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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>>2929183
>Hegel demolished Kant
Care to explain how?
>>2929186Not that anon but in terms of overall influence, it’s not even close. Hegel was one of Europe’s leading philosophers, influencing both the political right and the left. Nietzsche by contrast had a more niche following. Ironically, his ideas found a significant audience in proto-liberal and libertarian circles. The closest Nietzsche got to the archetype aristocratic warrior is probably Ernst Junger and even he eventually converted to Christianity and became a national conservative.
>>2929192The fuck does this even mean lmao
Who's pulling the strings?
>>2929216And they haven't shared interstellar gommunism with us yet? Bastards.
>>2929192Simple minds cannot comprehend that there is no grand plan
>>2929200You can skip the first hour until he starts to talk about Marx.
>>2929287No, it shouldn't be "deconstructed", nice try French philosopher guy, you still cannot diddle kids.
In law concent can be implicitly given, based on what the person really wants first, and then what can be perceived by others (this is where culpa in contrahendo occurs). Expressing a desire to do or not do something is pretty black white.
You are trying to superimpose societal structures (such as the "double free wage laborer" under capitalism where he gives consent to be exploited) onto intimate interpersonal relationships. That is foul, I gotta say.
>>2929287>asmonroachnot watching
>>2929192nothing, I would simply gigaquote them
>>2929208Capital
>>2929287>>2929051>>2929041>>2928965>>2928753>>2928751>>2928733Regardless if you are a woman, man, incel or femcel or whatever. American hyper individualism is what created rape culture.
>>2929457But you can find cases of rape in both animal relations and in every mode of production prior to American hyperindividual capitalism, why wouldn’t the culture of David and Solomon count as a rape culture?
>>2929461>cases of rape in both animal relationssad
>>2929450rape culture isn't real and a few zio-feminists insisting on it doesn't make it real.
rape is an individual choice, as is participating in drug-fueled orgies. there is no cultural element encouraging you to do these things. take responsibility for your own actions and stop blaming society for your personal failures.
>>2929462No animal outside of humans are able to give consent, let alone plant life, most reproduction is the result of rape
>>2929464>rape is an individual choice, as is participating in drug-fueled orgies. there is no cultural element encouraging you to do these things. Lel. Do you believe that to have always been the case? Or do you believe that to be the case now? If the latter, why?
>>2929465>No animal outside of humans are able to give consentsad
>>2929468rape has always been an individual choice. rape was not the norm in any period of human history and has pretty much always been reserved for the psychopaths and the bourgeois(also psychopaths). rapists have always been looked down upon by normal people. stop using the actions of the epsteinites to paint the entire human species with a broad brush.
ever notice how we only ever talk about "rape culture" and other zio-feminist buzzwords when it's about rich white people? why are leftists so preoccupied with enforcing morality within the sexual practices of the epsteinites? these people are inhuman by their very nature. they cannot be compared to the rest of us. they engage in this behavior towards their own because the concept of mutual respect is alien to them. stop trying to frame the world around their ideology. its like the mouse trying to enforce morality on a cat.
>>2929464>there is no cultural element encouraging you to do these thingsYou are saying this just bellow a news article of a guy saying that his group din't give a shit that he got sodomized, lel.
>take responsibility for your own actions and stop blaming society for your personal failures.If a guy ever shoots you in the face and takes you wallet, i'ts your own fault for walking on the street. You see how retarded this argument is ? This is just american individualism, again.
>>2929480>If a guy ever shoots you in the face and takes you wallet, i'ts your own fault for walking on the street. You see how retarded this argument is ? This is just american individualism, again.bro if you show up to a drug fueled orgy after being invited to a drug fueled orgy and enthusiastically engage in a drug fueled orgy and then go home and text the other participants about how much fun you had at the drug fueled orgy and enthusiastically ask to do it again, you cannot claim a lack of agency.
>>2929388>No, it shouldn't be "deconstructed", nice try French philosopher guy, you still cannot diddle kids. The video in
>>2929287 has a fully grown woman in it trying to redefine ghosting by an adult partner as a form of rape. Where do the kids in your argument come from?
>Consent is a spook that is used to control males.Consent is a spook because she's messing with rape. The motive to deconstruct consent follows from that.
Do you have anything objective to base your morality off of or is it all just the aesthetics and sophistry of not looking bad?
>>2929485I'ts not a reason to blame someone for getting raped, the fuck are you on about uygha ?
>>2929473>rape has always been an individual choice. rape was not the norm in any period of human historyBronze Age and before that period, if it was done against another tribe.
>ever notice how we only ever talk about "rape culture" and other zio-feminist buzzwords when it's about rich white people?"Muh white ppl" The american cannot spend 1 minute in a conversation witbout bringing up race idpol, rape culture is not something that is entitled to only feminism or zio-feminism, whatever the fuck do you mean by that since israel hates and rapes women daily specially palestinian ones.
>>2929450>Regardless if you are a woman, man, incel or femcel or whatever. American hyper individualism is what created rape culture.Most rape allegations are false accusations and they often lead to real deaths of completely innocent men.
It's really over for dating in the big 20. There's no point in getting married because you could be falsely accused of rape at any point and end up going through the criminal justice system. Even if you don't get convicted, the violence and stigma is enough to fuck you up for life. It's more likely you get convicted as an innocent man and get sexually assaulted in prison.
Just don't approach the things that represent rape.
>>2929512>Consent is a spook ur mom is
>>2929535don't talk to your dad like that
>>2929539If you’re posting on /leftypol/, you’re a bad father, go have quality time with your kid if you want them to respect you
>>2929464Rape culture is real, it's non-rape culture that's fake. Or it's as real as anarchism or those artificial elements made in a lab that last for a fraction of a second before going poof. See here:
https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2018/1/31/on-secret-cults-and-male-dominance >>2929287Orgasms are a spook. Wow you felt super good, in your private, subjective frame, outside the domain of scientific investigation? Fascinating.
>>2929547You can scientifically observe dopamine release and genital arousal, try again
>>2929514>I'ts not a reason to blame someone for getting raped, the fuck are you on about uygha ? I'm not blaming anyone for getting raped. "Personal responsibility" generally applies to the rapist, no? Rape culture just comes off as liberals trying to absolve rapists of blame by painting their behavior as a inevitable societal issue when it is in fact just an individual psychopathy issue. Rape is not a normal behavior by any means and men do not rape by default nor are they raised to rape. Sometimes it is appropriate to blame the individual.
>>2929548Just the problem of consciousness again. None of that implies subjective experience. It's an unnecessary addition to the model.
>>2929554Rape culture is feminist cope, it's the idea men are faulty women and you can educate men out of rape.
>>2929567indeed. you can't. the only solution is to kill all men. moid genocide. corral all the moids into las vegas and then drop all the worlds nukes on it. it is the only way
Unironically produce fewer men and train them to be more sociable. Than might solve everything.
>>2929575hell yeah brother i love genocide and enslavement of 50% of the population into mindless cattle for the other 50%.
maybe the western left's obsession with jewish gender wars is why china is leaving us in the dust.
>>2929579sorry you stupid moid you WILL be turned into mulch plant food fertilizer for agriculture
>>292958095% of guns in america are owned by men i dont think this gender war will turn out how you want even if it did come to blows.
unironically socialism is impossible while there are still men in the world. literally murder all the fucking moids. hydraulic press channel all the moids and then the moid host.
>>2929579> produce fewer men and train them to be more sociable.>>2929579<genocide and enslavement of 50% of the population into mindless cattle for the other 50%.… not the same thing anon
>>2929588>… not the same thing anonnow lets just reword that a bit
>produce fewer jews and train them to be more sociable>produce fewer blacks and train them to be more sociable>produce fewer arabs and train them to be more sociable>produce fewer native americans and train them to be more sociablelets just say your "idea" has been tried before and every single time it is just genocide couched in sanitized corpo-speak.
>>2929594targetting those specifically is bad. targeting moids specifically is good
>>2929579bro was one word away from making a good point 🥀
my fvaorit movie jewish gender wars
>>2929611I liked the part where the shabbos goy heard the rabbi say “use the golem goy” and he shot the golem right into Mahmoud Abbas’ office and he turned into a bubbi
>>2928848The peasants were a huge component of both of the 20th century's greatest socialist revolutions. Their suspicion of how far man's degeneracy can go, especially when enabled by wealth & driven by competition, is a healthy one, even if their theorization is quaint and often ludicrous.
>>2929633I don’t understand why people can’t just jerk off then get back to real discussion about real issues, that’s what the post nut clarity is for
>>2929634Have you noticed we haven’t had any revolutions since the peasants disappeared as a class? Makes you wonder
>>2929634yes my theory of leftism is still correct, the most social progress has been made by the people who have less idea of why they are doing what they are doing (peasants), meanwhile the people who know the real why don't get shit done.
>>2929639You need peasants for independent food production. If there was a real prole uprising in West Virgina or something they'd just close down the Walmarts and Dollar Stores and that would be it.
