Commie Posting

He/Him This blog is for posting Interesting memes of the Communist varity

[luntfontanne]

so many white americans get all horrified at the idea that [insert oppressive government regime here] would require their film industry to only portray the state in a positive light and act like that’s just an unthinkable level of government censorship and propaganda but then they turn around and watch every marvel movie and american war film ever made lmao

[luntfontanne]

i’m talking about the fact that the united states department of defense has a film liaison unit (and in fact every branch of the us military has its own unit) that requires any filmmaker who wants to borrow material from the us military or otherwise use military resources (eg to film on location, use their guns/planes/tanks/etc or use their personnel as extras) to submit their scripts to be vetted before they are allowed to proceed with production

like sure you could write off superhero movies and war movies as “genre films” that are not reflective of the entire industry but the fact is that if you want to depict the united states military in a us-made film, you are required to get approval from the united states military in order to do so. and due to the competition in the film industry wrt funding and material support, that has led to many writers explicitly being encouraged to write pro-military films in order to increase the chances of their films being made and even an alarming number of huge blockbuster films literally being produced in collaboration with the military explicitly for the purposes of recruitment.

and i guess you could argue that the military is not the same thing as the state writ large but the amount of military propaganda peddled to the american public literally since the beginning of hollywood has a huge impact when it comes to the widespread public perception of the military and attitudes about american imperialism abroad and the point i was trying to make was that a lot of americans are completely blind to this reality and believe that they are in fact immune to propaganda (or that because of ~freedom of speech~ in america or whatever that the media they consume is free from government influence)

Military-entertainment complex - Wikipedia

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[badpsychicadvice]

A few I’ve run into/witnessed:

You’re forced to use sick time for doctor’s appointments when your manager is not

You’re given “comp” time for mandatory overtime

You’re denied a raise because “we offer better benefits here than other places so you actually come out ahead”

Your benefits are actually paltry compared to your supervisor’s, who gets to be in a higher benefit tier that no longer exists

You’re doing way more than 40 hours a week because they have you on salary and overtime “doesn’t apply” to you

Your supervisor/company schedules meetings over lunch time and break time so that even though you technically have that time available to use, you never get to use it when you need/want to

Your holiday time is designed in such a way that it expires before you can use the full amount of time, or you’re only allowed certain blocks in the year that you can use it during

[medranochav]

the way I absolutely miss walking everywhere

[capacity]

Yeah death to America as usual

[medranochav]

[down-with-capitalism]

what happens when a white supremacist capitalist class gets to build a nation from the ground up on stolen land with a stolen labor force

[whitepeopletwitter]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

Fingers crossed, everyone

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

More positive signs

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[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

Fuck yeah it's on!

[milf-adjacent]

When will the nasty little thottie make it clap? Taking all bets! Double your take if your guess is within 30 mins!

[mioxenoblade]

stop reblogging donation posts, half or more of them end up being fake or scams, think about your followers and actually look at the links you share

99% of the donation posts I reblog are people I know but hey anon since you want to be a dip shit

If youre lgbt, poc, fuck it if youre ANYONE who needs some cash, drop your PayPal/venmo/cashapp and ill reblog it

[fallaciousfeline]

PayPal email:

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I'm a chronically ill student trying to survive the pandemic, so if anyone can help 🙏🏻

Also look at the other reblogs!

[dollgirllandsknecht]

C*shapp: $Natural20

Im a broke autistic unemployed trans woman who could really use some extra money for gas

[dollgirllandsknecht]

😭😭💖💖💖 somebody dropped 50 in my c*shapp thank you so much!!!!

[art-and-anarchism-deactivated20]

Practical Organising

“Only the Organised Survive”: A Rebel Worker Handbook

Direct Action in Industry by the Direct Action Movement

Weakening the Dam by the Twin Cities branch of the IWW

How to Hold a Good Meeting and Rusty’s Rules of Order by the Industrial Workers of the World

Community Control of the Poor community

A Practical Guide to Anarchist Organisation – Compiled by Andrew Flood

How to Fire Your Boss: A Workers Guide to Direct Action

The Bosses Need Us… We Don’t Need Them: Common Sense Reasons for Worker Self-Management

Organising in the Workplace

Organising Communities by Tom Knoche

Anarchist Agitation & Community Building by Ronald A. Young

A Rebel Worker’s Organising Handbook

[inqilabi]

I really don't mean give them the guillotine as a joke.

[soundfanatic]

yes, it's just as nightmarish as you would imagine an evil empire being

[siderealsandman]

This should not scare you away from unionizing; this should scare you towards unionizing. 

[catchymemes]

Via @iamdylancurran (Twitter)

[hank0331]

I’ll repost this whenever I see it on my dashboard.

[nightowlpatrol]

fuck…

[jellyfishdirigible]

So, one thing you can do is use Firefox instead of Chrome. Another thing you can do is use duck duck go instead of google search. In fact you know what let me get on desktop and make a proper reply, give me about an hour and I’ll hook y’all up with some privacy

[jellyfishdirigible]

ok I took a bit more than an hour, I have time blindness don’t @ me.

