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CORE THEORY >The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord📖 •
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ
<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin📖 •
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blq9sCIyXgA
>The Culture Industry from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) by Theodore Adorno & Max Horkheimer📓 •
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/dialectic-enlightenment-philosophical-fragments-theodor-adorno-and-marx-horkheimer📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hSLdd8R8mY
<Understanding Media (1964) by Marshall McLuhan📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-0.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ML9n5f1fE
>One-Dimensional Man (1964) by Herbert Marcuse📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/one-dimensional-man-studies-ideology-advanced-industrial-society-herbert-marcuse📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCoLbEkAqs
<Discipline and Punish (1975) by Michel Foucault📖 •
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/michel-foucault-discipline-and-punishment📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s82uU4iRuko
>Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard 📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-1.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxg2_6_YLs
<Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/manufacturing-consent-political-economy-mass-media-noam-chomsky-and-edward-s-herman📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
>The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989) by Slavoj Zizek📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-2.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtIckkHsUQ4
<Postscript on the Societies of Control (1990) by Gilles Deleuze 📖 •
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Cq_-bLlY
>Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991) by Fredric Jameson📖 •
https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1782045945238-3.pdf📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4k26xGx1zI
<Spectres of Marx (1993) by Jacques Derrida📖 •
https://libcom.org/library/specters-marx-jacques-derrida📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJr0NwXWb6Q
>Capitalist Realism (2009) by Mark Fisher📖 •
https://libcom.org/article/capitalist-realism-mark-fisher📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cb5XJH4NMI—————————————————–
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
>Precursor Material to Post-modernity and Critical Theory📖 •
Karl Marx - Book 1, Chapter 4 of
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm📺 •
Why Marx Was Right: Alienation - PlasticPills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRxxN4Kh30📖 •
Georg Lukács - Chapter 4 of
History and Class Consciousness (1923)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm📺 •
Marxism After Marx: Reification - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZiI-QKxBKI 📖 •
Antonio Gramsci - Book 1, Chapter 1 of
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1929)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/problems/intellectuals.htm📺 •
Hegemony: WTF? An introduction to Gramsci and cultural hegemony - Tom Nicholas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LI_2-qsovo📖 •
Louis Althusser -
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm📺 •
Althusser's Concept of Ideology: A Discussion with Anthony Gavin - Acid Horizon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOqXxkKwvw
<Documentaries•
The Society of the Spectacle (1974) by Guy Debord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF6I6SYjgA•
Manufacturing Consent (1992) by Mark Achbar & Peter Wintonick, with Noam Chomsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li2m3rvsO0I•
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006) and
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012) by Sophie Fiennes, with Slavoj Zizek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYuI4SFw4g0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcFLmu_tlc•
HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco
>Easy-Bake Breadtube (for absolute beginners)•
We're All Fake Now - Wisecrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTW1mPOJJ_Y•
Are Cell Phones Replacing Reality? - PBS Idea Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AXIAM7dTTg•
The Cultural Significance of Cyberpunk - Cuck Philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvor7hhDKTs•
Introduction to Critical Theory for the 21st Century - Nathan Dufour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7stVZPGxIw•
The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Brendan Morris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKiBJJFXZI
<Situationist Archives•
https://situationist.org/•
https://notbored.org/SI.html•
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RECOMMENDED OP-EDS•
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person by Ginevra Davis
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-do-not-want-to-be-an-internet-person/•
Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification by Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys•
Facebook's Threads is so depressing by Jason O. Gilbert
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing>>2895871The avant-garde is merely experimental
Abstract art is representational
>>2895871Do you not think there's any examples of 'avant garde' just being pretentious bullshit though?
>>2895895Yes, I'm talking about the people who talk shit about "modern art" (as if it's not an extremely broad term) and think hyperrealism is the best thing ever. Same people who like AI art.
>>2895900fuck anon just outed himself as a pseud 😩
>>2895898If someone says, I hate all 'modern art' then yeah I guess they are a dumbass philistine most likely. But I would say that a large amount of abstract art is kind of bullshit and doesn't look that good. Not all by any means but a large amount. Especially when it involves human participants or other crazy showmanship.
>>2895902I guess art with human performers isn't really 'abstract' but you know what I mean, the kind of bullshit where someone smothers themselves in cake and wails or whatever.
>>2895747kidnap trump and do a hostage trade
>>2895964The "Israelis" are 95% Arab Palestinians 5% refusers. Maki and the Palestinian People's Party are essentially one party split across two states.
>>2895964This is a dig at the KKE how?
>>2896056because they didn't delcare a gonzaloist PPW in the west bank
>>2895964>>2896055>>2896064Also if you ask any Palestinian from the WB they will tell you PPP = PFLP. They are not organisationally the same but in terms of the arab street the supporters and lay members are the same.
>>2896047any time soon the strait is open, son.
>>2895964This kills hitlerite nationalists
>>2896494Maduro still ain't coming out of jail bro.
is it true Hasan's brother works for the military?
>>2896540If the comment section is anything to go by it's pretty good
>>2896743Lots of thoughtful and radical responses.
The yankees are gonna be alright!
>>2894524marx was a good scholar by 19th century standards, but there were no formal academic standards and significant impediments on accessing information.
>american revolution was progressive19th century progressives were in favor of the colonisation of palestine from the barbarous arabs and invented eugenics. If we use modern scholarship and apply the razor of historical materialism the american revolution was reactionary, jacobinite anti monarchism be damned.
BE is based on this one. It's reductive and disrespectful to Marx and his revolutionary ideas to treat him as a lefty messiah, every successful revolutionary has had way harsher critiques of colonialism and imperialism than Karl did.
>>2896754>If we use modern scholarship and apply the razor of historical materialism the american revolution was reactionaryIt was neither tbh. A lateral move. The British were roughly the same as the colonial ruling class on pretty much every issue, including slavery, colonialism, and bourgeois rule.
>>2896752The left in Iran is anti-regime too
>>2896747Mossad give me sexy Iranian goth gf plz
>>2896758what are the material facts?
the british were more pragmatic than the usraelis, they didn't want to get bogged down providing military cover for usraeli settlers and ultimately left due to escalating usraeli terrorism. the terror was funded and coordinated by wealthy patrons that stood to profit from the stolen land. after the british ceded control the genocide of the indigenous population accellerated.
sounds pretty reactionary to me. cope harder.
>>2896765the more westernised iranians in tehran are the ones that trump and bibi bombed because the war is 100% motivated by genocidal bloodlust and -100% motivated by the liberal dream of spreading pepsi and planned parenthood to the furthest regions of the earth.
>>2896777Planned Parenthood is based doe
>>2896774>the british were more pragmatic than the usraelisPragmatism is a matter of perspective. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 (the document that banned expansion West of the Appalachians without royal permission) was pragmatic from the perspective of the government in London that had a global empire to run. It was a way to shore up British holdings in America while they turned their imperialist attentions elsewhere. Immediate westward expansion was more pragmatic for the colonists who had a growing, land hungry society in constant conflict with natives and didn't give a shit about British imperial interests on the other side of the world. Neither are really progressive.
>they didn't want to get bogged down providing military cover for usraeli settlers and ultimately left due to escalating usraeli terrorismOnly because they had growing colonial interests elsewhere, mainly India.
>after the british ceded control the genocide of the indigenous population accelleratedThe British committed genocide against Indigenous North Americans in Canada, it was just less violent because Canada was more sparsely populated and the natives were less capable of resisting. Whenever they did resist (e.g. Red River Rebellion) they were dealt with just as harshly. They still stole their land, herded them into concentration camps, and tried to eradicate them as a people. Continued British rule would have at most delayed Westward expansion, but it was an inevitability.
American independence also arguably hastened the end of slavery in the Northern states, which begun abolishing it decades before Britain did in their colonies. There was a roughly 40 year period where enslaved Africans in Canada could escape to freedom by fleeing to the US. Whatever differences existed on these issues were pretty insignificant, and at most sped up or slowed down otherwise inevitable developments by a few decades.
>>2896781>The Royal Proclamation of 1763 (the document that banned expansion West of the Appalachians without royal permission) was pragmatic from the perspective of the government in London that had a global empire to run. It was a way to shore up British holdings in America while they turned their imperialist attentions elsewhere. From what I understand the U.K. was also going broke from fighting France and Spain and didn't want the colonists blowing up the situation in the North America and starting a big war with the natives.