>>2929641>people who have nothing have more incentive to rebel against the system than people who have something but simply want the system to benefit them morewell, yeah
>>2929634>Ahh behold the triumph of the will of the magic peasant soul, that's why they won Dien Bien PhuNah, it's a myth, it was well-trained people organized in a proto-state using fire superiority and logistics. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the Somali warlord whose men shot down those helicopters, was a graduate of the Frunze Military Academy in the USSR and had served in previous roles as an army division commander and minister of intelligence.
There are NO peasants in most countries. Everyone has become proletarianized, specially in the first world.
>>2929683learn ecology bitch
the sparrows had their day of vengeance against the proto-dangest
>>2929450>Regardless if you are a woman, man, incel or femcel or whatever. American hyper individualism is what created rape culture.The same bitches that are stringing up the guys now were stringing up Jane Doe before.
>>2928992Women are the same who lead the book burnings of Harry Potter and all that.
Same ones with Emmet Till. >>2929762This is just kinda basic consequences of drinking right?
>I planned to go to the bar, have a drink then come back homeNice.
But you get blackout drunk, you do things that you can't understand while you're sober. This is just a consequence of drinking. And you are still responsible for those things. This is just how drinking responsibly.
>>2929764>you do things that you can't understand while you're sober. Can't understand and can't even remember*
> This is just how drinking responsibly.works.*
apparently Academic Agent is still around and he's reading critical theory now.
>>2929634I feel like the total breakdown of central government resulting in warlordism was more useful than whether or not they were peasant in the group that won
>>2928992lol why does this site allow reactionary bug people like you on it? There is little to distinguish you from the evangelical pigs ruining every country.
>>2929802she was cool with it until she wasn't invited to a halloween party
>>2929802Just report the weirdo.
You're probably just as bad though, from the mere fact you are immersed enough in such nonsense than you can parse whatever the freak is trying to say.
>>2929812I don't understand the framing "oh no poor sorority boys" both should get raped/dismembered by homeless drug addicts
>>2929775Yes Cockshott even made a response to him on Althusser. He's also made videos on Grover Furr lol
With the recent Hellraiser game, I’ve developed a theory about why Pinhead and the Cenobites are much less popular and iconic than other slasher villains.
Michael and Jason are at the top, followed by Ghostface, Freddy and Chucky with their relative popularity depending on the era and Helllraiser films at the bottom. I think one of the reasons for this comes down to the success of Michael and Jason as characters. They’re silent killers with simple but iconic designs and their lack of dialogue or clearly defined psychology makes them easy to project things onto. You can interpret them in different ways, or you can simply think they look cool. The Cenobites by comparison have a lot more going on. Their lore is overly complicated and while their designs are certainly grotesque, I don’t necessarily think they’re as intimidating as those of other slasher villains.
Part of what makes Michael and Jason frightening is that even if you stripped away all their supernatural elements, they’d still be physically imposing, violent men who could overpower the average person. The Cenobites on the other hand lean heavily into BDSM aesthetics, bondage gear and elaborate body modification. While that imagery is certainly grotesque and unsettling, to me It comes across as dorky and comical in comparison to the simple, imposing silhouettes of Michael and Jason. This scene (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEBQWhgGM1g) is more frightening then pinhead and his order of the gash showing up from a puzzle box.
>>2929831>pinhead and his order of the gash showing up from a puzzle box.<order of the gashBruh what? They loved getting pussy so much they sticked pins in their heads? That's what this movie was about?
never watched it >>2929831hellraiser II is one of the best horror movies ever made
>>2929840
Hell something. It's one of those movies the most insufferable people you will know will love.
>>2929846 (me)
>It's one of those movies the most insufferable people you will know will love.>>2929843checks out.
>>2929874
not that anon but it is kinda cringe
>>2929894
Freddy Fazbear
>>2929831It's also a lot more politically uncomfortable for normies compared to the other two. Clive Barker was heavily inspired by the works of Bataille when he wrote it, so the actions of the Cenobites (in the movies he directed) aren't presented as ontologically evil like other slasher villains are.
>>2929831We're pretending this isn't the most well received video game about slasher movies made since alien isolation ?
top ten situations that are crazy
>>2929813> don't understand the framing "oh no poor sorority boys" both should get raped/dismembered by homeless drug addictsWhy should anyone get raped/dismembered?
>>2929802>reactionary bug people>>2929812>WeirdoNot being considered normal by ypu people means I am doing something right.
>>2929937I'll bring up Halloween again, which essentially laid the foundations for the slasher film as a pop-culture genre. In the very first movie there are two distinct interpretations of Michael Myers. Debra Hill, Carpenter’s then-wife and co-writer, wrote the first draft of the screenplay, which Carpenter later revised before directing the film. Although most aspects of the story remained more or less intact, Hill’s dialogue for the female characters was untouched, his most significant addition was Dr. Loomis, a character of his own creation, the two had somewhat different conceptions of Myers. In Hill’s interpretation, Myers is a monster, but a human one, cruel, violent and sadistic, someone who enjoys psychologically tormenting his victims and frightening them before brutally killing them. Carpenter, by contrast presents him as an unknowable, almost supernatural monster from the very beginning. Despite these differences, one thing remains clear, Myers is a physically powerful, evil man who murders innocent people and the film offers no objective moral justification for his actions.
>>2929980> 'll bring up Halloween again, which essentially laid the foundations for the slasher film as a pop-culture genreI would argue Texas Chainsaw Massacre which came out five years earlier is a stronger contender for being the first proper slasher, especially establishing the “final girl” trope which I would argue is mote important than the villain
>>2929831>I think one of the reasons for this comes down to the success of Michael and Jason as characters. They’re silent killers with simple but iconic designs and their lack of dialogue or clearly defined psychology makes them easy to project things onto. yes this is also why link, mario, and kirby are popular
>>2930018Well Pinhead is a.) a bald middle aged man; and b.) fanfictions explore and expand on what the original work left blank. You can fit Michel Myers in any sexual role you want, while with Pinhead there is significantly less ambiguity. Many women are into BDSM, but not
that much.
>>2930046well the chapter where griffith speaks with "god" was retconned by miura anyway,since he removed the chapter from being published later in volumes (because he thought having a god was a lame copeout basically),so outside of being specific individuals whose desires were world altering sacrificing everything that made them who they were,they are just incredibly strong former humans
>>2930044hey unc have you read chainsaw man?
Kek, Recently, Kant, and his philosophy gets dunked on severely by scientist, leftist, rightoid, and reactionary.
What is the symbol of the ring, and how does it relate to politics?
Tolkien (1943):
<My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy […] Not one in a million is fit for [bossing other men].https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/j-r-r-tolkien-from-a-letter-to-christopher-tolkien>>2930407Carl ought to be aware that Jesus denied the death penalty for the adulteress, since all are guilty under the law, so all are guilty before God - which is why forgiveness through repentance is necessary. Carl arguing theology against the Pope is pure comedy.
>>2930412He believed in turbo-retardation ancap night watchman ideology.
>>2930421>ancapI'm quite certain he was critical of industrial society, so he wouldn't support le free markets to commodify everything.
>>2930418his new username is so fucking boring, bring back goyempanada
>>2930261Being good looking is all that really matters in life. For a dude it also means being tall or at least taller than most women.
>>2930427I once heard it said that women like funny guys, but then again, maybe they just laugh at handsome guys' jokes. It all reminds me of Marx (1844):
<Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? […] Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary? […] He who can buy bravery is brave, though he be a coward. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/power.htmHere, the world is turned upside down. Marx suggests an alternative:
<Assume man to be man and his relationship to the world to be a human one: then you can exchange love only for love, trust for trust, etc. If you want to enjoy art, you must be an artistically cultivated person; if you want to exercise influence over other people, you must be a person with a stimulating and encouraging effect on other people.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/power.htmHere, the "content of character" now has currency, rather than mere accident. Inward beauty shines forth as the light of the world instead.
>>2930427Being good looking is all that matters for what exactly?
>>2930448According to lookist theory, everything.
It is a multiplier, like money, but even more valuable.
>>2930427I have a good face and I'm tall but I don't know how to talk to people and I will never be normal
>>2930500>zero mass appealyou're wrong i like it
>>2930516I'll them the Washington on a Hezbollah flag. I admit, that's rad.
>>2930561Nightmare study group rotation
>>2930561>unironically talks about alienation as "estrangement from means of production"uygha only red economic manuscripts, SAD!
>>2929434I hope he figured things out : (
>>2929434>can't keep job nor home for 2 months>e-begs a dying imageboard to even feed himself<gets a pet that lives on average a decadeWhy is he like this?
>>2930603Yes sad that they read capital and other economic studies. Should have been reading goldman and sakai
SAD!!
>>2929674A complete red herring. Its not the ignorance, in the sense of his lack of education in various matters (military, political, economic or technical fields) of the peasant that I praised, nor was it solely what you condemned in your original comment.
Instead it was their suspicion of the upper classes & their excessively degenerate behaviours, which while the peasant cannot put into a wholly comprehensive & consistent systemic analysis, nonetheless still condemns.
I suspect though you bear the GayNazi flag, you are not in fact my dear enemy.
