No.941093[Last 50 Posts]
A thread focused on discussing the parasocial relationships cultivated by the
Almighty Algorithm to generate profit off of our atomization and society's commodification of petty internet drama.
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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
<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=uFbywfzu-jI
<Simulacra and Simulation (1981) by Jean Baudrillard 📖 •
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=DBF3E860993373223D72E98FADF0F2DC📺 •
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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=054E022C8BD24EE2C5595B575BCED7DC📺 •
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://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=5BD20E0E22FC8BC2CB4F8A7760D57027📺 •
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtV0oO8Pmg
>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📖 •
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
<On Neo-Liberalism and Post-Fordism[Work in progress]
>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 (2006) by Adam Curtis
https://youtu.be/thLgkQBFTPw
<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—————————————————–
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 No.1831776
>>1831772what i'm saying is there are no circumstances where /v/ would ever actually mobilize unless it involved blue-haired women cheating on their boyfriends
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>>1831776At least /vg/ has less problems with bigotry although not by much by my experience. 2017 really destroyed 4chan. If only I'd been in the website earlier on before that.
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>>1831776>>1831777i'd say it's less them not being bigoted (Which they certainly are) it's just they don't feel the need to yap on about it so much
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>>1831764>I still call myself a gamer because I heavily identify with the label.While I don't see a real issue with this it seems reductive to think of yourself as such. Maybe because it's such a new label it feels like it was created by marketing.
>Just like there's bookworm or film buff for those hobbies respectively.Sure but we don't really say I'm a Hardcore Bookworm or I'm a Casual Film Buff. How invested people are in a medium comes out if you just ask people about what books or movies they like and why. If a self identified Film Buff says The Shawshank Redemption is the best movie ever made, that tells you something about the meaninglessness of the label.
>>1831765 >Gamers have nothing on pro-wrasslin fans when it comes to shitty behaviorI know nothing about this. What sort of shitty behavior?
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>>1831781>Sure but we don't really say I'm a Hardcore Bookworm or I'm a Casual Film Bufflol i take it you dont use social media
No.1831786
the nonstop obsession with "gamers" is frankly pathetic especially when many of the people doing it also waste a lot of time playing video games themselves (see: hexbear)
No.1831788
>>1831783>>1831781>>1831786Where does Glownonymous come from? Are you all the same person or do you all have the same name?
No.1831791
>>1831788its the tor node dummy
No.1831801
>>1831475I wonder how many of those followers are actual people, as opposed to glowies and people that wish they were glowies.
>>1831479The weirdest thing about gamergate was seeing in real time the kind of trolls that prided themselves on being amoral nihilists who'd post animals getting gored for teh lulz transforming into uptight reactionary moralfags. The end result, which we're still stuck with today, is this walking contradiction that acts like it's emotionally detached and doesn't care about anything constantly making a massive stink about everything.
No.1831810
>>1831781>I know nothing about this. What sort of shitty behavior?Tons:
>fans stalking both male and female wrestlers >fans sending death threats to wrestlers>fans harassing wrestlers out in public when not in a wrestling event >fans impersonating wrestlers online>fans doxing other fans over disagreements>fans that make neckbeards blush over having bad personal hygiene when they attend events>fans that happen to be coomers that make weebs look like monks in comparison >fans pretending to be credible journalists No.1831811
>>1831810At the end of the day any "fandom" will inevitably turn into this. The subject matter is irrelevant.
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>>1831801>I wonder how many of those followers are actual people, as opposed to glowies and people that wish they were glowies.Sadly to many are real. I saw some space defending this other Nazi posting account defending him because he supposedly got banned for being pro-palestinian and it was full of BIPOC people. I think the Nazism is too subtle for some people who don't pay close enough attention, sneaky bastards.
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>>1831143They're donating that money to a Palestinian charity, right?
Right?
No.1831822
>>1831783lol. I hope they are not serious and are saying it tongue in cheek as a joke.
>>1831801>transforming into uptight reactionary moralfagsPUA, manosphere, Andrew Tate guys all did this too. What caused this? Did they all just need to move onto a new grift when their self-help bullshit didn't work?
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>>1831724I've tried playing VNs with machine translation and they're still mediocre, but I guess that counts as "better".
No.1831828
>>1831765>whining about fake fighting is pathetic yet if you happen to piss off some of them off over having a different opinion, they'll find ways to dox you.Man this is way too real. I watched an indian rock music video where they poked fun at pro wrestling for a throwaway line and the comment section have pissed off WWE fans just dropping slurs at them kek
No.1831833
>>1831776Exactly. Gamergate is just gossiping and bitching about relationship dramas except 90% of the participants are gaming nerds and not girls in high school cliques. GG, and the subsequent lolcow/drama culture it spawned is literally a socially acceptable way for men to just gossip and bitch around without sounding like gay guys
No.1831841
>>1831833>socially acceptable way for men to just gossip and bitch around without sounding like gay guysLolwut? All the men around me gossip almost as much as women.
No.1831846
>>1831828>they poked fun at pro wrestling for a throwaway line and the comment section have pissed off WWE fans just dropping slurs at them kekWhen I was in middle and high school, pro-wrestling fans were relentlessly made fun of and seen as poor white trash. They must still get triggered about it.
Maybe that's why they are just as perpetually offended as Gamers who were also made fun of as nerds.
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>>1831846>nerdszero self awareness
No.1831857
>>1831851What am I not aware of? Most people were made fun of in HS but some took the insults seriously and couldn't let go even years later.
No.1831861
>>1831847>am I supposed to feel bad for him?Why would that be your takeaway? The whole "day in the life" format has been a trend for a while and this version is just totally boring and uneventful. Pretty sure he's doing a parody of the trend because nothing interesting happens and he does multiple things comically slowly to look extra boring. If there's some kind of message it's that "middle class" people don't have the crazy luxuries that usually get shown off in these types of videos and that it's unrealistic.
No.1831868
>>1831847do americans actually eat like this daily?
No.1831878
>>1831868Taking the time to blend a smoothie is more than most burgers do tbh.
No.1831894
>>1831847Why don't retail workers get "company picnics" and any "easy going" time off you see from these middle class insurance worker types?
No.1831923
>>1831219I absolutely cannot believe Icke is right on this one.
No.1831947
>>1831894cuz retail workers aren't salary employees with unions to fight for benefits
No.1832027
>>1831847>middle classthere's no such thing
this man is a wage worker and therefore working class
No.1832052
>>1831475>post apocalyptic war lordi would be the first to rape and kill him
No.1832053
>>1831479im sorry for being one of those underage gamergate retards
No.1832084
>>1832053some crimes cannot be forgiven
No.1832141
>>1831847No, you aren't supposed to feel bad.
However I don't think you understand the meta here. I don't know what platform this is on but it feels like an ad to get a girlfriend. It is very unremarkable.
>>1831861this
No.1832197
>>1832027>society doesn't exist NO STOP LOOKING AT THE SUPERSTRUCTURE you'll see me naked ;___;Spoken like a true Marxist-neoliberal
No.1832288
>>1831218have u considered he's playing it up for show bc its a recorded broadcast via the internet?
No.1832426
>>1831218he doesn't really fail to understand the transformation, it's more about her sincerity compared to standard conservative comedy which pretends to joke as a way to communicate conservative messaging and concerns
No.1832434
>>1831218big joel isn't a radlib, come on
No.1832438
>>1832435"no longer the future" in what sense? I agree that EVs cannot be the future if we wish to save ourselves from the worst effects of climate change, not to mention forms of pollution which the third world will almost exclusively suffer because that's where the minerals necessary will be extracted from. for that, personal vehicles must be abolished.
No.1832451
is this meme template the end of the cringe-based dialectic?
>>1832434He is, but he is one of the good ones.
No.1832452
>>1831847Normoids like this should be gunned down just for being so repugnantly fucking dorky and useless
No.1832455
>>1832435Unless it's about public transit, probably.
No.1832495
>>1832458>>1832254This motherfucker is such a substanceless grifter. The only difference between him and Hasan is he is slightly better at masking.
>>1831143Imagine taking these clowns seriously at all.
No.1832496
>>1832495*Haz, not Hasan my bad. Hasan's a dumbass but he's not a bad faith red fascist like these guys.
No.1832521
lol.
>>1830994early 2015. I found the site on accident. wish I hadn't
No.1832533
Unironically I'm starting to think that the power scaling community is much more potent fascist threat
No.1832539
>>1832533what like dbz enjoyers? i'm just not a fan of that kind of storytelling but i'd be down to moralize about them
No.1832542
>>1832533how?
>>1832534people who make "who would win, superman or goku" arguments
No.1832546
>>1832495I think you need to be a special kind of stupid.
Like maybe a disability that leaves you incapable of thinking critically.
No.1832567
>>1832555>divorced TWICEwe found the evolved rightoid specimen
No.1832574
>>1832025the prize for this 1 in 400 trillionth lottery is being a wages lave and then dying, congrats
No.1832581
>>1832542What I'm not a fashoid I just like who would win battles for fun.