>>2896779no it isn't. it's a neoliberal NGO that was founded by a eugenecist and let the pseudo left in america kick the can down the road on both reproductive rights and womens health. in developed nations these services are covered by the state two-payer or single-payer healthcare system. in the hick empire they're siloed off and run semi-independently from the state to appease religious zealots and act as a sword of damocles over half the population.
libs could have made planned parenthood redundant in the 90s. they didn't. now america's perpetually exploited and abused women are paying for it.
>>2896784That's correct, but it wasn't because they actually cared about the Natives or considered them equals or anything. They were just overstretched and needed to conserve resources, so they made agreements with the Indigenous nations bordering their colonies in North America. They begun breaking these agreements themselves shortly after the Napoleonic Wars when their position was more secure.
>>2896787He did abolish slavery thoughever. Spain also wasn't like Britain. It was a thoroughly feudal and aristocratic state, whereas Britain had already had a bourgeois revolution and was steadily becoming more bourgeois. The Latin American revolutions actually did represent a seizure of power by an emerging colonial bourgeoisie at the expense of the Spanish aristocracy.
>>2896777>planned parenthoodrightoids try not to be weird challenge: impossible
>>2896799Bitch your name is literally bloodgasm
>>2896794>He did abolish slavery thoughever. a trifle. the indigenous getting genocided and their lands stolen make them more oppressed than slaves. Francisco de Miranda literally modelled the latam independence movement using british america as an example, making the whole idea thoroughly reactionary
>>2896799I had a lot of respect for her. It sucks shes a typical woman that lives her torture porn. I bet she loves true crime podcasts.
>>2896806>thoroughly reactionaryReactionary isn't a synonym for bad or morally reprehensible. From a strict Marxist perspective it isn't reactionary to supplant pre-capitalist relations with capitalist ones, even if colonialism is morally despicable.
>>2896810Tribal pre-society is less exploitive and more progressive than capitalism.
>>2896599who says he will. but not because of Venezuela.
>>2896809>I had a lot of respect for her. It sucks shes a typical womanjust wait until you have an actual relationship
>>2896799>do you consider consumer of the genre (gore)>I can't help thinking about how videos about Palestine will change this genre (gore)what a stupid thing to think about. holly fuck.
>>2896781>rejects my material analysis<credits 18th century slaveowner revolution with 19th century abolitionism in the civil war periodthe materialist explanation for abolition is the invention of the cotton gin. this is supported by economic data and primary sources that show "progressive" libs arguing for abolition because they're worried about getting blacked. you're making a moralist consequentialist argument that's completely irrelevant.
>>2896787>"american leftist">react this way to nationalist creation myth being questionedcurious.
leftypol legit getting worse.
>>2896830>more progressiveBy definition it isn't. It leads inevitably to class society. The only way to transcend it is industrialized communism.
>>2896841<credits 18th century slaveowner revolution with 19th century abolitionism in the civil war periodNorthern states began abolishing slavery in the 18th century, decades before Britain did in its colonies. To call the American War of Independence a "slave owner's revolution" ignores the fact that Britain also relied on slavery and American independence actually ended it faster in the north. Again, it was for the most part a lateral move.
>>2896841>worried about getting blackedgo back to pol
>>2896845the only information the revolutionaries had was that slavery was abolished in england. no abolitionists signed the declaration of independence, fought the war, contributed to the constitution, or held office in the republican government. even if they were this doesn't excuse the genocide. you might as well credit shitler and ᴉuᴉlossnW for ending european colonialism faster.
>>2896842marx was wrong about all that. the indigenous have a right to their land and marxism needs to be updated to reflect that fact. all north and south american independence boiled down to was one inhuman desire: more efficient extermination of the natives
>>2896853>the only information the revolutionaries had was that slavery was abolished in englandIf they were fighting to preserve slavery then why would half of them immediately begin abolishing it?
>no abolitionists signed the declaration of independence, fought the war, contributed to the constitution, or held office in the republican governmentClearly some did or northern states wouldn't have begun abolishing slavery so quickly.
>even if they were this doesn't excuse the genocideWhich the British were also engaging in and continued to engage in with their remaining North American colonies. You gotta understand that I'm not crediting the Americans with anything or saying they were more progressive than Britain. I'm saying they were the same and it didn't matter.
>"Treaties are unconstrained Acts of independent pow-ers." But the Indians were never regarded as an independent power. A civilized nation first discovering a country of uncivilized people or savages held such country as its own until such time as by treaty it was transferred to some other civilized nation. The savages' rights of sovereignty even of ownership were never recognized. Nova Scotia had passed to Great Britain not by gift or purchase from or even by conquest of the Indians but by treaty with France, which had acquired it by priority of discovery and ancient possession; and the Indians passed with it.
Here's your "progressive" British Empire bro.
>>2896854Bolivar and Jefferson were both bourgeois criminals, slavers and bloodsuckers
>>2896872Bolivar did give slaves independence at once during the independence struggle, a move that met resistance, though not because of him. he also freed all the slaves he himself owned.
As for colonial independence, whatever act, any act, of self-determintion that occurred during that era is considered historically progressive.
gtfo.
>>2896884Slavery wasn't fully eradicated until over twenty years after bolivars death. Had he not initiated the illegal war on Spain, slavery would have in fact been abolished sooner, like in Haiti, an example of an actual progressive independence movement
>>2896799>>2896809ngl this has gotta be like the least surprising e-celeb twist I ever saw, she always came across as a fuckin weirdo
>>2896860I think the only abolitionist associated with the revolution was benjamin franklin but he's the exception that proves the rule:
<owned slaves<profited from them immensely and directly<only stood on principle when he was already weathy and retired<had no motion and nothing happened
>after the revolution half of them moved to abolish slaverycalling bullshit
>>2896864>british continued genocide in the colonies>here's your "progressive" british empireI said pragmatic silly billy. I have made no excuse for their other crimes, just that england pumping the brakes on the indian wars pissed off usraeli settlers.
>>2896884>bolivar freed the slavessilly bugger he should have waited 100 years then implemented segregation like the certified marxist white settlers in the USA.
>>2896896>Had he not initiated the illegal war on Spain>getting independence from colonial rule is illegal.you just outed all Palestinian struggle as illegal.
>mfw we have a nationalistoid spaniatard ITT.how's that 20th-21st irrelevancy going, canijo.
>>2896908palestine launched a legal war against their colonial oppressors to retrieve their stolen land. Spanish american settlers revolted to better efficiently steal indigenous land and genocide/assimilate their extensive populations, which made it an illegal war. its outrageous to compare the two in any way
>>2896921Engels curbstomped stirner and would prolly curbstomp you too faggot. Also castro and lenin had law degrees
>>2896920>there is little focus on the future or on deeper reflection.I mean no shit. That's been obvious for centuries, but especially since like Reagan the right hasn't even attempted to legitimately justify itself intellectually.
>>2896924lsiten here, you spaniatard. "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.". when the stupid spanish crown decided to impose suffocating taxes on the colonies to finance their stupid wars with britain and france, when the iberian peninsula decided that every goddamn viceroyalties in the colonies must be governed by people born in the peninsula, when they created a fucking racist 'caste' system, when they decided that the law about Indigenous people was symbolic, they lost all legalities over the territories.
stfu, and gtfo.
>>2896937its just schizo politics. i get what
>>2896920 means, there is this incel guy i used to work with. he self described as an incel. and his facebook is interesting to watch because of how schizophrenic train wreck it is, he'd post something vaguely leftist populist like jeremy Corbin. a george carlin meme about religion being stupid, post one about how japan is trad and red pilled. then something about how christianity is based.
>>2896939Bolivar, the aristocratic noble, inherited and subsisted off the wealth of his vast family estate acquired through the rape and murder of millions. His genocidal intentions were clear from the start, he was a blight on history in even worse ways than churchill by setting back the cause of abolition for decades by being deferential to his Landlord Masters
>>2896838Ive been in multiple.
Women just have a slave mindset from millenia of exploitation.
They crave vile shit.
>>2895964Wait, are we supposed to be hating this?
>>2896997Yes and I can't believe people on here aren't.