>>2929691In the first world, a combination of the the petty bourgeoisie & lavoir aristocracy form the overwhelming majority of the population.
>>2930632Silly, mature Marx wouldnt occupy himself with alienation as estragement from species-being
>>2930561Comrade Shapiro is back.
I agree with him that the argument of alienation is contrived in complex production which entails trade, especially if property is granted, since to possess is also the ability to dispossess. Marx is obscure in his restoration of "true" and "human" property. We read:
<In my production I would have objectified my individuality […] your enjoyment or use of my product I would have the direct enjoyment both of being conscious of having satisfied a human need by my work […] I would have been for you the mediator between you and the species, and therefore would become recognised and felt by you […] Our products would be so many mirrors in which we saw reflected our essential nature […] This relationship would moreover be reciprocal; what occurs on my side has also to occur on yours.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/index.htmHere, sharing is apparently permitted, but by direct exchange, rather than indirect distribution, we might say – reverting back to barter, but even so, Marx sees barter as the initial stage of alienated being:
<Exchange or barter […] it is the opposite of the social relationship.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/index.htmTo Marx, it is really the medium which is of concern.
The "conscious" judgement of the act is what mediates humanity.
Since Shapiro references 'Gotha', we may cite this (1875):
<Within the co-operative society based on common ownership of the means of production, the producers do not exchange their products; just as little does the labor employed on the products appear here as the value of these products […] in contrast to capitalist society, individual labor no longer exists in an indirect fashion but directly as a component part of total labor.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htmMarx forbids "exchange", yet there is "direct" distribution.
It is all rather speculative, so Shapiro's pragmatism is superior.
Next is the Labour Theory of Value, which Shapiro describes rather adequately, but his point that prices can be determined without the need of invoking labour ignores the fact that labour itself is a price which thus orients all others (e.g. if wages pay for things, then society sells things to its own producers). So then, labourers themselves are the bargainers of market competition, not apart from it. A distinct "labour value" is simply Marx's meaning of an average price, given conditions of perfect competition, which thus lowers prices to their costs of production – Shapiro (at least in older clips) agrees to this. Profits are simply justified by priority of investment, and capital risk. Shapiro is also right that indirect labour is necessary for production. The idea of positive sum thinking is also true, but contrived. If I threaten someone, there is the mutual benefit that they pay me, since I get money, and I leave them alone. Carl Menger thus writes that any situation can be economised, but so what? If I smash windows, I induce demand for window repairs. For the rest, Shapiro complains about the DSA. He should look up what Marx thought of Social Democrats…
>>2930797Lmao only Benny Boy Shapiro could recreate the Labor Theory of Value to "own" a socialist. These Jezebelian mutts should have been wiped out ages ago.
>>2930827The LTV is a bourgeois theory.
Shapiro in the Marx video also says this.
ugh what are we even doing anymore guys
>>2930880That jealous manlet mogged him hard. He can't hatmaxx anymore. It's over for baldingcels.
>>2930904isn't that guy fucking oprah rich? why doesn't he just buy the best hair meds out there?
>>2930413Burger Evangeloids just straight up ignore the new testament and focus almost exclusively on the old. It's also why they're so Zionist.
>>2930919>man becomes a "succesful entrepreneur" in his own mind>ad hoc rationale that he loves capitalism and its a great systemQuestion is does he love capitalism now that hes unsuccesful and washed out?
>>2930919make something original jfc
>>2930922I rarely watch e-celebs but I enjoyed that video.
>>2930977You can't trust trending metrics or any metrics for that matter. It could be engineered with botting or the server owners (Musk and X in this case) putting it there.
>>2930919I want to make a shit load of money just to show you can still be based and communist and the only reason zionists are evil is because they were evil from the start
>>2931137Oh wow rightoids really are media illiterate ahahaha
>>2931307poster is right the mass othering of people with schizo/narc/bpd tendencies is awful and the way pop-psychology has completely hijacked these terms to be catchall for 'my husband left me because I didn't do the dishes he's a DARK EMPATH BPD NARC' is absurd, like there is entire fanbases dedicated to these ridiculous strawmen meanwhile people who actually have these things find themselves with less support by the state, cuts in disability, no recognition they even are disabled and stigmatization.
>>2931307Stop doing what the post says or stop doing idpol? I kind of get what the person is meaning, even though it makes me roll my eyes a bit, we need new words to use if we're not gonna say stuff like "schizo" though.
>>2931307They're right unfortunately. If resisting the perpetuation of moronic stereotypes is an "optics nuke" then by god nuke it all.
>>2931307i dont think these people understand the disabled tend to the first victims of violent revolutions
>>2931379how is this not obvious. you think the weak and the vulnerable are safe in times of existential crises? the same existential crises communists and anarchists want to bring about and take advantage of?
>>2931381I mean nobody is safe in such times, but you say it like everyone will just hunt down the disabled lol.
>>2931383
Can't you just use these people by creating the right incentives? If there's no material/social benefits to exploiting others then they won't do it generally.
>>2931384>If there's no material/social benefits to exploiting others<if there is no exploitation there is no exploitationthanks, einstein
>>2931383
>sentencing people to hard labor will "discipline" people
Or make them better at masking and lying
>>2931307when has policing language ever been politically successful at swaying anyone to your side?
>>2931387Ok so how is putting these people in the gulag going to solve anything? Why not just make it so people who work hard and don't cause problems for others are the ones who are the most rewarded
>>2931389
Isn't that a bit hysterical? Like yeah ok maybe some cluster B people are just incurably disruptive but I'm sure the vast majority are just adapted to a dysfunctional world.
>>2931392
If you think the masking and lying doesn't imply they will try to get in position of power while doing it you just don't get it, before they were loud and easy to identify, after they're resigned and ready to properly organize.
It's the same effect as sending all your dissident to siberia or in prison together
>>2931412Critical support for kyyyyv against the bot menace
>>2931412People made the same claim, even here, after Iran struck Israel.
People have this delusion that only their preferred boogieman is responsible for botting, when in reality every party able to so, public and private, is in on the bot spam game.
>>2931412ill never understand how deranged people get about Russia
>>2931464Karl Marx, funny guy
>>2931412RuSSia does finance several rightoid think tanks and public figures in AmeriKKKa tho.
>>2930749It's literally impossible for the petty booj to be the majority anywhere except for maybe fucking Monaco
>>2931524cartoon network died years ago, so not suprised.
Is it ogre for Gen Alpha? yes
>>2931535It ain't the 2000s anymore bro, even the biggest normies nowadays watch anime.
>>2931533tl;dr:
>two cosplayers are dating>they go to a Hololive(vtubers) concert in a cosplay of the most popular fan ship and kiss>one of the cosplayers also goes to a convention and sells "foot juice" where she dips her toes in a cooler and drips alcoholic lemonade in your mouth for money>the con organizer/vtuber group owner kicked her out of the con for doing this because it violated alcohol laws in california>recently it came out that she also cheated with her girlfriend(the pink hair in the first pic) with MULTIPLE men at various conventions across the country>entire vtuber/cosplay space has been dunking on her for being a whorenever trust girls with septum piercings ngl.
>>2931535having been to various cons I actually think anime culture is very wholesome and I generally enjoy the vibes of people just being goofy nerds. weebs are also some of the most polite congoers i've met. when I went to offkai they had to share the convention space with the fucking crossfit convention and everyone was chill. some old lady commented on my merch and asked if i'm autistic and i emphatically said yes lmao.
>>2931540You're a total rube to think this is cheating and not just their vtuber relationship being fake for views
>>2931546anime is more inviting than whatever that shit is. notice how your pics are 99% men meanwhile anime is like a 50/50 gender split. girls love anime, guys love anime, it's a thriving subculture. anime is the new meta for socializing as a young adult.
>>2931547Nah bro, women have always been a big part of the nerd/geek subculture since the 60s. The take that it used to be all men and thus based till the attention whoring foids ruined it all is incel 4klanner revisionism.
>>2931550>The take that it used to be all men and thus based till the attention whoring foids ruined it all is incel 4klanner revisionism.that's not what I said
and also your pic has no women.
anyway I don't really have any shade towards trekkers/lotr fans I actually like both series I just think it's bullshit to shit on weebs with "back in my day" type dismissiveness. we're all nerds bro. even star wars had those bikini cosplayers in the 80's nerdy conventions have always had sex.
>>2931550Sure, but they were not going to events unless they wanted to get molested lol
>>2931548this pic is at least 30% women
>>2931553this pic is like…5% women
what are we even discussing at this point tho? women have always been involved in fandoms but they were pretty unwelcome in the irl spaces until recent years due to general male autism. anime is a good thing for women being more included in nerd spaces.
anyway this drama is so sad i hate lesbians who sleep with men.
>>2931412yandex bots are web crawlers not spam bots. normies don't know anything about the internet, and think they're online when they find reddit or xitter SMDH.
>>2931557<<this pic is like…5% womenYou can't count. Looks close to 30% as well.
>anime is a good thing for women being more included in nerd spaces.>anyway this drama is so sad i hate lesbians who sleep with men.Yeah all this shit is very good for women ok.
