15679 pts ยท February 1, 2012
"The Harlem Globetrotter Effect" is a good metaphor for what happens to the political spectrum when capital is allowed unlimited influence over a representative government.
yeah the material and historical forces at work here extend well beyond the scope of nationalism and its stereotypes, but the majority of people either don't want to hear this or can't comprehend it. they much prefer the Countryball interpretation of world affairs.
the Otzi i know would have been super chill about it.
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ginge don't fringe
can you imagine if Biden did any of this and instead of single-digit approval ratings and bi-partisan calls for removal the needle just didn't move at all and the media narrative was just "bold President takes strategic action in Hormuz" like that's how you know the ownership class is in on this. the right wing of capital sees the long-predicted end of market capitalism coming in this century and they're turning on the status quo to better position themselves as lords of the new feudalism.
he pocketed the frosting and neither guy realized it, just like with lighters.
Call me Rabbit Fighter
worst two name combos: (i'll start)Markwayne
i cant get enough of this stuff. the nostalgia goes beyond nostalgia -- it's like these are the shades and tones of the home world and we are its lost children
but can he block?
the truth is that outside of a few vestigial backwaters, this current generation of chuds has been trained by a new kind of right-wing messaging that emphasizes the hatred of LIBERALS far more than the traditional race-baiting that their pappies and granpappies were raised on.
>>> is this a pop-culture phenomenon? a holdover from the last time, a century ago, that the masses won anything against their oppressors? maybe in the long slump between then and now the city protest has become idolized and romanticized to the point where now, knowing no more recent alternative, people automatically defer to it. or do people really believe that just showing how angry and numerous we are is effective enough on its own?end.
>> since then the city center, like the medieval castle before it, has become a tourist trap facade, an empty husk of the once-beating heart of worldly power. the factories dont need them anymore. the railyards are closed down. flooding one with picketers and signs does nothing to hurt the powerful or their money anymore. yet this antique form of protest lives on, and very few seem to be aware of its obsoletion. >>>
street protests in urban centers are most effective where capital is most industrial. for centuries the physical nature of industrial capital meant that all its essential components - factories, shipyards, rail depots, etc - had to be concentrated in places that had access to the advanced infrastructure and labor necessary to their functioning: cities. this made it so that shutting down a city meant shutting down its capital, and hitting the powerful in the only way that gets their attention. >>
i can only assume its the 2020s and they got ABEC 100s now
ACAB + ADGTH = All cop dogs are bastards who will go to heaven.
that's so 2008. now it's "this is a natural cycle which has happened several times in Earth's past."
agreed. and there's a materialist correlation there too. it could be that states with overdeveloped oligarchies tend to produce more vacuous and inept leadership whose flaws only become mortal during international crises. the Hapsburg Austrians and the Romanov Russians certainly made a strong case for this in WWI.
i mean, it wasnt too long ago Mao and Chiang Kai Shek and even Trotsky were simultaneously field generals and world leaders, but it was the devolution of societal conditions within their countries from invasion and civil wars which made warlordism politically practical again, not a revival of some ancient honor code. if you want to see heads-of-state on the battlefield again, just wait for the material conditions of society to sufficiently devolve.
to be fair, none of us have ever tried to sculpt an antichrist out of a two-bit sleazeball before. if Biblical God is taking some creative license here it's probably because he has to.
a worldview is like a jigsaw puzzle: one's comprehension of an individual puzzle piece relies far more on an understanding of the pieces around it than it does an understanding of the piece itself.
too many people are trying to understand this dawning epoch of world capitalist reaction through the lens of their 7th grade civics textbooks when what they need are the material dialectics of Marx-Engels and Lenin-Trotsky.
and that limo driver? Barack Obama
#3 yeah, it IS a stupid plot when you have FTL space travel
it seems like the trillion dollar propaganda machine and the government supermajority were doing just fine keeping the president from any and all consequences related to the files. to reduce everything to an Epstein Distraction is to indulge in the delusion that public opinion can still pose a threat to a regime such as this, and that said public opinion was ever bad enough to justify a popular overthrow of the government. as if the people, pitchforks sharpened, were on the verge of mutiny.
the DNC is not the ne'er-do-well collection of bumbling centrists that everybody thinks they are.they are the highly efficient orderlies of a political concentration camp built by billionaires to contain and if necessary euthanize the only ideas and platforms that are dangerous to them.the parasitic process by which this came to be is not new, nor is it exceptional. it happened in textbook accordance with the material dialectics of Marx-Engles.
in the past whenever socialism has got its foot in the door of a capitalist democracy the liberal bourgeois have gone absolutely nuclear against it with propaganda and sabotage. our own neoliberals have more firepower in this regard than any class before them and we should expect them to use it with full force. this means expecting it to work on a sizeable portion of our compatriots. we have to anticipate this to best minimize it, educate the people on the dangers of bourgeois liberalism.
why? he's been an actor. in Hollywood. for most of his life.i know he's sounded like a college acid head in the midst of an Alan Watts phase for the last decade but like, that shit aint enlightenment.