>>2897089Why do you hate communist 48ers?
>>2897099BECAUSE NOBODY SHOULD IDENTIFY AS "ISRAELI" OMFG, AND SUPPORTING THE TWO STATE "SOLUTION" MAKES YOU A COLONIALIST DOG. "Israel" is only going to be defeated when "Israeli socialists" start identifying as Palestinian like what Fanon was talking about.
>>2897105Nobody is identifying to anything, the bourgeois divided the world with stupid nation states, those workers just were born there and got stuck with this stupid citizenship instead of another one
>>2897105>Because le names and signifiersIdealism.
It's besides the point anyway because Palestinians in israel are not even allowed to call themselves palestinian, they have to call themselves "israeli arabs" or "arab citizens of israel", let alone allowed organize something like the palestinian communist party
>SUPPORTING THE TWO STATE "SOLUTION" MAKES YOU A COLONIALIST DOGMaybe, afaik they consider the israelis to be too racist and economically powerful to be able to form a unified state with them, so they advocate for palestinian independence atm, with the goal of eventually forming a binational state. I agree that one state solution would be better
>>2897116this. speaking among themselves with their own people they know theyre palestinian. they're also not stupid and live under a tyranny so they have to identify in public as 'israeli' Arab unless they want to get banged up for 20 years, have their families hunted down, and their lives destroyed.
>they should just sacrifice like lenin and mao did! >they should go to prison and organize an armed revolution inside the prison cells! >>2897105>SUPPORTING THE TWO STATE "SOLUTION" MAKES YOU A COLONIALIST DOGNot really. Also relax
>>2897116>one state solution would be betterAs if that anon doesn't think that one state should be the state of palestine, with all the settlers thrown out into the ocean
>>2897148Yeah? I said I agree that would be better
>>2897140A solution that leaves the Zionists and their spawn free to live in the Levant is just Zionism with extra steps
>>2897158a two state solution is incompatible with zionism since it would put Jerusalem and all the holy jewish relics back in 'muslim invader' hands, that's why it has never happened and will never happen. Jews would literally rather start suicide en-masse than give up the city and Western Wall to the Palestinians who would rightfully turn it into a giant urinal
>>2897105>IDENTIFY I hate libs
>>2895013>Dawkins is why I'm a communistYou could not torture something so embarrassing out of me. Good for you but that does not make him not a retarded rightoid grifter or a "renowned" scientist
>His atheism book taught me materialist thinkingHe's a idealist (liberal) though
>>2896799You are certainly the worst and dullest namefag into which posters here have ever been introduced to, and who definitely posts regularly to r/plebscarepod
>>2896905>just that england pumping the brakes on the indian wars pissed off usraeli settlersI'm not denying that, I'm just wondering why that makes them in any way preferable to the settlers. Especially when their actual reasons for doing so had to do with conserving resources for colonial projects elsewhere. They stopped killing North American Indians for a bit so they could kill Indian Indians.
>>2896799>I love watching gore of people dying!!!>But how will the potential end to the genocide in Gaza affect my ability to consume this content??? :(Absolutely crazy shit that you couldn't torture me into saying
>>2897301Welcome to the New World, buddy!
>>2897182He probably means materialism when it comes to the physical sciences.
Also, most people don't actually bother to read the selfish gene (nevermind the extended phenotype), and so they often dismiss the books on the basis of Dawkins persona or current grift, associations or even just the title name. As another anon pointed out, he's not an big wig innovator when it comes the science itself, he's just good at writing clearly.
Fact of the matter is that in both those books Dawkins is more dialectical & materialist than most who dismiss the books online (in part that's because that's the nature of the subject; Ie. evolution. Its also because the books are clear summaries of other people's work)
Much of the problems of the books are by omission rather than commission, and you have to read them & contrast them with for example Gould & Lewontin to get a handle on where the real divisions & controversies are.
>>2897182Add: Dawkins actual views on political economy are broadly in between social liberal & social democrat. He confirms he's a labour voter.
Ie. not rightoid, but left-libtard.
>>2897356Everyone in the comment section has brain damage
>>2897647i was wondering what was off about him in that video.
somehow i didnt immediately clock it was his weight
>>2897647>skinny gabesovlless
>>2897731Probably fake, but why can't we just kill all these people
>>2897743Nothing is stopping you. Where there is a will there is a way.
>>2897745I mean, you're right, I've become too soft and attached to worldly things, I should have gone out and killed politicians etc while I was still depressed
>>2894832virginity is a social construct. one decides if it is lost, society judges you if you actually did.
>>2897743"rules", "laws", "etc"
>>2897753she's definitely just a disaffected leftist doe
>>2897750jreg is lame and stochastic terrorism was so 2018.
Demins' lawyer team picked up Frogans case and today the courts annuled the default judgement which means Ethnic Kleinser is on his way to get his 3rd legal whooping.
>>2897888Oh joy more schizo retardation from a right-winger.
And seriously, a fictional empire from Star Wars is "Real Marxisim" to this retard?
>>2897961its clearly a joke, get checked for autism
Now that the dust has settled, is this the definitive list?
List of AES:
Han, Ming, Shun Dynasties, Taipei Heavenly Kingdom, People's Republic
Safavid Persia, Gilan Soviet, Islamic Republic
Tsardom of Moscovy, USSR
Asuka, Nara Japan
Aztec Empire, AMLO Presidency
1st Republic, Paris Commune
Bauernhaufen Territory, Soviet Republics, Democratic Republic
AES: USA in the 50's
glowie color revolution: russia 1917
AES: Lordran from Dark Souls, having a small penis, Botswana
Liberal Fuckhell: anything else
>>2897647I heard Ozempic had weird mental effects like making people even more domesticated. Perfect pacification tool if true.
>>2898231Yeah and I heard that Marilyn Manson removed his rib to suck his own dick. And that people buy baby alligators but they get too big so they flush them down the toilet and that's why there are giant alligators in the New York sewers
>>2898320Google is right there dude…
>>2898189>yes we killed 60 million and it was freaking epic d00d!!!!>posting anticommunist propaganda, but with a "this but unironically" gigachad aesthetici hate when you freaks do this. just a bunch of transgressive contrarianism
>>2898329Euronymous believing in all anticommunist propaganda but thinking it's actually based because he was an edgelord
>>2898348No. How is this what you remember from 4 years ago? Christ.
>>2898366Posting on leftypol.org is not a hobby, it's a way if life.
>>2898068Yeah but when a joke sort of reflects that a idiotic right-winger actually believes, it's not really much of a joke.
I mean it's Poe's Law in action: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist/Roght-Winger in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article."
>>2897766Thiel is probably fucking him too.
>>2898377>it's not really much of a joke. it made me laugh and the posts inspired by it were funny too so I think it was a pretty good joke actually
>>2897731This applies to literally every single right-wing figure on the planet, btw. They are all capitalist funded. Not a single one of them is organic, it's 100% astroturfed. If the billionaire money dried up they would disappear. All the more reason to eat the rich so they stop funding this garbage.
>>2897836Why are Americans just treating murder/hate crime cases as sport teams through idpol lenses? That case where the white woman called some kid racial slurs, the black guy killing the white guy at some sports event? and now this
>>2898348Woke 1 was crazy.
>>2898348Do you have the archive?
is it in the lefty booru (
https://lefty.pictures/)?
I don't go outside the main board, except once in the /edu/ board, to post about the Taliban, and sometimes to complain about a bug or (more rarely) to complain about an irritating troll in meta. And rarely outside specific threads from the main /lpol/.
I am tempted to save that screenshot in my lefty folder of strange, cringe, and weird things from known posters :v
Situation is Crazy
>>2897766>>2898422This shit doesn't get talked about enough. Every time some lunatic reactionary starts showing up on everyone's feeds and every other podcast, it's always either a multimillionaire or someone massively funded by one.
>>2896819Wait you don't want to put all revisionists to the sword? You lost some of my resect bro
>>2898731Why? What's the Rapezoid done now?
>>2898731Plant a few bombs into the mossad's headquarters? Idk
>>2898351Based
Why are yankposters so cringe? Materialist explanation?
>>2894832>>2894873lmao, its needlessly verbose and detailed, so zesty
>>2894826unfortunate, but its almost all AI slop now so you aren't missing out on much
>>2898772>webmgrasping at straws are we?