>what are we even discussing tho?I've been asking that from your first post.
>>2931566>Yeah all this shit is very good for women ok.well at least it was good for one of the women since she got lots of sex out of it.
>>2931564Wrong. When people disagree with me, its Russian bots.
>>2931550>Nah bro, women have always been a big part of the nerd/geek subculture since the 60sand then became sharply divided since the 80s all the way to the 2010s due to reagan or whatever
>>2931566>what are we even discussinganon has been posting that foot cooler vid while attacking female otakus/geeks every few weeks for months now. this is not a subject that comes up organically on this message board for revolutionary posadist dolphins. you're actually discussing some incel weeb's foot fetish. life can be difficult with autism so I hope this helps.
>>2931573>while attacking female otakus/geeks every few weeks for months now.I have never done any such thing I'm literally just upset for the other girl that got cucked actually. I don't know why people on the internet these days just like assume the intent behind your post based entirely on their own binary interpretation of the world. Just read the fucking words in my post and stop projecting your own mental illness onto others.
in other news here's a happier lesbian con experience. according to the cosplayer the girl she kissed is one of her biggest fans. wholesome.
>>2931575the only thing i resent from that video is that i was literally born too early, i would have been a lot more popular if girls regarded androgynous twinks so highly in the 90s. born in le wrong generation (millennial)
>>2931575forgive me for not believing this site is big enough for multiple aficionados of obscure weeb foot fetish videos.
>>2931569can't blame you, everyone who disagrees with me is a philosophical zombie with no subjective experience of the world as well.
>>2931598There’s always been nerdy women into sci-fi. A huge amount of Gundam’s early success was with young women doing yaoi fanzines
>>2931598>>2931603the problem with fandom is the con-going people are just a small subset of the community. star trek had a lot of female fans but they were more active online than at the conventions which were 95% dudes and their wives. it wasn't until anime made cosplay and fanart/merch "cool" that women started going to these events and not feeling embarrassed for being into fantasy/sci-fi. i kinda don't understand the way old-gen nerds shit on anime when it basically normalized their hobby and brought attention to a lot of overlapping subcultures like card games, dnd, etc.
>>2931603you're comically wrong in all aspects
if it was appealing to women at all, it was so for the same reason that harlequin romance novels, which is to say, not for any progressive undertone, but for quite the opposite. I tried watching the very first series and I couldn't get past the first season because of how rancid, reactionary, patriarchal, paternalistic, etc. it was. the entire crew is a bunch of mentally retarded cowards, except captain kirk, the father figure and authority that is always right and that always saves the day (and the crew) either from themselves, or from being deceived and killed by some space entity
whenever people talk about star trek it is on the same level as when anyone tries to tell you that the romantasy about the billionaire vampire ceo that rapes and then enslaves the female intern through sex magic is actually progressive or whatever
>>2931609kirk was pretty much just a standard male action hero saving the damsel in distress every episode but the damsels were various races(both in-universe and irl races) so it was progressive on that front. keep in mind star trek was like the first tv series to normalize a white man kissing a black woman on television. this is taken for granted today but interracial relations were a big taboo back then.
>>2931607> i kinda don't understand the way old-gen nerds shit on anime when it basically normalized their hobby and brought attention to a lot of overlapping subcultures like card games, dnd, etc.This is just some kind of bdsm/kink club with the veneer of children's cartoons:
>>2931530 >>2931611>This is just some kind of bdsm/kink club with the veneer of children's cartoons:could the same not be said of furries, trekkies/star wars fans, and lgbt pride events in general?
like pic related was responsible for the sexual awakening of gen x.
>>2931612all lowbrow media eventually devolves into tinder for ugly people
>>2931616when did leftism, an ideology based on collective good and the power of the masses, become a vehicle for antisocial chuddery?
>>2931606Also in TNG there's a counselor on the bridge who wants to talk about your feelings. But then men like it because Counselor Troi is really hot. But she's a Starfleet officer too. She does crash the ship the one time she actually takes command of it though.
>>2931607You know an interesting cultural change that has happened recently is the explosion of women playing Dungeons & Dragons. There are also apparently (as expected) chuds who are mad about this, because the publisher has also updated the aesthetic to reach this wider audience. I think some combination of the effects of COVID, how a lot of activities have become more expensive, and especially livestreams of women playing the game has really contributed to it. Now D&D attracts girls instead of repelling girls. Also it's a narrative-driven social game. The earlier game from the 70s had that but it was more of a dungeon hack-and-slash game when played on a table.
>>2931609But a lot of women like harlequin romance? That slop is like Warhammer for chicks. Also there's romantsy now which is a combination of romance and fantasy? Are you ready to milk the minotaur? I'm not really arguing whether it's especially progressive. The notable presence of women at the first Trek conventions in the early 1970s was apparently a thing.
>>2931610A lot of shows on TV at the time were also Westerns. It was right when color TV came around so they went crazy on the saturated colors and lighting to sell more color TVs because the show was broadcast on NBC and the TV manufacturer RCA owned NBC.
daily wire is washed up and irrelevant. i have no respect for any breadtubers who still in the big 2026 make 2 hour long video essays on daily wire products. at this point daily wire exists only to provide material for these creatively bankrupt hacks.
Anyways, my point here is that Star Trek fans are gigachads who get the nerd girls while Star Wars fans are virgin incels. Discuss.
>>2931619>But a lot of women like harlequin romance?that was exactly my point, they like it despite it not being progressive
>Trek is comfier, the show is really about the characters and their relationships while cruising around solving problems using ~science~here you're making it sound as progressive, when it is not. all the characters are as flat and static as you can get, all the episodes follow the same structure whereby at the end kirk saves everyone. there is no such thing as science in the series, everything is resolved through kirk's aura and wisdom. if anything, it is about the ubermensch reasserting it's position above the nerds (the crew)
>>2931634>I was surprised how many said the original Star Wars.are you really surprised that Gen X's favorite movie is their generation's equivalent of Harry Potter?
>>2931729Yall mfs were saying the same thing when Israel was getting bombed by Iran and restricted internet usage.
>>2931783yes I'm sure the Russian infiltration of Reddit is just about as expensive as the constant paid astroturfing campaigns (actually its main form of "content") from various US governmental outposts, including Israel
but I guess I must also be one of these pesky Ruzzian bots
>>2931803Just because Russia is poorer and less competent than the 5 eyes complex doesn't mean they don't do their own shilling and astroturfing campaigns overseas.
>>2931729It's from shitlibs who desperately want to believe that anything they see online they disagree with must be the result of their current boogieman.
"If only it weren't for Putler, the whole internet would be a perfect utopian hugbox for shitlibs like me".
I recall people making the same claim when Ukrainian and Israeli datacenters got bombed, or when there was an outage at a US military base, zero evidence in all instances of course.
>>2931449Libs were primed for it for years before 2016 where legacy media made Putin a right-wing dictator that Republicans loved. After Trump was elected libs were desperate for a scapegoat to avoid introspection and the liberal media again provided it with bogus narratives of Russia rigging the election.
>>2931806And Russian botting is small compared to the bottong done by other governments, NGOs, and corporations. The internet is dead, it's just those aforementioned institutions in every country all spamming the internet to manipulate normies.
>>2931808>>2931809<finally, with the russskies infrastructure being terror bombed i finally can enjoy my algorithmically curated feed of screen time maximizing rage baitpeople are stupid and retarded.
>>2931557Thats a t4t couple right?
>>2931577That's a woman, you would still be despised.
>>2931625If you leave the internet your life will worsen, it is an integral part of the modern life whether you like it or not.
>>2931952I mean wanting an internet free of bots is rational, it's just that some people believe there's only Russian ones and not western
>>2931955no its two cis women
>>2932090the whole discussion is utterly irrational and most people don't give a fuck about bots so long they post shit these people agree with or updoot their social media posts.
would you say doing away with IRC bots that you can query for books and other media to download make the internet worse for they are 'bots'?
>>2932108Oh come on, don't be pedantic, you know I'm saying bots pretending to be people
>>2932111in a perfect world, sure, it'd be nice to do away with this kind of bots. then again, between monopolistic platforms, algorithmic feeds, dark patterns, java script bloat, braindead UI and UX - even these bots don't make my top 10 for why the modern web is nigh unusable.
>>2932161Mine is showing me Infrared slop and a bunch of the same kind of Reddit videos recently. I think it knows that I like socialist theory, but Infrared uses all the marketing methods to game the algo, so it ends up preferred and shifted to the top because bots think I think rants about Islamo-Eurasian-State-Communism are the same as Engels audiobooks.
>>2930089some traditions are about rationalizing emotions like hate and envy and don't actually function irl etc.
>>2932220making shit up on twitter to get clicks and ad revenue
>>2932220Sounds like a whole lot of didn't happen.
Americans be crazy though so who knows.
>>2932245Let me guess they are quoting 18th Brumaire about people LARPing but the other side of that is how inherited revolutionary identities can also prevent people from recognizing what they are actually doing, which is why people looked at Napoleon III and were like waow based his name is Napoleon like his uncle and he's going to make us great again.
