#redbait

[courtana]

Lol apparently an (ex) Sledgehammer dev for COD is accusing Infinity Ward of being SJW, anti-American and ultra far left.

Sir, this is a military FPS video game. Be fucking for real.

Edit: God I wish it were those things, so they can stop putting fucking Isra*li operators in multiplayer that no one actually wants to play as.

[trendynewsnow]

The Political Battle for Little Saigon: Michelle Steel vs. Derek Tran

The Political Battle for Little Saigon Representative Michelle Steel is engaged in one of the most challenging political contests of her career, as she navigates a crucial swing district in Orange County, California. In this vibrant region, where Vietnamese American voters wield significant influence, Little Saigon has emerged as the epicenter of her campaign. Ms. Steel, a two-term Republican…

[smashthest8]

lmao

Little reminder that Socialist Alternative is a political cult. Their main goal is recruitment and they do not care. They are known for being racist , especially to Blak people, they have caused little if any change and except hinder a lot of actions. Once you join they are incredibly hard to leave. This goes for their branch off orgs too, such as S4P, which have the same issues and ar just recruiting fronts. You cannot seperate them.

[leftistfeminista]

The Revolutionary resistance in Gaza is not just Hamas, but also the Marxist-Leninists of PFLP and DFLP. In order to otherize Palestine, Zionists largely choose to ignore this. Except when it serves their purposes of redbaiting or connecting the western left to "terrorists".

According to Israeli analysis, women revolutionaries of PFLP are more secular and educated, and hence those more likely to wear fashionable underwear. And so the IDF has chosen to turn even women's underpants into a weapon of war and humiliation. Where PFLP comrades have escaped before the IDF, the capture of their bra and panties serves as a substitute for their bodies. Keeping their underwear concealed is what allows them to be defined by their militancy not their female sexuality. Lingerie is a stark contrast with the functional military fatigues PFLP women are usually seen in.

In their misogynist pig narrative controlling something so personal, intimate, sensual from a defiant woman is to own her. To own a private piece of her that has touched her genitals. The parading of the sexy underwear of Marxist-Leninist women leaders seeks to divide them from their conservative Islamic society. They hope to demoralize them and their followers, by stripping away their dignity and respectability. A woman who can't defend her panties, can't defend her people. Israelis believe that Arab men will never follow a woman whose unmentionables have been publicly defiled. Ideally she will flee public life and be functionally neutralized as a PFLP asset.

It is not just a frat boy prank but psychological warfare against the secular Marxist wing of the resistance and its fierce, empowered militant women leaders. Assassinating women's dignity can remove them from the chessboard as effectively as death. Female leadership can be destroyed without even capturing them. The underwear of PFLP women leaders is considered a strategic resource to be captured and displayed as a victory banner. While Israeli strategists look down on Muslims as ignorant and superstitious, it is they themselves who have assigned an almost totemic and magical quality to Palestinian women's underwear.

[dailymarinefish]

day 107, 10/05/24 - fish of the day is the redbait (Emmelichthys nitidus)

[thomasthetankieengine]

Sad little reaganite😂

You think I'm a fan of that union-busting, apartheid defending, illegally Contra funding, redbaiting piece of shit who let millions die of AIDS and had one of the most corrupt administrations in US history?

Shit, dude, I had a party to celebrate his demise back in 2004.

[workersolidarity]

The New York Times has always acted as the propaganda arm of the State Dept., Pentagon and US Defense Contractors.

The State Dept has spent the last year pushing anti-China narratives and, like clockwork, the New York Times, acting on behalf of the Neocons in the State Dept., starts redbaiting and pushing BS stories to manufacture consent for a conflict with China.

Think of the balloon escapades...

It seems the Pentagon and the State Dept are already prepared to move on from Ukraine (now that it's become obvious they're losing) so they can restock their ammunition supplies in preparation for a proxy war, self-destructive economic war and, if need be, a hot war.