What are some media choices that prove someone is a neo-menshevik?
from the top of my head:
>reading jacobin magazine
>listening to chapo trap house
>listening to the reprogram
>watching geopol youtube grifters
>watching nolan movies unironically
What else?
>>2898862hating god, jesus, and caleb maupin and listening to music at A=440 Hz and being late on membership dues.
>>2897731the actual materialist explanation is that looksmaxxing is basically surveyedmaxxing. maximizing exposure
>>2898872(c)opium is bad for you.
>>2898884in Marx' defense, he was pointing out things that were only dealt with properly by the introduction of limits
but yeah Marx was a mathlet
>>2893583>>2893911>South Korea has a functional democracy (with the left-wing currently being in power)Let's not fall for the lib propaganda here. Communist parties are literally illegal in SK. It is an oligarchy controlled by a few family owned chaebols who got rich under the US supported military dictatorship. Just because they play pretend at switching presidents these days and sometimes throw them into prison when they get caught taking bribes from Samsung doesn't mean much.
>>2899033>Communist parties are literally illegal in SK.It goes a bit further than that. They regularly criminalize and outlaw even trade unions, IIRC.
>>2899064South Korea is basically three chaebols in a trenchcoat, a cyberpunk country
>>2899071The fuck is the point of this?
>>2899031I wish he gives Marxism a chance.
>>2899071Why she eating tortillas?
>>2898945After the revolution, we will give State-mandated porn doujins to every single male in the world.
>>2899071I hate this sort of video. The girl munching or tortillas is distracting to what the soldier is talking about. How does anyone like this sort of dumb slop?
>>2899102BE has fd signifier derangement syndrome
>>2899067Why the fuck is the whole world going crazy right now?
>>2899067>>2899112Probably desperation by the bourgeoisie in order to stay in power.
>>2899103His ability to milk content over Hasan or Ethanic Kleinsing is waning so he's trying to move onto other e-celebs to post about 24/7
>>2899081>>2899094>>2899098Can you guys point out even one wrong statement by her in this clip? Yeah don't think so.
>>2899116She didn't even make a statement, she just ate tortillas.
>>2899102why do I have the de javu or the Arday professor racist backlash?
does he think that only 1 content creator would ever say exactly his 'bd moral highground'?
fucking zei squirrel does bd before bd was even bd.
>>2899118Now compare this to Contrapoints and tell me who is better. Be honest.
BE is, by his own standards, a plagiarist.
>>2899071yeah so, is she mocking their pleas for assistance by eating crunchy foods, as if to say
>lalalalalalalalalalala I can't hear youuuuuuuuuor something like that?
>>2898747woke 1.0 leftypol meme
Since when you became libs? Why do you defend FD Ziegnifier?
>>2899289We ain't defending him. Just poking fun at BE for still beefing with him.
steve crowder is making 'the case for facism'.
don't wanna post it, it's easy to find the video, but hey, the right is making the case for fascism openly.
remember 10 years ago when they were mocking everyone who called them fascists, calling it liberal hysteria, media bias, and hypocrisy?
that the leftists are the actual fascists?
well, how thing turned out to be, huh.
>>2898884Ramanujan legit one of the most interesting figures in history. Completely self-taught Indian peasant mogging the greatest European mathematicians of the time with the help of visions with Hindu deities.
In a different era, he would've become a prophet of a new religion.
>>2899302Died due to veganism, btw
>>2899305Milk, cream, and butter aren’t vegan retard
>>2899311Russia is racist. Just not as racist as the average pol or ukranian
>>2899311Nothing about that reads as condolences.
>>2899327Leftypol poster unable to attain female companionship. Big shocker there.
>>2899330Same. Girl I'm tryna rizz up is more receptive when I ask her for nudes than when I show genuine interest in her favorite music, movies, books, etc. She doesn't care about my feelings at all 😓
>>2899334it's because the world conditions them to this, a tragedy in two parts
>>2899327>e-beggar is getting scammed by literal prostitutesAh, the circle of life.
>>2899334Sometimes women also just wanna get laid you know?
>>2899330Skills issue. I've discussed French philosophy (with someone not into that) during foreplay.
Is it just me or are there more board schizos than usual lately?
>>2899327>fumbledLook in the mirror, bud. Did you really think you ever had a chance with anyone that’s not underage (like the girl you’re currently with).
>>2899448Yes. Might be though that we notice them more because the collapse of moderation.
>>2899112The old is dying and the new struggles to be born. I forget the rest but you get the point.
>>2899647Time of monsters
>>2899311🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
>>2899573shits super fucked lmao
>>2899663that's a right winger. no other reason to crap all over a left-wing space.
>>2899648Big news for monsterfuckers.
>>2899663Lmao
What even is the end game of these people.
Why don't leftists run their own bot-farms? It's seemingly relatively inexpensive and everyone fucking else does.
>>2899102I spent a long time defending IDF siginifier on here, and then he dropped the palestine video where he was sweating bullets and apologising for making it the whole way through, then he dropped the followup where he waffled about WWE and unironically used the zionist propaganda line
>yall don't talk about sudan or the congowhich is a flat out lie, and he's barely talked about african politics himself.
maybe he's going to hit it out the park with a sudan/congo vid and get inspired with enough anti-imperialist zeal to keep going, but how things currently stand I'm not interested in the guy or his pop culture slop video essays. I don't need to know any more shit about kevin hart.
>>2899859because we dont have billionaires on our side. it might not as expensive as some stuff but still pretty pricey
>>2899872Decentralization. Everyone should run their own little bot-farm.
>>2899904I think Houdini's dating a 19 yo which ain't as bad as saying he's hooking up with minors like the other anon claims
>>2899907it doesn't refute anything lol
>>2899915First KosherEmpanada and now this. Who's paying for this slander campaign against Hakim and friends?
>>2899915how is hakim a sellout? give me a tl;dw I'm not giving clicks
>>2899915another inter-dengist nothingburger
>>2899915>RTSG Yeah no thank you
>>2899622Brah think he the prince who was promised 🤣
>>2899920Iirc Yugopnik and JT said some positive stuff about DSA and Hakim didn't immediately murder them so that means they're all CIA.
>>2899920> give me a tl;dw I'm not giving clicksIt's exactly the same argument they have in USApol everyday, basically.
>>2899967lenin and stalin robbed banks in 1908. if they can do it then so can hakeem, Hugo and JT.
>>2899980Lenin and Stalin existed in a world that wasn't a digital panopticon and could actually get away with it
>>2899989The best goobal impact for good this cunt could do is dying of a coke overdose.
>>2897731He tryna do some gender war accelerationism by financing not the redscare hoes and incel looksmaxxers.
>>2899989putting the house on dashacoin
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4dYwLrBXjSowait wtf is this channel. what un report? is this bs?
>>2900018>All the fucking comments are made by accounts with usernames like JohnSmith7283 or some variation of itObvious haSSbara psy-op
>>2899990The modern Stalin is pulling off crypto heists
What's up with Amerikkkan leftists going on the Stürmer to tell us about how they don't mind germans
>>2899915Hakim needs to get the boys back in line
>>2899915I really fucking hate how the audio is sped up. I can set the playback speed myself if I feel like it, thank you very much
>>2899300I tried my best to stomach this video and it can essentially be boiled down like this:
>here are some historical examples of when fascist dictators got into power and managed to enact policy that resulted in economic upswingI am not educated on the examples he cited, but I'm sure anyone who cares can provide a detailed breakdown of the nuances of each scenario, and why his interpretation of the outcome of such events may not exactly be in good faith. nowhere does he touch upon the underlying principles of fascism, or why people in a democracy would be opposed to such a thing. it's /pol/tier memeshit circa 2010 interspersed between the cringiest attempts at humor imaginable and shilling for his protein supplements or whatever. I don't know how anyone can take this dude seriously let alone enjoy this "content".
>>2900136present me the historical examples
>>2900145He talks about Augusto Pinochet's Chile, Francoist Spain, and Hugo Banzer in Bolivia as being examples of fascist leaders who ushered in economic stability after usurping incompetent democratic or Marxist leadership, led by the support of the people. I'm reading about it now; Pinochet was responsible for between 1200 and 3200 executions of his political opponents (leftists, socialists, political critics) and as many as 80,000 arrests of civil disobedients, not to mention that he was found guilty of conflicts of interest, embezzlement, tax fraud, and offering kickbacks on arms deals. Crowder mentions none of this, nor does he touch upon the high levels of economic inequality that arose alongside the aforementioned economic growth that resulted from Pinochet's policies, neither does he mention that the 1982 monetary crisis was due in large part to Pinochet's policies.