Step one, download and install Firefox.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

It will ask if you want to import all your bookmarks and saved passwords from your current browser/s. Do that. It will also ask if you want to make it your default browser. Do that too.

You will be given the option to create an account, but it’s not mandatory. It’s just a convenience service if you want to access your bookmarks and saved passwords on different devices.

Firefox has a load of built-in privacy protections but we’re going to install some addons to make it EVEN BETTER. Don’t worry they’re all free and once you’ve installed them you don’t have to think about them again.

First, Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials. Firefox does still set your default search engine to Google, we don’t want that. You could manually change it but the Duck Duck Go addon gives you some tracker blocking, encryption, private searching, all set up and ready to go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox

Next you need an ad blocker. ABP went stupid, so here’s uBlock

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Do you use farcebook or any related product like instagram? Facebook Container automatically puts those in a little quarantine pen so they can’t follow you around and spy on what else you’re doing

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-container/

If you have multiple accounts (eg. work/school, family, public, personal, private) you can use Firefox Multi-Account Containers to manage them and keep their footprints separate

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere are published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and those people are serious as a heart attack when it comes to online privacy.

Privacy Badger sends a do not track signal, and also breaks link tracking by sites like facebook, twitter, etc.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17

HTTPS Everywhere is… ok there’s a lot to explain here, and we’re already longposting so just, every time you connect to any page it makes it more secure.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/

If you want to learn a bit about how this works and why it’s good to have, might as well start with the HTTPS page on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

You could stop here, that’s pretty good. But you can do more. You could install NoScript. A big warning with this one, it can break half the internet. It’s a LOT more user friendly than it used to be but if you can’t figure shit out by fucking around you should probably skip it. It blocks scripts from running without permission, protecting you from drive-by scripts that give your computer herpes, but also sometimes protecting you from script-heavy sites working at all.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

Lastly an honourable mention for Ghostery. Ghostery has been a solid privacy addon for years, and now has adblocking powers. Honestly I haven’t used it in ages, a long time ago it conflicted with something else I deemed more important so I removed it and I never got around to picking it back up, but it has a great reputation and is trusted by a lot of people who I trust.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/

Now, this all only covers your browser activity, which is a lot but you will still need to manually adjust privacy settings on your google/gmail/youtube account/s if you have any, your facebook/instagram account/s if you have any, and your actual gotdamn operating system if you use windows. I know it seems like a lot of effort, I’m a lazy bitch too, but it’s very set-and-forget, you only need to do it once, and then just review it a couple of times a year.

Here’s some stuff about Windows 10 privacy settings

https://pixelprivacy.com/resources/windows-privacy-settings/

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/5-privacy-settings-to-change-in-windows-10/

And some stuff about google privacy settings

https://mashable.com/article/google-privacy-setting-you-should-enable-now/

And some stuff about facebook privacy settings

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/facebook-privacy-settings-2939307

And here’s an honest explanation of what a VPN really does and does not do, why you don’t actually need one, and the few real reasons you might ever want one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

And  a bit about password managers

https://www.cnet.com/news/best-password-managers-for-2020/

This is by no means the limit of the steps you can take to secure your online privacy, if you want to go deeper you definitely can. But if you don’t want to or don’t have the time or aren’t very technically minded, this will still put you way ahead of the pack. It won’t make you The Most Private but it will make you Much More Private Than Most, and it should take you less than an hour or two, depending on how many accounts you have on predatory datenkraken sites.

Now go hide your panties from the evil empire.

[anarchopuppy]

You can also use Invidious to use youtube privately, and there are extensions like Privacy Redirect that’ll send youtube links directly to it. The subscription page can be a little unreliable, so I just send my youtube notifications to my email with RSS instead

ProtonMail is a free email service that’s not google (already a good start), but also encrypts all your mail so no one but you and the person you’re emailing can read it

From experience, Tor is a lot more user-friendly than you might think. It does take a little bit of fiddling and getting used to, but the payoff is that all of your traffic becomes extremely hard to track. They have a desktop browser that’s built on Firefox and comes pre-installed with many of the extensions listed above. I recommend trying it on without uninstalling your current browser, just to see how you like it

switching.software and privacytools.io have tons of recommendations for privacy-friendly alternatives to google software and tools that can be used to avoid surveillance. But remember that this isn’t yours or any other user’s fault - we shouldn’t be expecting every single person to load their computer up with encryption to avoid surveillance that private companies shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Lay the blame where it belongs, on google and facebook, and hold them responsible

[feministism]

[pinkhairedposts]

find your birth year and that is the percentage of your life that the U.S has been at war

[your-local-salty-bitch-deactiva]

holy shit

[commievoltie-deactivated2021070]

Jesus F Christ. So many lives wasted. We could have done so much with everything the ruling class wasted in this. The human and environment cost of this is absolutely staggering. Someone please tell me why this is not capitalism and imperialism draining our lives?

