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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 2h

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had to read some of her slop in college and grad school. Absolutely not surprising that a lazy anti-communist propagandist journalist masquerading as a historian also thinks Isr*eli war crimes should be excused.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While I think “the more dysgenic, the better” was a poor choice of words, after listening to her entire talk, it became abundantly clear that even other “leftists” were reacting to just that one phrase, and not her broader argument. Her point of rejecting fascist framing is so, so important!

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Talking to my fellow cis straight men: Since the system protects the criminals, we need to step tf up right now. Call out your pervy cousin, your creeper friend, your misogynist coworker. Ostracize them. Report them. Make sure they don’t get away with it. WE MEN need to shut. this. shit. down.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently some rape apologist fascist pig is trying to dox Cornell Jane Doe, and women are coming forward as Jane Doe “I am Spartacus” style. I am Jane Doe. My wife, my daughter, sisters, cousins, best friend from HS, coworkers… they are Jane Doe. Fuck rape culture.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Politics is not something you have, it’s something you do. It’s not posting good vibes; it’s actually doing stuff, like organizing, attending protests, materially affecting the world around you. Even this post you are reading right now? Not politics! Get out there and DO something!

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t EVER want to hear that “rape culture doesn’t exist” or that trying to stop rape is “woke” again. 7 men openly, publicly raped a woman at a prestigious university. Then they had to write essays about how they misbehaved as punishment. I’m so disgusted I can’t even think.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Baby formula is $2 AN OUNCE. A 3 month old regularly drinks 4 ounces at a time. That’s $8 a meal, which is around the average of a Big Mac combo. They eat 4-5x a day. That means it’s more expensive to feed a child than an adult in this country. “WhY dOn’T pEoPlE wAnT kIdS?” Capitalism, that’s why!

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m so sick of the Left falling into reformism and electoralism. “If we want to win, we have to make compromises!” WHAT GOOD IS WINNING IF WE GIVE UP OUR ENTIRE PROGRAM?! WHY EVEN BOTHER?! People need to read Marx and Lenin istfg

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I question the worth political streamers bring. They just perpetuate politics as a sport and a team mentality. Politics isn’t takes and voting; it’s organizing and actions.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Imo BE has correct takes 90% of the time. But he’s so off putting, needlessly confrontational and provocative that I can’t watch him. He says he’s bring “principled” but it comes off like he just wants to bask in moral superiority. And his audience is cult-like. The Swifties of the online left.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ngl probably the fastest way to get me to not take you seriously as a leftist is to say “I like Abdul El-Sayed”. How many times are we gonna fall for this nonsense?

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Neither Piker nor his politics will EVER lead to anywhere new. They all loop back to the status quo. Maybe that’s why he’s getting all the attention. Better he be the face of socialism in the US than an actual socialist or communist.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hasan Piker is problematic, but not for the reasons they say. He’s easily coopted, and his “socialism” is actually democratic socialism, which is just “humane” capitalism.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dems: “we’ll do anything to win, including abandon trans rights! We have to stop fascism!” Voters: “um, you don’t need to do that, we’ll vote for you if you support trans rights, probably even more.” Dems: “……… but we want to.” Craven politics. Cowardly politicians.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is a dearth of positive male role models in media. Everyone is either a huge creep (Ted), a man-baby (Ross), or imposes their violence on others (John Wick). We need to see emotionally healthy men who are flawed, self-aware, and care for others. It would give boys something to strive for.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I know why the billionaire-owned media demonizes China so much… Imagine laws applying to the rich the same as the rest of us! youtu.be/bFy2dLtkEds

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China Dares The U.S. To Treat Billionaires Like They Do

YouTube video by Lee Camp - Unredacted Tonight

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Watching Ed Sheeran completely blow up his entire tour over staying “neutral”, then Pink getting destroyed for her braindead take that her feelings about a genocide are more important than the reality, is hilariously satisfying. Oh and fk Robert Kraft, you racist billionaire pos.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Anyone else get the feeling that the recent AI panic is not about public safety, but a ploy to keep the bubble from bursting? Tech bros clearly dgaf about anyone else, just their money. They are trying to minimize the damage to themselves and their legacies, not save humanity. Bunch of asshats.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Refer to China for how this looks irl.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Tbf this goes back to 2016 and Hillary’s ass campaign vs Bernie’s insurgency and Trump. Obama won in a landslide in 2008 because of his message of “hope & change.” It was all bs, but it worked. The Dems decided “never again will we give the people hope,” crushed Bernie twice, and, well, here we are.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Expressing his support for the coup, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said, “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.” The United States has been the greatest purveyor of violence in the world for decades. Never forget.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Allende killed himself rather than be taken prisoner Pinochet then crushed the workers’ movement of Chile. One of his favorite methods of execution? Flying people in helicopters out over the ocean and throwing them from hundreds of feet up. Tens of thousands were tortured and executed.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The original 9/11 terrorist attacks: On this day in 1973, General Augusto Pinochet, backed by the CIA, launched a military coup of the state of Chile, overthrowing the democratically elected President Salvator Allende for the crime of implementing his popularly mandated social democratic program.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On this day I choose to memorialize not only the thousands killed in the attacks, but the millions the empire killed across the globe in “retribution.” The world will be safer once the USA, aka the Evil Empire, is gone. Check out Blowback S1 and S4 for the full history, if you don’t know it.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One year ago today, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Political assassinations are counterproductive to the revolutionary goals of the masses. However, the world is a better place without him. Harsh? Hey, I didn’t tell him to be a fascist mouthpiece. He made that choice all on his own.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Since neo-N*zis just won an election in Germany, this is a good time to remember: fascism is capitalism in decay, imperialism turned inward. It’s not an “accident of history” Capitalists use fascism to protect themselves and crush the Left. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I love how “AI” is now synonymous with “fake” 🤣