No.1832706
>>1832435>>1832438>>1832455US and EU simply can't build the up electric grid and related infrastructure to handle widespread EV use.
According to an IEA report, US needs to double it's grid upgrade spending to 600 billion a year and EU needs to spend 584 Billion until 2030. Obviously not happening.
No.1832711
>muh dictator Xi
Dore is leaning into casual Sinophobia way too much. Kind of strange considering the apparent Schiller links and interview on the Duran.
No.1832719
>>1831219>I pray the rosary, have you tried it before?What. the. shit.>Icke with a correct observationWhat. the. shit.Brand shilling the magic beads in military cosplay is not something I thought I would ever see. Selling out for money doesn't explain it. Need insider accounts from his long time associates.
No.1832758
>>1832752Wrong Order.
Here are the pages on the connection between production of games and imperialism.
No.1832770
>>1832719 samefag
>Selling out for money doesn't explain it.<recent large sponsorship by Hallow, Inc. A Catholic prayer and mediation app.Maybe it does explain it. Reciting the rosary on twitter is still one of the biggest turnabouts I've ever seen. It makes me ask how he could be so desperate for money.
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>>1832763people become drug addicts because they lack impulse control and order in life. they lack these things because of a poor upbringing that taught them emotional dysregulation instead. protestantism is an environment that is comfortable because it assumes that you don't have self-control and are emotionally dysregulated and offers to handle that for you if you follow its rules. it's also frequently one of the factors that causes people to have those bad upbringings in the first place. by encouraging people to become broken in a specific way that they can manage, prots are able to sustain themselves. there's a reason so many of them have their "born again" or "come to jesus" moment later in life: because they were set up to fail outside that social system, to be dysfunctional anywhere else, and after suffering in those conditions for years, they crawl back to the abusive environment - the only place they're adapted to and that encourages and accepts their brokenness.
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>>1832763I dunno specifically but I noticed getting dragged along to born again christian shit, every preacher had to be a reformed sinner. It give you extra cred as a born again preacher.
>I know you're thinking of sinning!<But let me tell you I've sinned way more than you ever could! Coke, Heroin, PCP, Krokodil, I've done all that!That's how it goes.
No.1832833
>>1832829I am a born again christian ama
No.1832836
>>1832833Why? I have relatives I could be wasting my time talking about that stupid shit with.
Well AMA.
I really don't know. How about what I mentioned? You see the reformed sinner shtick one too many times. I swear there is some expression I head about letting the reformed whore lead the choir or something.
No.1832840
>>1832829it's also good for marketing. one guy stopped at my mom's church on a book tour and went on about his drug-dealing past and the gay drug-fueled orgies he used to have and how he's saved now. afterwards he got some of the churchgoers to volunteer to hawk his book to spread the good word
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>>1832840>nd the gay drug-fueled orgies he used to have and how he's saved now. afterwards he got some of the churchgoers to volunteer to hawk his book to spread the good wordlol kek. Yeah in my limited experience I met some seemingly closeted homo preachers.
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>>1832836I don't think the christian faith is inherently contradictory to leftwing beliefs. There is this form of anti capitalist strain of religious theology called liberation theology. To m e, faith and belief always should come before politics, but I believe that many aspects of christianity align with leftwing politics. But either way, god's riches and glory is greater and will outlast any kind of political system and he is the king of all kings. It's short sighted to pidgeonhole christianity as leftwing or rightwing bigoted or not, because in the end to the practitioners of the religion it always comes first before everything else and is fundamental to the way they perceive the world. Either way, no system is perfect as the world is deep in sin due to the original sin, and all political systems from my perspectives are doomed to have failings in some aspects.
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>>1832829There is a lot of cheap grace to go around for everyone. Even degenerate streamers and youtubers would pivot to christianity when they have burnt out.
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>>1832749I hate this fucker so much.
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>>1832900I watched his debate with Agent Kochinski who completely wiped the floor with him. I guess in the end neither of them ended up being great people.
No.1832914
>>1832027>>1832197even marx talked about middle classes and income being a factor in the definition of petit-bourgeois
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>>1832752>pic 2i'm wondering how accurate that $30k iphone x thing is, i looked up that reference and they used napkin math to extrapolate from a study that wasn't explicitly about rate of exploitation, was about the iphone 4, and included a caveat that they didn't have access to accurate numbers themselves. interesting stuff regardless
No.1832919
>>1832752You just realized what a system means and entails?
No.1832933
>>1832874>"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death."Nobody who believes in Jesus is damned for their sin.
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>>1832914Marx meant the bourgeoisie as the class in the middle between the workers (peasants/proles) an the nobility.
No.1832943
I find it funny how often these hitlercore conservative punk rock guys are all on the juice which reduces natural test production and when they get off that shit they might as well be non-binary cuz they ain't producing any more natural test. Yet somehow the reddit atheist is more soy than them?
No.1832959
Is anyone doing media complex analysis like Taibbi from the left? I've been critical of the hypocrisy on Palestine but the reporting on the post truth ant-disinformation complex he's doing is necessary. The left has been subject forever to the actions that he's just now somehow discovered, but it's still great reporting. He exposed the ex wikipedia/new NPR ceo pretty comprehensively in his latest pod.
No.1832965
>>1832959>He exposed the ex wikipedia/new NPR ceo pretty comprehensively in his latest podNot even his story, everyone been talking about thst for as I understand.
What's the deal anyway? The NPR guy said publicly MPR is lobbed up? I thought everyone knew that already? Idk.. I listen to BBC World Service for that fix, not NPR.
No.1832969
>The Safe horny term failed to launch yet again
No.1832978
>>1832969Why would it when there's rampant horny on main.
No.1832980
>>1832965>>1832965>What's the deal anyway?He's exposing the media/tech ties and statements of the new NPR CEO and connecting them to the new anti-disinformation/censorship/AI/post-truth media/tech complex that he's been reporting on for the last few months. I laughed at how he abased himself to Musk too but he's been doing good reporting.
No.1832996
>>1832992>which the users' pet taboo fetishes can be inserted for normalization purposeshang on im now in favor of saying "safe horny"
No.1832997
>>1832996Yeah but most people don't want to normalize and romanticize the stuff they think isn't "safe horny." And some of it's for a good reason.
No.1833006
>>1833005communism is about taking a position in the cultural war of the week, duh
No.1833008
>>1833005Why the fuck are you even linking that shitty blog and giving them views?
No.1833010
>>1831219Christofascism is here and the descent into apocalyptic madness will keep pace with climate chaos and world war. Stay armed, be ready to kill, and keep yourself safe. And grow as much food as you can.
No.1833013
>>1832980Fucking Taibbi never misses a chance to denigrate le authoritarian USSR, it's his default boomer bogeyman. He still exposes the CFR, Atlantic council, WEF, Signal App, Truman NatSec project, State Dept Foreign Affairs Policy Board, World Bank, HSBC and Wikipedia connections of the new NPR CEO really well. I see it as the first step to bring glowpedia management and sourcing methods to a trad media outlet like NPR.
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>>1833010Damn, man. What exactly do you think made him start on the rosary so suddenly?
No.1833028
>>1831218Thats because the hippie vs straightlace dichotomy died off in the 1980s.
But Trump really rolled in the generational cavalry.
Actually intergenerational and intercultural cavalry.
>>1833015The right is weird. They praise Israel but then they complain about Jews ruining nations.
>>1833010>>1831219Protestantism.
Its the godfather of modern eugenics.
It spawned white supremacy in form of Ulster Plantation, North American colonisimg, etc.
Its not Christianity in a sense of a spiritual creed. Its a politcal theology.
No.1833103
>>1832919No, you just don't tend to apply not just a Marxist analysis, but a concrete one exposing the world, on a hobby or entertainment you like, without getting a bit defensive or dismissal, I had to stop myself and try engage with the work, which revealed to me the truths of the entertainment of gaming and its industry.
No.1833114
Something I've found amusing and more common is rightoids being utterly terrified of finding women online attractive these days just incase they turn out to be trans. Like despite their wojak edits depicting trans women as being balding and bearded with lipstick, whenever there's an obviously attractive woman online with perhaps unconventional interests, they immediately have to presume they're trans and insist on referring to them as he/him and highlight any physical features they find to be questionably feminine.
The day there are trans women who want to larp as tradwives, it's literally over for them. They'll be absolutely terrified of admitting they find any woman attractive if they can't immediately see their vagina and a birth certificate confirming gender from birth.
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>>1833114fear of catching the gay
No.1833138
>>1832914>middle classesnote the plural
>petit-bourgeoisthis isn't what people mean by "the middle class", which is just better-off wage workers. "middle class" a Weberian concept. with Marx someone can have low income, far lower than the average prole, and have little to no capital but still be petty bourgeois
the only real question is if the self-employed are petty bourgeois or not. this doesn't apply to the guy in the vid
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>>1833121Naturally with their understanding of sexuality being "monkey see, monkey do", but it's funny that their insistence that no trans woman "passes" gets undermined by their open paranoia when they see an attractive woman that isn't either doing porn and therefore showing what they've got or hasn't got an extensive posting history that proves they're conservative.
