince you though but I tried. So I'll go fuck off now.

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Sorry if I'm coming across as being confrontational. I'm trying to reach you to prevent you from taking a leap of faith to your potential death because I think there is a better way. It seems obvious to me that tech's utilization is going to decide human's fate. Have you considered it? A communist revolution is going nowhere if your lucky. That looks like an insult but I am being blunt. I have to say it, unlike most of your analysis I think your solution is dead wrong. I'll ease up for now but I can't guarantee that I won't feel compelled to post again.

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I'm trying to respond you to the best I can but you seem a bit mixed up. You are "a communist...interventionist" (below) but here say "a communist revolution is going nowhere" and "your solution is dead wrong." Go be you!

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I'm saying I'm misguidedly intervening to try to stop someone from going on an ideologically driven suicide mission. And it's not about me, I truly believe there is a more practical way to get there or if your telling me to fuck off okay I will not address you directly anymore.

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I think interventions are unpleasant by nature, plus I don't know you personally so it's a little awkward I'll admit. I'm a communist... interventionist. Maybe misguided but that's what I am. Okay, I'm done now.

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I'm not. You are ridiculous.

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What the suicide mission? Your opinion vs mine

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As always Paul good hearing your voice and your take on the American ethos. Trump is opening many an eye exposing us to the raw inhumane nature of capitalism. Will this raw exposure awaken us to change this horrible system or just cause us to accept it cause resistance is futile.

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Hello, I think that is a false dichotomy. There is a lot of nuance and different angles from which you can look at things.

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Paul, We must have been separated at birth. Here is a link to my 1922 Post on substack where I begin to lay out the deep roots of Nazism in American Capitalism…

https://open.substack.com/pub/olflawriduhcracker/p/fascism-in-america-born-in-the-usa?r=38b45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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will read

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You are the man Paul! I’m in hiding behind enemy lines in Florida… I will continue to fight these fascist bastards, but they really have a lock on shit down here. As they destroy stuff some if it has to hurt their minions ( the people they grift) whom we must let know that we see as true victims of the Nazi hate and evil that has punked them for in most cases years…

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OFC I'm in Frau Reynolds' Christian Fascist state of Iowa right now. Our friends in blue states ought to spend some time in the new Confederacy, which reaches up the Dakotas. It's a trip.

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I call it Upper Trumptardistan here in Nebraska.

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He's in Lower Trumptardistan.

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There's not a county around me that voted less than 80 percent Trump, some over 90.

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