GarbageShoot 10h ago • 100%
Making one post on Twitter is not "fellating reactionaries" and it's extremely misogynistic to frame it this way
Oh fuck off, I clearly mean it in a completely idiomatic manner, which should be obvious from the fact that the main reactionary I'm talking about is Kamala. Should the idiom be abandoned entirely? Probably, but calling my framing "extremely misogynistic" is pure point-scoring.
GarbageShoot 10h ago • 100%
I'm not talking about the work itself, I mean that psychologically the association was pushed by the artist, who is popularly regarded as the main authority on a piece, saying that "candidate embodies the spirit of my album". I'm speaking on the level of rhetoric here.
That said, it's extremely easy to find music from people who don't fellate reactionaries like that, even if they're still liberals or whatever.
GarbageShoot 10h ago • 100%
Just cause the libs taint trends in music and pop culture like this doesn't mean it's bad
tbf the artist also tainted it with that association.
GarbageShoot 20h ago • 100%
I've never heard that he was killed by anyone other than the Soviets, but I guess they do blame Stalin for a lot of things
GarbageShoot 21h ago • 100%
I think this is a really shitty, passive-aggressive reaction to someone talking about family troubles
GarbageShoot 1d ago • 100%
I think that the basic thesis here is fundamentally wrong, or at least it's clearly wrong sometimes. It's memed to death, but the anime girls these gooners get off to fundamentally don't look like human beings, which is made obvious by the fact that you can't actually coherently imagine one in the real world without either completely changing them or having an abomination on your hands.
"It's called art, sweaty"
In the loosest sense of the term, yes, but my point is that if you are able to make a really arousing cubist woman, calling it merely "an impossibly high standard" and not "some human-inspired thing that gets some people hard" is a confusion. Anime girls are just a more accessible version of that.
"why are you talking about anime when the gooners are mostly 'correcting' non-anime games?"
Because when you see how they correct them, it's clear that anime girls are a major reference point for them.
Like those artists that Miyazaki criticized, these people don't just have high standards, they are coming to prefer the non-human simulacra over humans, at least for their sex objects.
GarbageShoot 1d ago • 100%
Come now, he's like the third strongest human, and the strongest (Krillin) said at the time that he would have been killed by the saibaman kamikaze too if he wasn't alerted to it by Yamcha's death. Also, it's not like that is in the same dimension as where he is by the end of Z, let alone where he gets in Super, since Dragon Ball is the worst media in the world when it comes to "number go up" power creep.
GarbageShoot 1d ago • 100%
It is so infuriating needing to explain to people that Republicans can opportunistically tell the truth. They aren't just magical beings bound to only speak in lies like one of the twins from that riddle.
GarbageShoot 1d ago • 100%
You are missing the point completely; Her political opinions are irrelevant here, it's her obsession with it and with browbeating OP about it. There are communists like that too (many of us have been that communist), liberals breaking that off are honestly doing something reasonable, even if they are politically incorrect in general.
GarbageShoot 2d ago • 100%
My point wasn't that we need a more hardline position on the eradication of white people (as some in this thread express), my point was that this misanthropic bullshit is just a way of finding a convenient "out" for problems.
GarbageShoot 2d ago • 100%
Yeah, I think that was our comrade making a carve-out for themselves, as often happens with these kinds of posts.
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
I think it's just a redressing of the Protocols, which says similar things [to the islamophobic distortion] about Jews being entitled to deceive goys, etc.
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
I will admit that the sparseness of the text combined with the distance in time and space means it's not the sort of thing you can just throw on someone's lap like Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, but I think we ultimately agree.
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
Setting up a site in Tel Aviv is just begging for trouble given the relative success of the rocket attacks there.
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
I have no advice on Covid, but I just wanted to mention that the anxiety might be worth it, especially since the anxiety will go away eventually but the relationships should at least last somewhat longer if they are worth anything.
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
Mao does not actually say yell at people and burning all available bridges in self-righteous fits of anger instead of searching for ways to interact constructively with people is closer to being what he regarded as liberalism, being that it can be described as "venting personal spite". That segment, like most of them, only applies to intraparty affairs, but that's why I said "closer to". All he says about extraparty interaction is that you should continuously agitate and propagandize.
