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===== [<nowiki/>[[Patriotic Socialism|PatSoc]] Split] =====
In the spring and summer months of 2022, Infrared was associated with people who claimed the label 'Patriotic Socialists', or "PatSocs" for short. This term was originally a reference to [[National Socialism]], sometimes shortened to ""NatSoc", used as a derogative against [[Socialist Patriotism|socialists who are patriotic]]. Infrared rejected the label since socialism has always been patriotic, allying with the Patriotic [[Social Democracy|Social-Democrats]] temporarily against the pan-[[Leftism|leftists]] attacking and conflating the two groups. These PatSocDems, as they were called, went on to attack Infrared for not supporting the artificial open society erected and managed by the [[bourgeoisie]]. Their patriotism was false; the spinelessness of those who would like nothing more than for "socialist" Rockefeller and Ford Foundation-type groups to "end the culture war" and manage the transition from the concrete working class to the neutered and idealistic "inclusive working class". 

The dualistic rule of both these PatSocs and the "left-theocrats" in the IGG server would soon meet its demise. The left-theocrats, unable to reconcile religion with ideology, became regular theocrats. Meanwhile, the PatSocs went extinct from the server after Haz's April 22, 2022 stream debunking "patriotic socialism".

Haz formally dismissed the remaining PatSocDems in his scathing article "On the PatSoc Split" from July 19th, 2022; analyzing the adjacent historic development of the [[Stakhanovites]] (the industrial working class supported by Stalin) and the [[vydvizhentsy]] (professional, bureaucratic, revisionist elite class) of the [[Soviet Union]], and addressing both the essence and substantive arguments of the PatSocDems exhaustively.

Some of these PatSocDems were affiliated with parties, such as Andrew Saturn, who was affiliated with the [[Socialist Party of America]] and the [[Green Party]]. Some of them, like Saturn, seethed at their obliteration at the hands of Infrared and Haz Al-Din. Saturn, a man with children, spent months on Twitter lying about Infrared and coping, even going so far as to attempt to dox Haz, reveal his real name and where he lives. Instead, Andrew harassed a random family from Dearbourne, convinced that Haz was actually some normal guy named Adam Tahir.

Andrew Saturn was not the only PatSocDem who contracted Infrared Derangement Syndrome. Johnny Socialism became possibly more obsessed than Saturn. Johnny spent the next two years (at least) vowing to destroy Infrared and the Khan. He regularly posted about IGG and even specific members from behind a block, claiming that Jackson Hinkle was a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent propagandist and that IGG was a fascist psyop against "true" Communism (the [[Open Society|open society]]). Unfortunately, the subsect of pan-leftists who believed this dwindled evermore, and the equation of real socialist patriots like Infrared with national socialism was no longer viable for them.  

During and following the PatSoc split, Haz was beginning to ruthlessly critique leftists and Breadtubers once and for all, though he had already been critiquing them throughout 2021. The most notable Breadtubers included were the crew of [[The Deprogram]] ([[Hakim]], [[Yugopnik]], and JT aka [[Second Thought]]); [[Luna Oi]] and her sexpat husband [[NonCompete]]; American sexpat [[BadEmpanada]]; and "investigative journalist" [[Ben Norton]], formerly of [[The Grayzone]].

The principle contradiction between Haz and these Breadtubers was Infrared's acceptance of [[Socialist Patriotism|socialist patriotism]], which Breadtubers reject on the dogmatic notion that one cannot have any patriotic feeling for a nation with an oppressive or imperialist state. Their overall outlook is described in detail by [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] in his 1920 pamphlet "Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Discorder". 

Haz explained the Western Left's state in June of 2022 as "Pro-US intervention social democrats" like Vaush or Luna Oi, vs. "Pro Third World social democracies" like Vietnam or Bolivia. He says "The pro-Third World social democrats are basically against direct forms of US intervention. However, the majority of the US ruling class has come to realize that direct US intervention harms unipolar imperialism. These same people protested the Vietnam War in their youth. This has earned them the wrap of being 'anti-imperialists.' Luna Oi, for example, opposes DIRECT US intervention. Yet silent about things like the IPEF, and is also an ideologist of American soft power. Hakim is similar. Both defend American UNIPOLARITY. The Hakim and Luna Oi faction opposes this, but both factions: are firmly embedded within, and presuppose US Unipolar imperialism, and base themselves in the Soros Open Society, are social democrats. The fake-ML faction are somewhat similar to NATO-left. They want to weaponize state power to enforce the open society values. The fake-MLs want to do it at home (such as supporting Trudeau against truckers) while the NATO wants to do it BOTH at home and abroad."<ref>https://x.com/InfraHaz/status/1538943782854574083</ref>

In the IGG Discord server, from April to July of 2022, a few characters roamed about and became known figures. A server member named Kaiserberg became incredibly popular after months of server members calling him "Kaiserbot" for his uninteresting messages. Showrunners talked to and about him, people laughed at everything he said, and his word was gospel. This was the only cult of personality Infrared ever had, and it was a meme. Kaiserberg was put in the server's quarantine until people rioted for his freedom in general chat. 

Around the same time, a Bengali going to college in Canada named Omni JarGo demonstrated on multiple occasions that he had dirt on people, exposing them in struggle sessions. Omni became known in the server for an unorthodox method of developing Infrared's collective consciousness in the long run. He spread a fake book around the server by [[Pol Pot]] called "Theory of National Identity and Social Cohesion", which led leftists in the server to claim they read it to look smart. This was an important thing for Infrared to experience, as it curtailed the number of people who simply postured like they were well read in the server and who were accepted as allies by rank-and-file Infrared.

From April to October of 2022, the IGG Discord server experienced a new popular rule, led by followers of [[Lyndon LaRouche]] and pseudo-philosophers. While Infrared agrees with some of LaRouche's work and is affiliated with the [[Schiller Institute]], we distilled what we absorbed from LaRouche down to its good and useful elements unlike those LaRouche loyalists/dogmatists of this period. The pseudo-philosophers, who were in the server for a while as a loud minority, would jibber and jabber on and on to ultimately say nothing. These people rarely read what they spoke about and learned almost solely from osmosis. The upside of this period was Haz making new acquaintances and some Infrared members producing high-quality content.