Just check his recent posting pattern on Bluesky.

Links to articles and other resources are provided.

What do you people think ""israel"" will do?

I don't think the rabid zionist entity will just sit idly by letting their blockade be "unblocked". I fear the worst is about to happen and they will obliterate them all or at the very least forcefully board the flotilla and capture all its members.

They're purging not only members of org but individual and group who are leftists. Also words from a sub member I mod, said they're mass banning Illinois leftist subs and suspended all mod accounts to suppress spreading news that Gestapo is raiding in Chicago. Also deployed in PDX.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs

Assata Shakur was one of the most well known members of the Black Panther Party, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist political movement, and that of the Black Liberation Army. She passed on 25-09-2025 at the age of 78 in Cuba. You survived America. If only the rest of the party had your luck and foresight.

Rest in power and know that your revolutionary work continues.

In France : https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/PPA

They're lobbying for laws, supporting political parties, and even influencing orthodox economic theories and their spread.
They're also buying publishing houses, survey institutes, and even journalist schools.
That's how you can find people who claim to be neither from the left or the right, but are only knowing/regurgitating opinions broadcasted in the capitalist-owned state(, e.g., solve the deficit by lowering the number of public servants and selling public companies, instead of taxing the billionaires and fighting tax fraud&schemes, after all they're the ones creating jobs and working enough hours to deserve millions, and they'll leave the country if we tax them, not seeing the problem with this race to the bottom).

Just a reminder of our hypocrisy when we're criticizing the state's Pravda while our laws allow the Pravda of the millionaires.

Worker's owned medias and companies would be the obvious third way to private//public ones, or at least the three types in a relative equal mesure, but not >90% of capitalist-owned medias. We could/should also finally accomplish the pluralism that we're so proud of and makes us a "democracy" better than the dictatorships allegedly specialized in brainwashing their citizens(, otherwise how could the authentic popular support be explained, they still need to be sanctioned/invaded/liberated). Concretely, we could give ~100€ every year to our citizens, and let them choose/vote to which newspaper such sum should be allocated, among other ideas. Perhaps that communist newspapers/radios/ideas would finally appear instead of the pseudo-objectivity owned by the wealthiest, who even knows what socialism or capitalism means, and why 'passive incomes'/'lucrative properties' are a theft of the workers, for example ? Or any argument from our enemies, whose narrative is systematically silenced.
Some claim that our freedom of speech on the internet will make such ideas re-emerge, but they've already successfully censored any terrorist point of view, and are still not satisfied, making more than clear that their objective is to control what is said on the internet(, "FReEdOm of SpEecH BuT nOT freEDOm oF ConSeQUEnceS"), this year they're focused on the end of online anonymity, last year it was disinformation and the year before it was hate speech.

Anyway, what was interesting/new here was the mention of social medias, but having a majority of 'workers/readers'-owned mainstream medias is just one more thing that will never happen. Most socialist and republican newspapers belonged to their journalists in the XIXth century.
Just don't doubt that our system is the best, and that we should destroy any country aiming for a different one.

This guy is as smart as my 5-year-old nephew who completely believed me when I told him babies grow on trees.

Full quote

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.

(Alternative link.)

Excerpt:

After a careful study of gentile behavior toward the Jewish population in these two regions, our research indicates that there was a remarkable difference between actions taken in Bessarabia and Transnistria.

On the basis of more than two hundred Jewish survivor testimonies, a mail‐in survey with Jewish Holocaust survivors, interviews with over one hundred non‐Jewish Holocaust witnesses located on the territories of Bessarabia and Transnistria, and archival material from the Romanian, German, and Soviet governments, we found the following: the Bessarabian population was more likely to commit abusive actions against Jews (for example, beatings, theft, murder, rape), whereas the Transnistrian population was both (1) less likely to commit abuse and (2) more likely to behave in a cooperative manner (for example, providing food and hiding Jews from persecution).

We believe that the prewar state policies encouraging either animosity or affinity between ethnic groups greatly contribute to our understanding of this outcome.

