NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Super Bowl halftime show performer was charged Thursday with two misdemeanors, about 4 1/2 months after he ran across the field at the Superdome waving a flag that included the words “Sudan and Free Gaza,” Louisiana State Police said.
Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, 41, turned himself in to authorities to face of charges resisting a police officer and disturbing the peace by interrupting a lawful assembly, police said. He surrendered in coordination with his attorney and was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center.
Nantambu revealed the flag and ran on the field during rapper Kendrick Lamar’s halftime performance on Feb. 9. He was detained on the field after his demonstration but not charged. The NFL said at the time he would be banned for life from league stadiums and events.
According to a statement from police, Nantambu had been hired as an extra performer and “had permission to be on the field during the performance, but did not have permission to demonstrate as he did.”
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy thanked investigators for their work.
“We take any attempt to disrupt any part of an NFL game, including the halftime show, very seriously and are pleased this individual will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” McCarthy said in a statement.
He’s a traitor to the country he claims to lead.
He’s the most American president ever.
No, he is not.
Nationalist reactionary?
Reality TV host?
Fraud?
Overseeing genocide and war?
Yes that’s the most American president ever.
Forgot real estate tycoon
And r*pist. And racist.
True true. Also slumlord and pedophileremoved.
He’s the most MAGA president ever, but it’s NOT what most Americans want from our country. We are terribly ashamed of what is happening right now.
MAGA is the most amerikkka movement ever, pure fascist SSettler id
I remember being told the same when Bush killed millions in Iraq.
What kind of copium you huffing where you come up with shit like this? MILLIONS of people voted for the guy. He was president in 2016 too, when, again, millions voted for him. You’ve built up a fantasy in your head and you’re so detached from material reality.
Most Americans have no political consciousness and don’t give a shit. You’ve got nobody in the streets, nationalist, and you certainly don’t speak for the public. It’s pretty obvious you don’t even speak to common people, you’re so wrapped up in this little bubble and they would burst it for you immediately.
Dude, YOU are in a bubble. Nobody in the streets? Did you see the recent No Kings protests? Literally millions of people filled the streets of EVERY city in America, and these protests were bigger than the previous protests which are happening every weekend. In fact, the No Kings protests was second only to the George Floyd protests of a couple of years ago.
You can really inflate those numbers when those “protests” are happening tangential to things like the ICE protests and pride parades. Where I’m at, there was legitimately pride, no kings, and ice protests all happening downtown at the same time.
You can inflate the numbers all you like, but the truth of the matter is that Americans yearn for a king.
Which can only be resolved by returning to the fold of the great British empire. Long live the king!
The one day parade was “second only” to months of non-stop people in the streets protesting? This is not something a serious person would say.
lmao, typical liberal thinks a big parade is the same as being in the streets.
Nope I organize my community I talk to random-ass people every goddamn day while you very obviously do not with these Reddit-brain nationalist shut-in replies.
And they accomplished nothing and the libs went back to brunch. Liberal protests are just cop-sanctioned parades, they have no impact whatsoever except to make the politically illiterate fool themselves into accepting the status quo because they now think it is something they are sufficiently working against (by doing nothing with any other effect!).
By in the streets, I mean actually making shit happen by mobilizing and making material demands with material threats that are acted on if the demands are not met. Actually not putting up with the status quo by force.
Americans sure as hell aren’t doing that over Trump. No Kings achieves the opposite, which is complacency.
Are you suggesting his electoral win was not valid?
—Matt Taibbi in 2016, before he decided his mortgage payments are more important than solidarity
I kind of forgot that guy once had good takes
These are the people that tell you you’re in an echo chamber.
I’m glad .ee is going away
I’m not, we need these moments, it brings us together as a comm. /S (kind of)
This one sparks joy
Trump is literally the embodiment of american style capitalism, an essay
versus
no he’s not
Not even “no he’s not” is just “nuh-uh! I don’t like that, so it isn’t true!”
I mean Andrew Jackson is still in contention I guess.
Andrew Jackson was 200 years ago. How is he relevant?