Someone else has to watch so I don't have to, but reading Marx on a surface level like that while completely missing the point would be very them.
>>2932245Larping is the key to life. In order to sleep, one must act asleep
>>2932274>But at the first victorious uprising of the French proletariat, which Louis Napoleon is striving with all his might to conjure upI mean, conjure up despite himself, right?
<Driven by the contradictory demands of his situation, and being at the same time, like a juggler, under the necessity of keeping the public gaze on himself, as Napoleon’s successor, by springing constant surprises – that is to say, under the necessity of arranging a coup d’état in miniature every day – Bonaparte throws the whole bourgeois economy into confusion, violates everything that seemed inviolable to the Revolution of 1848, makes some tolerant of revolution and makes others lust for it, and produces anarchy in the name of order, while at the same time stripping the entire state machinery of its halo, profaning it and making it at once loathsome and ridiculous. The cult of the Holy Tunic of Trier[125] [A Catholic relic, allegedly taken from Christ when he was dying, preserved in the cathedral of Marx’s native city] he duplicates in Paris in the cult of the Napoleonic imperial mantle. But when the imperial mantle finally falls on the shoulders of Louis Bonaparte, the bronze statue of Napoleon will come crashing down from the top of the Vendôme Column.[126]https://marxist.com/classics-the-eighteenth-brumaire-of-louis-bonaparte/chapter-7.htmAlso speaking of Aramco (and Bonapartists too come to think about it… MBS) the Houthis are saying they're going to escalate their attacks which will likely have some funky effects on oil prices. Meanwhile we're just going to have to sit back and see how deepass the destruction goes.
It seems like 4chan gets barely any traffic at all now.
>>2932419breadtubers will make essays on the following topics or all eternity
>ethan klein>daily wire>joe rogan and adjacents >>2932363>I mean, conjure up despite himself, right?Yeah, JDPON Don of the 1800s.
>>2932419caught that. that bitch tits libtard decided that in the interest of both sides fence sitting he should have another go at badempanada and attack denims and noah samsen as well. as much as I love seeing ethan kkklein getting owned, it's a little ironic that the guy doing it was gobbing ethan off until very recently, and only stopped because in the interest of both sides and fence sitting he made a joke about the dog ethan killed with processed cheese which got him ostracised and harassed.
dipshit even flashed the DSA succdem logo, while calling himself a socialist, while calling for civility and decorum towards the kkkleins, while punching left, while using IDF Signifier as a token example of a lefty victim of leftcom bullying. worst kind of libtard. hope he gets the reeducation he needs to become a productive member of society.
Occurred to me that John Galt would totally be in the Epstein files, galt's gulch
Are HR people class traitors?
>>2932654Fag she was gorgeous
>>2932654>>2932664She looks even better now.
>>2932591I've always wished someone would rewrite Atlas Shrugged from the “villains’” perspective. cause the supposed villains are labor unions, businessman and politicians (called “Looters” in the book) who advocate for basic safety regulations and due process, yet are portrayed by the novel’s protagonists as fanatical communists. Then, when all the world’s genius CEOs go on strike, the entire government and economy collapse.
Like, this is the protagonist arguing with her “Looter” brother because he thinks her idea of using some experimental metal that some guy claims is lighter than regular metal but stronger then titanium is ridiculous. He thinks they should be rational, yet the story portrays him as a complete nincompoop with no sense whatsoever.
>Drop it, Jim. I know everything you're going to say. Nobody's ever used it before. Nobody approves of Rearden Metal. Nobody's interested in it. Nobody wants it. Still, our rails are going to be made of Rearden Metal. But … said Taggart, but . . . but nobody's ever used it before!
>…The consensus of the best metallurgical authorities, he said, seems to be highly skeptical about Rearden Metal, contending—
>Drop it, Jim. Well, whose opinion did you take?
>I don't ask for opinions.
>What do you go by?
>Judgment .
>Well, whose judgment did you take?
>Mine. But whom did you consult about it? Nobody. Then what on earth do you know about Rearden Metal?
>That it's the greatest thing ever put on the market.
>Why? Because it's tougher than steel, cheaper than steel and will outlast any hunk of metal in existence.
>But who says so?
>Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them. What did you see? Rearden 's formula and the tests he showed me.
>Well, if it were any good, somebody would have used it, and nobody has. He saw the flash of anger, and went on nervously: How can you know it's good? How can you be sure? How can you decide?
>Somebody decides such things, Jim.
>Who? Well, I don't see why we have to be the first ones. I don't see it at all.
>Do you want to save the Rio Norte Line or not?
>He did not answer, If the road could afford it, I would scrap every piece of rail over the whole system and replace it with Rearden Metal. >>2932834>Why? Because it's tougher than steel, cheaper than steel and will outlast any hunk of metal in existence.<But who says so?>Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.<What did you see?>Rearden 's formula and the tests he showed me.holy lol.
Jim sounds like a chad and the dipshit protag sounds like she wants him to buy pot metal from a scammer. why would anyone rip up rails that are already installed? where's the feaso? who's done the engineering on that shit? how the fuck are they going to claim against their insurance policy if they use grey market materials against state standards and recommendations?
never read this shit but it's so contrived. capitalism's strongest soldiers don't seem to know how the fuck the world works.
>>2932529I'd like to think that this video is a step in the right direction of unfucking himself but I guess we'll see.
Also that clip he used of denims was great. I had no idea she was so hot. Yowza.
>>2933074>never read this shit but it's so contrived. capitalism's strongest soldiers don't seem to know how the fuck the world works.They really don't. I really recommend reading it, though. It's truly awful.
>>2933128I read it 10 years ago and all I remember was Galt's ridiculous 50 page radio rant at the end along with the hilarious notion that artists were counted as part of the "producing" class that would be benefited under laissez faire capitalism somehow.
>>2933074>>2933128>>2933133It’s a very weird book because it’s basically reverse harem fantasy, with Rand’s self-insert character having hot, steamy sex with multiple rich, attractive men a domestic terrorist who bombs government ships from doing trade and looks like a pirate, a hot CEO guy who invented the supermetal and resembles Mel Ferrer, an Italian playboy and of course, John Galt, another ridiculously rich, attractive man. Naturally, every single one of them falls in love with Rand’s self-insert, who is described as an average-looking woman but also as the smartest woman they’ve ever met, far smarter than all the supposedly stupid women around them.
>>2933144What’s more fucked up is Rand actually got to kind of live out that reverse harem fantasy, she had multiple simps from her secret society/political circle live in her house and fuck her and stuff
>>2933149She probably talked about the cunt carousel.
>>2933144>>2933149so this is what autistics did before sonic hedgehog.
Snap! Point & Shoot Video for the Nintendo DSi | Record video clips (up to 10 minutes) with sound, plus enjoy a much more advanced suite of photography options.
https://houdini-magazine.itch.io/snap-point-shoot-video-nintendo-ds>>2932681they're calling it the gayest post ever made
>>2933149That guy look like Tom Holland 🤣
>>2933257the show they did right after the ussr collapsed is a text book example of US softpower in action
>>2933253ACP religious cult pivot
>>2933571Somebody get them a better merch guy
>>2933575this is what they deserve
>>2933578Isn't their membership quite young? I'd rather kms than wear that boomer ass Hillary shirt
>>2933253It my blows my mind that there are people dumb enough to see the inane babble this guy spews and think he's the next coming of Marx
>>2933571At least it ain't AI sloppa…
>>2933522lmao
>>2933570Something about how they admire the religious right and want to act like a church, when the actual secret to how the religious right became a big deal in the U.S. is they stopped acting like a bunch of churches and started acting like a political movement (which also stopped caring if you actually went to church).
The amount of people who want an American caliphate with Dengist characteristics can't be more than a couple dozen. Who the fuck is this shit aimed at for?
wtf is going on with the chapo guys. in there latest episode they brought on an AI crank who was straight up telling them that AI is a magical technology that "tell stories that come true". they must have had a falling out with ed zitron or something
never meat your heroes
>>2933765Stop listening to the relic from the Bernie Sanders era. They are all multi-millionaires now, and they haven't improved their political stances or showed any indication of development. It's 2016 Bernie slop.
>>2933765Who'd they have on?
>>2933743I think he said that campfire chant thing was the happiest he's been. Aren't you glad for him anons?
>>2933863>They are all multi-millionaires nowThey were multi-millionaires back then, as well.
They are rich milennials, like Hasan or Cum Town.
All the Bernie Bros grifted their way to the top.
>>2933891Any serious communist party, especially the ones full of boomers like the SACP, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt that they simply don't know what the ACP is and with what they are associating. Any party that is a little more in the loop ignores the ACP or is outright hostile to them.
The SACP needs to correct their line anyway. They've been cucks to the ANC since forever, they are getting less representative seats given to them by the ANC compared to what they could have if they would go independent. An electoral alliance is supposed to be advantageous for the smaller partner, not the opposite.