The main role of any Western leftist in imperial core is to absolutely and militantly be anti war and anti imperialism. We and especially the global south cannot afford to continue with this for long.

[spideyyeet]

[rhythmic-idealist]

[Image: Ayah Al-Zubi (@ayahalzubi) tweeted “Just in case you didn’t know, explosions like in Beirut are not normal. Famine in Yemen is not normal. Occupation in Palestine is not normal. Refugee crises like in Syria are not normal. We’re human. We’re not Paris or London because we’re Beirut, Sanaa, Jerusalem, and Damascus.” They then tweeted, “Stop normalizing tragedy in the Middle East.”]

[catchymemes]

[breakfast-sandwich-deactivated2]

What really fucks me up about a 40 hour work week and I’ve tried to explain to people over and over is that like of you do the math you have maybe 3 hours every day to just like. Rest and be with your family. And that’s kind of it

Like the average adult needs about 8 hours of sleep every night, so that cuts your 24 hours to 16 right off the bat.

You’re working for 8 hours, so 8 left.

But you actually work 8 to 5 at most offices, not 9 to 5, and that lunch is basically just long enough to retrieve food and eat. 7.

It took you 20 minutes to shower this morning, 10 to get dressed, and 45 to make a bowl of oatmeal and eat it. We’ll say 15 to get your stuff together and out to your car. 5 and a half.

You get home and have to cook dinner, 30 minutes min for that, probably more like an hour, so somewhere between 5 and 4.5 hrs left. And then you’ve got to eat it, 30 minutes if you’re being healthy about it.

So at best you’ve MAYBE got 4/4.5 hours left every week day and that’s assuming you ran exactly zero errands, didn’t stop by the gym after work, didn’t have to stay late, have a wicked fast transition time between tasks AND a commute of like 5 minutes by car. If you have to go to the store after a quick run at the gym, pick your kids up from soccer across town, and you factor in a 30 minute commute both ways, you’ve got enough free time for like one episode of show Monday through Friday. And weekends have got to be for cleaning the house and going to visit your mom for a few hours.

When do you write, or paint, or read or sew or go on hikes? When do you go on spur of the moment adventures with your wife and try to perfect your grandma’s soda bread? What happens when it rains on Saturday after being sunny all the rest of the week so you can’t go to the zoo that day and you don’t have enough money for the museum? Why are we all just content to postpone our whole lives, put off “happy” and “healthy” for a miniscule amount of extra value we’re producing for someone else?

And it’s also a thing that fascinates me about hustle culture like. When do y'all rest? When do sleep and food happen? How do you make 3 different jobs work without dying?

Idk idk like I said I’m real fucked up about it. It amazes me that more office workers aren’t great big socialists because we have this miserable job where we’re monitored constantly and just have to sit. Still. And maintain focus on ONE THING for EIGHT HOURS in a BORING GRAY ROOM with exactly two short breaks at designated times and I just?? How does that not suck for literally everyone else?? You said yourself, Angie, you’re useless after 3 pm so just?? Organize with me and negotiate for shorter days??? Like you’re literally already only producing 6 hours of value, you don’t need to be sitting there for longer than that.

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 28 February 1969, Black Panthers held an armed demonstration at the capitol building in Olympia, Washington, in protest at state attempts to disarm them. Following large numbers of police murders of unarmed Black people, the revolutionary socialist Black Panther Party started armed self-defence patrols. The Republican mayor of Seattle had already passed one such law in the city. So state legislators proposed a law which would make exhibiting “firearms or other weapons in a manner manifesting intent to intimidate others” a gross misdemeanour. Lawmakers rushed through the legislation, and upon hearing of Panther plans to demonstrate police panic, drafting in dozens of armed state troopers and mounting a machine gun on the roof. The Panthers arrived in four cars, unloaded their weapons at the request of the police while one of them, Aaron Dixon entered the building and made a five minute statement to the legislature, while others held the doors shut, forcing the officials to listen. Despite the protest, governor Dan Evans signed the bill into law that day. The National Rifle Association, supposedly a gun rights advocacy group, did not support the Panthers, and elsewhere supported Republican legal moves to take their guns away. Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1662121247306352/?type=3

[guerrillatech]

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[mancreature]

Hey patient first charged me almost 400$ for an unneeded urinalysis (i came in for throat bleeding.) they fucked up, and my last place if employment refuses to pay me. the dispute office isnt open until monday, and by then I'll be hit with a double overdraft fee.

there's absolutely no chance I'll be able to cover this, and I don't get paid for another 2 weeks.

ive already gone off of T, and I have nothing left i can sell. the money that was there supposed to last me + my cat for like 2 months.

please help.

My v-nmo is sludgie

My p-ypal is @OscarOcello

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[mancreature]

Amazing news!! We're halfway there!!! Thank you so so much to the people reblogging and donating, and thank you for your support, i can't express how grateful i am 🥺🥰💞💖💕

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Please continue spreading the word and reblogging, and again, thank you so so much for doing so