You’re right. History started on January 21st 2025
utter lack of critical thinking. this is the person calling other people childish
I guess I should be complaining about Europeans supporting the Romans as they conquered Europe, right? What’s wrong with you people, why are you so supportive of Caligula?
So when you said Trump is the worst president ever, what exactly did you think the word “ever” meant?
Person 1: “Trump is the most american president in history”
Person 2: “Andrew Jackson is a contender”
You: “BUT HE WAS IN THE PAST”
You’re a fucking idiot. Stop being mad at anyone else. Be mad at yourself.
go hump a flag, dumbass
Good comeback, genius.
“why does history matter?”
lol, baby-brained shit
Andrew Jackson’s policies have almost no relevance to 21st century American politics. Almost no president before the Civil War does.
You want to disparage me for not understanding AMERICAN history, when Andrew Jackson isn’t even considered one of the 10 worst presidents by historians. Pre-Civil war Presidents like Polk, Taylor, Buchanan, etc are considered worse, but Europeans have never even heard of them. Then there is Andrew Johnson, the Confederate sympathizer VP who became president after Lincoln’s assassination, and cancelled most of the Reconstruction efforts, establishing the Jim Crow laws, and starting the ferocious racism that dominated America for the next century.
If you want to choose a bad president as an example, you can do worse that Jackson.
By the way, I have a degree in history.
If you had a degree in history, you would know what a hinge point the civil war was
If you’re going to lie, at least make it plausible.
I think you have an actual problem keeping a point together, at this point I feel bad even arguing.
I said Trump was the most American president. As in he delivers the ideals of what America represents (in reality, not your liberal nationalist nonsense). When you said “No” so persuasively, I offered Jackson as another great representative of what America stands for, white supremacy and murder. You were very confused by this.
I do believe you have a history degree, you very likely 1. Have a very standard liberal university degree. 2. Have a wildly non-materialist view of history.
Presidential rankings are less important than music video rankings, I don’t care which bastard you like more.
I also hate people who always need the last word so I am doing my part in extending this.
pathetic
wipe your ass with it
hey what biases do these historians have? why do they think genocide doesn’t play when evaluating presidents?
Who said they don’t consider genocide in their rankings? American historians are brutal towards presidents that supported slavery and the Native American genocide. I’ve never seen a single authentic scholarly historian ( not a propagandist) justify either one of those terrible atrocities.
Those mid-19th century presidents are excoriated precisely because of their support of slavery and the Native American genocide.
In what way are his actions not representative of a large part of the US population? Not the majority, but a decent amount. He represents and leads his base, who are fascists, the policies he wants to enact are not abnormal for the history of the US. The last 60-100 years or so has had some progressivism but what Trump and MAGA represent has always been a core part of the US; white-supremacist imperialism.
The MAGA Nazis cheated to achieve power, and they are an illegitimate government who does not represent the wishes of the vast majority of American citizens. Do not blame all Americans for the crimes of a treasonous criminal enterprise who is being supported by hostile foreign governments, Sociopathic Oligarchs, and Transnational Corporations. Oh, and a lot of really stupid, gullible morons.
Most Americans want their country to change, too.
BlueAnon
Tell that to an Iraqi, I dare you
Do you mean that they broke the law in any way more substantial than it is reasonable to assume every frontrunner does? Because I’m happy to sign on to the idea that America’s electoral system is fundamentally a tool of the owning class and every administration we’ve had has been illegitimate, but I don’t think that that’s what you mean.
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literally the exact same thing they said when Biden won in 2020, like word for word, without a hint of irony. it’s so funny to see blue team dive into qanon style conspiracy theories without a second thought (or even a first!)
Even by the standards of the average BlueAnon lib this one is exceptionally dumb. The libs, they aren’t sending their best
BlueAnon
Is “Goblin” Musk here? You keep talking about intellectual seriousness and then using childish nicknames. Like, let me be clear, Musk should be executed, I’m not making a moral claim against you there, I just think you look silly and are hampering your own communication.
Trump won the election. The Electoral College itself is anti-democratic, but within the parameters of winning the electoral college, Trump won and pretending he didn’t is lowering yourself to his level in 2020 when his loss was just as obvious and explainable as Kamala’s subsequently was.