>>2933246Wasn't this guy a zionist Ethan KKKlein stan
>>2933873where can I buy that SPD toaster? I want to start buying more socialist commodities instead of capitalist ones
>>2933959Except immigration and refugees was not some inevitable consequence but a deliberate choice by the ruling class. Neither Gaddafi nor imperialism had nothing to do with it. I'm not anti-immigrant btw, just stating facts
>>2933974>imperialism had nothing to do with itilliterate uyghur award
Just to add the wholesome Biblical context:
>Numbers 31:17-18: Moses instructs the Israelite army regarding the Midianites: "Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves".
>1 Samuel 15:3: God commands King Saul to attack the Amalekites and destroy everything, stating: "Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys"
>Hosea 13:16: Prophesies judgment on Samaria: "Their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open."
>Ezekiel 9:5-7: God instructs executioners in a vision to go through Jerusalem and "kill old men and young men, maidens and little children and women," starting at the sanctuary.
Christians and Muslims are just Jews in denial.
Antisemitism is self-hatred.
Either stop worshipping G*d or shut up.
it's true even jon lenin knew it
>>2933979Libya is important and it destabilizing played a role, but Libya wasn't the only migrant route. Syrians mostly went through Turkey. The Syrian civil war was really bad and displaced millions of people.
>>2933743haha hey guys dunno why but my brain just started spamming me with a random memory of reading words from a very old woman who had been in a certain political youth group a looong time ago marching with torches throwing em on a big burning pile and right there she had an orgasm anyways bye haha 😐
>>2934151Twitter and other social media was provably suppressing right wing content. The thing is they were also doing it to content left of mainstream liberalism, but, unlike the right, the left didn't have a large media and political ecosystem that enabled them to air their grievances so the post 2016 censorship explosion on the western web became framed as a case of Republican vs Democrat when it was actually idpol Democrat neolibs vs everyone to both their right and left.
Musk is of course still a fraud who failed to deliver on a single promise he made with the twitter acquisition and just flipped its biases to align with his own.
>>2934154(looking at replies)
this is the kind of bedtime story poltards tell themselves lol, a guy was out here crushing rebel armies with his helicopter because he ran out of ammo
>>2934154damn, one could smell the replies from space. pure concentrated incel butthurt. plus, obviously, bots.
>>2934154There's a hole in Germany. Also, what the fuck is going on in Italy?
>>2934219>>2934184>>2934188My uncle, a Pakistani man, served in two UN peacekeeping missions in Liberia and he painted a similar picture. According to him, the african troops(with the exception of the Ethiopians and Kenyans) often behaved incompetently in ways he never imagined, they were consistently late, got caught up in petty tribal disputes with one another and struggled with basic marksmanship and cleaning. This is based on my uncle’s personal experience. By your logic does that make him a racist who is somehow racist against black people except Ethiopians and Kenyans
>>2934219Of all the prominent RW Twitter """people""" that guy has got to be one of the most banal. At least Captivedreamer and Howlingmutant's patheticness can be funny
>>2005272Does anyone have the "ah shit here we go again" meme of the SPD/Freikorps
>>2934252>>2934232My uygha you can grab the dumbest malnurished african in the continent, he would manage to gun down 20 roman soldiers if you give him a Assault Rifle.
>>2928992Unless you have a more developed theory, how does this contradict the current theory that she was raped, didnt realize she was, until much later?
>>2934286>Unless you have a more developed theory, how does this contradict the current theory that she was raped, didnt realize she was, until much later?What the fuck does that even mean? Didn't realize until later? She lost a memory and gained a memory later? What the fuck, how does this jive with anyone's perception of reality? I drink, and lose memories of things I said and did, but I can't gaslight people that I "realized later" that I didn't say and do things I did.
>>2929516>Most rape allegations are false accusationsbold claim, requiring evidence. it would have been more wise to say something like "most allegations are unproven and never make it to trial", but then that would prevent you from adding an even more bold claim…
>and they often lead to real deaths of completely innocent men.rape cases that make it to trial and result in a conviction do not usually receive the death penalty, let alone "most rape allegations" which is a category much broader than rape cases that make it to trial and result in a conviction.
>>2929182why do low attn span users always feel the need to announce that they regard 2 minutes of reading as a wall of text. Bruh you are awake probably ~1000 minutes in a day. you can manage 2 of them reading
>>2929060>Back in my day they made this movie see, called Coyote Ugly. Getting blackout drunk and having sex you don't remember with people you'd rather not was just a part of life.What if they made this movie today? Truth be told, I never seen it, I was still a little child when it came out but it still found a way to my awareness and the meaning of this phrase I wouldn't expect any of you younger than me to know.
>>2934232>My uncle, a Pakistani man, served in two UN peacekeeping missions in Liberia and he painted a similar picture. According to him, the african troops(with the exception of the Ethiopians and Kenyans) often behaved incompetently It varies a lot yeah. I knew a guy who embedded (journalist) with the A.U. mission in Somalia and he thought the Ugandans were pretty tough soldiers. That's a real army. Then another time he saw the Chadian army completely melt down during a friendly fire incident in the middle of the night that resulted in mass panic and flight because the soldiers thought they were under attack, instead they were just shooting at each other. He almost got killed because he got shot at by freaked out soldiers.
Here's a film about the Liberian civil war in the 90s. It's very dated / sensationalist American T.V. from that time but the journalists in it are legit. The section at 34:00 for a few minutes goes into the battle tactics of this kind of tribal warfare. Traditional hunting clans, which are also like fraternities or secret societies, also played an important part in these West African wars. Not that many people actually died in combat because of how the fighting would happen. It was very rare for a unit to actually get overrun and wiped out. A lot of people who die in these kinds of wars in mass casualty type events are civilians who get overrun are waylaid.
>>2934262You don’t understand the discussion . There are factors inherent to certain cultures that make creating a conventional armed force and even insurgent group difficult, it’s not racial, as the afro-Cubans Che Guevara brought with him had the same frustration and developed cultural superiority by seeing the state of Congolese fighters (both militias and the army). Rather, it’s deeply cultural and requires a form of cultural genocide to address.
>>2934232>My uncle, a Pakistani man, served in two UN peacekeeping missions in LiberiaYour uncle is probably a rapist. Maybe a child rapist even.
>>2934154Im fighting with the blacks, the whites are gonna get their head kicked in.
Which side will the Vietnamese be on?
>>2934343>>2934340What is going on with Westerners who loathe themselves and possess no cultural insight whatsoever? Even in my own Pakistan, there are cultural differences, the work ethic you might expect from a Sindhi is different from that of a Pashtun. You genuinely believe in a kind of magical category of non-white people who, simply by virtue of being poor, are supposedly better revolutionaries and there are cultural factors that are inherently required for the establishment of militias and armies, you would label Che Guevara a racist for pointing this out.
>>2934338>Rather, it’s deeply cultural and requires a form of cultural genocide to address.Well the overall level of social development is quite low, right? The style of fighting in these West African wars did "make sense" given the material conditions involved. We're talking about Liberia, Sierra Leoene. Like obviously yes it's primitive by the standards of most third-world countries including other countries in Africa let alone more developed ones in Asia. So the battles didn't involve complex, well-organized maneuvers, but more like crowds of guys with weapons who would blast in the general direction of the enemy and try to make enough noise that the weight of the attack would cause the other (disorganized) side to retreat, then they would pull themselves together and counter-attack, and it would go back and forth like that.
But against any conventional army with training they'd just get annihilated. The Sierra Leone civil war was won for the government by a few hundred South African mercenaries and a larger number of Kamajors, who are like a clan or a traditional hunting fraternity. They'd wear magic vests with pockets sewed onto them with charms inside (may or may not include a severed finger of a slain enemy). It's a distinct social strata in West Africa. Traore in Burkina Faso has been organizing a similar strata there to fight jihadists. Excellent trackers, from what I read.
>>2934232Look I'm sure a lot of African troops are garbage, but that's not the same as one guy in a helicopter gunship claiming he was CRUSHING PEOPLE WITH HIS HELICOPTER BECAUSE HE RAN OUT OF AMMO. I mean come the fuck on.
>>2934232I have heard similar stories about Ethiopian soldiers (though far fewer about Kenyan soldiers, for that matter) what is it about Ethiopia that gives them a more competent military than the rest of Africa?
>>2934361Yes we're all aware that
lumpenproles is a synonym for
black for you subhuman pigskins ITT.
>>2934365I'm brown you mota faasida
>>2934338Things change in 60 or 70 years or so and the pakistani father only went to see the military of a few countries.
>>2934409BASED Napoleon executing
CRINGE leftoids!
>>2934398My uncle went in 2003
>>2934356>>2934338sorta related issue, but modern militaries are fundamentally European institutions, and some Marxists who have recognized this have struggled with the implications. To build an army, you inevitably have to grapple with military traditions and organizational principles shaped by European imperialism and the legacy of the old European military establishment.
In the early Red Army, officers were elected and saluting was abolished. The Spanish anarchist militias took this even further, making decisions outside active combat through consensus and granting elected officers command authority only during actual fighting and sometimes not even then. Neither experiment lasted long. The Soviets gradually abandoned these structures and the Red Army eventually developed into a conventionally officered formal European military. In Spain the militias proved difficult to coordinate and were eventually integrated into the more traditional structures of the Republican Army, a process spearheaded by the Communist Party with the assistance of Soviet advisers.