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
There's a uniting theme in all of the behaviors he highlights of a sort of moral flippancy, of regarding a decision as basically indifferent and then just picking the option you want instead of picking what is best. It makes sense to call this self-entitled version of freedom, where you are not obliged to act rightly but merely fulfill some set of requirements and then have free reign in the rest of it, "liberalism," because that is exactly what many liberal moral frameworks look like, especially the more politically-involved ones (like social contract theory).
GarbageShoot 3d ago • 100%
I got the "Kamala isn't Joe" line.
Right, she's moderately worse: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/harris-biden-the-view-00182883
GarbageShoot 5d ago • 64%
I think there are multiple things one can complain about, I was simply objecting to your minimizing one of them. I think even within that modified statement there is malicious (or perhaps self-victimizing) mischaracterization, but I don't feel like arguing about the other statements as others can probably do just as good a job and have more enthusiasm than I do for endlessly re-addressing the same complaints, which increasingly feels to me like the main dealing Hexbear has with liberal comms.
The classic one is, of course, "ACAB," but I've already gotten into these arguments so I will spare you reading too much on it. Let it suffice to say all US cops are bastards (or, you know, they serve an especially malignant bastard function), all German cops, all UK cops, etc. But, to find a diplomatic way of getting this across, the security patrols deployed by the Panthers were also cops if that word has a non-moral meaning. I think, and this is why I even bring ACAB up, that it gives people something to rally around and maybe even encouraged them to see things differently, and they get attached to it as essentially a dogma without seeing the analysis that produced it (or justified it, in any case). The slogan *becomes* the analysis. It becomes what exists in place of having reasons for what you believe, even when good reasons are out there! I don't know how to do dividing lines I think it's pretty funny when some asshole chud gets fired or injured or whatever and someone comments "another kkrakkka down, unlimited genocide on the first world". The humor comes from the absurdity, that there is no such genocide in the works and the subject in this case usually isn't even dead. It seems like a perfectly fine meme. So then a huge hurricane hits Florida, we have hundreds of normal, mostly poor people dying and people are saying this and, when someone goes "Hey, that's not right" they *double down*. [I was busy when this was happening, this isn't me complaining about being dog piled or whatever] The weird thing about it is that I thought it was 100% a joke, but some people got attached to the phrase in a way that reminds me of people going "ACAB means ACAB" as though it's anything other than an unhinged exclamation that is funny because it's unhinged. I don't know how this happened, but I am forced to conclude that the way the meme was treated up to this point was conditioning people in a detrimental way. Or maybe they were always bloodthirsty chauvinists, but that seems like the greater leap to me. Of course there were a couple of pathetic, cowardly losers in the mix saying "Oh, don't take it so seriously, it's a shitposting site". Those people I direct to 4chan. Antisocial behavior is antisocial behavior, and calling it meaningless to escape that it does have a meaning and that meaning is quite negative is contemptible behavior that should be rejected by the policy of any space that claims to be leftist. Anyway, I don't really have a call to action or anything, except perhaps: Oppose Slogan Worship.
A few months ago I was listening to a podcast, I remembered it as Citations Needed but it could have been another adjacent one, where they interviewed someone from Electronic Intifada about NYT's journalistic malfeasance around the article "Screams Without Words". I've been looking for it and can't find it. The part that stuck out to me the most was the mother of a daughter who was used as a puppet for these lies saying "she was *only* killed" and talking about what a miserable situation it is to be saying such a thing.
After spending a couple days interacting with them, I have come to agree with the common sentiment hexbear already had that it's probably not worth trying to persuade a small number of steadfast neoliberals among those of us with limited patience, which includes myself. If I'm a wimp and you still want to go buck wild, of course. But the suggestion I got that .ee would probably be a better staging ground is at this point taken to heart. Since we are federated with them, I think the thing to do is make (appropriate, non-hostile) posts in .ee communities where the purpose of the comm adequately fits with topics that it would be useful to discuss. As with my last post, which was misbegotten, it's just a thought I had
There are a bunch of sicko neoliberals and insufferable redditors there, yes, but there are also some normal libs and a few comrades, and it seems like a good way to encourage lemmy generally to re-embrace leftism. I've been using an alt to talk on there and it's honestly not that bad. It's a little bad, but not that bad. I think if we just try to patiently explain ourselves, we have a reasonable chance of reaching people and shifting the general political alignment. Those of us who aren't up to dealing with ghouls (I am frequently included in this group) can just stay at home here and that's just fine. Anyway, just an idea. I would appreciate feedback.