I have no clue who they mean either. What i think is great about it is that they expect us to 100% know who they’re refering to.
I think it’s Musk, it’s kind of almost endearing how they keep using these names that literally nobody else has ever used. Strong ”Wrap it up, Obamailures” energy.
Did George W Bush win fair and square?
lol, you can’t seriously believe that. Do most Americans want their country to stop murdering people in unjust wars and to stop funding Israel’s genocide? The answer is obviously no, because you libs are fine with your country doing that just as long as a Democrat is in charge. The majority of Amerikkkans were in favor of bombing Iran, just like they were in favor of invading Iraq.
Yes, quite so. But we need to very clear about what we mean by “Americans”.
If we mean the electorate, then yes people want it to stop. If we mean the electors, then fuck no.
Polling is pretty clear that yes, most Americans do want the US to stop arming Israel and were very opposed to war in Iran.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/657404/less-half-sympathetic-toward-israelis.aspx
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/trump-iran-strikes-poll-cnn-ssrs
People have really been turning against Israel in the past several months, and most people (not politicians, people) didn’t want us to bomb Iran. There was definitely broad support for invading Iraq, but the pols had the advantage of weaponizing 9/11 for that purpose.
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Do you seriously believe this bullshit? It’s funny that you claim to hate them and call them nazis, yet you fell for their garbage and defend them. They’ll just come up with an excuse for why this war is justifiable because Evil Country is that bad.
This person is a horrible reactionary, but this one point is at least mostly correct. A lot of dumb hogs thought Trump was serious about stopping wars and avoiding new ones, so of course they oppose the bombing even if they think all Persians are evil
Surely MAGA will turn on Trump because they’re against this war. Donny won’t wiggle his way out of this one.
Oh well, none the less.
Every president has done this. This is why they accept bribes and fight with teams of lawyers.
This applies to every president. American “democracy” has always been a white supremacist bourgeois joke. You know that only white landowner men could vote originally, right?
Liberals and the politically confused living in this fantasy bubble are part of the same cluster of false consciousness as MAGA and their alternative candidates have done worse crimes. Even just the last government. The genocide of Gaza is Biden’s, he gave it full support while doing the little PR dance that always works on liberals: lying about trying to do better. This administration is part of a continuity of oppression. This is why candidates more on the left are isolated and prevented from power by the Democrats.
In addition, the policies of liberals ensure poverty and dispossession with no political outlet for resolving them. With no left outlet, that leaves the right, who Dems curate to be their opposition (and vice versa). Dems promoted Trump and scuttled Sanders. This creates and maintains a society where false consciousness is promoted, such as turning to racist or xenophobic explanations. American classics.
Who gives a shit. The US regularly topples governments and meddles in many more. Caring more about this than that is just chauvinism, proving you have more in common with Trump than you think.
Same as all presidents. Your favorite president. Name them. They were supported by sociopathic oligarchs. The US is run by capital.
Like I said, the US is run by capital. Those transnationals are imperialist, they funnel profits to OECD countries and base their policies in the US, the global state power of capital. You could say this about all presidents since WWII and even be mostly right since the mid-1800s.
Why are they stupid and gullible?
Change how? Americans, first and foremost, have no political consciousness. This is why those on the left spend so much time on educating others. Wanting change, for Americans, can mean almost anything and changes based on what the last attractive person told them was cool.
Deporting or imprisoning every brown person would be “change” and would be popular among Republicans and Democrats alike if their political class color scheme told them to support it. Republicans frothing at the mouth with 80% support until it started crashing the economy and Democrats with 50% faux-reluctant support and 20% frothinh support.
The “they’re all the same” argument is lazy and not worth engaging. This the same thinking that allowed the rise of MAGA.
Translation: “I can’t countenance this fact and it destroys my worldview even though there is over a century of evidence”
also you:
wishing you a jet of rancid diarrhea all over your face
also you:
Sounds like you just can’t argue with anything I said but your fragile nationalist ego won’t let that stand.