[…]

Above all, we believe that there was a clear and overwhelming political commitment by the governing communists to achieve interethnic cooperation and societal integration during this interwar period, and government policies flowed from this commitment.

These changes in policies, we argue, led to the construction of interethnic cooperation that came to be internalized by the gentile population and then led to continued cooperative behavior even after the Soviet Union was replaced by the anti‐Semitic Romanian forces during World War II.

[…]

One of the most remarkable findings from all our research in Transnistria was actually a nonevent: we did not find evidence of a single anti‐Jewish pogrom anywhere in Transnistria.

Pogroms in Bessarabia were reported by survivors and are referenced in archival material and secondary sources, but the same cannot be said for Transnistria, as we found no evidence of such activities in survivors’ testimonies, government records, or the secondary sources we consulted.

More generally, survivors made very different remarks when commenting on the people from Transnistria, which had been located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Some survivors stated it explicitly: “In Ukraine the attitude was better than in Bessarabia.” Many of the survivors stated that “the Ukrainians did help,” that “the Ukrainians were not bad,” that they had “a compassionate attitude,” or that “the majority of them gave us bread.”

One survivor, a native of the town of Orhei (Bessarabia), stated that of his experience in Transnistria, “one [a Jew] could not feel too much hatred, with the exception of the collaborators,” and his impression was that “the majority [of the local population] did not perceive the Jews with alienation […] but rather […] the majority perceived the occupying power as alien, but the Jews as theirs.”

Another survivor, this time a native of Transnistria, concluded that the population of his city (Moghilev‐Podolsk) had a sympathetic attitude toward the Jews and that only a small minority was comfortable with the fact that the Jews were forced from the city to the ghetto.

Several survivors recalled that, during the long marches toward the ghettos, many locals in Transnistria threw food from a distance and some peasant women even left packages with food on the road in front of the columns of Jews approaching.

[…]

There were also cases of Jewish children being sheltered by Transnistrian locals in their houses. The Romanian counterintelligence reports confirm the occurrence of cases of Jewish children being adopted by the Ukrainian population in order to save them from deportation.

Hilda Schwartz, a survivor of Kopaygorod, described her escape to a neighboring village, where a woman housed her first and later her mother and sister as well. After the liberation of the camp, Hilda’s family continued to live with the woman for another two months.

While we did find individual cases of theft, beatings, and murder committed by the local population in Transnistria, the incidence was substantially lower than in Bessarabia.

More importantly, the level of cooperation was overwhelmingly apparent in all sources we consulted, which was in stark contrast to what we found for Bessarabia. This becomes clearer with a quantified picture of events, which we present in the next section.

(Emphasis added.)

There is more that I wanted to include, but the excerpt is pretty lengthy as it is. If you have the time, I encourage you to read the rest of the article (which is forty‐two pages long, excluding the preface), but I should warn you that it does quote some slurs and describe some violent incidents.

For the book on this subject, see Diana Dumitru’s The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union.

The entire thread is full of shitlib comedy gold. https://bsky.app/profile/herostratus356.bsky.social/post/3lzd24mxc7c2i

I wrote this short "guide" in response to a new user earlier and decided to turn it into a post. So here is a short and easy guide to how to use lemmy:

The home page / feed

When you are on the home page of your instance, above the feed you will see this:

posts/comments: chose if you want the feed to show you posts or comments of posts.

eye/barred eye: chose if you want the feed to include hidden posts or not.

subscribed/local/all: choses from where the feed should pull what it shows you, subscribed to have it show you only content from communities you are subscribed to, local if you want it to show you content from only your home instance including comunities you aren't subscribed to, all if you want it to show you content from every instances your home instance hasn't defederated from.