No.1833181
>>1832772Take your meds Puritan
No.1833188
>>183272353 out of the thousands of named people in the Bible are confirmed real? This obviously proves that Jesus is the one and only God that exists in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: the Father who begets, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds. Obviously.
>>1832770>how he could be so desperate for money.Youtube cut off his add revenue and he's facing legal trouble.
No.1833194
>>1832723Most people in religious roles and legends are either real or based on a collection of real people. It's the powers ascribed to them that are suspect. For example, i believe that the Prophet Elijah was based on a real person. I did not believe he raise a widow's dead son
No.1833196
>>1833194Same with the Prophet of Islam, Jesus Christ, Buddha, etc. These people historically exist, and they almost definitely did not do all the crazy shit ascribed to them by their followers like cracking the moon, cursing a tree to death or converting a serial killer on the spot
No.1833211
>>1833194>>1833196>>1829879The "Prophet Own"
<From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. “Get out of here, baldy!” they said. “Get out of here, baldy!” He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.2 Kings 2:23-24, NIV
No.1833221
>>1833138Material conditions only *condition* what is possible, in that they provide the stock of which the future is made; they do not fully determine it. We can do with it whatever it is our materially-based minds will let us come up with.
Nothing prevents the neo-Weberian notion of social regimentation from existing as a cultural game that is not tightly bound to one's economic position, but is nonetheless necessary for systemic reproduction, e.g. false consciousness of competition and other Smithian mythology makes the bourgeois order seem just and natural.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1890/letters/90_09_21b.htm>>1833196Political power reduces to the capacity to protect one's lies from questioning. Accordingly, heroic myths devote a lot of effort to making their heroes seem not merely to conquer, but to transcend humanity and nature.
No.1833237
>>1833221>Nothing prevents the neo-Weberian notion of social regimentation from existing as a cultural game that is not tightly bound to one's economic position, but is nonetheless necessary for systemic reproduction, e.g. false consciousness of competition and other Smithian mythology makes the bourgeois order seem just and natural.I don't disagree with this. indeed we should expect higher-wage earners to be less sympathetic to socialism/communism since they have a rather good lot in life in the present system. that doesn't make them a different class though. a more proper term is strata
No.1833254
>>1833181? Puritans are how you get drug addicts. They deliberately don't teach you important coping and self-control skills, which causes people to seek out things like drugs and to go into self-destructive sprials using them.
No.1833308
>>1832969Trying to flex with how deranged your sexual fantasies are is so funny.
No.1833310
>>1833308tbh calling it "safe" implies they think you should be flirting with jail or something
No.1833337
>>1833254You lot always spiral in to compete afactual and usually non-material understanding as soon as addiction is brought up.
Deeply embarrassing
No.1833360
>>1833337>non-materialWhat exactly is your "materialist" explanation of addiction?
No.1833370
>>1833360Any conditioning the bourgeoisie don't like
No.1833400
>>1833396Logical outcome: kys
No.1833405
>>1833400Every day I understand more and more why China decided to be a hardass about social media and screen use. Information doesn't want to be free, it wants to gaslight you
No.1833423
>>1833396>>1833354Schizophrenia has been utterly hijacked by right-wing meme psychosis. Thankfully it is starting to resist some of it's power but there are still more right schizos than left ones.
No.1833453
The reason why I keep bringing up the schizoforce is because it is the opposite of autism. There is no such thing as someone who can combine the two forces, and if they did they would have more power than a Kwisatz Haderach. Which is what Terry Davis might've been able to achieve. Most Schizphrenics have below 100 autism score however and are easily fooled. Autists however are damn near impervious to propaganda because psyops have not been able to mindfuck them yet. The two combined? An unstoppable force of memes.
No.1833459
>>1833453Sounds like this is a job for me, actually
No.1833519
>>1833423Being a schizoposter in general is bullshit. It just throws shit at the wall until the whole place stinks.
No.1833544
Im a diagnosed schizo, i had a psychotic break down around 2017 and ended up in the psych ward twice. being a schizo wasnt fun or exciting, it was scary, madness is the scariest thing on the planet. now i have to visit a psych once a month, its annoying. to tell you the truth i think the psychosis was transient and a one time thing, buy you try explaining how you arent crazy to people and they just ignore you.
By the way the best left wing schizo was phillip k dick, he hated facism and created the theory of the black iron prison
>After his revelation, or theophany, Horselover Fat/Philip K. Dick comes to the realization that the reality we live in is false, and that we live in something called the Black Iron Prison. According to Dick, the Prison is a system of social control that obscures the true nature of reality
No.1833575
>>1833544Dick wrote about his addiction to Amphetamines and psychosis better than anyone else has attempted this subject IMHO.
No.1833579
>>1833544What do you think instigated your one-time psychosis?
No.1833580
>>1833354Bernie is a zionist cuck so I really don't care whether he gets smeared or not.
No.1833601
>>1833579i was very deeply into the occult and kept seeing patterns that involved the sun and the moon, its a long story that involves the devil, david bowie dying, gang stalkers, astral sex with zeus, and general parnoia
The rusted chains of prison moons
Are shattered by the sun
I walk a road horizons change
The tournament's begun
The purple piper plays his tune
The choir softly sing
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
For the court of the crimson king
No.1833616
>>1833601Just to make sure you're not someone I know, did you also get obsessed with Nixon and GHWB?
No.1833635
>>1833616no, my psychosis mostly revolved around spiritual things like the devil, greek gods, angels called the watchers. At one point i tried mediating in a closet in order to acheive theosis
No.1833646
>>1833626Sorry, libshit. I don't care about your favourite child killer politician
No.1833647
>>1833544one of my high school friends developed schizophrenia right after high school and it was really sad (and freaky) witnessing the early stages. he was at the point where i think he knew what we was saying was insane so he'd talk in broken sentences with wide eyes being as vague as possible about gangstalkers out to get him (maybe he was scared they were listening in? idk). a year later he was on social media writing in all caps about CIA fighter jets chasing him and begging kim jong il to shoot them down, eventually he got medicated tho
No.1833718
>>1833103>Marxist analysis<filled with moralist garbageYou're saying every industry involves exploitation (in concrete terms) like it should be a surprise to anyone.
No.1833752
>>1832969That term was coined by some Australian
gamergate furry that goes by marche.
No.1833781
Some academics wrote a paper about tankies. Except not anyone here, because it's about tankies on Reddit. You don't post on Reddit, do you?
>Tankies prioritize discussions of state-level political events over social issues … This is further supported by their lower RTPRs for social issues, e.g., police, climate change, healthcare, housing, gun control, unions, and taxes compared to other far-left communities … The results of our analysis reveal that the most popular named entities mentioned by tankies are related to China, the United States, the USSR, Russia, Ukraine, and Nazis. Additionally, we find that tankies mention China at a higher rate and Stalin nearly twice as often as Lenin, compared to other far-left communities. Our findings demonstrate that the preference for China and Stalinism is a defining characteristic of tankies. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that Ukraine is among the most popular named entities of the tankies community, and not among the most popular of the other communities. This suggests that the topic of Russia-Ukraine relations is more relevant or important to tankies, or that this community’s members engage in more discussion on this topic than those of other far-left communities.[…]
>For the IDENTITY_ATTACK model, the most frequently mentioned named entities are typically religious or ethnic groups. Tankies appear to primarily target Muslims and Jews, with 41.80% and 34.03% of the posts mentioning these groups having high IDENTITY_ATTACK scores; the highest proportion of high IDENTITY_ATTACK scores for Muslims and Jews of any far-left community we analyze. Furthermore, we observe that tankies attack the identities of Asians, Arabs, Hindus, Mexicans, Africans, and Whites in more than 20% posts mentioning these identities […] Our analysis shows that tankies have the highest proportion of high scores for IDENTITY_ATTACK and THREAT among far-left communities, and they have the second highest proportion of high scores for TOXICITY, SEVERE_TOXICITY, PROFANITY, and INSULT, behind r/alltheleft.[…]
>In this paper, we presented a data-driven analysis of the left-wing extremist community known as “tankies.” Although they have existed since the 1950s, when they supported hardline Soviet actions, more recently, tankies’ ideology has shifted to support so called “actually existing socialist countries,” including China, Russia, and North Korea. To better understand tankies, we collected over 1.3M posts from 53K authors across six subreddits. Among other things, we find that tankies are a clearly defined community positioned at the periphery of the larger far-left on Reddit. We also find that tankies show significant differences with respect to what and who they talk about. For example, tankies have consistent vocabulary misalignments and are more toxic than other far-left groups. Unlike other left-wing communities, tankies also talk much more about state-level political events as opposed to social issues. We further find that tankies responded to a deplatforming event by migrating a decentralized platform, resulting in a net increase in toxicity within the communityhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06981 No.1833946
>>1833453>Autists however are damn near impervious to propagandaTotal Meme. Part of the condition is that they will focus on small details but ignore the larger picture so they just don't get what the "propaganda" is trying to do.