[chicago-geniza]

She's so smart and so infuriatingly stupid in very specific ways and it makes me want to bash my head in with a brick lmfao. Because I love suffering and I don't have a job I am writing a long tirade about the discursive origins of "woke," redbaiting, historic precedent for conflating Black civil rights + political identity movements with anti-American activities during McCarthy era, Marcus Garvey, etc.; I doubt anybody else is going to tell her and she has 33K followers and she thinks it is a real ideology/movement when that is literally just a right-wing talking point. Agnes you have got to get out of Hyde Park lol

[kakodaimones]

"...I could have been in Congress. Run in '48, redbait and sell the mouth-breathing California rabble on some cooked up fake Navy hero backstory. Fuck, I could have been President by 1960. Had to go into fucking engineering and start playing around with a bunch of doped up Pasadena satanists instead."

[seashellsoldier]

“Revenge of the She-Punks” by Vivien Goldman (2019)

OK, well, I’ve had two glasses of wine already, so this might be my most lucid review; however, this was a completely enjoyable and edifying book. She-Punk scholar, Feminist, professor, writer, musician, and life-long punk fan, Goldman writes a wonderful reflection on the multifaceted roles women have played within the punk genre of music since its first wave back in the mid-70s, starting in London, flowing to New York City and then Los Angeles, and now blooming all over the world as the foundational issues of poverty, inequality, classism, oppression, and patriarchy are becoming clearer to greater millions every year. Women are becoming more and more empowered, reinforced by the groundbreakers and barricade-smashers that came before them. This book illustrates those connections beautifully as Goldman takes us around the world.  

Look, music is powerfully subjective and the fact that pop music is forever dominant speaks volumes about the majority of humanity. I’ve been an anti-pop metalhead since 1985. We all tended to be social outcasts, misfits, bastards, and broken things who gravitated towards such outsider communities for a multitude of reasons. A sense of belonging and communion was certainly one of them. At its best (to me), punk is primal, enraged, and riotous. From early Suicidal Tendencies to old-school Anti-Flag to The Exploited to Death by Stereo to Redbait to Soul Glo to Cliterati, that’s where my heart and mind go to when I think of punk. Of course I know punk is on a spectrum just like every other offshoot of “rock music”—I saw the Ramones open for White Zombie in 1992 while Green Day was banking big—and this made me wonder if anyone’s put together a taxonomy of rock music, which Professor Google found this aesthetically cool but terribly incomplete (description- and sampling-wise) Music Map (https://musicmap.info/). Goldman provides a track listing for each chapter and some kind soul on Spotify cobbled it together for the rest of us to enjoy (the playlist is this book’s title). While I wouldn’t personally consider half of it punk music in any way, this is a nice strength of the book to breaking open the preconceived notions of how even an educated metalhead like me looks at this sub-genre, and allows us the opportunity to discover and explore new music by incredible musicians sharing their passions with the world, most especially if they’re speaking truth to power. The Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s was a tremendous cerebral stimulation as I drank a beer at a dive bar in Honolulu with Lori Barbero of Babes in Toyland, watched The Breeders pogostick a crowd, and witnessed Lollapalooza start in my home town of Chicago in 1991.  

From The Decline of Western Civilization Part I (1981) to the free-for-all that the cornucopia of “identity” is today, cultural appropriation and countercultural conformity are ever-present these days, but I have to admit when a see a young kid with a foot-tall mohawk, the leather jacket, face piercings, and Doc Martins, I can’t help but smile with pride that punk’s not dead, nor will it ever be. Women have been a part of my music scene since I can remember. From Girlschool to Rock Goddess to Tam Simpson of Sacrilege to Doro Pesch of Warlock to all the amazingly talented women of metal today (https://rideintoglory.com/women-in-traditional-metal-the-old-school-the-new-school-and-the-girlschool/), I have always seen these genres as multicultural and inclusive, but I know that’s not truly how it is. Sexism, predation by men, outright misogyny, inherent trauma, rampant inequality, and pervasive patriarchy have always been the dominant forces within metal and punk, even as so many bands railed—and continue to rail—against all of it. FUN FACT: I had a playlist dedicated to female metal musicians, but then I read how someone (Alissa White-Gluz from Archenemy I think) call bs on that saying nobody ever says “male-fronted metal band”. Being “woke” is a journey of continuous education, growing empathy, and nurturing humility. I guess I’ve leveled-up to Third-wave Feminist now \m/