Much of what you said is true, but that doesn’t mean Americans like it. We allowed billionaires to gain an outsized influence in American police and now we have to dig ourselves out of it. This is NOT what most Americans want, anymore than the Nazis were what most Germans wanted. These people forced their way into power, partially the fault of weak/ lazy/ corrupt politicians who turned away from the threat, and now they intend to hold power through intimidation.
It won’t work. The one thing Americans are is fighters. We love to fight, and we will eventually conquer the MAGA Nazis. I’m not really worried about that part. It will happen, they are already doomed.
My concern is that once they are gone, we won’t take the opportunity to rebuild our country properly, in order to avoid more trouble down the road. Andrew Johnson took over after Lincoln’s assassination, and sabotaged the Reconstruction efforts, causing the Jim Crow era of racial inequality of the next 100 years, and eventually leading to MAGA.
We can’t make that mistake again. We will have to rebuild with a different philosophy, and crush anyone who tries to insist on a policy of Hate.
Literal fascist rhetoric.
But with some Model UN brains.
The owning class running society has been the case for basically all of recorded human history. There is a direct continuity from the landed gentry and mercantile class of the late medieval period to the bourgeois masters of today. This isn’t something that we tripped into as recently as the last 80 years.
The worst liberal lie about Nazi Germany is that Hitler won his election, so I’m glad you aren’t doing that, but Nazis did win many lower seats and the economically liberal establishment was quite amenable to working with Nazis to crush the communists, which directly led to the Nazi takeover, and then the Nazis were able to run society with impressively little resistance from the social majority Germans. This is where you now offer excuses and clean Wehrmacht nonsense for me.
No, we’re bullies toward whoever our respective cultural factions view as inferior (queers, rednecks, etc.) who love to wallow in treats and sneer at the victims of empire, or even just victims of natural disasters and plague if they fall into one of the aforementioned groups.
When a Marxist calls you idealist, this is the sort of reasoning they are talking about. The abortion of Reconstruction was certainly a mistake in terms of Lincoln’s planning, because his political philosophy of appointing political enemies was extremely stupid and itself idealist, but to act like it was a mistake in any broader sense is misinformed. Just like all the other monstrous actions the US has taken part in, there is a material basis for it being the favored outcome, with deeply entrenched interests who are rarely ever challenged.
You’ve been continuously suggesting a collective guilt that I don’t think is reflective of the uninterrupted monopoly on power held by the owning class, which Trump is just a particularly crude expression of.
I think they meant kill, not fight. Americans are killers, they love to kill.
You have an (alleged) history degree and you seriously think it was just one man on his own whim who sabotaged reconstruction?
Americans did this. All of them collectively, not “one bad apple” you can shame and wave away the rest.
Yeah, you love to “fight” poor brown people on the other side of the planet
Oh god.
I seriously got whiplash from that one. I might almost miss .ee
So I was right. You can’t argue with anything I said - you addressed none of it in this comment.
I agree actually that most Americans don’t support outwardly horrific things (though a huge portion really do because that is what America is based on, death and white supremacy) but he perfectly represents what this country is actually about, dictatorship of the bourgeois.
Also good lord enough with the “hostile foreign governement” thing and accept that the horror is coming from inside the house.
It is counterproductive to ignore the fact that America is under attack by two foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs, assisted by the most prolific Traitor in American history, and also a vicious Sociopath. None of them have any loyalty or patriotism to America, and only see it it as a rich, fat, lazy target to be exploited ruthlessly.
These are simple facts, and America cannot be saved, and perhaps even redeemed (the wish of most Americans, who are quite aware of our historical stains), until the real enemies are purged from our society, and the world. Scoffing at the reality of the situation is stupid.
If you think the people buying the country are a more fundamental issue than the people selling the country, I’m not sure what to say. If you think the people selling the country are just Maga, I likewise have the same difficulty.
On the contrary, Trump is very loyal to the american empire’s interests. His whole trade war gamble shows his greater vision. Forcing the entire world to renegotiate terms and get better deals for american monopoly capitalists.
I wouldn’t say that the bourgeoise should be purged, but tamed and abolished certainly. Well, we can have a little purging as a treat.