Also, if you ever listen to an autistic talk about some hobby you know about, you'll quickly notice they'll swallow random marketing crap as Absolute Truth. Good luck trying to convince them otherwise.
No.1833998
>>1833806Stalinists in the 1930s would disagree with you, rofl.
No.1834000
>>1833453>>1833946Yep it's a retarded 4chan thing where they first self-diagnose with autism and then believe this gives them superpowers. Fully unironic autism mom behavior but with themselves.
I don't think anyone parroting this has ever talked to autists in a STEM career, for example.
No.1834004
>>1833781>Furthermore, we observe that tankies attack the identities of Asians, Arabs, Hindus, Mexicans, Africans, and Whites in more than 20% posts mentioning these identities muh sacred identities
>TOXICITY, SEVERE_TOXICITYSkimmed through the paper but didn't see how they defined these terms.
No.1834059
>>1833779decided to look up how gazi kodzo's doing and one article mentions them being trans now
>“Defendant self-reported being proscribed (sic) psychotropic medication for a mental health condition,” Flynn wrote in an order filed earlier this month in the Middle District of Florida. “In addition, Defendant self-reported to being in the process of transitioning genders.”https://archive.ph/coJSWdon't eat the prison food /isg/
No.1834097
>>1834059I mean Gazi has always been a bit fruity tbh, all theatre kids are
No.1834134
>>1833781Did you write this you fascist freak lol
No.1834166
Do you think Charlie/MoistCritikal is a pedophile?
No.1834170
>>1834166other than the high baseline probability due to being a youtuber, no not really
No.1834177
>>1834131What's wrong with the death penalty?
No.1834209
>>1834177doesnt make sense from either a liberal or marxist pov
No.1834210
>>1834209I disagree on the second although agree with the first.
The first goes without saying.
Elaborate on the second plox?
No.1834215
>>1834170What about Markiplier
No.1834218
>>1834177>>1834210No means can be excluded a priori - they have to be evaluated in terms of their usefulness for achieving the desired end. You admit this when you rule out forced labour etc. on grounds of utility rather than principle.
Communists don’t rule out genocide because of moral considerations, we rule it out because communism is a working class movement and wiping out an entire ethnicity - encompassing workers as well as capitalists - is completely inimical to the success of that movement. The same can’t be said of forced labour and mass killings, because means of compulsion such as these will be required to defeat the bourgeoisie - which is sure to violently resist any revolution - and end capitalist relations.
For example, in 1935 a law was ratified that allowed the death penalty to be applied for children as young as 12 years for stealing. This reflects the bourgeois nature of Soviet law. :)
No.1834221
>>1834210>Punishment in general has been defended as a means either of ameliorating or of intimidating. Now what right have you to punish me for the amelioration or intimidation of others? And besides there is history — there is such a thing as statistics - which prove with the most complete evidence that since Cain the world has been neither intimidated nor ameliorated by punishment. Quite the contrary. From the point of view of abstract right, there is only one theory of punishment which recognizes human dignity in the abstract, and that is the theory of Kant, especially in the more rigid formula given to it by Hegel. Hegel says: “Punishment is the right of the criminal. It is an act of his own will. The violation of right has been proclaimed by the criminal as his own right. His crime is the negation of right. Punishment is the negation of this negation, and consequently an affirmation of right, solicited and forced upon the criminal by himself.”>There is no doubt something specious in this formula, inasmuch as Hegel, instead of looking upon the criminal as the mere object, the slave of justice, elevates him to the position of a free and self-determined being. Looking, however, more closely into the matter, we discover that German idealism here, as in most other instances, has but given a transcendental sanction to the rules of existing society. Is it not a delusion to substitute for the individual with his real motives, with multifarious social circumstances pressing upon him, the abstraction of “free will” — one among the many qualities of man for man himself? … Is there not a necessity for deeply reflecting upon an alteration of the system that breeds these crimes, instead of glorifying the hangman who executes a lot of criminals to make room only for the supply of new ones?ill let you guess who wrote this
No.1834223
>>1834215no but like every other youtuber it wouldn't surprise me, they all have easy access to young devoted fans
No.1834224
>>1834218I'd like to return to the substance of your argument later, but to begin with I fail to see how your argument makes the death penalty for the bourgeoisie etc illicit.
No.1834231
>>1834224Death penalty implies the national bourgeois keep existing under your DotP which would make it not a DotP in the first place. Killing the bourgeois during a revolution, or killing foreign bourgeois in retaliation as your DotP works with other DotPs to expand the movement and achieve communism, has nothing to do with death penalty at all. It only makes sense strictly under non-socialism.
No.1834247
>>1834223My favorite thing is when people get surprised that a youtubers a creep as if its not even more surprising when it turns out one isn't.
No.1834271
>>1834262People watching vids about media instead of watching/playing it, is a really sad phenomenon.
No.1834283
New X meme supports Pedophilia and fantasizes about "Child Girlfriends"
https://twitter.com/WholesomeOrenji/status/1781325410506277084The new X meme has multiple variations, users created multiple versions and spread them fantasizing about dating a very young girl what do you think leftypol?
No.1834285
>>1833354the way that cunts can watch a lie be formed in real time and still believe it through it's sheer utility is the axis on which the based cringe dialectic turns.
No.1834299
>>1834271Instead of buying a game for $70 playing 20hrs and not caring for it, you could have watched a 20min review and saved yourself the trouble.
Some vids also go into the story behind the media and it's creation and that can be interesting in itself.
No.1834306
>>1834299>you need to pay for games to play themAAAAAAAHAHAHA
No.1834335
>>1834303>>1834306Pirating, renting or buying you still need to invest time to play. Reviews give you a birds eye view of game letting you get a better idea if it meets your interests.
Game reviewers are guinea pigs. They have to play through shitty games and you just play what you want. If you play randomly you are the guinea pig. There are at least 93,880 video games on traditional platforms, not including Steam, that's at least 26,000.
https://webtribunal.net/blog/how-many-video-games-are-thereSo you need some way to cut through all that to find what you want without playing all of them or picking randomly. Even using genre categorization it still a massive amount of time investment because of shear amount out there.
The above applies to movies, tv, and books. More exists than you could consume in your entire life even if you did nothing else.
No.1834342
>>1834335Sorry but the game industry is utterly destroyed these days and yet reviewers still manage to rate games positively, so either the bar is so low these days that reviews are irrelevant or they're accepting payola from publishers or they know positive reviews get clicks and likes while criticisms get their staff threatened.
While reading a review is short, I'd still consider that time more wasted than playing a couple of hours of an indie game that looked cool even if I eventually come to the conclusion it wasn't gonna be a favourite.
No.1834343
>>1834299I obviously wasn't talking about reviews retard.
No.1834377
>>1834342I agree. The larger review system is deeply compromised by the industry especially large publications that rely on the industry giving them advertisements. But there are many hobbyists out there who are not part of some big publication and Big studios wouldn't bother bribing. You can find reviewers who explain their rational for liking or disliking a game and get a sense of their critique and go from there.
>I'd still consider that time more wasted than playing a couple of hours of an indie game that looked cool.If something captures my attention like that then I do the same. But Opportunity Cost applies to everything you do, not just economic decisions. The time you spend playing a OK game is time you could have played an amazing game.
Listening to reviewers in the background I've found games and movies that I might like and never knew about otherwise.
>>1834343The guy you responded to mentioned video essays and you talked about vids about media. I was talking about video's reviewing and critiquing a piece of media.
No.1834381
>>1834271this is how I felt when people watched the queen we will rock you dvd instead of listening to the song we will rock you by queen on repeat for 90 minutes.
No.1834384
>>1833781I hope they got all my posts telling libs it was good their grandfather got gulag'd and their grandmas pony got taken away by the state.
No.1834487
>>1834442The bourgeoisie were eliminated, but the society was "still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerged" and the fact it was surrounded by capitalist markets, restoration was made possible.
No.1834557
>>1834553What's the chess piece icon?
No.1834561
>>1834553I'm almost positive that the phenomenon of right-wing influencers becoming lolcows is just a calculated publicity stunt.
Tate and Peterson and Shapiro are basically baiting libs into yelling at them, which they can use to fuel their brand as a big-dick right-wing martyr
No.1834562
>>1834484reddit is like 50% bots and 50% trolls
No.1834564
>>1834484>"traditional"<is into cuckoldryI guess the tradition means back to pre-historic times
No.1834567
>>1834561Yeah that's everyone on twitter now. It's the attention economy, the more retarded shit you can come up with the more popular, good help us all
No.1834570
>>1834553He's in the closet. Barely.
No.1834572
>>1834561>becomingthey already are
No.1834576
>>1834561It's not about baiting libs into reacting to them, it's about one-upping one another. I imagine there is just so many 12-24 year old mens out there to impress after all.
No.1834578
>>1834576most political theater is mainly boomers.
No.1834580
>>1834578explain /v/ then
No.1834585
>>1834553I wish I was as shameless as reactionaries. Might have gotten rich from it.