Goldman shares all of this across the past five decades and highlights one glimmering positive from the cesspool internet: the ability for so many artists to find an audience on essentially their own terms. Bandcamp.com is a nice example of how anyone can promote themselves through sharing with like-minded music fans. Just this week, Bandcamp’s straightforwardly titled The Metal Show podcast hosted Alicia Cordisco (a self-defined trans-female) and her band Transgressive churning out perfect, political thrash metal, and whose proceeds (including proceeds from physical merchandise) go to Trans Lifeline (translifeline.org/donate). I probably never would have found them without Bandcamp, and through such avenues as Bandcamp we can rally in solidarity for such worthy causes as the world continues to struggle against the forces of Fear, Oppression, Authoritarianism, Systemic Racism, and Ignorant Xenophobia. Fifty years ago the only people to have tattoos were sailors and convicts. Now people can walk down most streets however they wish to wrap themselves in identity and nobody but geriatrics take a second-look. That’s forward progress.

I bought my copy of this softcover (surprisingly signed by the author with a dazzling “Stay Punky!” inscription) from Hat & Beard Press (https://hatandbeard.com/collections/books/products/revenge-of-the-she-punks-by-vivien-goldman), combining titles to try justifying my carbon footprint mailing physical books across the continental United States. I’m glad I did. I promise to stay punky unto the grave.

[occupied-retirement]

“Maybe one day it might become a criminal offense to allow someone to go hungry.”

I plan to visit Spain for the first time later this year and I just ordered novels and non-fiction about Spain from my local library after I reviewed lists and links my cousin Marty, a retired Spanish teacher and traveler, sent to me. I added a few films to my list after I did a quick search of Netflix. I was a bit surprised to find “The Good Fight” there – a 1984 documentary about US citizens who went to Spain to fight for the Republic against Franco in the 1930’s prior to the US entry into WWII. I had seen it years ago and I watched it again last week to refresh my memory about Spain’s peasants and workers struggles against the Franco dictatorship. It is a film that is well worth watching if you haven’t seen it.

Before I went to college I had never even heard of the Spanish Civil War. Luckily I took a class from Dr. Robert Colodny, a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who had almost been drummed out of the University of Pittsburgh during the McCarthy era. He managed to survive redbaiting attacks and taught history there until his retirement. He wrote a moving short memoir about his time in Spain and he taught us about the failures of US policy in preventing Hitler and Franco from defeating a democracy and installing Franco as dictator of Spain where he ruled until the 1970’s. My dad was a somewhat Archie Bunker kind of conservative. Like a lot of parents and right-wing politicians in those days he blamed my activism on those “radical professors” and I guess he was at least partially correct.

What is really moving about the film are the stories of several veterans of the Brigade – male and female, African-American and white, Christian, Jew and atheist – who risked death, loss of citizenship, and extreme hardship in Spain to step in and fight against Fascism because they identified with the working class of Spain. The US government refused to intervene or send supplies and arms to the Republican army that defended the democracy in Spain. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was the USA’s first truly racially integrated army. Half of the American citizens in the brigade died in Spain.