we've got to update it. The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized
"The Harlem Globetrotter Effect" is a good metaphor for what happens to the political spectrum when capital is allowed unlimited influence over a representative government.
yeah the material and historical forces at work here extend well beyond the scope of nationalism and its stereotypes, but the majority of people either don't want to hear this or can't comprehend it. they much prefer the Countryball interpretation of world affairs.
the Otzi i know would have been super chill about it.
username finally relevant
ginge don't fringe
can you imagine if Biden did any of this and instead of single-digit approval ratings and bi-partisan calls for removal the needle just didn't move at all and the media narrative was just "bold President takes strategic action in Hormuz" like that's how you know the ownership class is in on this. the right wing of capital sees the long-predicted end of market capitalism coming in this century and they're turning on the status quo to better position themselves as lords of the new feudalism.
he pocketed the frosting and neither guy realized it, just like with lighters.
Call me Rabbit Fighter
worst two name combos: (i'll start)
Markwayne
i cant get enough of this stuff. the nostalgia goes beyond nostalgia -- it's like these are the shades and tones of the home world and we are its lost children
but can he block?
the truth is that outside of a few vestigial backwaters, this current generation of chuds has been trained by a new kind of right-wing messaging that emphasizes the hatred of LIBERALS far more than the traditional race-baiting that their pappies and granpappies were raised on.
>>> is this a pop-culture phenomenon? a holdover from the last time, a century ago, that the masses won anything against their oppressors? maybe in the long slump between then and now the city protest has become idolized and romanticized to the point where now, knowing no more recent alternative, people automatically defer to it.
or do people really believe that just showing how angry and numerous we are is effective enough on its own?
end.
>> since then the city center, like the medieval castle before it, has become a tourist trap facade, an empty husk of the once-beating heart of worldly power. the factories dont need them anymore. the railyards are closed down. flooding one with picketers and signs does nothing to hurt the powerful or their money anymore. yet this antique form of protest lives on, and very few seem to be aware of its obsoletion. >>>
street protests in urban centers are most effective where capital is most industrial. for centuries the physical nature of industrial capital meant that all its essential components - factories, shipyards, rail depots, etc - had to be concentrated in places that had access to the advanced infrastructure and labor necessary to their functioning: cities. this made it so that shutting down a city meant shutting down its capital, and hitting the powerful in the only way that gets their attention. >>
i can only assume its the 2020s and they got ABEC 100s now
ACAB + ADGTH = All cop dogs are bastards who will go to heaven.
that's so 2008. now it's "this is a natural cycle which has happened several times in Earth's past."
agreed. and there's a materialist correlation there too. it could be that states with overdeveloped oligarchies tend to produce more vacuous and inept leadership whose flaws only become mortal during international crises. the Hapsburg Austrians and the Romanov Russians certainly made a strong case for this in WWI.
i mean, it wasnt too long ago Mao and Chiang Kai Shek and even Trotsky were simultaneously field generals and world leaders, but it was the devolution of societal conditions within their countries from invasion and civil wars which made warlordism politically practical again, not a revival of some ancient honor code. if you want to see heads-of-state on the battlefield again, just wait for the material conditions of society to sufficiently devolve.
to be fair, none of us have ever tried to sculpt an antichrist out of a two-bit sleazeball before. if Biblical God is taking some creative license here it's probably because he has to.
a worldview is like a jigsaw puzzle: one's comprehension of an individual puzzle piece relies far more on an understanding of the pieces around it than it does an understanding of the piece itself.
too many people are trying to understand this dawning epoch of world capitalist reaction through the lens of their 7th grade civics textbooks when what they need are the material dialectics of Marx-Engels and Lenin-Trotsky.
and that limo driver? Barack Obama
#3 yeah, it IS a stupid plot when you have FTL space travel
it seems like the trillion dollar propaganda machine and the government supermajority were doing just fine keeping the president from any and all consequences related to the files.
to reduce everything to an Epstein Distraction is to indulge in the delusion that public opinion can still pose a threat to a regime such as this, and that said public opinion was ever bad enough to justify a popular overthrow of the government. as if the people, pitchforks sharpened, were on the verge of mutiny.
the DNC is not the ne'er-do-well collection of bumbling centrists that everybody thinks they are.
they are the highly efficient orderlies of a political concentration camp built by billionaires to contain and if necessary euthanize the only ideas and platforms that are dangerous to them.
the parasitic process by which this came to be is not new, nor is it exceptional. it happened in textbook accordance with the material dialectics of Marx-Engles.
in the past whenever socialism has got its foot in the door of a capitalist democracy the liberal bourgeois have gone absolutely nuclear against it with propaganda and sabotage. our own neoliberals have more firepower in this regard than any class before them and we should expect them to use it with full force. this means expecting it to work on a sizeable portion of our compatriots. we have to anticipate this to best minimize it, educate the people on the dangers of bourgeois liberalism.
why? he's been an actor. in Hollywood. for most of his life.
i know he's sounded like a college acid head in the midst of an Alan Watts phase for the last decade but like, that shit aint enlightenment.
we've got to update it.
The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized