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☭Josh Mosh☭

@joshmosh138.bsky.social

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Communist doom metal/hardcore guitarist/bassist and guillotine enthusiast who enjoys gardening and Coturnix quail. 18+

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 15h

If your only focus is on removing Trump without addressing the conditions that allowed him to win twice, you're only dooming us to more and worse Trumps in the future. Trump is a symptom of capitalist rot, not the root problem. If there's a hole in your gas tank, your problem isn't having no gas.

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 6m

What you have been arguing without evidence is that you can change the Democrat Party for the better. We have decades of empirical data that suggest you cannot.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 7m

It is possible to express "no genocide" in a system that isn't monstrous, you sick fuck.

Alexzoin @alexzoin.bsky.social · 15m

You are asking why I didn't set a boolean to null. It's not possible to express "no genocide" in a binary system.

I agree with you, Harris was not strong enough on what she would do about Israel. The ballot does not have a section for that.

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Adelunth @adelunth.bsky.social · 10m

I think you shouldn't be allowed to talk at all without actually thinking like a human with emotions for once.
I know your life consists of solely working with zeroes and ones, but real people are suffering because of the things you support.

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 11m

But using lib logic, you don't get to have those other choices. I gave you two choices. They both suck but you have to pick one. Pick now. 120 mph into a brick wall, or 110 mph into a brick wall?

Alexzoin @alexzoin.bsky.social · 14m

Your own analogy disagrees with your point. I would much rather hit a brick wall going slower, obviously. If we slow down enough, it probably will only damage the car. Even slower and the car won't take damage.

We lose the armed revolution. We have a chance in the reformist one.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 12m

Hitting a brick wall at 110 mph is going to kill you just as dead as hitting it at 120 mph.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 14m

People: We don't have any money and everything is too expensive.
Kamala: I'll tell you what, if you make a large downpayment on a house you can't afford, I'll let you write off $25k on your taxes.
People: That doesn't help when we have no money.
Kamala: Sorry, I promised Netanyahu most of our budget

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 16m

You clearly don't agree with us if you think electing Kamala fucking Harris was a way to move us closer to socialism. It's the equivalent of slowing from 120 mph to 110 mph while driving at a brick wall.

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Marx but sexy @sexomarxist.bsky.social · 1h

Ladies and gentlemen, a "progressive" 🤡

Alexzoin @alexzoin.bsky.social · 2h

It's actually more fun to argue politics on twitter than it is here. You guys are just as based in reality as the maga people and just stumbled into some correct positions.

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 19m

I mean you do already have the Nov '24 label, which is a pretty good indicator.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 36m

Anyone else think this account deserves the "liberal apologia" and "leftist scapegoating" and "liberal troll" labels from @shadowbanner.bsky.social ?

Alexzoin @alexzoin.bsky.social · 40m

What is the "basic concept of socialism" that I have "demonstrated" my lack of understanding in?

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 37m

In order for the working class to own and control the means of production, the society cannot be ruled by a capitalist ruling class. You don't achieve socialism by continuously electing representatives of that ruling class. This is explained in great detail all over socialist/communist literature.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 38m

First of all, you don't understand how to achieve it. Second, you don't understand the difference between socialism and liberalism. Third, you told us that Marx and Engels and Lenin would have told us to VBNMW, which is something none of them would have suggested and you'd know this if you read them

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 41m

You're clearly not because you're demonstrating that you don't understand incredibly basic concepts about it.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 46m

You're just a bad faith shitlib. Take "Socialist" out of your bio, because you don't even know what the word means.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 47m

So you're just deliberately not even reading the arguments being presented to you.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 52m

Yeah, that too!

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 53m

It wasn't that he was clairvoyant or super-human. He left us a historical and scientific analysis of class struggle over a long period of human history, and that analysis still tells us how capitalism works today.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 55m

You're flat out wrong. Lenin would not have told us to vote for Kamala Harris. And no, Marx isn't Jesus. He wasn't a prophet. Marx approached his work scientifically, which is why he described the exact things we're experiencing today with capitalism in its death throes in the US and greater West.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 1h

Marx, Engels, and Lenin all explained to us that the shape the revolution takes depends on the conditions in that place at that time. They gave us tools to interpret the world and form our own strategies to improve it. This is why China in 2025 differes from the USSR, which differs from Burkina Faso

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 1h

You don't have to agree with Marx's racist personal views to understand how liberal "democracies" operate simply as tools for the suppression of the working class by the ruling minority. If your strategy is to browbeat the left into voting for the rightward-marching Dems, you don't understand us.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 1h

This response tells me you don't understand Marxist theory at all. It's not that Dems aren't good *enough,* it's that the Democrats prove over and over again that they're no good *at all.* How many times does Lucy need to pull that football away before you stop falling on your back, Charlie Brown?

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 1h

People are telling me to try Mastodon again, but prior to Bsky I was on Mastodon and the guy running the server I was on had a temper tantrum over receiving some mild criticism (so mild I forget what he even did), so he shut down the server.

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 1h

If you understood the theory then you would know how useless it is to try to browbeat people who clearly understand the history of the last 150 years better than you do.

☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 1h

Marxism doesn't end with Karl Marx. People across the Global South have taken the teaching of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and others, adapted them to their own conditions, and vastly improved material conditions for the people in their countries. And you're telling us we can't do it here.

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 1h

The point is that you're expecting communists to ignore historical analysis, ignore class analysis, ignore the framework that communists use to understand the world we currently live in, and you claim to know more than the people you refuse to understand. You're no socialist. You're a liberal.

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