Many Americans worked in the United States to support the Republicans. They petitioned the government to lift the embargo on Republican Spain to send arms to the Republic. Union workers held fundraising events, collected goods – food, clothing, ambulances – as did Harvard students and workers. Cab Calloway and Fats Waller entertained at a Dance for Spain and A. Philip Randolph, Helen Keller, John Houseman, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Paul Robeson and Lillian Hellman all spoke out against Hitler and Franco. In 1938 “Blockade,” a film starring Henry Fonda as a Spanish peasant, highlighted the struggles against Fascism. Eventually 75% of Americans who knew enough to have an opinion supported lifting the blockade, but it was never lifted – and US oil companies sold oil to the Fascists and the government allowed Germany and Italy to arm them – up until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. Sounds familiar huh?

The American Lincoln Brigade was forced to leave Spain as the Republic fell to Franco and the forces backed by Hitler. Bill Bailey, a worker featured in the film, was – along with many of the returning volunteers- branded as a “premature anti-Fascist.” In other words, since they opposed Hitler before our government and corporations did, they were blocked from work, threatened with loss of their citizenship and faced with other reprisals. But Bill said as he left Spain, “You didn’t think in terms of defeat because the people were there cheering for us. We felt we were going to carry on in another front – even if it wasn’t in Spain.”

Despite the defeat of the Republic of Spain, the loss of so many volunteers from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and the failure of the United States government to defend the people who identified Hitler as a threat and worked to defeat his armies prior to our country’s entry into World War II, Bill tried to hold on to his optimism throughout his life. In his interview, he said that he keeps on fighting because “maybe one day it might become a criminal offense to allow someone to go hungry.”

And isn’t that what many of us who are engaged in our own versions of “the good fight” hope for? That one day, it will be more of a crime to deny the humanity and survival of other human beings and our planet than to rob a bank?

[marxalittle]

He named names to HUAC and actively drove union members out of the union and their livelihoods over their political stances and union activities. This is addition to his own personal reasons for ruining fellow union members' lives. The IATSE, Equity, and other members targeted by the House Unamerican Activities Committee as well as other redbaiting operations were rarely Communists, but all of those he named were more pro-union than him. Reagan preferred to play on the side of the bosses, so he's worse than a scab, he's a traitor and a screw.

The issue with being in favor of unions is I can't kill Ronald Reagan because despite all his evil, he was also part of a union and I can't kill a union man and still support the unions

[newswireml]

Nicholas Goldberg: What I learned about myself at the Richard M. Nixon museum#Nicholas #Goldberg #learned #Richard #Nixon #museum

In the house where I grew up, President Nixon was a villain. My parents voted against him every opportunity they got, and we all cheered when he resigned during his second term, flying off in ignominy from the White House lawn to a life outside the public eye. That he was a criminal, a warmonger, a bigot, a vicious redbaiter, a threat to the Constitution — these were unquestionable truths. So for…

[leviathan-supersystem]

here's the thing.

you seem really desperate to make this whole discussion about me and marxism-leninism specifically, acting as though the primary critique that has been leveled against me is a critique only applicable to marxist-leninists, and conversely, that my critique of antiwork anarchism is a critique that comes specifically from a marxist-leninist standpoint.

this is incorrect. the main thing i have been criticized for by you and others in this debate is that i think it's acceptable for a society to have incentives around labor (as every society that has ever existed has). this is a critique which applies not just to marxist-leninists but also to every single other ideology in existence which isn't antiwork anarchism.

conversely, my critique of antiwork anarchism- that it cannot adequately answer the questions "is it morally wrong for abled people to let disabled people because the abled people don't feel like performing the labor to keep the disabled people alive" or "is it wrong for abled people to use handicapped parking spaces/seats", are critiques which could be leveled at antiwork anarchists by virtually every ideology in existence, because virtually every ideology in existence can answer these questions better than antiwork anarchists can.

so when you go off on these tangents where you rehash these stale red scare tropes from the john birch society and accuse me of wanting to put everyone in re-education camps then work them to death in the gulag, (i don't, thanks for asking) aside from being disgusting character assassination it's also completely irrelevant to the debate. and sure, maybe by leaning on decades of right-wing anticommunist propaganda you could potentially poison the well and convince people not to listen to me because i'm a damn red communist, but eventually someone who isn't a marxist-leninist is going to make these exact critiques and you wont be able to try to change the topic of conversation by engaging in cheap redbaiting.