The PLA probably held on to this revolutionary military exceptionalism longer than anyone else, treating its supposedly superior approach as proof that it was morally and politically above the other communists. This worked great until they ran into the Vietnamese and got their noses bloodied. Turns out that revolutionary fervor, ideological purity and telling yourself your army is different don't magically make it a good army. Eventually, the PLA had to grow up, get serious about military reform and start studying people like Clausewitz instead of pretending it had transcended the basic problems of warfare.
>>2934409>>2934414I was watching a film about the Iranian revolution awhile ago. It was footage from a British (I think) news crew who were there when it was happening, and they interviewed various people, and one hilarious character was a young aide to the Shah who had some position and was obsessed with Napoleon and kept repeating "all they need is a whiff of grapeshot." He stayed behind after the Shah fled, there was actually a weird period after the Shah fled but before the revolutionaries had actually taken over, so he'd be out watching a parade of army troops and being like ahh these are our legions… whiff of grapeshot!
He was very much a late 1970s Iranian version of that kind of guy.
Also there's a famous Iranian novel about a guy's uncle who thinks he's Napoleon. Good shit. Lemme see if I can find that film.
>>2934583>a young aide to the Shah who had some position and was obsessed with Napoleon and kept repeating "all they need is a whiff of grapeshot."
Me when i learn a new fact or pithy phrase.
>>2934592Well it's also funny because he's autismising out in the film and in a copehole while the situation is clearly going to hell.
>>2934536>Eventually, the PLA had to grow up, get serious about military reform and start studying people like Clausewitz instead of pretending it had transcended the basic problems of warfare.Right. You know an interesting thing is that Clausewitz had a lot of influence on Marxist-Leninist military theory. Really all modern military theory. Actually a lot of current Western stuff around "revolution in military affairs" stuff is a Westernized version of Soviet military-technical revolution theories which apply a kind of dialectical way of thinking about how changes in the means of destruction have qualitative effects on the form of warfare. This is one of the many reasons why Gaddafi had a crush on Condoleeza Rice, her professional background was in military theory.
>>2934761eh, he picked a terrible example because hades has good art direction
now THIS is what actual demonization of white racial features looks like. whoever was in charge of this game's character modeling should be fired.
>>2934761Neither of them; because they are both right-wing fascist retards on Twatter.
>>2934769why are u gey? that's what an attractive woman in her 30s looks like.
>>2934788>that's what an attractive woman in her 30s looks like.No, this is.
We don't need to cover a character model in skin blemishes and wrinkles to make her look 30. She can just look normal bro. Also, she isn't a woman in her 30's. She's an immortal god or some shit. She can look like anything they want and they chose to make her look like a suburban housewife. Also, if they're going for an au natural look, why is she still covered in layers of makeup after waking up from being dead?
The actress isn't ugly either, they just chose to make her ugly on purpose as some kind of clapback towards gamers or some shit and then complained that no one bought the game. The culture war is a trap no matter which side you're on. It's a video game, it's supposed to be a fantasy. Why not make your characters look their best if you want the game to sell? It's something the Japanese and indie Western devs seem to understand while AAA devs are still grappling with the idea for some reason.
>>2934788I'm mentally 13, even slightly saggy skin scares me
>>2934761Anime is so based
>>2934850Great yellow ass and yams
>>2934872is that her real neck
>>2934761All gamers should be castrated
>>2934872What the point of plastic surgeries if you end up looking like a freak?
>>2934983Guy who knows nothing about Islam, doesn't speak Arabic, has not read the Quran and has his entire knowledge of religion from dark enlightenment bloggers talking about Heidegger thinks he synthesized a new form of Islamic Communism.
>>2935000holy fuck, bodied that freak
>>2934365>lumpenproles is a synonym for blackRead a book?
>>2935018>Not today villains, my shop is already robbed and destroyed Lol
>>2935018I think we need to disavow anime and videogames as a movement, I know some tankies on here alredy ahead of the curve but I'm beggining to understand it. capital needs escapism to survive.
>>2935068Nazoids about to shoot you in the head: "He's right behind me isn't he?"
>>2935068>capital needs escapism to survive.capital needs you to go to work to survive
>>2935104>vandalized japanese flagextremely based
>>2935101>why isn't there a proletarian revolution yet… eureka! it's probably the cartoons! you're focusing on the effect and not the cause, assuming you're not just plainly braindead
>>2935145I'm not that other anon. Conversations would be more interesting if you replied to the post you tag instead of responding to some other reply. I was concurring with you. Anime is probably a net drain on capitalism.
>>2935199There is a genuine point here. I do think black americans (descendants of enslaved people in the US) qualify as a distinct ethnocultural group, and many black americansacross the political spectrum, have argued that their interests are overlooked when it comes to quotas, professional sectors, the entertainment industry, and academia where those from the broader African diaspora may sometimes find it easier to gain access, owing to differences in cultural background and the selection processes applied to immigrants. That said, this type of racially charged resentment is ultimately pointless and a waste of everyone’s time. but pretending that black americans and other members of the African diaspora are interchangeable, with identical cultural identities is equally retarded.
>>2935214>muh IslamismZiorat detected
>>2935219I think nobody has any problem with "delineation" as they love to say. It's funny the course of this whole argument. Originally it was a delineation of ADOS(American Descendants of Slavery) vs African immigrants. ADOS meaning every single Black from USA, Caribbean, Latin America who is descended from the slave trade. I don't think there was really any hate associated with that "delineation" but then this Tariq Naseed buck broken FBA movement were really mad that they get included with Jamaicans and Haitians. Which is what this pic is getting into(Haitian flag in the meme image and talking about different boats):
>>2935199You know, Africa itself is a continent, but people can still accept the term African in general discourse, just as East Asians or even South Asians as well can accept the nomenclature of "Asian." Even if they're descended from the Chinese who built the railroads or the FOBs. It's funny that FBAs just push Caribbean ADOS and African immigrants closer together because they hate them both equally.
just accept the fact that quran was the first manifesto
- Surah Al-Ma'un (107)
Condemns those who push orphans away and fail to encourage feeding the poor.
Key verses: 107:1–7
- Surah Al-Hashr (59)
Verse 59:7 explains the distribution of certain wealth so it does not circulate exclusively among the rich.
Key verse: 59:7
- Surah Al-Balad (90)
Praises freeing enslaved people, feeding the hungry during hardship, and caring for orphans and the poor.
Key verses: 90:11–16
- Surah Al-Insan (76)
Describes righteous people giving food to the poor, orphans, and captives despite their own desire for it.
Key verses: 76:8–9
- Surah At-Tawbah (9)
Discusses zakat and the categories of people eligible to receive it, including the poor and needy.
Key verse: 9:60
>>2935226Interestingly, in the historical Middle Eastern conceptions of race, Indians were classified as black. believed to east African populations who had crossed the Indian Ocean and settled in India, and so they were placed in in similar slave roles, including plantations, servants and palace house guards.
>>2935161I thought he doubled down on the bait, apologies.
>Conversations would be more interesting if you replied to the post you tag instead of responding to some other reply. Yeah, I kind of see it
>>2935257No worries. Also getting really defensive about anime is as silly as blaming the problems of the world on anime. C'mon, this is an anonymous catgirl enthusiast board, just crack jokes and don't take it to seriously.
>>2932598God, she is beautiful.
How do I tell my gf that her favorite animated movie, Anastasia (1997), is revisionist anti-communist garbage without sounding like a pedantic asshole?
>>2935318tell her that undead wizards and talking bats aren't real
>>2933974>immigration and refugees was not some inevitable consequence but a deliberate choice by the ruling class.so…. imperialism?
>Neither Gaddafi nor imperialism had nothing to do with it. I'm not anti-immigrant btw, just stating factsbut you just said it was imperialism
>>2935357yes
but in this case in particular there is also the fact that drew is broke and there is little to no money for "outsiders" in liberal politics. chuds have done a better job at monetizing indie propagandists
>>2935357>white nationalist>larping as a leftist>saying he become nationalist because of left>account based in india or smt.i fucking hate american political autism.
>>2935406a more manlier and more sane version of nick fetus?
>>2935400>>2935357pf. he really thinks that liberalism is left-wing.
>>2935411a larper huh?
>>2935412oh yeah, US politics…capitalist left and capitalism right. right…
or diet capitalism vs christoloid nationalist wanna be capitalism.
>>2935417oh, more than a larper, a propagandist trying to turn 'diet capitalist' liberals into full nationalist rigth wingers.
>>2935420>First elected US official to join a foreign military while holding office.Lol he really wants to get his citizenship revoked huh. He'll be lucky to not have a treason case opened.
>>2935427Yeah. Imagine a Russian elected official would join the Green Berets, they'd persecute the guy
>>2935427The fed who flew too close to the sun.
Mamdani Is the Centrist We’ve Been Waiting For
Ever since Zohran Mamdani exhilarated the left with his out-of-nowhere mayoral campaign, mainstream Democrats have been dejectedly searching for an inspirational figure of their own. Where is the Democratic executive who has the media savvy to inspire his own cultlike following while making pragmatic governing decisions and ignoring the incessant demands of progressive activists?