And finally the sorting menu: It allow you to chose the order in which the feed should display content and include the following options

• hot - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment and time of the post
• active - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment
• scaled - sort based on highest upvote/downvote ratio and time of the latest comment but boost posts from smaller communities
• controversial - sort by how close are the number of downvotes and the number of upvotes
• new - sort from newest post to oldest
• old -sort from oldest post to newest
• most comments - sort by number of comments
• new comments - sort by how recently a post has been created or received a new comment
• top [period of time] - sort by highest number of upvotes among posts made during the last specified period of time

You can change what these are set as by default in the settings menu.

Posting

When you click the button "post" you will see this:

From top to bottom we have:

• Title - self explanatory, the title of your post
• URL - if you want a link to some other site on the internet in your post, put the link here
• image - if you want an image to appear next to your title in the feed
• image URL - same as image but with an image URL link instead of uploading a file
• Body - the content of your post, typically text but can also contain GIFs and images
• language - if you want lemmy to precise in which language the post is written in, rarely ever used in practice
• community - the community that will receive your post
• NSFW - click this if you want the associated image of your post to be blured on the feed, use it for anything the require a content warning

Each posts has these icons:

From left to right:

• the number of comments the post has
• link to the post
• link to view the post from it's home instance
• de-format the markdown syntax to see the raw text (I talk about markdown after)
• favorite the post
• crosspost, post a copy of the post to another community with automatic links to the original
• additional options like block a user, flag a post, etc

Comments have these icons:

• deformat markdown
• respond to the comment
• favorite the comment

Markdown

Markdown is a syntax system built in lemmy that allows you to modify your text in various ways:

You can make very big text for titles

of different sizes

italic bold ~small~ ~~barred~~

• make lists

Site quotes

write code

links

Footnotes[^1]

[^1]: Don't mind me, I'm the footnote from the Markdown section!

and post images

Additional pro tip: you can turn any image into an emoji

Remember the button to de-format the markdown syntax from the previous section? If you click on it you will see that all this funny stuff I just did correspond to this text:

# You can make very big text for titles
#### of different sizes

*italic* **bold** ~small~ ~~barred~~

- make lists

> Site quotes

 `` `
write code
 `` `
[links](https://lemmygrad.ml/)

Footnotes[^1]

[^1]: Don't mind me, I'm the footnote from the Markdown section!

and post images ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0e5791b4-88a5-4278-b2ca-a94e0e2b9869.jpeg?format=webp)

Additional pro tip: you can turn any image into an emoji ![](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/0e5791b4-88a5-4278-b2ca-a94e0e2b9869.jpeg?format=webp "emoji example")

Federation

Federation is a part of the fediverse that tend to confuse peoples, because it is confusing.

Federation is made possible by a communication protocol called activitypub, and is basically a way for different sites to "talk" to each other kind of like e-mail or RSS. I absolutely wouldn't be able to explain how it works from a technical standpoint, all I know is that it allow sites to exchange information like "such post has been made on instance such-and-such" "such user from instance whatever has liked random post from instance what-s-it-called" in a decentralized spider web kind of way.

It allows not only every lemmy instance but every instance of every fediverse software, from mastodon to peertube to exchange content and data (unless they don't want to). This means that in theory a mastodon user can like and comment a lemmy post and watch a peertube video (in practice it's a little bit finicky and you have to try multiple times to understand how to do it).

Now let's talk about de-federation. De-federation has this strange and confusing one-way of functioning. It doesn't prevent the instance you de-federated from from requesting information from your instance, but it does forbid your instance from requesting information from theirs, in other words, when you de-federate from another instance your users won't be able to see the other instance's posts, comments and likes but the other instance's users will still be able to see your posts, comments and likes unless they de-federate from you as well. For example, from lemmygrad, we can still see lemmy.world comments on lemmy.ml posts and we can upvote/downvote and comment on them, but the lemmy.world user won't see any of it.

The wider fediverse

Since you're already on it, I suggest also taking a look at other fediverse apps. You can easily find them by googling fediverse. There is mastodon/miskey/akkoma/etc which are twitter-like micro-blogging softwares, peertube a video sharing platform like youtube, and many more.