No.1834587
>>1834553there's nothing more gay than a man having sex with a woman
No.1834590
>>1834557His father played chess and he wants to seem like an intellectual because his father played chess with him.
No.1834596
>>1829061women get away with discrimination with their looks and assumed docility.
But it only works when theyre young and/or beautiful.
If theyre old, grey, butch, cynical, then its over.
No.1834642
>>1834632wasn't this about female custodes rather than fsm?
the argument against fsm from gw's side is also silly. rather than just explaining that the imperium is sexist, they instead came up with some biological reason against it, as if Mars couldn't figure something out
No.1834644
Two political positions I will declare in any (semi-)public context: Bi/Pan supremacy and Switch Supremacy.
No.1834647
Also Mammal Supremacy. Fuck chickens especially. And fish.
No.1834649
>>1834590but how did he get it after his checkmark?
No.1834658
>>1834580/V/ is just extreme contrarianism taken to its end point, god could come down from heaven, create a game that makes you cry tears of joy and pleasure you sexually and people will still find reasons to hate it
No.1834662
>>1834642>as if Mars couldn't figure something outYou putting too much faith into people who'd lit candles to make a toaster work.
No.1834674
>>1834658>It's rumoured that one of the game devs was birthed by a woman<Reeeeee fucking wokism gamer girls gays trying to ruin gaming for gamers we live in a FUCKING society!Something like that?
No.1834705
>>1834662considering how Ork tech works, I wouldn't be surprised if lighting incense and applying the sacred lubricating oils
does make things work
No.1834725
>>1834649He had to send moaning cumshot vids to Elon
No.1834742
>>1834658Someone posted a screenshot from there that was like 'just because it's a good game doesn't make it good okay!!' and that basically sums it up
No.1834755
>>1834553Sounds like lyrics to a bad rap song
No.1834793
>>1834705>rather than just explaining that the imperium is sexist,But then they'd have to asspull other dumb shit about why the Sisters of Battle aren't the Sisters of breeding.
No.1834804
>>1834799What in the fuck is this shit?
No.1834810
>>1834804An example of a british conservative mainstream/digital media figure uplifting a fringe postmodern tiktok performance artist to knock them down a la the SJW cringe methodology utilized by late 2010s alt-right digital media campaigns.
I had to share this because I was a little bit baffled as I hadn't comprehended the degree to which this sort of alt-right digital media has become "mainstream" (I would consider Piers Morgan a mainstream media figure).
No.1834811
>>1834799I skipped the first part of this and was largely in dismay that this is what you do during ongoing genocide to these freaks but Hasan at least put the IDF propagandist in her place and even tried to normalised the Hamas is the Lesser Evil point and the IDF is killing the hostages point.
Embarrassing display. Begrudging respect to the turk though.
No.1834817
>>1834810Its purpose may be connected to the need for the ideological state apparatus of the western bourgeoisie, the mainstream media (MSM) to distract specifically the younger generations (below the age of 34) from their engaged participation in the anti-colonialist Palestine liberation protests by precisely engaging 1. the "campus" milieu 2. the deepfried sensory overload "cringe #FAIL #DEMOLISHED #REK'D" content that recently proved moderately to strongly successful in brainwashing a lot of western youth.
No.1834823
>>1834792It's when Columbus discovered the Americas, in the US and other countries there's a holiday commemorating it but some states have dropped it (like California in 2009) because they Went Woke
No.1834840
>>1834822that line makes me imagine him cumming
No.1834845
I genuinely wonder how the FUCK did Markiplier survive the soyjak depiction?
No.1834899
>>1834822Why does he have no one around him to say; just retire now, you can stop embarrassing yourself and do something… quieter. Less pronounced.
???
No.1834905
>>1834845hes good looking, soyjaks are not
No.1834931
>>1834285Hello, haee you heard my theory of pathological reactionarism in the past 5 minutes? Because the capacity to believe in whatever one wants to believe is its crux.
No.1834937
>>1834484kekked, but probably troll
>>1834658>/V/ No.1834988
>>1834979burger jews are pretty much all zionists. Jewish anti-zionist exist (Fink) but are an unfortunately tiny minority.
No.1834989
>>1834988That's not really true. About US Jews being all Zionists.
No.1835035
>>1834803I watched all of this for some godforsaken reason. He isn't exactly wrong in the first 5 minutes of the video describing liberals like these, but then it's "wokeism", "I KNOW WHAT COMMUNISM IS!" (you've forgotten for a while) and he talks like a typical rightoid in marxist paint, it's quite amusing for him to say it's one of the greatest threats to humanity or whatever and how he assumes that the "anti-woke" people are apparently any better, even though they're quite similar in terms of obnoxious behavior and degeneracy as the "woke" ones, whenever a cancellation thread pop ups on xitter (and other sites) or someone gets attacked for no good reason, they both sing the song of witch hunting and culture wars. In the normal world we call them liberals and fascists, and they're ready to unite if communists become more prominent.
I don't know what type of analysis I really expected from a laughing stock greater than the likes of Haz..
No.1835046
>>1834948Is it reasonable to assume 50% of posts on at least pol and v and tv are from bots? It's nice to have a concrete number on this and I NEVER seen any popular movement involving any of these boards and yet they dictate so much of internet culture.
No.1835078
>>1834799>Crackhead Barney UNLEASHES On Piers Morgan!I hate to say it, but I've got to give props to Piers Morgan for reinventing 90s trash T.V.
>>1834979>These protesting kids are pretty much Trump voters so fuck emThis dude is on the same side as pretty much all Republicans including the governor of Texas. It's like an insanely weird identification with the Democratic Party such that they have replaced "I disagree with this person" with "this person is a Republican," even if the Republicans agree with the lib and the Democrats on crushing the protesters. This moron has made it 100% about parties even though he agrees with the Republican Party.
No.1835213
>>1834988Most jews in the US hate Israel. But all the rich ones are Zionists.
No.1835225
>>1835224>>1835213For real why even bother gaslighting like this when I can find the truth in 2 seconds of googling?
No.1835332
>>1835164>CHRISTIAN ANTI-ZIONISTS DEBUNKEDChristian Zionism is a meme spread by Pentecostals who can't read.
Jesus being the Messiah means the old convent between God and the Jews was dissolved and Christian are now God's chosen people. The New Testament says this explicitly in The Book of Hebrews.
Modern people pretending to be "Jews" are just larping and they have no legitimate claim to Canaan.
No.1835334
>>1834799lmfao April 25 and Hasan is asked to condemn October 7 fifty times in a conversation ostensibly about the campus protests. What a joke.
And I greatly enjoyed Hasan getting angry at that retard Zionist and ripping up her fascistic propaganda after Piers did everything possible to let her interrupt and yap as much as possible before preventing any response.
No.1835337
>>1834822ofc this retard things MTG will become a commie despite literally being a petit bourgeois opportunist piece of shit
No.1835344
>>1834810>>1834817why doesn't the left just say "No U" to them. Like we have a whole bunch of weak fat rightiods to mock after all.
No.1835345
>>1834824i binged this show when i was depressed and it made me even more depressed
it's just a bunch of italian american guys hanging around talking in a funny accent about nothing in particular, and occassionally one of them commits an act of sheer violence
very bleak neoliberal end-of-history type narrative
No.1835347
>>1834799my sense is humor is so broken cuz i choked on my laughter from the chaos in the beginning
No.1835362
>>1835344The left has an intrinsically different role in our current society, to educate. Rightoids can supposedly meme and destroy arguments by just misrepresenting the shit out of all dissenting ideas because their only purpose is to support the current thing by handwaving away any analysis or movements that don't support the current thing. So the right can get away with NO U but the left can't.
No.1835370
>>1835345>hanging around talking in a funny accent about nothing in particular, and occassionally one of them commits an act of sheer violenceWhile there's a critique of the mafia when they are always talking about loyalty and family but constantly betraying and killing each other, it's main focus is being a drama dark comedy.
Chris's intervention scene is one of the funniest things I've seen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40HPFGvZ4roBut on the whole Goodfellas and Casino are better Americana as it gets across the same points in shorter time.
No.1835372
>>1835345>>1835370The show is so subtle at owning rightoids they don't even realize it.
No.1835374
>>1835370>>1835345I always took it as a depiction of the mob in it's twilight years, they're always making references to successful mafiosos of the 20th century while moving into the 21st the police are getting too good at catching people and making them flip, drugs are the most prominent criminal enterprise which causes schisms in families over it's sale and use, the cultural zeitgeist doesn't uphold the strong and silent type as the ideal anymore so everyone is in therapy and overall it all adds up to less pride in that thing of theirs because none of them what their kids getting involved.
No.1835384
>>1834271>People watching vids about media instead of watching/playing it, is a really sad phenomenon.Social media makes being a "poseur" socially rewarding ?
No.1835460
>>1834644Power bottoming is therapeutic, actually
>>1835362>The left has an intrinsically different role in our current society, to educate.If you find yourself thinking or acting like a Christian, stop immediately and check your revolutionary theory for Protestant infections.