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No shit. And Dems have been making policy decisions based on what makes them money, too. But I don’t see you calling them out
To whose benefit, do you think?
2 things can be true at the same time
I see, the Mentally Ill Foreigners are conspiring to steal the constitution and make America into a failed state like Libya and all we have to do is to purge the weak and imbecilic race-traito- I mean anti-democratic populists and then the Republic will be restored to its former glory! Huzzah!
I’ll bite, who are you talking about here?
https://hexbear.net/comment/6284430
My man Xi putting in the hours and not even getting recognised smh.
lol. lmao, even.
Hilariously, Musk is the second one. Yeah, what a spooky foreigner he is. I had assumed he meant Bibi, which would have been silly but not as much so.
The fascist angle of Blue MAGA
Why is lacking loyalty/patriotism to America your primary criticism compared to, say, committing war crimes and funding genocide?
This just sounds like rightwing nationalism to me.
I NEVER said that either was a priority, you put those words in my mouth. They are two separate subjects, and both are high priority.
I am pointing out that the three biggest influences on America right now are Putin, Musk, and Trump, and none of them are motivated by their love for this nation, perhaps the most basic characteristic that any nation expects from its leaders. We expect that our leaders will place the health of their nation above their own personal financial ambitions, and the exact opposite is true of these three jackals.
Condemning war crimes and genocide should be a given. Of course I am against those things, and have loudly condemned the MAGA Nazi government for those atrocities. I also spoke out against the Biden administration for supporting Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, and I have been speaking out for years about Israel’s horrific treatment of the West Bank and Gaza residents.
It is not either/or, I can oppose all of it equally.
Understood. I think there’s a tendency to overestimate the influence of external actors in order to subconsciously externalize America’s problems as not-American. Fascist ideology plays on this tendency and cultivates an image of a “pure” nation that is merely being corrupted by external forces (or often an internal force that is externalized/otherized). So that’s probably one reason you’re seeing so much pushback in these replies.
When studying US history, we see a consistent through-line of decades of imperialism, war crimes, and domestic oppression that isn’t in any way unique to Trump and can be explained almost entirely by US material interests. Given that and the fact the US is the dominant global superpower, narratives that try to assign blame to foreign actors seem mislead at best.
I would normally agree, but Russia’s influence on MAGA, and especially HitlerPig himself, is well documented.
In 1997, Alexandr Dugin published The Foundations of Geopolitics, which outlined how Russia could achieve world dominance without war, and it has become the playbook for Russian foreign policy. It is taught at the Russian Military Academy, and Putin keeps a copy on his desk. Dugin is still a close advisor, and his daughter was a major intelligence authority until she was murdered by a car bomb that was meant for her father.
I suggest everyone who thinks the Russia influence is overblown to peruse the section under Content, where they will find Russia’s plan to dominate each region of the world. Under America, it reads:
Read the section on England, and you will recognize Brexit. Read the section on Ukraine, and you will read language that Putin has quoted directly in his justifications for invading Ukraine. It is obvious that this book is Putin’s blueprint.
There is also this statement:
And here is this community, doing exactly what Putin wants you to do.
Not only is Putin behind the rise of far right politics, you are falling right into his trap, and helping him.
good bit 10/10 no notes
lmfao, this is the most fascist shit I’ve ever read.
Here’s their source author
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
Childish response.
Cope
go eat a dog turd
Childish response.
Yeah, it’s called code switching - Just trying to make sure you understood me
Holy hitler particles
That’s what America has literally always been though. There was never a time when the american government was not those things.
But there was time when the government could keep them in check. Now they have hoarded enough money that they can leverage their own deals with foreign nations, outside of government control.
That’s what has changed, and it’s not an American problem, it’s a global problem. Billionaires aren’t just in America, they are everywhere, and they are deciding to usurp the typical roles that government has had in the past. Instead of government regulating them, they will regulate governments to suit their needs.
Non-Americans are falling into the same trap that American MAGAs have fallen into - they are blaming everyone except those who are actually causing the problems: the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and their Transnational Corporations.