I don't know about the other examples, I may read about them as well, but it's safe to say after a cursory bit of research, that Crowder is being intellectually dishonest in using these people as positive examples of 'fascism done right'.
>>2900122 (Me)
Someone please be a good comrade and post this comment in the comments section of Caleb's stupid video, since he blocked both my main account as well as my sock:
>What garbage. Leo Strauss was highly opposed to subjective morality. In Natural Right and History, Strauss argues that modern relativism — especially historicism and positivism — undermines the very idea of objective moral truth. He defends the classical tradition of natural right, particularly as developed by Plato and Aristotle, which holds that there is a permanent, knowable standard of justice rooted in human nature. Strauss believes modern political thought from Machiavelli onward lost its way by rejecting this idea and instead grounding right in changing historical contexts or subjective preferences. He critiques thinkers like Hobbes and Locke for reducing natural right to self-preservation and utility, and he calls for a return to the ancients' more noble conception of virtue and reason as the basis for political order. For Strauss, rediscovering natural right is essential to resisting nihilism and restoring serious moral and political philosophy. You would know this if you actually read the book, Caleb. >>2900157>philosophy wankingno one cares. the primary contention of the video is still true. amerikkka is indeed run by satanists. the epstein files, even in their redacted and censored form, are proof enough, before even bringing in the whole secret society/skull and bones/bohemian grove stuff.
>>2899989Genuinely hideous creature
>>2899915>All ML internet personalities are actually social democratic / liberal hacks attempting to steer you rightwards >"Just vote for the biggest liberal/socdem party in your country bro, that'll solve everything!">"Wasn't Deng Xiaoping so cool!?">"And now, a word from our sponsors…"Been calling out this shit for months if not years
I got hounded and mocked as being an "ultra" or "leftcom" whenever I pointed out the deprogram for the bs it is.
But I'm glad to see you're all finally catching up. Seems ultras are never wrong but only ever correct too soon.
>>2899980>lenin and stalin robbed banks in 1908which was a waste of time, they blew up 40 random bystanders and never spent the money
>>2900232>40 random bystandersThey were living in the colonial imperial core and were therefore guilty labor aristocrats
>>2899967>Yugopnik and JT said some positive stuff about DSA and Hakim didn't immediately murder them so that means they're all CIA.I'm glad we finally agree on something
>>2900224This board should just be named /dengpol/ already
>>2899967Wasn't it that Yugo started a podcast with that Platnerist guy?
Cockshott just dropped a new video on 2 of everyone's favorite topics, homosexuality and genetics!
>>2900339He’s correct that there is no single “gay gene” or whatever, it has a lot to do with hormones in the womb, how many kids your mom had already, and social conditions. That doesn’t mean it isn’t an immutable characteristic and it isn’t good or productive to try and “convert” lgbt people into cishet people.
>>2900339>>2900359I imagine this is going to go down like a lead balloon for him because many people probably didn't live through this kind of 90's and early 00's (well intentioned) liberal propagandizing about looking for the gay gene and so on. I suspect the reporting on this stuff was more a European phenomena than an US one, which will be a lot of his audience.
>>2900373It makes economic sense to repress homosexuality in the lower classes of both slavery and feudalism because you need to have as many kids as possible to pass on the immense domestic work needed for pre industrial economies, but for a proletarian, having a child is a clear economic albatross around your neck until you retire and they take care of you. That’s why advanced economies largely embraced the sexual and gender minorities.
>>2900339The X-linkage theory presented in the middle makes a ton of sense.
I do have a lot of criticisms though.
He claims that the math of the Gay Uncle Hypothesis doesn't work out. I say yeah, if you put your
entire stake on gay uncle hypothesis. There can be various effects going on that all look not like much in themselves, but are strong together.
The video neglects the possibility of more complicated genetic interactions, like with sickle-cell disease where a single copy is helpful.
He also jumps from genes to culture. He neglects hormonal issues during pregnancy. It is well established that with several males born to the same mother, the younger ones tend to be more and more effeminate. So, if the distribution of kids is changing towards something more lopsided (I don't actually know if that is the case), you would expect more effeminate boys from that.
In general, things like sperm counts have been dropping all over the world for decades now. There are measurable changes in e. g. the distance between rectum and scrotum in newborn boys. I am pretty sure there have been huge changes in hormone levels and how hormones are expressed due to pollution.
elon cucked nitter
>>2900339The chud of today was the woke of yesterday. Bro got stuck with a second feminist wave mindset.
>>2900395xcancel still works
>>2900407I can't be legal to demand the takedown of the project's repository. It couldn't possibly be illegal to run nitter on some personal server and use it to access xitter with your own personal account. Demanding specific instances be taken down I can understand maybe. Purely from a legal standpoint. I don't think the law is right. Twitter could argue they are depriving him of ad revenue or something I don't know. Oh well, if an alternative doesn't appear that's it for xitter for me.
>>2900407I'm tired man, I feel I need multiple scripts and plugins to make these platforms unusable, block out rage/engagement bait, AI slop, and so on. Every year it becomes more difficult with increasing VPN crackdowns and age verification everywhere. And now this.
>>2900169>park chung heeI don't see how he was a fascist
>inb4 anti-communismAnti-communism is not unique to fascism
>>2900359I never got the impression he argues this, nor why people were so upset about that video he did about class, income and gay couples.
Checking the transcript of the video he doesn't come across as a chud. He's skeptical about the "gay gene" and raises a social reason for why homophobia exists. And why people are more comfortable with identifying as LGBT nowadays. I think some have a kneejerk reaction when you critique the "it's natural" explanation. Without realizing it's the same reason used to justify homohpobia.
>>2900416>>2900428>>2900453Objectively, is there any reason to keep using Xhitter at all other than shitting on and trolling these people?
>>2900456Lotta great porn on there
>>2900456unfortunately a lot of news is broken there and most people who have genuinely insightful things to say about world events post on x the everything app blaze your glory. leaving is a coordinationg problem. everyone says "i'll leave once everyone else leaves"
>>2900459https://twstalker.com/TakebaSweepKnowing the long-term goal is forcing everyone on the internet to occupy the same space as these guys gives a lot credence to that
>>2900466Least fascist persona fan
>>2900373>I suspect the reporting on this stuff was more a European phenomena than an US one, which will be a lot of his audience.>>2900428>He's skeptical about the "gay gene" and raises a social reason for why homophobia exists. And why people are more comfortable with identifying as LGBT nowadaysYeah come to think I've never really encountered it much here in the U.S. outside of popular science magazines publishing occasional articles about "what if there is a gay gene?" or some general "born this way" Lady Gaga stuff. I think it might be implicitly assumed by most progressive minded people that you are "born this way" if you're gay but I suspect people are really "naturalizing" a social phenomenon. Like they don't want to say it could be potentially optional because it gives ammunition to the homophobic right which argues its unnatural so therefore illegitimate. But even if you were "born this way" it doesn't necessarily follow that it's legitimate either. But in any case if it was a "choice," why would that be bad? People also read Marx and argue about him or play video games and that's not exactly optimized for reproductive fitness.
So I never found the "gay gene" stuff particularly relevant. Also the rigid distinction between nature and artifice really does not make any philosophical sense. Everything humans do is "natural" in the sense that we're part of the material universe, we can no more violate the laws of nature than a squirrel can. We are just monke in that sense, but we can also consciously transform the ways we live. Heterosexuality is also a natural phenomenon but its expression is produced historically, like how one appears as straight (I agree with Judith Butler that gender is a performance). By the way, there's no strict biological-evolutionary "reason" for the female orgasm from a natural-selection survival imperative either, but it exists. Maybe it helps increase procreation or maybe it just exists for fun.
