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Robert Raymond

@robpertray.bsky.social
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co-host & producer of @upstreampodcast.bsky.social currently reading "Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution" by Mary Gabriel

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
kicking off my shoes and relaxing in my depression helmet with a glass of pinot after a stressful day at work
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
just a reminder that all these apps are owned and controlled by actual fascists
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the only thing stronger than ruling class solidarity is working class solidarity
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
our ruling class has been blacklisting musicians for a century—the cultural sphere is one of the most contested terrains in the class war
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
just a perfectly normal oil deal between two enthusiastically consenting friends
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
not a single venezuelan commune has called delcy a traitor but sure let's listen to the 26-year-old american influencer
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
because the cia shifted its propaganda focus to xinjiang
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
to find out, we asked a policy expert from the National Endowment for Democracy who's been funding right wing tibetan separatist groups
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
the bourgeois press is so mad they're losing the disaster porn ratings in tibet
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"ending an effect" always seems to translate to "stopping its cause." curious 🤔
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
correct 👍
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
why ruin a perfectly good post by evoking feudalism when this is the most capitalist thing ever
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
there's a recall for IV saline injections because they found fiberglass in them but ok
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
all 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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
in 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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
if 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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
not a single individual responsible for the 2008 crash has spent a day in prison in the US. not one
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
another chinese billionaire sentenced for corruption. in the US he'd run for president and win
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
there'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.”
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
that's 0.02% of his net worth. don't forget, you live under a dictatorship of capital
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
update: where is the success of capitalism in the united states of america?
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
after 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
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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'"
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
the future they want for us: join the military and live in a boat prison or be a civilian and live in a land prison
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
empires don't announce that they're in terminal decline, you just start to see headlines like this appearing
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
empires in decline don't implode, life in them just slowly gets worse and worse
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
must have been an honest mistake
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
my 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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
speaking of body counts (citation is from Rockhill's "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism")
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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.
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
prior 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.
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
prior 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
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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."
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
the average person in china has seen a 2,400% increase in real wages and disposable income under communism
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
tfw your approval rating is in the low 30s
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
china now has dozens of universities that rank among the top universities globally. these universities are owned, governed, and funded by the state
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
and this
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
this is why they're doing a red scare btw
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
suggesting that communism is the natural enemy of the epstein class
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
the 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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
they'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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
if albert einstein was alive today stephen miller and marco rubio would be calling him a threat to our country
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
absolutely
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
the victims of capitalism tally must include every single person slaughtered in sudan
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
the 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
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the dollar is not simply a currency, it's a weapon
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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
america is everything they want you to think north korea or iran is
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