Also yes onus is on the Proletariat
Wait, are you joking? 
That is the opposite of what Pluto said...
QuietCupcake
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It's been a fun while trying to figure out if I'm suffering from depression or just being understandably negative
Not at all mutually exclusive.
I was with you until the last paragraph. It is correct to say that state capitalism as defined by ultras is something that can exist, for as you said, if you switched the major corporations' boards of trustees with de facto heads of state (and did nothing else to change the relationship workers have to the means of production) then that's essentially what you would have: state capitalism. Given the revolving door that sees CEOs becoming politicians, that's not too far off from a lot of our so-called liberal democracies we actually have in the west, it's just that a pretense of a delineation between the two (as well as a pretense of public approval) is maintained.
But the key thing to understand here is the part about the worker's relationship to the means of production. As robin_IV already explained, the state is simply the tool that the ruling class uses to enforce its interests. It makes no sense to say that the state "should not be getting all that power over the workers" if it is the workers who are the ones wielding the state. And that is definitely desirable! It's what we desire as communists who recognize we can't achieve a classless society in one fell swoop.
I refuse to use the "real" version of that shit website and will only use nitter frontends even though they're mostly dead now and it can be a minor pain to find a working one. For what it's worth, nitter.no-logs.com just worked for me to view that thread though.
Zionists deserve much worse than "less interesting" matches.
The rare case where youtube comments are mostly good (and taking the dipshits in the video to task).
I can't create funny memes with Biden's voice anymore because liberals are scared about the election
The Deprogram (podcast) were using Trump and Biden AI-generated voices to talk to each other and do some bits and hock their merch. I thought it was pretty funny. I wonder if they were using the same service. I guess there are alternatives like Plinky suggested, but yeah pretty lame and hypocritical of the liberal freeze peach worship pretense.
Edit: The very beginning of episode 109 - All Presidents Are War Criminals #2 or #3. You'll never guess who makes a guest appearance and shows his hog.
I found the comic itself at the Boston Globe and already posted a link to it in this thread. I did search hexbear a fair amount and found the Biden one mentioned quite a bit, but not the other one. Obviously it's possible I just missed it or it got deleted when someone wiped their account or something. Doesn't matter, it's linked below and it is indeed disappointing garbage.
That is pretty gross. Looks like he saves his shittiest takes for publishing under his real name.
ok, I think I may have found the offending cartoon. It is under Ward Sutton and I had to archive a Boston Globe (ugh) article, but this is a pretty obvious shit take: https://archive.is/g3c2I
I wouldn't call it pro-Israel, but it is just a rehash of the insipidly ignorant "it's complicated" cliche, which now does carry water for the genocidaires. Personally, I think it's a forgivable take only given it was said right after Oct 7th when genuine ignorance on the issue was still possible. It's not possible anymore with the obvious evidence of genocide wide out in the open. I wonder if he still feels like it would be difficult to fit an appropriate slogan on the sign now.
I'm not implying it didn't happen, but I can't find any reference to Stan Kelly with respect to Palestine or Israel either on the broader web, or here on hexbear except for this comment by @[email protected] a few days ago. There are some sparse google/duckduckgo results for Ward Sutton but they're behind a paywall. What did he say/draw? Has there been discourse about it?
Also, using encryption "as cover" makes all the difference here. It's massively consequential as this news story makes obvious. The person you're responding to is just being obtuse.