The Marxist-leninist community on the fediverse is most well established on lemmy but we also have instances of other fediverse software. We have a mastodon instance established by an Hexbear user and a peertube instance established by hexbear user tankietanuki, I recommend both.

That being said, Good posting folks!!

(mods pls remove post if it violates rules)

TL;DR:

My 19 yo little brother who had a rough childhood (which I unfortunately contributed to) is convinced that Israel's actions and impunity is because "modern jews run the Western world". I've tried countering this with a materialist explanation of Israel's role in US imperialism to no avail. I suspect my treatment of him in the past may be an obstacle here, and that the key to changing his mind might require an emotional rather than logical approach. Please advise.

Pre-October 7th:

We live in the West and grew up in a conservative Muslim family, both male, I'm 24 and he's 19. We have been pro-palestine since birth. Some channels he watches are Gattsu, Geopold, GDF and Badempanada, doesn't like Hasan much. He's not really into socialist politics/history like me but I think he sympathizes, although he has edgy humor which is sometimes borderline centrist/center-right.

He's a lot better now but as a kid he was really difficult, and my dad and I handled this extremely poorly. I was never physical (unlike sometimes my dad), but I said some putrid shit to him throughout my teens. Regretful shit that makes me stay up at night and breakdown from guilt if I think about too much.

5-6 years ago I mellowed out and thought "man, what the fuck am I doing" and asked him if he wanted to be normal brothers again, to which he enthusiastically agreed. Since then we've had a decent relationship and talk about shows, politics, history, movies, uni stuff, etc. We seldom talk about our feelings, and we never processed that traumatic 10 year period when I was a shitty older brother. Despite going through all this he turned out relatively fine, mostly well-adjusted all things considered.

Post October 7th

At some point in the past 2 years of genocide, he started believing in ZOG (zionist occupied government), which quickly morphed into "jews run the world". According to him, "90% of Israeli and US Jews are pedophile rapist murderers"

1. He thinks that in modern times, Jews control western nations including US through the media, banks, legal institutions etc.
2. He knows that Zionists != Jews, but says it doesn't matter to him at this point
3. Despite my best efforts to explain Israel's role in US imperialism, he still thinks "the middle east wouldnt be as bad" if not for Israel
4. I've tried explaining that its a symbiosis for US and Israel, and that Israel can't do anything without green light from US, but he thinks Israel can do whatever they want because they're blackmailing US politicians with Epstein
5. He sends me reels of Israeli rabbis saying crazy shit with Havah Nagilah playing in the background
6. sent me an Amin al-Husseini x Hitler edit (he joked saying how husseini saw the future and wanted to save his people, and that maybe Hitler was right)
7. His "evidence" includes verses from the talmud condoning pedophilia and other insane things that many religions also say
8. He thinks Nick Fuentes is funny, and likes that he is "one of the only far-right people who doesn't utterly despise Muslims/Arabs"

Potential solutions

Basically I've tried explaining with logic why he's wrong but he won't budge. I suspect part of it is because I was shitty to him during his formative years so maybe that's causing some friction. I think the solution will hinge on an emotional approach rather than logical, but I'm not sure what to do.

Been noticing a trend globally, and it is particularly observable on mainstream media (Xitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube) of a rise in far right reactionary rhetoric + unironic Nazism alongside AmeriKKKan MAGA shit too.

I really want understand this type of behavior and the origin/source and why it occurs, and also what the future holds and what to do about it. Frankly, I am feeling quite hopeless for the world right now. Granted, I always felt this way for a while, but things do look particularly shit with all the Charlie Kirk and Trump fiasco going on

If so

(BTW I claim that one piece is anarchist which is not ML but it's close!)

The Characteristics of a Revolutionary

-11 characteristics of general leadership

-3 aspects of militant leadership

-7 characteristics of ideological leadership

-Revolutionary in mind & body

-Philosophical doctrines

-Revolutionary love

26 minute read.

I highly recommend you always back up any source video or webpage you come across.