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PSL hurts our movement (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net to c/slop@hexbear.net

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Say NO, to Pumpkin Spice Latte PSL

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 125 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

uses rallies to recruit

Oh god no, turning protests into a productive, larger, organized movement! Don’t these tankies know that the point of protests is to show up, wave your clever sign, and just hope that spontaneously causes the downfall of the bourgeois state?

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 86 points 1 week ago

"Defends authoritarian regimes" - list of good guys lmao

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yesterday I went to get cigarettes and cash for the bus after work. Guy at the register was struggling with a $10 bill in the counterfeit reader and grumbling about hating technology sometimes.

Of course I could not help myself so I said, yeah ne too and asked him if he knew about the luddites.

One thing leads to another and I basically ended up having the kind of talk we have here all the time.

Quick Stop gas station kid if you're on here yep, we hate the word authoritarianism too.

TLDR the kids might be alright, he was way ahead of where I was at his age.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 84 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This method of attacking PSL is the same method the CIA uses to attack foreign states. They're building up a giant list to bomb people with "reasons x country is bad so you should support bombing it", big enough so that it requires several hundred pages to refute. Gish gallop in propaganda form is their preferred method.

Many people won't even remember the claims, they'll just remember "PSL bad" and that's that.

I'll say a few things:

  1. Nobody knows where Tigray is. Useless point. Xinjiang is easily refutable at this point and most people are listening to it.
  2. Coverups and internal drama never happens in the democrats obviously.
  3. Only idiots will buy that a bunch of queer communists have ever supported fascists.
  4. Nobody knows who Roy Singham is, including me lmao.
  5. "De-mobilises protests" oh really? Which ones? Palestine? Anti-ICE? Nah.

Come on feds this is some of your weakest ever work, it can be shut down in less text than exists on the propaganda, do better.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

Nobody knows who Roy Singham is, including me lmao.

AFAIK the intended part of this bit is for people to google him, see he's a pro-China billionaire who gave PSL and their front orgs $40m, and think that's bad.

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[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 week ago

Come on feds this is some of your weakest ever work, it can be shut down in less text than exists on the propaganda, do better.

I actually watched this in action in a group chat I'm in (national chat so I know basically nobody in it).

  • new person expresses positive opinion of PSL re: protests

  • dude links red flags document (I actually checked this at the time and was like hell no I'm not clicking on a google document link)

  • Gets dogpiled by clique of people (like 4-5 in a big chat)

  • they start accusing the new person of trolling every time they chime in to any conversation

  • eventually gets kicked for refusing to take them seriously

for being very concerned about "high control groups" they were being highly controlling

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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 83 points 1 week ago

Gotta love the corporate art style for your "leftist" left-bashing, whoever made the original

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 69 points 1 week ago

Actually Its steven universe artstyle nerd

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

PSL co-opting a protest (actually organizing the protest) is bad but this poece of shit co-opting Steven Universe characters for outdated hello fellow kids state department propaganda is actually cool

[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

I liked steven universe tho

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[-] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 81 points 1 week ago

Defend authoritarian regimes --> Syria

Defend against what?

DEFEND SYRIA AGAINST WHAT MOTHERFUCKER?!

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week ago

Authoritarian: Assad.

Not Authoritarian: Al-Qaeda.

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago

Literally ISIS too.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago

Really would love to ask this genius who they think the government of Syria is now

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[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 79 points 1 week ago

smug-aura-mocks-me for the most part

but I have to say the Steven Universe render of Fred from Scooby Doo with a Molotov cocktail seems like it has good emoji potential:

[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago

That’s my boy onion

[-] Crucible@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week ago

Oh yes, I'm sure the lib who made this completely supports the Maoist resistance of the Tigray People's Liberation Front

[-] axont@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean the CIA has certainly shown support for the TPLF in the past decade, so that filters down into domestic lib support. But you're right in that it's liberals claiming support for things they barely know about. Like I could probably get the average lib to announce support for the Tamil Tigers or the Shining Path if I say PSL has also been critical of them.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 75 points 1 week ago

denies genocide -> "Xinjiang"

Deeply unserious

[-] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 71 points 1 week ago

Why are the AI generated rebecca sugar characters mad at the PSL?

[-] MeetMeAtTheMovies@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

AI generated rebecca sugar characters

They’re not real and they can’t hurt me

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

Everything about this is deeply off putting. I do not have solidarity with Steven Universe feds, if the PSL is hurting their movement, good

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

Lol the only good protests I've ever attended were organized by PSL

[-] jack@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago

they always co-opt the ones they organize

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[-] jack@hexbear.net 60 points 1 week ago

stay mad, losers

maybe after you organize your shoe rack you can start to organize the working class

[-] cerealkiller@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry but Onion from SU holding a fucking molotov goes so hard.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

We should seriously steal that

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"PSL is a high control group with an ineffective strategy"

Good thing you put it in quotes to indicate that someone said it; as we all know, that which has been said is true.

From the links, it's from an anonymous writer at a two-year-old DSA substack.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

On an unrelated note, choosing the Other Mother from Coraline as your pfp sure screams "trustworthy"

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[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago

This feels like a Kelly comic with all the labels

Opaque Funding freedom-hater

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago

5 ways fiber softens our movements

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

I can't remember ever being being so sure of a fedposting(or someone completely influenced by their propaganda ig is possible but the spooky vibes are off the chart imo)

[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago

The Tigray thing feels like such a bizarre pull.

I'm no expert on the nuances of Ethiopian politics, but my understanding is that it's less that Ethiopia is genocidimg the Tigray people, but that the legacies of the Ethiopian monarchy, and a botched Socialist experiment has left the country a prisonhouse of nations, that's Perpetually on the brink of balkanizing itself.

Any Ethiopia experts wanna chime in?

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[-] pongo1231@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago

Authoritarianism is when no vote blue no matter who

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

Graphic design is my passion

[-] Euergetes@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

co-opts and demobilizes protests

if the grains of stopping traffic from running over your disorganized liberal mob by some alchemy demobilizes it, i don't think it was a very formidible heap to begin with

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago

This is pure graphic design, unhampered by human desires or centuries of knowledge

[-] Soot@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Even if you were extremely generous and conceded that all these baseless, vague accusations were true, they'd be significant improvements over the current government.

Like oh no a political party that supports state violence, supports authoritarian regimes, has cult-like behaviours, platforms fascists, has opaque funding and suppresses protests, unlike the current parties which uh.. well, uh.. all that, but way worse, and way more intensely, and more, extremely evil things, such as constantly doing fucking genocide.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago
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[-] mickey@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Onion-molotov next to point 5: is he saying that PSL does too much peace-policing and that randos should throw artisanally manufactured incendiary b*mbs from the crowd during a protest?

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