>>1835384Notice that the pseud does little more than dispense judgment; details, mechanism, or theory are glaringly absent. According to Bourdieu, it's about establishing their status as a legitimate judge of taste, one whose opinions are important.
No.1835511
>>1835344Because the left swallowed the "Nicepill"/positivity/"be kind"/wholesomist psyop of the 2010s so now everytime we points out our ennemies are freaks we get a horde of our fellow leftists countersignaling our asses and making the defaming falls flat.
I'm serious outside of this place if i start calling an obviously RW homo an AIDS riddent faggot to discredit him, calls a brown whitenat a racial slur, or if i point out the dysgenic features of a reactionnary i get a bunch of leftist-to-lib hurling at me that i'm doing an ableism or a homophobia.
And don't believe such a leftist cultural problem will be solved by "based antiwoke leftists" because they have the same neuroses and always play for the right anyway since they only really care about being conservative. I remember when i called out a reactionnary infracel for being a year ago and they all went down on me.
The problem is of course Christianity.
No.1835524
>>1835046a lot of 4chan feels like /b/ as it was around 2017, mostly bots. It feels like for every one real post, there are two bot posts following it afterwards. I do know that site has been heavily monitored and there were even manuals for agencies and private companies on how to post on 4chan around 2017 or so
No.1835528
>>1835482>FundingBy whom? Rich corporations?
No.1835551
>>1835545Yes bro. The quiet is so amazing that they decided to talk thru it.
I don't even understand the point or the premise but this is illogical, just shut the fuck up for once and listen to the birds instead of driving your car to loud and slurping your sugar up a straw in to your fat fucking face you freak cartoon burger!
No.1835591
>>1835551>I don't even understand the point or the premiseTake a walk through a hood park on a nice day, and you'll get it.
No.1835642
>>1835545>>1835591People still carry boomboxes around in parks? Boomboxes still exist?
No.1835659
>>1835591>Take a walk through a hood park>hood parkwew who would have thought you'd find black people in a place where black people are
No.1835668
>>1835591it's fucking normal to play music in a public space when you're socializing with your friends. how the fuck did burgers manage to make that shit racist
No.1835679
>>1835668black peple do thing?
RACIST
No.1835734
>>1835732how much of the US budget does he think 'africa' is using exactly?
also, what vetting, he agrees 100% with this meme, he's a retarded reactionary
No.1835736
>>1835732hinkle is an opportunistic grifter, and there's nothing about this meme that contradicts being a rightoid at all. burger fascists are le heckin smol bean business fetishists, which is why they hate billionaires and wall street and africa, because they think production should be done domestically in plants that employ 20 people.
No.1835737
>>1835668Generation ayyy is way too tolerant of noise
No.1835742
>>1835732>Illegals put in thereMaybe they wouldn't have so many if they didn't fuck over the countries the "illegals" are trying to escape from. I fucking hate Burgers and their victim complex so much.
No.1835753
>>1835737>kids these days are Xonce again typical lack of self awareness
No.1835758
>>1835738The comment lol. Liberal democracies are amazingly good at doing horrific shit and hiding it. Socialist countries can't get away with fucking anything.
No.1835760
>>1835642Ive seen a few boomboxes but usually its those shitty bluetooth speakers
No.1835769
>>1835753I'll concede that it is less of an a priori cohort issue than a consequence of the decline in living standards. The material condition of having lack of access to boredom and quiet makes one unable to reflect upon and integrate one's experiences into one's comportment and organize them into coherent threads. One is reduced to pattern matching and rendered unable to compose their own narratives of the world around them based on their own perceptions.
No.1835774
>>1835732africa, known for bullying the united states
No.1835804
>>1835738this happens but I believe all stories on reddit are bullshit
No.1835814
>>1835738>the comment>we need prosecutors [who admittedly put 85-95% innocents in prison] to have a functional societyremember this sentiment every time you interact with boomers. if you don't have enough personal experience with them to understand that this is exactly how all of them feel all the time at the very foundation of their soul, try to internalize it from this comment. it's not just the maga ones either, the democrats are just as bad with it, but they will pretend to be tolerant.
No.1835829
Marx
No.1835848
>>1835844>something is offwe could say that about Caleb maypin
No.1835851
>>1835738why do these magapeople have such a weird special snowflake complex?
No.1835872
Hasanabi is streaming from a college campus Idk which one I'm not american lmao
No.1835887
>>1835844Amazing. Astounding even. Becoming a Zionist to own the blue haired liberals
No.1835913
lel even a fucking bar of soap in jumping on this bandwagon
>>1835732>AfricaReminder that all the foreign aid done by the US government is not only aid, it's straight-up neocolonialism. Cue Michael Hudson:
>A few years ago I sought to update my calculations on the impact of U.S. military spending and foreign aid on the balance of payments. But the Commerce Department had changed Table 5 of its balance-of-payments report, dealing with foreign aid and other government programs, in a way that no longer reveals the extent to which foreign aid programs generate a transfer of dollars from foreign countries to the United States. I phoned the statistical division responsible for collecting these statistics, and in due course reached the technician responsible for the numbers. “We used to publish that data,” he explained, “but some joker published a report showing that the United States actually made money off the countries we were aiding. It caused such a stir that we changed the accounting format so that nobody can embarrass us like that again.” No.1835915
>>183573885% of the people he put away were innocent? Come the fuck on, yes the justice system sucks but it's not /that/ bad
No.1835916
>>1835913>picI feel like ads like this are just playing 5D chess with body acceptance and still shaming people for being fat because making the comparison is the whole point. They are having their cake and eating it too re: pretending to be tolerant while also promoting insecurities.
No.1835918
>>1835915There are definitely some prosecutors with numbers at that level.
No.1835919
>>1835913*is not only not aid,
No.1835920
>>1835918how could that be possible? how are all these innocent people getting arrested? think about the statistics
No.1835933
>>1835920Police get called and arrest random guy who was in the area. Prosecutor tells that guy 30 years if found guilty 2 years if you sign a plea deal. 98% sign
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-criminal-cases-justice No.1835935
>>1835920cops have a lot of spare time from not bothering to pursue actual criminals
No.1835946
>>1835920did you just start paying attention?
No.1835947
>>1835934The Sess depressed? What a mess. Guess it sucks he assessed Palestinians as worth less. Maybe the lack of coke has him stressed. Death to zionists, god bless.
No.1835957
>>1835934READ SESSLERS YOU WH*TOID SCUM
No.1835959
>>1835913>generic samples owned by doveThat's literally the anime chick with blue hair and the gaming chick with red eyes
No.1835961
>>1835934>My years as a videogame media parasite should have outweighed the backlash generated from the deaths of tens of thousands.wtf how does such a low level has-been get to this point?
>>1835957lol
No.1835965
>>1835880Damn Omar and Ali, finally someone that can solve Iraqi sectarianism
No.1835978
>>1835965>Iraqi sectarianismCIA glowOP
>>1827021 No.1835992
>>1835844This is low even for Maup. Peace policing.
No.1836025
>>1835738this
>>1835915 i don't believe it for a fucking second, especially now when there's cameras everywhere, phones pinging cell towers, and incriminating texts/search histories. having done legal work for defendants, the majority of cases are pretty clear-cut and it's just a matter of whether or not they want to take a deal, and defendants aren't going to blame prosecutors for any of it regardless
No.1836028
>>1835913what does a soap company have to do with video games (besides the obvious low-hanging fruit)
No.1836030
>>1835844"Putin's working relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu" kicked in and KGB Agent Maupin was told to settle things down a little
No.1836033
>>1835738>>1835933Is this an American thing or does this happen in other countries too?
Also the comment is a VERY nice touch to this screenshot.
No.1836034
>>1836031
yeah there's a hundred reasons why that "confession" is stupid as shit, trials are expensive and time-consuming and a prosecutor handling over 15000 cases (not to mention fabricating evidence for all of them that a defense lawyer couldn't refute) is lunacy. it's telling that the one that spoke to the guy the most was a case where he aided a woman in a false sexual harassment claim
No.1836035
>>1836034>fabricating evidenceYou don't need to do that.
No.1836036
>>1836033Barbarian societies commonly participated in slave raids, yes
No.1836037
>>1836035even assuming 100% of the cases this lawyer handled were plead before trial and he didn't need to fabricate evidence, over 15k cases in his career? defense attorneys having nothing at all to say during any part of it? no one wondering how this guy could resolve cases in a couple hours? no way
No.1836039
>>1836037 (me)
i want to emphasize that at the numbers he's suggesting, assuming a 40 year long career he'd be handling more than a case per day. this crooked lawyer is simply built different
No.1836128
>>1835844Yeah, he seems desperate for attention. Although, I'm personally of the opinion that while the protest are in earnest, the spectacle around it is a distraction. Afterall, these brave bleeding hearts are still tailing AOCIA.
And yes, she still votes with the party. But what they are doing is no more impactful than her frivolous public statements, except for the complicity of the MSM coverage, that otherwise downplayed anti-Zionism, until the US decided to begin officially distancing themselves from the Nakba2. Had the blackout remained, I bet none of these protests would have gained traction.
