Bill Thompson
@billcubbieblue.bsky.social
Father, husband, Critical Care Paramedic, Communist, union member, Wobbly, and baseball lover. I write about unaffiliated baseball for Words Above Replacement.
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Bill Thompson
@billcubbieblue.bsky.social
· Mar 31
Communism is anti-dogmatic, if you're so convinced your tendency/ideology has all the answers and aren't willing to critique said tendency/ideology then you're practicing dogma, not Communism.
Finished The Philosophical and Scientific Crisis of Contemporary Marxism. Next pamphlet up,
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Finished The Philosophical and Scientific Crisis of Contemporary Marxism. Next pamphlet up,
The Dems are as far right as one can be without being the fucking AFD.
For about 60 years, the Democrats have been a center-left party. Both sides by now ought to understand that they need each other.
Did the off-year elections settle the Democrats’ big debate?
It'd better have.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The Dems are as far right as one can be without being the fucking AFD.
Reposted by Bill Thompson
Establishment Democrats have always been collaborators. This is all on purpose, it is not an act of cowardice, it is an act of the same collaboration they’ve always done with this fascist party.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Establishment Democrats have always been collaborators. This is all on purpose, it is not an act of cowardice, it is an act of the same collaboration they’ve always done with this fascist party.
People lionizing a fucking ghoul like Pelosi. Crying tears over Pelosi grandstanding in a useless fashion while listing career accomplishments that did nothing but leave working people worse off than they were before she came to power. Lib voters really need to wake up.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
People lionizing a fucking ghoul like Pelosi. Crying tears over Pelosi grandstanding in a useless fashion while listing career accomplishments that did nothing but leave working people worse off than they were before she came to power. Lib voters really need to wake up.
We knew from the start they were going to cave. Dems love nothing more than sacrificing the most vulnerable in order to uphold capital.
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We knew from the start they were going to cave. Dems love nothing more than sacrificing the most vulnerable in order to uphold capital.
"Glib-tongued theory is of little help in the class struggle unless it is backed by class loyalty and class action.... A man is not what he thinks, but what he does. It is easy to think war, or think strike, or to theorise on tactics, but it takes real manhood and real womanhood to back up these...
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Glib-tongued theory is of little help in the class struggle unless it is backed by class loyalty and class action.... A man is not what he thinks, but what he does. It is easy to think war, or think strike, or to theorise on tactics, but it takes real manhood and real womanhood to back up these...
Watched the original Predator for the first time in a long time yesterday. Cinematic perfection, through and through.
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Watched the original Predator for the first time in a long time yesterday. Cinematic perfection, through and through.
Finished Sense and Sensibility. Next up,
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Finished Sense and Sensibility. Next up,
"The equality produced by socialism consists in the elimination of class exploitation, certainly not in the imposition of uniformity and co-optation..." (Domenico Losurdo, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, 2008)
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"The equality produced by socialism consists in the elimination of class exploitation, certainly not in the imposition of uniformity and co-optation..." (Domenico Losurdo, Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend, 2008)
The only thing I hope for out of game 7 tonight is a good Ohtani performance. Doesn't need to be great, just good. I really don't want to spend all MLB offseason dealing with the idiotic "see, he's overrated" discourse, and that's a likely outcome if he's not good tonight.
November 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The only thing I hope for out of game 7 tonight is a good Ohtani performance. Doesn't need to be great, just good. I really don't want to spend all MLB offseason dealing with the idiotic "see, he's overrated" discourse, and that's a likely outcome if he's not good tonight.
Went on a 3 mile hike with lots of hills!
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Went on a 3 mile hike with lots of hills!
Started a new pamphlet,
November 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Started a new pamphlet,
"This shift from defense needs to actualization needs is an important key to the transformation from a dominator to a partnership society. Hierarchies maintained by force or the threat of force require defensive habits of mind. In our type of society, the creation of enemies for man begins with...