You could have your wildest anti-American dreams come true, and have America erased from history, and your problems would still be there, because the problem isn’t America, it’s the out-of-control wealth hoarding around the globe. One of the biggest is Putin, and once he eliminates America, he’ll move onto every other wealthy nation.
Quit attacking the victims of the wealthy, and attack the wealthy themselves.
Most of those transnational corporations are American and almost all of them, especially weighted by wealth, are heavily tied to the US government.
I do think you have the beginning of the right idea though, because the fundamental problem is the owning class. Your errors that compromise being correct here are not realizing: The owning class has always been the fundamental problem throughout recorded history and America has always been controlled by them with only internal factional disputes “challenging” this.
No, America has always been the ones actively doing the evil, or propping it up for monetary gain.
If this is your gripe, you need to do a little bit more studying to realize that is what America has always gone for. That is the goal, was the goal, and will continue to be the goal.
Sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that America was formed with this goal in mind. White, slavery operated land ownership and the accumulation of capital is and always has been what america stood for.
If you think Putin wants to destroy america for any reason beyond the fact that american imperialism is threatening his (also imperialist) nation, i dunno what to tell you.
Go fuck yourself, liberal. You clearly don’t have any understanding of what it means to be a victim, or who the wealthy are.
I’m not happy with the way life in America is going right now, but I still wouldn’t trade it for Russian life. If Putin succeeds in sidelining America, then Europe is next.
People like me are trying to change America for the better. We all know about the stains America has left on the world, but America has also done a lot of good for the world as well. There is a battle for America’s future, and a lot of us are hoping to take America in a new direction and redeem our nation’s mixed legacy.
If you are cheering for HitlerPig’s success, then you are literally cheering for Nazi rule, and if it takes root here, then it will go global next.
Citations needed here. Let me guess
Like rescuing all those nazis from the soviets!
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Cupcake, who the fuck do you think is cheering for trump? It sure as fuck isn’t any of us. We just haven’t deluded ourselves into thinking any president was ever that different.
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I don’t blame most Americans, I know most aren’t straight up fascists, even Trump voters mostly aren’t evil or anything. But you don’t have to say he’s a traitor or blame ‘scary foreigners’, looking at the history of the US Trump is extremely American, just a bit more intensely than we’ve had in a while. And he is supported by US corporations, the groups that the US truly represents.
The US has never represented the average mass of people, for most of the last 300 years the majority of people in the US couldn’t even vote. And with voter suppression and propaganda it’s still essentially true. Trump/MAGA/fascism is a natural consequence of the wealthy ownership of the productive forces and nearly all media of the US.
Again, it is counterproductive to ignore the influence that Putin has on Trump, and the rise of far-right/ white supremacy around the world. Until that relationship is properly addressed, America’s issues will not be resolved, and the far right will continue to grow, here and around the world.
No, its the productive thing to do. We’ve seen what being a paranoid nationalist does to people and its not productive at least in a doing something good kind of productivity
The far right growing gave you Trump, not the other way around. You have basic causd and effect reversed. The US was already white supremacist and no Putin didn’t do that.
No, but Putin is fanning the flames.
https://lemm.ee/comment/21506245
See you’ve been arguing all morning about how great and cool america is and its only done a few teeny tiny little genocides as an oopsie woopsie, but now you totally cede the idea that america was always white supremacist and putin didn’t do it.
pure ideology. that history degree really didn’t do you any favors
I have not been arguing that. America is a fucking mess right now, and I’m afraid that it may be the end for it.
I have said before that I have a history degree, and also that I am politically independent, so nobody is more aware of America’s problematic history, and all my life I have struggled to reconcile that history with my personal morality. I honestly remember the moment as a kid in school, when I thought about the slaves, and the Indians, and then about how America was supposed to be so great after doing all those terrible things. I have recognized our flaws from a very early age.
However, I have faith in the original concept of America as a nation where all people can be free and equal. I am well aware that we have violated those tenets routinely, but I have lived my life advocating for political issues that would make America adhere to the philosophy of freedom under which we were founded. So while we may act as reprehensibly as some of the worst nations on the planet, I naively optimistic that we will eventually take out nation back, and force it to follow the positive philosophy that is supposed to be our foundation.