It's a Josei-ish manga in which Kierkegaard has been reincarnated into contemporary Japan and decides to become a musician to communicate his philosophy to people. It features other reincarnations, notably John Locke, who makes my skin crawl because he's of course the father of liberalism, but his role in the story is positive enough. Mostly I just like the portrait of Kierkegaard and the silly references (and the author does include citations!). Also it's just something different from most of what you get, even if Kierkegaard in many ways ends up playing the typical Josei male lead. Also disclaimer: It takes like four chapters before he switches to electric guitars, so it's not really "Unplugged". I think he plays an acoustic guitar publicly only a single time.
idk, I was thinking about this a lot with the Chapo interview and how completely fraudulent the coverage of Israel was. It feels like we shouldn't let liberals get away with this shit by burying it in the past and pretending they always held more "moderate" beliefs. Even I had forgotten about the "putting Jewish babies in ovens" claim and I'm really fucking online about this mythbusting stuff (ask me about any story involving the DPRK). I think it got overshadowed by the "40 beheaded babies," which admittedly there is more memory of because the WH has struggled to get Biden to *stop* lying about it. There are some rare cases of people remembering these hoaxes, probably the best example being "Saddam's human shredder," where there is memory of how there was this hoax that mainstream news pushed and libs completely bought, while the next closest example, WMDs, is something that Democrats kind of just pin on Republicans despite Dems also falling for it/perpetrating fraud for it (just not for quite as long). I've got easily another dozen examples off the top of my head, but you get the idea. It's sort of the cousin of the retroactive invention of reality that we see with cases like MLK, how people pretend northern whites were broadly on his side and ridiculous shit like that, or even that he wasn't still hated by whites throughout the country at the time of his death, and it was the long-term impact of the campaigns lead by himself and others that ultimately forced even most of white culture to acknowledge his side as being that of justice.
So I've been putting off writing this for a long time and it'll probably need to be a series, but I've had a difficult time answering challenges from my friends who assert that China is either a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie or of the Bureaucracy (i.e. state capitalists), and that it's a competing imperialist power along with America (and they also say Russia but I can answer that one being stupid on my own). The problem with China Discourse is that there is a serious paucity of sources dealing with nuanced critiques rather than just "debt trap!" bullshit or whatever, since the objections of liberals and the objections of smarter ultras are very different. At the very least, the sources dealing with this Discourse are less accessible to me. But now I'm extremely bored and also recently saw Comrade [Queermmunist's excellent rebuttal against the claim of China doing imperialism in the DRC](https://hexbear.net/post/1987993?scrollToComments=false), which gave me some hope that Hexbear would be able to answer some of these claims with something at least plausible. The main objects of concern are the for-profit national businesses causing bureacratic class antagonism, foreign policy in the form of UN peacekeeping contributions, and straightforward imperialism at the base of its supply chain, along with miscellany like this: https://newworker.us/international/chinas-stock-market-a-lesson-on-what-socialism-is-not/ I don't know, it's all a mess and putting off ideological work causes problems. If nothing else, let this be a practical lesson to you: >To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. [This is one type of liberalism.](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm) It catches up with you and makes things worse in the end.
And they said we should just accept it on their credibility. I had the occasion to look this up again, so I thought I should post it for more than the shitlib I got it for (so now it's also for the three of you sorting by new at this hour)
I know it's tired to post these but come on, let me have just this one. It's so fucking dumb. https://hexbear.net/comment/3723348
No matter the account, it keeps popping up. It is very annoying because one time it was on autoplay and I had the misfortune of hearing some of it and you won't be surprised to find out that it has very little to do with real politics and more to do with simplistic courtly dramas that liberals love projecting into their enemies. I hate liberals. On top of everything else, they are just so fucking intellectually bankrupt that they don't even conceive of doing actual research before making totalling claims about countries they will never even visit or speak to an (even former) resident of.
lemmy.ml
If you participate, remember to be nice to the people who demonstrate good faith.
Just the worst fucking bullshit. [@UlyssesT@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/UlyssesT) was right about literally everything. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. DA was not at all beyond reproach, but he deserved so much better than this vile bullshit. If he was still alive, he'd be terminally online and mocking Musk on Twitter.
I get that it's a revolt against the daimyo by everyone (within the Ikko-shu sect) from priests to lords to peasants, but what was their professed cause? The easiest one to find information on was the religious leader Rennyo, who seemed to have not actually supported the revolt but merely self-defense by the temples. It looks to me, though I can't tell for certain, like it was driven by yeomen and the like trying to resist consolidation of property into the ha ds of larger landowners. Does anyone happen to have sources for the professed beliefs of the militant Ikki?