>>2900374>It makes economic sense to repress homosexuality in the lower classes of both slavery and feudalism … but for a proletarian, having a child is a clear economic albatross around your neck until you retire Well also more and more people live in giant cities that atomize the population compared to living in rural agricultural villages where having eight kids not only makes economic sense, but the whole community goes to the same church and is up in your business all the time and enforces a rigid superstructure around a particular morality shaped by that environment. So the modern industrialized and urbanized society has freed people up to live more autonomous sexual lives.
>>2900514Yep, that's the general gist of the argument. It feels like a kind of settled issues now though, i have not met anyone of late who really believes a gay gene and so on, normalization of sexuality over time has probably just led for less of a need to pathologize it in either direction.
>>2900515Probably yeah.
Okay I went to the video and looked through some of the slides. Then I read the comments. So I think Cockshott is a 'phobe and he might believe homosexuality won't exist in socialism. Like what he's getting at is that housing is too expensive nowadays and people can't afford to raise kids and that's why there are too many damn gay kids these days.
But it's obviously true that it is more expensive. And it's also an obvious necessity that human beings need to reproduce to continue the species, but that's true in the aggregate. Meanwhile the fact is that populations are aging all over the place and socialist countries haven't done any better. China's population is very likely going to fall by hundreds of millions of people this century after an epochally radical shift away from a country of large peasant households to a highly technological and urbanized society.
>>2899102BE continues to be correct, but alas, pointlessly so.
It's clear that besides the Anark fellow and the odd grindset orbiter with no standards, tubers aren't enthused to throw a bone to the Empanada. "Youtube Drama" needs two to tango and BE is not willing to abide by mutually beneficial rules. It's like having a wrestling match where one of the participants is actually trying to kill the other.
So there is no reason to engage with BE for these people, only *about* him. To talk him up and passively benefit from being mentioned when BE tries to bait them into engagement as well as inuring their adiences from criticism with some good old negative conditioning.
Hopefully, this boogeyman reputation keeps building and some more retards brave up. Ethan KKKlein was the exceptional authentic idiot who wasn't playing a character. Most people on Youtube are smarter than KKKLein, most people on Earth as well.
>>2900339There is a massive disparity of sexual/gender identity and practice. Most "queer" people are fitting a social trend rather than living an alternative lifestyle. Practicinhg queers will always be a minority.
>>2900394Is "effeminacy" the same as homosexuality, though?
>>2900396Are the third wave feminists "more" correct than the second wave?
>>2900416>can't be legalYou wanna take on the richest man in the world in a battle of lawyers?
>>2899915>The Deprogram are fraudsThey probably are as much frauds as the Chapo guys. As in, you'll never know because they are good enough media people not to be caught, even if they were to receive the same memo about a particular topic. Their niche is forgiving like that, because there is no real left political power in the anglo world to ground them.
That said RTSG (the vidrel) is an ACP fellow IIRC. So I'm not going to watch their contribution to the Larouchite influencer MLM these people have going.
>>2900534>>2900536we might even posit the existence of homophilic societies, where respondents claim to be gay because of social expectations, despite being heterosexual. ancient Greece comes to mind. or, possibly, Catalonia
>>2900558>transness is a social thing tied to the availability of certain commoditiesdelete this
>>2900558The cosmetics and surgery industry is historically progressive for accelerating the end of traditional gender norms
>>2900122Can you give one or, God forbid, two examples?
i dont care about the gaaaaays
More people are LGBT because the crisis of capitalism is forcing them into non-patriarchal family units, especially women, which would rather not get married. This is reflected in the fact that across western countries, only some 10% of men identify as gay while some 20% of women do. Unaffordable housing, dead-end jobs and climate change are making us gayer. This shift in a generation cannot be explained by genetics alone but we have to take into account the (social) economics as well.
>>2900592I hope society keeps making everyone gayer
>>2900595Thats okay anon, i don they're competing.
what are some good news accounts on bluesky?
>>2900614he's right doe. gold is currently heavily overpriced compared to silver. the crustal ratio is something like 1:15, but the price ratio is 1:80 or so. historically the two were quite close
>>2900614Answer your DMs, BITCH
>>2900397also gone now, its over
>>2900669Yeah I like Hasan but this shit is extremely CUCKed. Hope the Israeli shekels were worth it.
>bourgeois socdem betrays the working class
Color me surprised
>>2900571Imagine she does all that and her future husband is like "oh its ok I already have a bible"
>>2900686"Thanks babe but I can't read"
>>2900428The park chung hee regime was the epitome of fascist. Most of the people who ran sk during the 60s-70s were former ija collaborators that still admired showa japans and manchukos political and economic system. They were also people who, during their time in the manchuko and ija academies, were taught how the showa japan and manchuko state functioned. As a result of such admiration and education, these people based the sk state's political and economic institutions on showa japan and manchuko
Besides that park chung hee was a extreme palingenetic ultranationalist. Park chung hee believed that korea was damned by the joseon dynasty. He thought that the joseon dynasty was this period of absolute cultural decadence filled with lazyness, corruption, complacency and weakness. As a result he absolutely despised joseon, called it evil, and even stated that it would be better to burn down the history of joseon. For he thought that to make korea great it must destroy the legacies of joseons societal organization and replace it with a society of action, incorruptability and will. The sk regime would pursue policies to target this "evil"
Theres also total war capitalism. The sk regime did not believe in letting the market run itself. Instead it believed that every section of society should be mobilized by the state, its bourg partners and etc to achieve miltiary and economic goals. Imagine the nazi, fascist italy, and showa japan war economy but during "peace time". That was how the sk economy operated under the park regime.
Finally the anti communism is specifically the type of anti communism associated with fascist states. During times of political chaos the fascist states coopt the revolutionary rhetoric presented by socialists. This was the case for the sk regime, the sk regime presented itself as a military revolution that would save the nation. That would renew the nation
In conclusion, Park was pretty much 100 percent a bonafide fascist
>>2900691Again: The people voted for this.
>>2899980>lenin and stalin robbed banks in 1908. if they can do it then so can hakeem, Hugo and JT.i'm so tired of this shit lol. every time this gets brought up I point out KAMO robbed the bank (our boy kamo never gets fucking credit!) and stalin merely watched from across the street and phoned lenin when it was done. also the tiflis bank robbery is the only known bolshevik bank robbery, it went fucking belly up, got a bunch of bystanders killed, and then they couldn't even use the bills because they were tracked with serial IDs
>>2899990they actually lived in enough of a panopticon that they couldn't even use the bills lol
>>2899907ignore the kkkommunity note but also the meme is stupid, because boris yeltsin wasn't in power until after the USSR was dissolved. it was gorbashite's fault. yeltsin was still a piece of shit who privatized everything and bombed parliament, however. also who cares whether the dissolution was "illegal", so was the revolution! so tired of people deciding "illegal" is le bad when it suits them.
>>2900743Yeah this. Uyghas bring up that bank robbery as some kind of tuff flex when it was a massive disaster and everyone involved in the planing like Lenin and Stalin tried to distance themselves from it.
>>2900758To be fair, the shootout with the cops in Heat is so realistic the actual US army uses it for firefight training demonstrations.
>>2900691>cease and desistPeople should ignore those. Hoenstly, Trump ignores court orders and laws, why should the working class care about this dumb shit?
>>2900671>they make their money off their moneynot reading Capital award
>>2900770do you think those who run Xcancel are working class?
>>2900339He's based. A bit of a stubborn man when he stumbles onto a topic he doesn't understand, but Cockshott is quite a treasure.
>>2900831that looks nothing like him. and where are all the labels? ben garrison really is losing it.
>>2900819yeah man that thousands of years old poem totally is deep analysis for this time. also just as plato said every generation is more retarded and such.
man i wish we still were bronze age slave societies with virtue and values.
>>2900834nooooo, that's branco, lol.
the ben garrison's cheap rip-off.
>>2900837The themes of reputation and authenticity are as present as ever.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
>>2900865Rightoids should start deporting themselfs to follow their beliefs since half of then are brown or mexican
>>2900867The United States is the only country in the world where you can have Hispanic white supremacists deporting illegal immigrant Europeans
>>2900865also
>hammer-and-sickle>not star-and-antlersthey had one job
>>2900865>explicitly fascist game from the Butthurt Belt has fascist fans Wow I’m so shocked
>>2900865Soyjaks have become code for “I have no original thoughts and will die alone”
>>2900877>disco elysium>a fascist gameare you brain damaged?