I do not defend America’s problems, but I am hoping for America’s redemption.
Since you ignored the rest of what I said, then I assume you agree and havd now abandoned the entirety of your argument.
I agree that HitlerPig didn’t cause White Supremacy, he’s just using it to build support.
I don’t understand how that is abandonment of the argument that HitlerPig is the worst president in American history, and an existential threat to America and a free world.
The US government and corporations fund right-wing groups and propaganda worldwide in dollar amounts incomparable to any other country. In direct material terms, what has Putin done to increase the rise of the far-right? Wealthy people in Russia may benefit from far-right ideologies and help push them but the US is the primary driver of the capitalist aligned far-right and imperialism in the world. The US doesn’t need a rival like Russia to push the far-right narrative, I have seen it all my life pushed endlessly by US organizations and average Americans. Russia and China are the historic scapegoats to shift the blame from the domestic groups pushing fascist ideals and discontent.
If I were to view Putin or Russia in general as having a large influence on the rise of right-wing politics in the US, what would you suggest be done about it? In what way would this change my course of action as a communist or socialist?
https://lemm.ee/comment/21506245
This is what Putin is doing, and he is absolutely behind the rise of far-right politics. Just because he didn’t invent white supremacy doesn’t mean he isn’t fanning the flames and using to his advantage.
What to do about it? At this point, Americans have to be focused on taking back our nation from the MAGA Nazis, and then we can deal with everything else. I’ve even put my own personal political issues (Universal Health Care, Free College Education, etc., mostly Socialist stuff) on the back burner because defeating MAGA is the priority. After that we can reconfigure America to benefit the people and not the Corporatists.
As for Putin, short of war, I’m not sure, frankly. I’d rather not have a World War to crush Russia once and for all. Putin is old, supposedly sick, so maybe he’ll solve the problem for us. Then perhaps we can intervene in the resulting chaos.
This is Nazi Judeo-Bolshervick conspiracy repackaging for American liberal-fascists.
Chauvinist fuck. Can you American fascists stop meddling in other countries?
I refuse to believe there is any university that would give someone so consumed by Great Man Theory bullshit a degree in history.
Once again, everyone. Check out the author of this ‘source’. An absolute fascist nut job who seems to have invented being a nazbol. It is essential to the understanding this weird weird fucking poster that theyre really into a book written by this absolute freak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
I love how you so conveniently ignored this part.
No actually he’s not and his beliefs and actions, if you research, line up quite nicely with the people who voted for him.
Yes he is. He led an Insurrection, and stole hundreds of classified documents. He is, by any definition, a Traitor.
It doesn’t matter that his beliefs and actions are the same as his followers, THEY are Traitors, too.
So you’re a fascist.
Now I understand it. You are a neoliberal. You hate fascism because you think you can run the empire for longer.
Forget about it. The fascists are ripping the copper out of your walls because they see what you cannot, or refuse to, see: that the western empire is falling.
I wish you were in charge of usa. Would make world liberation a lot easier…
Possibly worse. The author theyre citing in that link is like, the first Nazbol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
No one cares because we are not nationalists. American nationalism is a far right plague. You say you want to oppose the right, but so far you seem to embrace it, using fascistic language.
And Jan 6 was the most pitiful “insurrection” I’ve ever seen. Don’t worry, we will show you a real one.
It is a moral imperative to be a traitor to the United States. You know it’s doing a genocide, right? You should be firebombing a JDAM factory.
You say that, but it was also completely successful in the long run. Their guy is president and he pardoned all of them.
I don’t think Jan 6 is why Trump is in office right now lol. Jan 6 was a handful of petty bourgeois chuds (one actually frothing at the mouth!) allowed to harrass Congress by the capitol police. It had no direct effect on anything outside of likely making Congress try to get more buddy buddy with their local cops.
It also had the effect of giving Trump’s base a group of political prisoners to rally around (as farcical as that was), it kept him and his “movement” relevant when he was out of office, and now that he’s pardoned them it has emboldened his freikorps to break even more laws for him because they know he’s got their back. I don’t think ICE would be as bold if it weren’t for J-6th.