It's not "good" and most of the "battles" are lame, but it's funny in most of its faults and occasionally very evocative in a way I can't imagine a modern action movie being. I did laugh out loud at the lengthy worldbuilding exposition getting impatiently interrupted by someone else who wanted to do other worldvuilding exposition. Really 95% of the movie is exposition, and that's because 5% of it is lengthy establishing shots and the like. Normally I hate endless Proper Nouns, but it works here because most of it is casual and, hilariously, a lot of it is mentioned once and never again. That impatient interjection I mentioned name drops the "CHOAM Corporation" I guess that's something in the books because it doesn't seem to be here! It was also a really bad idea to have Marty McFly demonstrate his combat prowess while refracted through a Roblox beta asset. They only use that shit one time later and it's in a very inconsequential way!
Most of us are used to reading histories written by anticommunists and trying to piece together truth from it. Here, I just don't understand, and I don't mean that in a "help! how can I explain this while preserving the axiom that Stalin was a good guy?" way, I mean that I don't understand how it makes sense at all for him to be killed, it seemed to be virtually entirely downside for the Soviets, both from Bukharin historically being a great thinker and from the way that it so damaged the international reputation of the Soviets under Stalin. It's made all the more confusing by the fact that Stalin *did* seem to not be interested in charging him, and then merely exiling him, before ultimately the Soviets seemed quite set on eventually killing him. It just doesn't make sense to me from any interpretation presented, like some vital information is missing.
The specter of see see pee censorship
It's in several spots, people basically saying "I've had a solid time except for all these nasty russian bots that we will soon outnumber!" No way an American disagrees with you, or anyone else of an Approved Nationality! No, it must be a pesky ruskie who managed to reach a computer despite not having any paved roads!
If you go to lemmy.ml it's just a bunch of fucking redditors with their dogshit memes and like three lemme users. It's sad. I strongly encourage users of this site who are so inclined to take a break from infighting to bully neoliberals over there.
It's not even a *bad* game as such, but fuck Nintendo and fuck whoever produced and directed it. It's not just lazy, it literally pushes back games as an art form. Yeah, some parts of it are cool and/or innovative (the dungeons are great), but the main questline overall and especially at the end is pathetic in the way that it leans on set pieces and cinematography as a crutch in a game that is supposedly centered on freedom. Remember like a decade ago when every single fucking game that was "good" was one that just pretended to be a movie that you push buttons to advance, and that produced a swamp of QTE bullshit and games that only exist for the cutscenes? That trend had clearly been receding in recent years even though Last of Us (the main example of that trend) is still quite popular. But Nintendo found just the way to revive it! "Hmm, games that pretend to be kino are old-hat, so what do we do to market to masses that we treat like slack-jawed yokels to impress as many of them as possible? I know! Instead of pretending to be kino, let's pretend to be Infinity War!" It's the same shit! It's just a fucking Marvel formula transplanted to Breath of the Wild's setting, with vapid not-even-scavenger-hunts to watch cutscene after cutscene where cool things happen that are completely disconnected from player input. Everyone knows that the beast ganon fight in BotW was dogshit. You know the dragon fight at the end of TotK? Literally the same thing! You get on a fucking mount and zoom around the big scary monster that doesn't actually do anything, strike the big glowing weak points along its body, and then stab it in the fucking forehead and it's done. But now, because it has some Avengers-ass "Oh, I recognize the thing!" direction with Dragon Zelda suddenly becoming [almost] an actual participant in the plot and Dragon Ganon shooting a billion fireballs that aren't even fucking aimed at you while you fly circles around him, now it's cool? Or because the fucking Force Ghosts pop in and contradict the rules about the dragon transformation being permanent so that Link can get his waifu as a *prize* for fighting the monster, but she has some voice lines so it's egalitarian! And don't get me started on having the bosses come back along with the Sages ("It's just like Infinity War!") to just fucking negate each other offscreen. Absolute horseshit that makes the Divine Beast business at the end of BotW look elegant by comparison. Fuck these fucking hack writers and their pandering bullshit that we will now get a thousand other games imitating. We're just going to get compounding dark ages of writing as paradigm after paradigm is added to make it worse and worse as these shitheads optimize the formula for selling both to credulous 13-year-olds and otaku 35-year-olds. I hate it. 7/10