If that "lady at the food stamp office" thread hadn't gone around so heavily I might've never truly understood how much we differ at the moral level.

yeah well if that post hadn't gone around so heavily i might have never realized how many people i used to like and trust would join in on a smear campaign against me to deliberately de-contextualize and twist my words to punish me for not immediately conceding to a poorly constructed and nonsensical ideology.

Because the gotchas you're throwing aren't landing where you might've thought they would. I heard a lot of that kind of talk from evangelicals in the 1980s. Same blinkered notion that there was a clear binary morality in their positions. Same impassioned belief that I just refuse to see what's evident - due to moral pollution, or laziness, or a merely contradictory nature. Same empty appeal to God, minus magic.

this is very funny because you have repeatedly made clear that there are many things you consider to be clear moral binaries. see:

My philosophy is that coexistence is our only ethical option.

at any rate, don't be confused, i don't subscribe to the notion of there being an objective morality existing outside humanity. morality is something created by people to serve human interests- when the moral systems we've created aren't serving human interests, we can and should update them in response to this information. how well an ethical system functions is contingent on the existing material and social conditions.

so, understand that i am not saying "my moral framework is objectively correct"- rather, i am inviting the audience to consider the two differing ethical frameworks we're presenting, and to evaluate which one is more likely to lead to a more preferable outcome, most especially a better outcome for the well-being of disabled people.

my ethical framework holds that it's wrong for abled people to let disabled people die, and wrong for abled people to park in the handicapped space. your ethical framework, apparently, does not. and your ethical framework has no problem saying other things are morally wrong- cars, for example- but your ethical framework apparently can't call those two things wrong.

and by all means, feel free to have that ethical framework, but just be aware that it might make it harder to take you seriously when you accuse everyone who doesn't share your ethical framework of being an ableist who wants to put all disabled people in the gulag.

I think statist communists have an unsupportable belief in the innate excellence of their ideology. Refusal to update that canon in the face of pertinent and cogent critiques,

an unsupportable belief in the innate excellence of their ideology? a refusal to update that canon in the face of cogent critiques? i think you must be confused because that describes antiwork anarchism a LOT better than marxism-leninism. have you been willing to update your canon in response to my critiques?

asking questions and then preventing a reply, hm

@leviathan-supersystem,

1: you and I don't share moral fiber. what seems right & wrong to you aren't compatible with my morality. "Moral" is a nonsense word used between intimates, like "spirit" and "energy". Think about ethics: decisions made beforehand to prevent moral panic from justifying abuse.

2: I think automobiles have to be retired if there's going to be any kind of human society in the future. In the meantime, I leave those spaces open because I can walk, and it's good for me to walk. If I was unable to get into the Kroger, I wouldn't call the police.

I don't agree with you, with regard to morals particularly. My ethic is that despite that disagreement, all the freedoms I claim for myself are also yours, and everything I deny to myself is my business, alone. If you infringe on my free action, you're an obstacle, at best. Ethically, I won't shoot you. Morally, I won't want to. If you force me to, I will. Same goes for your work detail officers, minus the initial ethical pause, because: cops.

You want cops. Assuming you've successfully replaced the USA, and its police, the new ones won't have the backup or infrastructure to prevent me from shooting them. Your courts will be hated by all the people, and they'll be less likely to help you enslave & torture others.

This classically protestant fox-friendly campaign against human well-being that you go on is bizarre to me. It has a compulsive vibe, like, you know it's bad but just keep picking at it.

If you want servants, ask people. Don't pretend they have an obligation to serve you. Certainly not a "moral" one.

[coffeeslot]

REDBAIT : Nazi Punks Fuck Off! (Dead Kennedys)

https://blackflagsoverbrooklyn.bandcamp.com/album/riffs-for-reproductive-justice