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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 14h

babe wake up the social democracies are embracing fascism again because they spent all their energy rejecting socialism

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 16h

favorite teams: leafs, sharks, canadiens (for now)

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like my memory has been so challenged lately so I've decided to exercise my hippocampus by memorizing every player, position, and number for my favorite nhl teams this year and the top 2 lines of all 32 teams

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🎶 today is the greatest, underneath it all 🎶

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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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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

NEXT WEEK: gamified capitalism and 21st century fascism w/ @maxhaiven.bsky.social

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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

in pt. 2 of our series on communist ecology we brought back henry hakamaki and salvatore engel-di mauro for a wide-ranging discussion exploring how cuba is at the forefront of ecology and what this looks like in practice

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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON cuba ep. 11: actually existing ecology w/ henry hakamaki and salvatore engel-di mauro

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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW EP we're joined by folk musician carsie blanton to talk about the cultural cold war and the role of folk music in revolutionary organizing

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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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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEXT WEEK the cultural cold war: folk music and communism w/ carsie blanton

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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW PATREON EP we're joined by ken hammond to discuss tibet—it's history, the myths surrounding it, the "free tibet" movement, the CIA and NED, and how tibet is actually doing as part of the people's republic of china

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

in 1955 folk musician pete seeger was blacklisted for being a communist. we all love and admire him to this day. you know who we don't love, let alone even remember? the artists who snitched or who abandoned their values when giving testimony to the house unamerican activities committee

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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 · 12/09/2026

food in the united states is poison because it's a capitalist commodity. but that's not the case in cuba, which is the world's leader in agroecology. they don't use any chemical inputs, they protect biodiversity and soil health, and farmers are scientists who oftentimes make more than doctors

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

and just a reminder too that literally the only reason we aren't doing this already is because production under capitalism is centered around profit, not human and ecological needs

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

just a reminder that we could ensure decent living standards for 8.5 billion people across the globe with just 30% of our current productive capacity

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

*modern housing, healthcare, nutritious food, education, electricity, sanitation systems, computers, mobile phones, internet, transportation

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one of the greatest tricks the ruling class ever pulled was through the CIA's congress of cultural freedom: you don't have to ban the left, you just fund the version of it that's compatible with capitalism

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

one of my memories of 9/11 is that the ace hardware I was working at started selling t-shirts with a fighter jet and eagle with the text "now it's our turn"

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anytime I walk into a target or walmart I feel this deep panic at how much shit is on the shelves. and how many of these stores exist across the country. tens of thousands. it really is a miracle that capitalism hasn't destroyed the earth already

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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON china ep 11: tibet w/ ken hammond

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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NEW EP we're joined by chris gilbert and cira pascual marquina for an on-the-ground assessment of how venezuela is responding to the US regime's attempts at recolonization and why the western left gets so much wrong when they try to understand the health of Chavismo

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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 · 08/09/2026

I think it's important to debate things. we've had beatrice on the show twice and she's brilliant. this isn't intended to pass judgement on or shame as much as it is just a sober look at the massive differences in experience between those inside the imperial core and those subjugated by it

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

interesting to note too that a lot of those taking part in this online screaming match have also posted about how delcy rodriguez is a traitor or that chavismo is dead. I wonder how removed from the terrain of struggle you have to be to make such grand, sweeping statements

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the massive fight online this weekend among the western left over whether it's fascist to exercise made me think about venezuela, whose population is under direct attack by US fascist imperialism. very different experiences and very different questions being tackled. just thought it was interesting

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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 · 05/09/2026

since then tibetans' life expectancy has risen from the 30s to the 70s. beijing has invested a quarter trillion dollars in the region in developing infrastructure, modernizing homes, building schools, hospitals, and for cultural/religious preservation

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

before china's communist revolution tibet was a feudal theocracy with life expectancy in the thirties. when you hear westerners say "free tibet," remember that mao already did

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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 · 04/09/2026

the idea that "there are more of us than them" is unhelpful because it's not just a matter of numbers. billionaires own politicians, they control the repressive apparatus of the state, they control the media. numbers matter, but without organization they're meaningless

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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

NEXT WEEK venezuela ep. 7: on ascending a high mountain w/ chis gilbert and cira pascual marquina

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

read that as dill ice cream for a second

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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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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

NEW EP part 1 of a 2-part miniseries in which henry hakamaki & salvatore engel-di mauro join us for a conversation on communism as the highest stage of ecology

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I asked google about china's ethnic unity law and clicked its AI tool out of curiosity. most info was linked back to a tibetan separatist group's document. one paragraph was sourced from the george w. bush presidential center. not one link from an official chinese government source

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"communism is bureaucratic" meanwhile I just got transferred back and forth 8 times because my health insurance provider and healthcare provider don't communicate with each other

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I usually suffer through the news headlines only because it's a good condensed summary but whenever I continue on to listen to the segments I always immediately regret it lol

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

we discuss amy and democracy now's anticommunism and their role as part of a compatible left in our conversation with gabriel rockhill youtu.be/gElM6GqpOtc?...

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[TEASER] Western Marxism w/ Gabriel Rockhill

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

china is also the world's leading manufacturer of solar panels, high-speed rail, and other practical components of green technology, much more so than any other country on the planet. but you wouldn't know this if you get your news from democracy now

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

as a country, yes, china is among one of the tops simply because it's so huge. but per person its emissions are low. also the carbon that china is emitting is not responsible for climate change as it's only been emitting for a very short period of time compared to the west

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

in democracy now's nepal segment amy goodman smeared china as the 2nd largest emitter of carbon, seemingly to blame them for climate change. to set the record straight, china sits in the global middle in per capita carbon emissions, and historically it's even lower

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the climate struggle isn't an environmental struggle. it's a class struggle. it's a struggle against capitalism and towards communism, the highest stage of ecology

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the "eco" in eco-socialism is redundant and fundamentally mischaracterizes the nature of communism

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