No.1836132
>>1835916i don't know if i would go this far, but these ads always show someone being obese in skin tight clothes, instead of the more normal weights and ways fat people present to complement their figures. it's a weird and hamfisted attempt at body positivity at best
No.1836188
>>1836184gregorian chants are binaural beats/healing frequencies for orthoschizos
No.1836189
>>1836188 (me)
*tradcath schizos, my mistake
No.1836235
>>1835738It's his job tho. I get it
No.1836237
>>1836128Bad post, in this case AOC is the opportunist relaying the qualms a lot of liberals and leftists about what's happening in Gaza to get points, it's not the other way around where every protests would be somehow engineered or allowed by the intelligence apparatus, the msm and political parties. Those protests are organic and they are painted in a very bad light by the bourgeois media which is why Maupin is mad because he's a optics little bitch bourgeois journalist who last participation in a leftist mass movement was 15 years ago.
No.1836238
>>1836184thank god, he didn't need to be running that shit anymore
No.1836245
>>1836184Someone I really thought wouldn't make a comeback is a new satanic panic that even goes into leftist circles. I am sure the MAGAcommunists and Infracels were doing there part.
No.1836249
>>1835844Been to multiple protests (not in the US though) and I do have to say that these people really don't know how to play optics. Screaming and raging even before the cops do
anything doesn't come over as sane.
I went to some pro-Russian protests and this wasn't the case. These people only come out when a leftist pet issue, like Palestine, is concerned.
No.1836256
>>1836128He burned every bridge there is, while it's not his fault that his career at RT failed considering the sanctions and bans, he can only blame himself for everything else. Even Haz is above him now, who sucked up to him a few years ago and now calls the widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst Caleb Maupin a faggot. He could have redeemed himself if his politics took a "left turn" again, denouncing MAGAcommunism and all that, but he didn't. He shares all the same politics with the guys who publicly denounced him. I think Peter Coffin is his only remaining ally.
No.1836258
>>1835844Post is gone. I would call bullshit but the writing style is way too close to his, did he delete it or are you just that good at shitposting anon?
No.1836261
>>1836249One of the greatest pieces of wisdom my late father, a CPUSA veteran who was always unwavering in his support of Marxism Leninism, imparted to me was that the easiest way you can spot the difference between a liberal and a communist at a distance was by simply observing their code of conduct. Left anti-communists can’t help but at like rabid dogs the moment they get the opportunity to riot for their pet issue, whether it’s abortion or climate or now Palestine, and then they cry when they’re humiliated by the state that enables them in the first place. One of many reasons why I can’t in good faith call this string of college students protesting a sign of radicalization
No.1836275
Looking back I would say that Pepe at it's heart was an apolotiical figure while Wojak/Feels Guy was always a right-aligned meme.
No.1836289
>>1836249>>1836261holy shit kill yourself
No.1836293
>>1836289Don't reply to bait.
No.1836299
>>1836132>normalWhy do you feel that bourgeois norms are important and not a mental illness?
No.1836322
"We can and should unconditionally support Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorist attacks." - Slavoj Zizek
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-palestine-hamas-and-hardliners-against-peace-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-10Is Zizek still considered a leftist here?
No.1836329
>>1836322bothsidesing a genocide for attention sounds like zizek
No.1836333
>>1835844Worthless faggot
No.1836335
>>1836322That's perfectly in line with "leftism".
No.1836337
>>1836322That's from six months ago
No.1836343
>>1836342Go defend liberals somewhere else.
No.1836345
>>1836343i'm not a zizek defender, i just want to know why you have such an anal obsession with language
No.1836347
>>1836345>anal obsession with languageLeftism is a vague arbitrary term that includes liberals when used by
most people, not only by socialists who for some reason restrict it to only mean socialism (including utopian socialism), when there's already a word for that:
socialism.
No.1836358
>>1836256His former colleague Lee Camp made the jump into the BreakthroughNews circle. So it's not like there weren't any other route than the patsoc grifting shtick.
No.1836368
>>1836184>The Beatles… this is nihilism, it says, "hell isn't so bad, come try it out!" It's pure evil.The Rolling Stones also had a song called Sympathy for the Devil. But that's what's so much fun about it!
>>1836249>Been to multiple protests (not in the US though) and I do have to say that these people really don't know how to play optics … I went to some pro-Russian protests and this wasn't the case. They don't care about optics. I really don't think they do. I think they believe they need to shock people into awareness. Too soon to tell if this will be effective or not. I have no idea where it's all leading, but not sure second-guessing them means a whole lot either. I do think Americans, when they get going, tend to have more rhythm and bounce in their protest chants. "There ain't no power like the POWER OF THE PEOPLE and the POWER OF THE PEOPLE won't STOP." It's, like, goddamn, we're pretty good at chanting. I can see a pro-Russian rally in Europe with some guy droning on and on….
>>1836261>Left anti-communists can’t help but at like rabid dogs the moment they get the opportunity to riot for their pet issue … or now PalestineThey really don't look like they're "rioting" to me. By trampling on some lawns on some college campuses? I mean, think of the grass…
No.1836371
>>1836358Yeah, if he toned down the PatSoc autism and just focused on socialist politics, news, etc. he might have had a redemption arc because the people who accused him of sexual misconduct still pretty much hold the same beliefs, except Mansfield who became an anti-communist. They are incredibly shady people as well, and I honestly would expect them to lie about some details.
I think Caleb just wanted to run a cult, he admired LaRouche for years, and has a similar origin story, he used to be a Trot too, when OWS happened. It's pretty obvious that his "CPI" is modelled almost exactly like the LaRouche movement, plus the Soviet memorabilia.
No.1836374
>>1836368Don't wanna offend, but when it comes to protests, Euros are better at that. I see no red flags (pun not intended) when I look at American protests, just a lot of ugly signs, and no marching blocks which is important to avoid cop infiltration and/or police attacks.
>I can see a pro-Russian rally in Europe with some guy droning on and on….In Germany they wave Russian flags, Donbass flags, some Soviet flags, etc. while I think you'd probably get punched for that if you did that in America or Eastern Europe. "Z" signs are more or less outlawed but it doesn't really work, how are going to outlaw a letter of the Latin alphabet.
No.1836378
>>1836371he was interested in Jim jones, and I saw him hanging out with the fucking moonies.
No.1836383
>>1836378Might be a hot take, but I think if the Rural People's Party was a thing for a few more years longer he would have absolutely joined them
No.1836385
>>1836384corn syrup and bricks. at least 5kg a day.
No.1836386
>>1836368>They really don't look like they're "rioting" to me. By trampling on some lawns on some college campuses? I mean, think of the grass…It's a media spin and police narrative, antisemitic riots is a better headline than protests against genocide for the powers that be
No.1836389
>>1836384He's lookin like he's about to order the extermination of House Atreides
No.1836403
>>1836379>Is he even useful anymore compared to Jackson who is younger and more aggressive?He isn't, Hinkle also received professional media training back when he ran for mayor as a pro-Bernie guy. It's very calculated what he does, Caleb on the other hand very often an embarrassment.
No.1836416
>>1836384Christ, he can't even be normal obese. He has to have some weird shit going on where his gut just stops at a 90 degree angle like the fucking McElroy Brothers made him
>>1836389>MY TWITTER, MY X No.1836440
>>1836384this is what happens if you do a lot of HGH but lift zero weights
No.1836495
hasan needs to stop talking about destiny. it's lame as hell.
No.1836540
>>1836495i get what you mean but i can't really blame him for doing so, imagine getting thousands of these zionist freaks harassing you every day and picking apart your personal life
No.1836570
>>1836568dont make me tap the subject
No.1836572
< I love how white people scream "I'm a professor," like that's supposed to make them immune to police brutalityhttps://twitter.com/4everKentuckian/status/1783682752342036940#msmh wypipo cant be brutalized by cops without their privilege showing!!!!!!!!
No.1836599
>>1836589Bluey is a person that looks like a dog though. He has a job and a wife and speaks.
No.1836601
>>1836599Bluey is the kid, the dad is bandit.
No.1836603
>>1836572It's twitter, they gotta get their funny owns for likes like
>>1836588.
No.1836613
I feel I got blue balled so hard when it comes to socialism. I wanted so badly for it to work better than capitalism, but the facts just wasn't on my side. I still think capitalism sucks and socialist critiques of it are correct, but I just wish there was a better option. I hope in the world I can be proven wrong by seeing it work out somewhere, but I will keep my expectations low because I don't want to be burned again.
No.1836630
>>1835939embarassing 4 murka
No.1836637
>>1836615>capitalism beats capitalismcmon
>socialist cybernetic economyutter meme
No.1836641
>>1836637The success of market economies trend toward industrialism and protectionism. America is a fluke that was built on cold war concessions, imperialist treats, resource abundance and a heavily compliant populace. The success of most great empires relied upon protectionism. Marxism is an extension of industrial protectionism into a stage of society that condenses all of its positive characteristics to implement changes such as the abolition of class distinction.