>>2900879has been thus since 9gag times
>>2900880All RPGs are fascist, it’s inherently a great man fantasy where your character which is a self insert for you moves a world shaking plot along. You, the player, are essentially God. Destroy all video games.
>>2900614I don't see a problem with his take on gold. I vaguely remember reading somewhere about a time and place of gold being unusually valued for
less than silver, because gold was found at surface and silver had to be mined and mining wasn't developed much, so more work was required for the same amount of silver. This shows how important labor time is to price (though labor time isn't everything of course).
>>2900615<Illustrating the actual role of gold in Ephesus, probably not long before the birth of Heraclitus, is our fragmentary inscription (4d) from the temple of Artemis. It records silver and gold ‘weighed out’ from a wide variety of commodities or activities (the polis, the wood, the salt, etc.). A variety is reduced to a single thing, precious metal. It is true that the metal is twofold, silver and gold. But one section of the inscription seems to express, in mnas of pure gold, the combined total of the mnas of silver and gold listed.Footnote:
<With a silver-to-gold ratio of 14.5t. Richard Seaford, Money and the Early Greek Mind
>>2900882>It's all a scam. There is no way out of wage slavery by cultivating an abundance mindset.Sure but it is a specific kind of scam. A MLM kind of thing where one "gets in" by graduating from watcher cattle to "content creator" orbiting someone low on the pyramid. And aspires to climb to the top,where these figures stand and from whence the clout and money flows.
But that is an uncomfortable way to look at social media because it indites the whole of the parasocial media business, not just the part that is convenient for a given culture war spittle.
Most people are now trained from youth to be Tupperware/Cosmetic door to door sellers (with an online inclination), and perplexingly, more than ever, they kick the money up and convince themselves they are not part of a business. You can see this sort of thing more clearly in the autistic parts of any given fandom which go longer into the bizz
without realizing they are into the bizz. One day they realize that their "hobby" or "fandom" for which they have been grinding out of autistic fixation, is for everyone else around them a soulless, sociopathic grind. A mere means to an end, of parasocial income.
>>2900910>With a silver-to-gold ratio of 14.5yeah exactly. it takes about the same amount of labour to dig up and crush the raw ore that is then refined to these metals. the chemical processes on the other hand are nowhere near this ratio in terms of SNLT
>>2900740>still draggin it after 10 years. how are they makin this much? did people just forget to cancel?Chapo positioned themselves as the eternal Bernie Balm for progressives to reconcile their "left" politics with the Democratic agenda. They were probably on the take up to Bernie and meant to disband afterwardsChristman disagreed and kept talking about politics and theory beyond his allotment and got hit with the Havana Ray (jk it was probably poison) or w/e by their handler.
So now the Chapos are in a very uncomfortable position because unlike the rest of the crew, Christman can't exactly pick up the proceeds of leftoid PMC celebrity anymore. He needs their support, and yet, they cannot touch politics in any way which would step on the toes of their old handlers again. They got the memo, they understand the consequences. So CTH has to keep going, begrudgingly, to support their friend. Except Amber because she's fully a Democrat operative. And Virgil, whose cancellation I suspect was an inside job coverup to let him go.
Either way, they have learned their audience is hopeless terminal "progressives" with a parasocial craving and the content doesn't matter to them. So they indeed, limp around with whatever and whoever is at hand. You know, it used to be that Chapo made you a favor inviting you to the show and giving exposure. Nowadays it's the guests who are saving the hosts from their dozen streak "reading series" of whatever William saw on Twitter that week. Christman was the last worthwhile thing about Chapo, and he got got for it.
>>2900931Damn, dolly and tim both huh?
>>2900908Did not play the game
>>2900979>Christcuck>Has moment of clarity and becomes atheist>Clarity fades>Becomes christcuck againInsanely cringe
>>2900775exposing yourself that you don't know about m - c - m' award
What do we make of this? Is he saying leftism is unnatural?
https://youtube.com/shorts/DGvDN6A_joY>>2900765Yeah.
Well the characters also look like the biggest badasses ever, but it demonstrates very simple concepts that the military teaches the infantry. The actual goal of the gangsters is to maneuver from A to Z, and they use fire (and lots of it) to effect maneuver.
You see riot cops use these tactics as well. Like before they maneuver they will blast the crowd with all kinds of munitions and maintain a tempo of it while moving.
i am listening to chapo's dark souls podcast thing and it's embarrassing how felix's sidekick is embarassed to use words like ludo-narrative and immersion and metroidvania because they are words that he's heard in video essays about video games. guy sounds like an asshole
>>2900865stupid meme
>>2900877even worse response
>>2901080by design, it's musk's right wing propaganda factory after all
>>2900882well yeah, a dumb person's idea of a rich guy is a brash asshole who's always fucking women, drunk driving fast cars, and smoking cigars, while still being fit and healthy and dressed like a pimp. actual rich people are joyless pale lizards like elon husk dress, act, and live boring lifestyles, dedicating every waking moment to capital accumulation and no pretense of "looking" like a dumb person's idea of a rich guy.
>>2900865Happy for him how he got to epicly own the commie in his mind, i guess.
Hope he can get some friends though, this whole format is practically screaming 'i am socially unfulfilled'.
>>2900819>I think it's impossible for parents to ever accept their children.my parents accept me so maybe you're just projecting
>>2900882Wait, weren't we all just assuming this to be true anyway?
>>2899915open vid:>US imperialism is the primary contradictionok
>so why isnt' the left in the imperial core building an independent working class party wait… I thought imperialism, not class was the primary contradiction according to this guy
>during a time when everyone is becoming more anti israel and more anti-regimewait… why would the people (interclass) being more "anti israel" and "anti regime" translate into class consciousness?
>the deprogram guys are therefore betraying everyone by being happy about mamdani or whateverok…
>>2900908Teenager detected
>>2901098yeah man it's emulators and PC games from 20 years ago for me from now on.
>>2901112that's been me for a while bruh. i don't ever buy anything new.
>>2900745Yeltsin was president of the RSFSR. He played a pretty big role in getting the union to dissolve.
>>2901072you really expect chapo people to not be asshole fart huffers?
>>2900979he was never an atheist
this is "why i left the left" tier
>>2901112Same. I don't actually sit down and play games that often but I'd be fine just sticking with old stuff. There's a bunch of old DOS games that I want to try. Or I'll play something like DOOM.
Cyberpunk 2077 looked good but I haven't played that. Or I'll get the impulse to want to play Morrowind with a bunch of mods, and then start looking at mods and realize there's 10,000 of them and you could spend a bunch of time just trying to select which mods you want to use, then I give it up.
>>2900745>Yeltsin was president of the RSFSR. He played a pretty big role in getting the union to dissolve.The fuck you talking about?
The other anon is right. it was gorby who put yeltsin as First Secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee in 1985, yeltsin was a strong supporter of gorby's perestroika and glasnost policies, actively implementing them in Moscow.
Though, in 1987-1988 he criticized gorby for being too slow with the reforms, it was fucking gorby who put that man in charge and rallied with him, with his perestroika and glasnost.
But all in all,
>>2901124 anon, it wasn't neither gorby nor yeltsin who started the dissolution. it all started with the baltic states misusing and undermining Article # 17 (original constitution of 1936) that turned to be the Article # 72 of the final constitution until its dissolution.
>Estonia (Communist Party of Estonia): In March 1990, the party held a congress where the majority voted to break away from the CPSU and form an independent communist party, which supported Estonia's path to sovereignty. The vote was 589 to 80.This was some months before yeltsin became the leader of the RSFSR , which was on May 29, 1990. This, because Stalin actually believed that the commuinst revolution would be global at some point (see:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/11/25.htm); and for what? not one single of those communist parties exist today. either made illegal, or fade into irrelevancy and all of them becoming fucking socdemagoges, at best, or at worst, and mostly, jumping into the liberal ship, because they never cared about communism, but only about their political power.
I, seldom, wish that Stalin were the monster those freaks believe he was.
>>2901151>realize there's 10,000 of them and you could spend a bunch of time just trying to select which mods you want to use, then I give it up.you really dont need more than like 10
>>2900153>Augusto Pinochet's Chilesucked-ass policies. in the 1990s in Chile there was an uprising across Chile because of years of pinoshit economic stupidity.