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"This shift from defense needs to actualization needs is an important key to the transformation from a dominator to a partnership society. Hierarchies maintained by force or the threat of force require defensive habits of mind. In our type of society, the creation of enemies for man begins with...
"Whenever more "feminine" values have risen for a time, threatening to transform the system, an aroused and fearful androcracy has thrust us back." (Riane Eisler, The Chalice & the Blade, 1987)
October 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Whenever more "feminine" values have risen for a time, threatening to transform the system, an aroused and fearful androcracy has thrust us back." (Riane Eisler, The Chalice & the Blade, 1987)
The Nazi tattoo simply doesn't matter because we don't need to go that far to disqualify him. He was a fucking Blackwater mercenary, that's immediately disqualifying. That we're ignoring and moving beyond that fact as quickly as we are is appalling.
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The Nazi tattoo simply doesn't matter because we don't need to go that far to disqualify him. He was a fucking Blackwater mercenary, that's immediately disqualifying. That we're ignoring and moving beyond that fact as quickly as we are is appalling.
Finished Tripwire. Next up,
October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Finished Tripwire. Next up,
Finished The Chalice and the Blade. Next up,
October 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Finished The Chalice and the Blade. Next up,
"Both authoritarianism and male dominance were here solidly justified by the same dictum that modern totalitarians and would-be totalitarians, be they of the theistic right or the atheistic left, still preach to their followers: Don't think, accept what is, accept what authority says is true....
October 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"Both authoritarianism and male dominance were here solidly justified by the same dictum that modern totalitarians and would-be totalitarians, be they of the theistic right or the atheistic left, still preach to their followers: Don't think, accept what is, accept what authority says is true....
"Clearly the morality enforcing women's sexual slavery to men was imposed to meet the economic requirements of a rigidly male-dominant system that property be transmitted from father to son and that the benefits from women's and children's labor accrue to the male. It was also imposed to meet the...
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Clearly the morality enforcing women's sexual slavery to men was imposed to meet the economic requirements of a rigidly male-dominant system that property be transmitted from father to son and that the benefits from women's and children's labor accrue to the male. It was also imposed to meet the...
"But to the extent that it reflects a dominator society, biblical morality is at best stunted. At worst, it is a pseudomorality in which the will of God is a device for covering up cruelty and barbarity." (Riane Eisler, The Chalice & the Blade, 1987)
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"But to the extent that it reflects a dominator society, biblical morality is at best stunted. At worst, it is a pseudomorality in which the will of God is a device for covering up cruelty and barbarity." (Riane Eisler, The Chalice & the Blade, 1987)
The laugh, no notes needed.
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The laugh, no notes needed.
Stopped at a local pumpkin patch today and was really happy to discover that they, intentionally, get all their pumpkins from a farm on a Navajo reservation. It's owned, run by, and only employs Native Americans. Good stuff.
October 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Stopped at a local pumpkin patch today and was really happy to discover that they, intentionally, get all their pumpkins from a farm on a Navajo reservation. It's owned, run by, and only employs Native Americans. Good stuff.
"The answer is that a woman who behaves as a sexually and economically free person is a threat to the entire social and economic fabric of a rigidly male-dominated society. Such behavior cannot be countenanced lest the entire social and economic system fall apart. Hence the "necessity" for the...
October 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"The answer is that a woman who behaves as a sexually and economically free person is a threat to the entire social and economic fabric of a rigidly male-dominated society. Such behavior cannot be countenanced lest the entire social and economic system fall apart. Hence the "necessity" for the...
"If we read the Bible as normative social literature, the absence of the Goddess is the single most important statement about the kind of social order that the men who over many centuries wrote and rewrote this religious document strove to establish and uphold. For symbolically the absence of...
October 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"If we read the Bible as normative social literature, the absence of the Goddess is the single most important statement about the kind of social order that the men who over many centuries wrote and rewrote this religious document strove to establish and uphold. For symbolically the absence of...