I just don’t think you can say, for sure, that it played no role in his reelection or in his current ethnic cleansing campaign.
I don’t remember anyone rallying around Jan 6ers. They did their “they were just innocent white angels” routine to deflect but they weren’t treated like martyrs (which would have been smart).
I don’t think there’s a connection to ICE outside of Trump showing he will pardon people. ICE has bern like this, it is made up of the worst chuds and has been since its inception. They have been doing fucked up shit and we’ve had to organize communities against them. There were raids under Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden, and anyone involved in this organizing has been saying chinga la migra for ages. The difference now is that they are using open terror tactics, hiding their faces, and the feds have authorized detentions and even exiling people without due process. That comes from above.
Pardoning the J-6ers came from above too, though. The top-down message that sends is “anything you do in Trump’s name is legal” and ICE certainly heard the message.
I don’t think it should be written off, is all I’m saying. There’s something to learn here.
No, it is not a moral imperative to be a traitor to the United States. The Constitution of the United States advocates for Freedoms like Expression, Religion, Defense, Privacy, etc., and those things should be ferociously defended. Nobody should be a traitor against those things, or they are advocates for authoritarianism.
What we should be traitors of is the MAGA Nazi government. They are not following the Constitution, and are an illegitimate government who has hijacked our political infrastructure.
America’s original political philosophy of personal freedom, and citizen control over government is still a valid philosophy that should be the dominant philosophy of the world. It is the way bad operatives have twisted it that needs to be resisted. Be traitors to Traitors, not Freedom.
Those are just words, dog. Some slave owners rhapsodizing about freedom and then codifying and defending chattel slavery does not mean that they are really motivated by caring about freedom. You are just giving the meaningless scribblings of America’s original oligarchs a complete mnoopoly on the idea of democracy when we have documentation from them about how they want to limit it and literally the sole reason that things like the Senate exist is to check democracy, something still presented as a good thing in many civics classes today.
works great on paper huh
Personal freedom for white slave owning men.
This never existed.
It is an I gave a reason why: it is doing genocide. You ignored that reason. So are you pro-genocide or just dishonest?
To fight for human dignity and rights is to fight against America. America as it is, not as documents tell you it is “supposed” to be. The US does not, in reality, have freedom of exoression, religion, or privacy, though it certainly does have unlimited freedom for the war machine (so long as capital aligns with it). The latter is not a good thing and is part of why you should be against America if you want to think of yourself as a good person.
You should be against genocide and take direct action against it. That would make you a traitor. So, nationalist, you have to make a choice: nationalist embracing genocide or traitor rejecting genocide? You already tacitly told us your answer, but don’t you think it is important to have integrity and be honest about your opinions?
Shall we add, “takes action against genocide” to the list of things that liberals think are authorotarian?
Will you firebomb a JDAM factory?
No president has followed the constitution. The political class has been fighting it for their economic masters since its inception even when it enshrines better methods by which they can maintain profits and control. In addition, I cannot emphasize this enough, I do not care about the constitution or what is legal. The legal and moral are not the same thing.
If it were 1860 you’d be complaining about Lincoln violating the constitution to end slavery.
These were already bad faith proclamations in their time made by slaveowners and swindlers. “Citizen control”? You are historically illiterate. Most citizens could not even vote when the Constitution went into effect. Capital has always been in power in the US, whether it was landowners or industrislists or merchants.
If you cared about people controlling their own governments around the world you would oppose the US, which regularly topples other governments and supports dictatorships and fascists.
But you yourself have twisted it, or really, let’s be honest, regirgitated some nationalist blue MAGA bullshit you heard and never investigated. You can’t even get your own national civic history right!
Are you saying that the country that has spent the last ~80 years sending its military and intelligence forces all across the planet to brutally crush any movement that went against its perceived interests is somehow not “authoritarian”? The country that currently has more than 700 military bases worldwide? That country?
This is exactly what libs believe lmao
You’re lost in the sauce of liberalism, like you’re a perfect caricature of the libs we dunk on on the regular, you do know this right?
i fucking wish lol