Chile is how it is, because of copper. they are the Saudis of the copper raw material. And even so, without sanctions, without, imperial blockade, they suffered those massive protests in the 90s.
>Francoist SpainBatshit crazy stupid shit, lmao.
franco was isolated from the economic world after WWII because the French government didn't like to have a hitler's close ally, so the US, and the UK, with France also helping, isolated Spain under franco. The USSR of course never stepped in to help franco shit.
They had a decline so harsh in quality of life, in (de-)population 'growth', that they relied in the propaganda of 'autarchy'.
once franco became senile enough to be ignored, the people around him started to signing deals with the US, and the european countries. Not even before franco became a rotten, cold, food-for-worms corpse, his own people sold out.
steve is delusional.
alunya and leftypol shop
>>2901190why are you posting yourself arguing on twitter
"I only like video games from 20 years ago" is honestly the most pseud thing ever. Games today are objectively better than they were in the 90s due to the medium maturing (not saying there weren't great games in the 90s, though I will say there were no great games of the 80s). Like there are 10 indie games a year that mog every classic of the 90s.
>>2901199>Like there are 10 indie games a year that mog every classic of the 90s.name them, I bet they are trash
>>2901199the real nuclear explosion of truth is that romhacks from a decade ago, that are certified hood classics at this point, that nobody but a select type of autist who is passionate enough about vidya would have played, run laps around even the best indie darlings of today. like silksong is a good game, but it's just memes that make success at this point. someone posts a thread
>let's count to eleventy billion until silksong comes outon the steam forums for the first game and suddenly its gravitational pull brings in enough people, who never even cared about metroidvanias or the first game, who cling to it like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread just so they could be part of the current thing, to catapult it into the stratosphere and make mountains of cash.
in terms of actual gameplay, everything that comes out today is building upon the work of yesterday, and most indies are content to take a winning formula without tweaking it too hard because they want to make something good and get clout for themselves more than they want to make something interesting that could potentially (but probably won't) move the medium forward.
not to write a huge post about video games here. sorry, I know, I'm one of those ugly gamers.
>>2901204I mean it was hyperbole since I don't play 10 proper length indie games a year, but like, Hollow Knight Silksong (yeah it's not indie whatever) or Nine Sols are just better than every 2D platformer before the 2010s. Ultrakill and Dusk and Beyond Citadel and a trillion "boomer shooters" are better than every shooter actually from the 90s except Half Life (and I think there are plenty of gems from that era, it's just they don't hold up compared to modern games). Horror games are much much scarier, like every single horror game is a million times scarier than the ones in the 90s were. Signalis is by far a better game than every survival horror and every adventure game of that decade. Outer Wilds is also a quadrillion times better than every adventure or puzzle game from 20+ years ago and it is not even close. City builders weren't nearly as good as Workers and Resources. We had nothing like Kerbal Space Programme. And I won't even start to glaze Rain World.
I'm a retro games enjoyer, especially retro FPS games, and I won't argue that AAA games didn't peak in the 2000s. I just think there is clear progress in the medium like there is in everything. It's bad to throw away the present and future and idolise the past. History generally moves in a good direction.
That being said modern anime is so trash and it is nowhere near as good as it was even 10 years ago, and this is because they don't make anime originals anymore.
epic gamer moment
>>2901209Silksong - yeah. But Rain World is the best game ever made and is nothing like anything else ever.
>>2901199>I will say there were no great games of the 80sYeah. There were a lot of point-and-click adventure games and a lot of text-based stuff. But a lot of that stuff is so technically clunky that you really have to be in a retro mood for it.
I did try out a game called EGA Trek recently, which is a Star Trek themed game. The entire game looks like this and you input text commands to move the spaceship around, fire phasers, torpedoes. Then you move around different grids and hunt Klingons. I enjoyed the novelty factor for about 15 minutes and then realized this is the entire game. A funny thing is the developers just gave it a Trek theme without licensing the IP so the studio eventually sued him, and he changed the Klingons to "Mongols" in the later editions. Most people who had home computers back then were actual programmers and computer games were either (a) for kids (b) a nerdy novelty thing on the side.
>>2901212>That being said modern anime is so trash and it is nowhere near as good as it was even 10 years ago, and this is because they don't make anime originals anymore.I've maybe watched two animes in my life (from the 80s) and my cousin who is into it says this.
>>2899307>>2899305>math dork dies of terrible dietPottery
>>2901178>francothats not what happened at all. Most of the old traditional falangists that controlled spains direction was removed in the 50s and early 60s. They were then immediately replaced by the opus dei technocrats who were the non autarchy people. Meanwhile the stabilization plan that moved spain away from isolationism and towards the usa and western capital happened in 1959. The 60s western capital investment came from this plan that franco approved himself
Franco was lucid and aware during this period (1950s to late 1960s). Franco himself was the one who initiated the changes and put in the technocrats. It was only by 1965 when he became senile (he was diagnosed with parkinson by then)
It was not the people that sold out it was franco himself who sold out lol
>>2901238>Franco was lucid and aware during this period (1950s to late 1960s)(1950s to mid 1960s)
>>2901199The tacked on progression systems. i.e. "let's lock a ton of content behind doing your chores first also have said content completely trivialize the game and its mechanics" is pretty bad however. There was less of that before the 2010s, with the caveat there were less game releases back then too.
>>2901212Speaking of anime. I hate Isekai, I hate moe, I hate high school dramas. Was it always this infantile or what happened?
I wonder how much it has to do with older generations (audiences and creators both) dying out (the ones who experienced the war, the boom years, etc.).
Edgerunners was pretty good, but that one had a western producer and screenplay.
Find it difficult to imagine the same industry today being capable of producing something like Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, Spirited Away, GitS, Samurai Champloo, etc.
>>2900908Interesting, aren't strategy games collectivist under that definition? What about games like Oddworld where the objective is slave escape?
>>2901190Mike from the Palestinian Authority
>>290119990's DOS games was a decade of experimentation. like that game where you play as a wolf and you have to use the correct tail posture when interacting with other wolves. and of course when wooing the she-wolves
>>2900908it's a game where you explore the world and solve a murder case, not fucking Final Fantasy
>>2901379Amazing how they can eek 15 minutes out of a funni hand gesture and 3 photos.
>>2901394Myron also claims that "female vaginas are disgusting"
It's up there with Fuentes' "having sex with women is gay"
>>2901426I always feel a bit envious of amerikkkans with this stuff, getting to play saxophone in school and all these different clubs, Band, Drama, all the sports, etc. We didn't get this shit, only clubs we get in shithole UK are breakfast clubs and some hours in the library after school for if your homelife was too chaotic that you were not regularly having breakfast or your parents were working after school, etc.
>>2901434>61,000 hours>Still doesn't have 100% achievementsMassive LARPer who doesn't play the game but just lets it run in the background to rack up playtime hours without actually playing. It is physically impossible to play any game for 60,000 hours and to not have already complted everything that game has to offer.
>>2901445I mean it's not impossible that he just enjoys a certain kind of play and not achievement hunting. But since 61000 hours adds up to nearly 7 years (the game has only been out for a bit under 13 years) it's not possible he could have been playing it the whole time unless he literally did nothing else in life besides sleeping
>>2901442I think it depends on area, my school was similar to yours where there wasn't shit, but my boyfriend went to a posh (state) school in Richmond and it was bougie as shit
>>2901451Never underestimate a gamer grind 💪
>>2901455I just don't believe it. That's atrocious mental illness levels. I wouldn't even deny he could have legit played it for 30k hours but 60k? Nah
>>2901458Maybe he just leaves a tab open. This is what all my high hours on games are.
>>2901442Why didn't you just join your local football club? It probably played in the 8th division of the heretofosherd league of champions or something. Maybe you could've been playing for Norf FC Juniors.
>>2901525I did join my local rugby club for a bit. Was never any good though, very dyspraxic. Didn't stick with it probably because of mental home life, tbh.
>>2901099>no pretense of "looking" like a dumb person's idea of a rich guyI guess, but pretty sure Musk is the exception who does try, he is just really incompetent at it. I read the sort of barrel torso he has results when you roid up to the extreme while sitting on your ass all day. There are older pics of him with normal proportions. I also read Musk had a botched penis-enlargement surgery.
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