At last, the moderates have found such a Democrat. His name is Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani’s election, which created the theoretical prospect of 8.5 million Americans living under “the warmth of collectivism,” as he once put it, was met with understandable shock. The reality, however, has been far more mundane.
Mamdani’s campaign platform already contained several gestures to moderates. He said he would retain Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who is, to put it plainly, a billionaire Zionist cop, three things never in favor with the hard left. He also pledged to liberalize permitting to encourage more housing construction by private developers. When The New York Times asked him during the campaign, “What’s one issue in politics that you’ve changed your mind about?” Mamdani cited “the role of the private market in housing construction.”
Most important, Mamdani emphasized the importance of efficiency in city services. This might sound like an ideologically neutral goal, and it has been embraced at times by the leaders of left-wing governments—including Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” during the early to mid-20th century. But efficiency creates tension with progressive interest groups, which generally care less about maximizing taxpayers’ bang for the buck than maintaining secure jobs and high wages for public employees.
Once elected, Mamdani retreated from some of his progressive ambitions. Among his splashiest campaign promises was “fast, free” bus service. Skeptics had questioned the wisdom of forgoing the revenue from bus fares, especially given the possibility that free buses would become mobile homeless shelters inhospitable to other New Yorkers. Mamdani still says he wants free buses, but in his initial proposal, released in concert with Governor Kathy Hochul, he quietly adopted the position of his critics, dropping the plan to eliminate fares and focusing instead on speed and reliability. He shrank another of his most ambitious proposals, universal child care for 2-year-olds, into a more gradual expansion, beginning with a modest increase of 2,000 new seats this fall and a goal of adding more in subsequent years.
During the campaign, Mamdani promised to establish an “Office of Community Safety,” which would cost $1 billion a year and task civilian workers instead of police officers with responding to mental-health emergencies. This notion was itself a compromise. As a state-assembly candidate, he’d endorsed defunding the police. As a mayoral candidate, he suggested shifting responsibilities. But as mayor, Mamdani wound up providing just over $40 million a year for this service, or 4 percent of the promised amount.
As a candidate, Mamdani said he would relinquish mayoral control of schools—a key demand of teachers’ unions, which understand that putting schools under the direction of school-board officials elected in low-turnout races gives the unions enormous leverage over education policy. He reversed that position even before he took office. Perhaps he realized that voters would hold him accountable for school performance, and that his goals would not be served by ceding authority to an interest group whose incentive is to maximize teacher pay and job security rather than to produce good outcomes for students. He has also put off a promise to reduce class sizes, which teachers’ unions care about but which is not an especially cost-effective way to promote learning gains.
Mamdani did follow through on his promise to freeze rent for about 40 percent of the city’s apartments, even though nearly any economist would say that the freeze makes housing less affordable in the long run. But this move merely followed decades of ineffective precedent. Mamdani’s most novel position on housing has been to push for a streamlined approval process to unlock more private home construction.
He has pushed Albany to raise taxes dramatically on wealthy New Yorkers, although so far he has settled for a pied-à-terre tax on second homes worth more than $5 million. And he has continued to pursue his goofy notion of opening city-run grocery stores that he believes would hold down food prices. It is difficult to see how this project could succeed, because public employees have little expertise in the complex supermarket business, and subsidizing public stores to undercut their competitors on price would both threaten small businesses and encourage black-market reselling. But Mamdani met these and other objections to his plan by scaling the public stores back to the size of a small demonstration project.
At the same time, he has made many overtures to moderates. He unveiled an initiative to combat anti-Semitism, which some pro-Palestinian activists have denounced for funding Jewish organizations that are Zionist. He also maintained the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, which has policed terrorist threats and aggressive protest tactics by activist organizations. The DSA has called this group “specialized units used to suppress dissent” and demanded that Mamdani abolish it. Leftists have denounced all of these moves, which prioritize security for the targets of protesters at the expense of the freedom of protesters to harass their targets.
More recently, he has infuriated the left by refusing to fire Tisch after ICE agents shot a New Yorker earlier this month. Instead, Mamdani praised Tisch—one of the best police commissioners in recent memory—for fighting corruption and bringing the murder rate to its lowest level in years.
Mamdani has not abandoned his antagonism toward Israel, which is the issue that animated his early career in politics and has helped endear him to the left. In his statement commemorating the October 7 massacre of Israelis, he devoted most of his attention to Palestinian victims of Israel’s counterattack. But if not everybody loves the balance he has struck, he is at least attempting to strike one. Mamdani has grasped the value, or at least the necessity, of reassuring Jewish New Yorkers of their safety, even if they disagree with him on the Middle East. This commitment has placed him at odds with the most radical elements of the Free Palestine movement, which have sought to make Zionists uncomfortable, if not outright frightened. When anti-Israel activists booed Mamdani and accused him of perpetrating genocide last week, they were responding to the fact that he is acting as a mayor for the city’s entire population, not the most fanatical elements of his base.
It’s possible that, in his heart, Mamdani would rather be leading a genuine socialist revolution than making hype videos of city workers filling potholes. But enacting socialism is notoriously harder than calling for it at a rally. It’s especially tricky to pull off in a city that faces severe fiscal constraints, whose rich denizens can easily move to nearby jurisdictions to protect their wealth, and that relies heavily on cooperation from the state legislature and the governor. A similar mismatch between ambition and authority applies to Mamdani’s vision of a post-Zionist Middle East, which lies well beyond the purview of his municipal powers.
To his credit, Mamdani has confronted quickly the hard realities that other socialist leaders have learned more painfully, trading his Marxist dream of revolutionary transformation for patient gradualism. Mamdani has adapted quickly to the limits of his office. His political talent (and core of allied social-media influencers) has enabled him to maintain his base of adoring fans even as he confines his work to humdrum municipal governance. Mamdani has discovered that socialism can succeed in New York through one simple trick: abandoning socialists
Good news
>>2935447It only counts if he gets laid by a Japanese chick
>>2935447i guarantee you that xitter user is not japanese
>>2935406>Low Quality Enchilada.xD
>>2935456Why do you assume that? There are a lot of Japs on twitter and they are very right-wing.
https://x.com/amatsuunihttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC899pVjPHg00TBcKHu9jaPA?si=SUn5XmdUs7WRpqtfLooks like a Jap broad to me.
>>2935420>the second bailiff in some town I don't rememberIt was one of these antique Vermont bailiff offices that doesn't have any powers yeah. All the candidates were write-ins.
>>2935466as a weeb this is actually good for me.
I have like 3 asian girls in my dm's begging me to come to japan/china/vietnam and i look like a fatter asmongold. JBW is so fucking true when it comes to asians and i fucking love it.
>>2935420kinda off-topic, but sometimes I wonder if any of Assad's sons or other relatives are fighting in Ukraine
>>2935586i want to date an AI generated blonde girl
>>2935586Millenoids need to stop obsessing about shounens and high school drama IPs and shit. It's getting creepy.
>>2935586Go to Hogwarts Legacy, press 'random character generator' until you hit a black character, reply those people with: this is the future, attaching a screenshot.
>>2935586>>2935590Can't post pictures on this IP, but this cracka 36 years old.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meedamian/He needs to let it go like that hairline that is on the top of his head now. Imagine posting about how much you want to bang AI generated kids online at 36 years old with your face and linkedin attached. Well he's a crypto bro, so that's probably something that opens doors in that industry.
>>2935586What an odd thing to ascribe any importance to
>>2935586>how can i make this thread about harry potter nonsense>>2935590>how can i make this thread about generation nonsenseobsessed
>>2935095Not being able to get a girl has been a cause of frustration for many men. I'm a 26 y/o incel shut-in, and I do feel some envy towards people who have good relationships and sex lives. But I keep reminding myself that there are people who are facing far worse hardships in life. There are kids who get abandoned, trafficked, raped, tortured and killed. There are many out there who become victims of calamities, war and genocide. They never get a chance to grow up and all they ever felt in life is fear and pain. It was my ego, narcissism and lack of perspective that kept me active in blackpill and manosphere spaces, in reality my struggle isn't really that hard. Many incels have the opposite reaction, they become overly cruel and resentful, and it's because they compare themselves to western good-lifers in relative terms instead of realizing their position in the world in absolute terms. I, for one, hope I can use my life to bring meaningful change to the world, because there's no other reason to live. I am very misanthropic, so human relationships don't even interest me at this point.
>>2935707I think the biggest problem is a lot of these people with no friends and life experience, their only point of reference is escapism slop:
>>2935586If you actually had friends with girlfriends/wives or girlfriends yourself, you'd know that this escapism slop is not an accurate depiction of reality or relationships. It's a fantasy designed to titillate you so you give them money. It's not real.
>>2935095What the fuck is wrong with people? I know fascism and reactionary politics in general is all about retvrn to a mythologized past that never really was, but this is just complete fantasy. How does one come to these conclusions?
>>2935785I thought the obvious answer would be to kill yourself, not much to ponder on tbh
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