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When all is said and done, Trump will be the worst president in US history (so far) cause the fascist is automatically The Worst. But the throughline to Trump goes back 50+ years. Rs AND Ds worked diligently to get us here. ALL PRESIDENTS ARE WAR CRIMINALS, the US was always an oligarchy.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The charge of “revisionism” is anti-revolutionary, since its only function is to tear down Actually Existing Socialism. “Anti-revisionists” offer nothing positive or constructive. They just heckle the people actually doing the thing. “You’re not doing it right, I could so totally do it better!”

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

BY DEFINITION, you cannot “revise” Marxism-Leninism. It’s not a set of rules, it’s a living analytical process. And it’s constantly revising itself as the material realities change. “Revisionist” is just the new “tankie” slur. It’s an ad hominem attack designed to divert attention from dia-mat.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

PSA: “Revisionism” is not real. Dialectics=the process of interactive change through which everything is going, constantly. Dialectical materialism=the study of that change in order to determine a course of action. Marxism-Leninism=dialectical materialist approach to history and revolution.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

USSR, PRC, Vietnam, DPRK… Cuba has done amazing stuff despite the US choking the life out of it for 70 years… If you want to know about Lenin’s ideas and how they worked out, you should listen to my show.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Someone needs to read “Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism” by some guy named… Lenin? Wait, is that really his name?

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Horseshoe theory has convinced everyone that the truth lies “somewhere in the middle.” This allows liars to get away with lying, and when the facts support a “left” understanding of history or society, it gets waved away as “propaganda.” We need to question EVERYTHING they’ve ever told us is true.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Take some time out today to reflect on the fact that WE make the world go round. Not the billionaires or their politicians. We workers do. Human labor is the source of value in society. They only have what they take from us. Maybe we shouldn’t give them so much. Happy Labor Day. ✊🚩

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I watched a video yesterday where an anarchist appealed to Hobbes’s Leviathan to conclude “if the anarchists can get the ‘consent of the governed’ then their state is actually okay!” Like dude wtf are you doing 🤣

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Disclaimer: I’m not a CFB fan, and I know the sport itself is controversial for all sorts of reasons. But the ending to the Michigan-West Michigan game may just be the most blatant example yet of how betting and capitalism has corrupted sports. Not the only one, but DAYUM was that atrocious.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I really hate to say “i told you so” (i’m lying) but every single DSA/Dem Soc politician has proven themselves totally compromised. SocDems/DemSocs exist to defuse and dilute revolutionary energy. They exist as backstops against revolution, not the springboard. We learned this is 19 fucking 14!

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samantha @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

you cannot trust any liberal, even ones who claim to be 'democratic socialists.' because at the end of the day the liberal, like AOC, will find more in common with fascists than with the 'hard' left. she is more willing to sit down with MAHA advocates than actual communists.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The first gender affirming surgery was done 1930 in Germany, by Magnus Hirschfield, a physician and LGTBQ ally. In 1933, his clinic was burned down and he had his German citizenship revoked by the N*zis. Think of where our understanding of human sexuality would be today if not for the N*zis…

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They’ve lost SO BADLY to China that they are openly floating a last resort solution: illegal acts of war. I thought capitalism was free and open competition?! I don’t know how serious they are, though. They know every war game for a decade has China destroying the US. futurism.com/science-ener...

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Former Obama Admin Official Says It's Time To Consider Military Strikes on Chinese Data Centers to Prevent Them From Reaching AGI

A new report by a former Obama-era national security advisor calls for the US to begin preparing drills in response to China's AI development.

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The Sickle and the Hammer @sovietpod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you’ve ever read a history book about Germany 1930s, or Anne Frank’s diary, and thought to yourself, “I would 100% protect my Jewish neighbors, that’s the obvious moral good,” PROVE IT RIGHT NOW by opposing ICE and all who support the American Gestapo

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