Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026kicking off my shoes and relaxing in my depression helmet with a glass of pinot after a stressful day at work 070
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026just a reminder that all these apps are owned and controlled by actual fascists 0101
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026the only thing stronger than ruling class solidarity is working class solidarity 0192
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026our ruling class has been blacklisting musicians for a century—the cultural sphere is one of the most contested terrains in the class war 2223
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026just a perfectly normal oil deal between two enthusiastically consenting friends 170
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026not a single venezuelan commune has called delcy a traitor but sure let's listen to the 26-year-old american influencer 020
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026because the cia shifted its propaganda focus to xinjiang 040
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026to find out, we asked a policy expert from the National Endowment for Democracy who's been funding right wing tibetan separatist groups 170
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026the bourgeois press is so mad they're losing the disaster porn ratings in tibet 060
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"ending an effect" always seems to translate to "stopping its cause." curious 🤔 2222
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026why ruin a perfectly good post by evoking feudalism when this is the most capitalist thing ever 0204
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 28/08/2026there's a recall for IV saline injections because they found fiberglass in them but ok 0182
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026all sovereign states that do not bend the knee are required to do this because of the constant soft and hard power threats by the US. the US is a surveillance state as well, but not because of any external threat—it does so as a necessity for unrestricted capital accumulation 0132
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026in capitalism you get the privilege of paying for a house twice, once to the bank for interest on the loan and then again for the home itself 0162
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026if you live in the US the median slovenian is richer than you, spends less time on the phone with a health insurance company than you (none actually), and worries less about recalled food than you 030
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026not a single individual responsible for the 2008 crash has spent a day in prison in the US. not one 050
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026another chinese billionaire sentenced for corruption. in the US he'd run for president and win 1173
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026there's about a year gap and the old list is gone but I'm restarting my book thread. "the FBI [contended] that Cuba had become the primary global inspiration of the U.S. Left...a living Third World socialist experiment, one that had persisted for a decade despite U.S. efforts to unseat it.” 040
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026that's 0.02% of his net worth. don't forget, you live under a dictatorship of capital 161
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026update: where is the success of capitalism in the united states of america? 0142
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I'm doing some research on assata shakur and I googled her on my phone and opened instagram instantly after (less than a second) and this 2025 post by common was already open on my feed 030
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026after fidel castro's death his name was never used on institutions, streets, parks, etc. because he said he wanted to avoid the development of a cult of personality 060
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as, 'One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it'" 062
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026the future they want for us: join the military and live in a boat prison or be a civilian and live in a land prison 192
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026empires don't announce that they're in terminal decline, you just start to see headlines like this appearing 18026
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026empires in decline don't implode, life in them just slowly gets worse and worse 07116
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 07/08/2026my main issue with liberalism is its utter disregard for the material rights and safeguards one needs in order to enjoy the abstract rights it promises 180
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026speaking of body counts (citation is from Rockhill's "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism") 081
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"FREEDOM" is just capitalism's marketing department. There's nothing free about corporate rule. Or pedophiles rich enough to buy an island. Or going bankrupt over a medical bill. Or paying 50 percent of your income to a landlord. Don't fall for the rebrand. 1101
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026prior to the cuban revolution only 4 per cent of Cubans in the rural areas ate meat, only 1 per cent ate fish, 3 per cent ate bread, 11 per cent had milk after weaning and less than 20 per cent ate eggs. 062
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026prior to 1959, half of rural cubans lacked electricity or a toilet and worked in slave-like conditions for families like Gimenez's who represented a tiny minority who owned all fertile land 1165
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"Fascism is a false revolution. It cultivates the appearance of popular politics and a revolutionary aura without offering a genuine revolutionary class content. It propagates a 'New Order' while serving the same old moneyed interests." 0154
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026the average person in china has seen a 2,400% increase in real wages and disposable income under communism 4377
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/07/2026china now has dozens of universities that rank among the top universities globally. these universities are owned, governed, and funded by the state 1150
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026suggesting that communism is the natural enemy of the epstein class 1163
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026the report on cuba today is the latest in 60 years of state department propaganda alleging that US activists are front groups for Cuba. the only difference is that this report reads like it could have been pulled from a KKK recruitment pamphlet 0152
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 17/07/2026they're trying to make communists sound dangerous and scary when it's just that one fun attractive person at work who thinks you shouldn't go bankrupt because of a medical bill 1102
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 17/07/2026if albert einstein was alive today stephen miller and marco rubio would be calling him a threat to our country 061
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 08/07/2026the victims of capitalism tally must include every single person slaughtered in sudan 082
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/07/2026the patriotism being referred to here is the ruling class's patriotism, which is only one side of america. true, you cannot be a communist and celebrate rich people's right to freely exploit the rest of us 4132
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 01/06/2026the dollar is not simply a currency, it's a weapon 1110
Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 24/05/2026america is everything they want you to think north korea or iran is 0103