No.1836652
>>1836637>>socialist cybernetic economy>utter memesuch a meme the glowies had to shut it down before it could get started
No.1836659
>>1836637>socialist cybernetic economy >utter meme Didn't realise you're still seething over Allende, Pinochet.
No.1836661
>>1836652I want to know more about your conspiracy theory, what did the glowies do now?
No.1836667
>>1836663This system was in its very infancy and ultimately unimportant in the big picture, Chile was couped because they nationalized assets important for the US and because of the domino theory, cybernetic economy had nothing to do with it
No.1836668
>>1836652lol cybersyn was literally just the internet you dumbfuck
No.1836669
>>1836667>This system was in its very infancyyeah hence "shut it down before it could get started"
>ultimately unimportant in the big picture the economic calculation problems was and remains one of the biggest arguments against socialism. cybersyn operating at all, let alone operating well, would be a major ideological blow and would threaten the prospects of external capitalist subversion since it would create barriers to market influences.
>Chile was couped because they nationalized assets important for the USwhich goes hand in hand with cybersyn in the context of economic policy in general
>and because of the domino theorydoesn't contradict anything about the economics playing a role.
No.1836684
>>1836669>socialism is when big computeroh my god shut up
No.1836699
>>1836684Once every part of the world is accommodated to a cybernetic input-compute-output loop — and IoT brings us very close to this destination — the society built on automated resource management becomes materially possible, and in 30-50 years the bread delivers itself.
No.1836700
>>1836363wait hbomberguy was a troll? any loremasters?
No.1836712
>>1836700hbomb was fitz thistlewitz
No.1836726
>>1836714Lol it is a made up restaurant.
No.1836736
>>1836731least unhinged radfem
No.1836737
>>1836700>>1836363"Troll's remorse" seems to apply equally to people who were nazis and people who simply used to browse SA or 4chan before lol.
No.1836750
>>1836748
uyghur was always a slur and saying russian saboteur anywhere will get you canceled way worse.
No.1836752
>>1836750Kaik* actually I thonk that is the point of her bait was to get some people to say it so she can get them banned from existence by the adljidf
No.1836753
>>1836748
if she said controlling speech doesnt affect the root cause of racism she would be right, but she isnt doing that, shes saying "nothing happens when you call someone a uyghur" which even a child would know is a wrong statement lol
No.1836775
>>1836756Uppers and downers? Somewhat serious, he was an artist not a politician or debatelord.
No.1836777
>>1834642I like FSM but I hate libshits so I am fine with the status quo. Most hobbyists are petite bourgeoise so you're either stuck with chinlets or libshits, and the former are (marginally) less annoying.
No.1836781
>>1836756Based Lennon????????????????
No.1836810
>>1835738How did the collective genepool even get to the point where there is enough anti-social trash to man the legal system?
Also watching Law and Order is my guilty pleasure.
No.1836818
>>1836801he cant keep getting away with it
No.1836850
>>1836810watching Law and Order is my guilty pleasure.
How can you not get bored of generic and repetitive crime dramas?
>>1836820Expanding markets. You want ugly girls to buy your game too.
No.1836895
>>1836869White women are so oppressed ;(
>>1836876I prefer goth H4X0Rs myself
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ No.1836898
Wrong answer
No.1836907
>>1836738Wtf is that creature. Can the enemies of Caleb not be fucking freaks for once
No.1836913
Jesus Christ, you need to wait 5 minutes before you can make a thread of 4chin.
No.1836925
>>1836913You also need a verified email to post on /biz/ lol Most just moved to /bant/ but how long until the entire site is email verification only?
No.1836954
>>1836589This is a podcast by two porn actors. That explains the situation (it's episode #10, MILFs of Disneyland, btw)
No.1836963
And the guest is a comedian. That explains everything.
No.1837053
>>1837050She’s an ML. Weird patsoc incels and libs get mad that a PoC chick from an AES country talks back at them and generally makes more sense than they do
No.1837054
>>1837050She used to let her Vietnamese nationalism cloud her judgement on China in the beginning and has since changed course. However keep in mind that despite the fact that she has grown up in the global south she is still catering to a distinctly Western audience. Also her bf is a cringe anarchist but she has slowly been converting him over time.
No.1837060
>>1836722>bipartisan establishment attack on the people.I mean she not wrong
No.1837061
>>1837050luna is great. the only w*man beardtuber pretty much
No.1837062
>>1837053>>1837054Cool. Good to know my instincts were correct. Cool girl 😎
No.1837071
>>1837050Luna gets shit on for being "PMC" by westoids because she benefits from Vietnamese land reform policies and has an education.
No.1837074
>>1836850>How can you not get boredActual unironic autism.
Also, why did the janny delete my post about ugly women? I thought this was the thread for such silly questions.
No.1837108
>>1837050Agent Kochinski had it out for her so she is either a conservative or based.
No.1837124
>>1837114>a lot of pissed off zoomers are not going to vote biden now kekdo_nothing_win.png
No.1837146
>>1837114there will probably be a bunch of people who will install a vpn app and just keep using it
No.1837152
>>1837114the question is which USA tech corporation will fill the void with their own version
No.1837172
>>1837152>the question is which USA tech corporation will fill the void with their own version>Their own versionTikTok is already plenty infiltrated.
This is a profitable way, to enlist the public in the "illiberal" protectionism and militarism that the USA needs to uphold it's hegemony now. It's convenient because, unlike Huawei, another example, it comes wrapped up in a culture war package that people can readily integrate in their understanding of politics, and so they can see themselves as a (aggravated) party in the USAno bourg struggle against competition and foreign adversaries.
TikTok Chinese Trojan Horse Run By Former CIA https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-former-cia/286780/<TikTok is once again under public scrutiny, this time for concerns about child safety. Yet a much bigger issue is being swept under the rug: that it is increasingly controlled by the US national security stateTikTok: Chinese “Trojan Horse” Is Run by State Department Officials https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/<A MintPress News investigation has found that dozens of former officials from the State Department, CIA and FBI are working in key positions at TikTok and affecting the content that over one billion users see.The NATO to TikTok Pipeline: Why is TikTok Employing So Many National Security Agents?https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tiktok-employing-national-security-agents/280336/<TikTok has become an enormously influential medium that reaches over one billion people worldwide. Having control over its algorithm or content moderation means the ability to set the terms of global debate and decide what people see. And what they don’t. No.1837182
>>1837172 (me)
and also by "will not be sold" IIRC ByteDance means that they will be taking this matter to the courts. Not just giving up the business. Which can be expected to be a fairly big thing that lasts. If nothing else, because both sides of the matter benefit from keeping this going past election season, for the "tough on China" angle and the eventual settlement falling out of that frame of reference.
No.1837188
>>1837114Maybe communism will start getting some notice again
No.1837243
>>1837172yankee glowies are just angry they don't have complete control TikTok, but have to share it with chinese glowies
No.1837308
>>1837251You are laughably ignorant if you think "peaceful coexistence, liberal internationalism for peacy peace" China not only utilizes
Tiktok, not Douyin, for spreading socialism, but also for thinking that
Tiktok, located in fucking Texas with a Singaporean-American executive, is void of getting completely fucking owned by the CIA, NSA and FBI overlooking it under US jurisdiction and with the entire parliament, POTUS and MSM going crazy cheerleading it nonstop. Realistically it already happened. I remember reading about how explicitly Marxist communist content was already censored years ago on Tiktok and how the free speech policy there was worse than on Youtube.
No.1837310
>>1837308 (me)
>free speechForgot to put quotes around "free speech", we all know Youtube hardly are principled free speech maximalists or anything like that
No.1837312
>>1837308>China "uses tiktok" to "spread socialism"lol why is everyone here so braindead
with all that money they could fund communist parties throughout the world but no, actually a chinese corporation is somehow "spreading socialism" with their datamining algorithms
No.1837481
>>1837308i wish people would stop reading shit from radio free asia but try to show it as being a good thing or true, kinda retarded.
No.1837503
>>1837480Thats awesome as fuck
No.1837530
>>1837251Yeah lol. Trying to push that douyin is a CIA trojan horse somehow is just copium. The true reason why Iran and Axis-adjacent media is shilling this narrative is because ticc tocc provides medium for youth counterculture like no other; in the US this manifests as anti-imperialism and class consciousness, and in Iran it manifested as opposition to Islamism and the vilayat-e-fiqh
For the record, i've noticed an increase in Iranian infiltration of Leftist and Third Worldist circle, which is why we're getting this dumb as fuck takes about IRGC being based or what.
No.1837550
>>1837152YouTube shorts and Instagram reels.
No.1837582
>>1837576terms of service bros…?
No.1837595
>>1834219Student led protestors committing pogroms against Muslims in Assam agree
No.1837596
my names jeff
No.1837601
>>1837150Reads like an exhentai elf orc doujin description.
No.1837604
>>1834803Does this cunt really have a leg to stand on calling le libtard college students "annoying"? He's a christoid hypocrite going around preaching to people while being a pimp and a sexpest. It's also funny how all "anti-woke" trumptard "communists" continued to support this guy even after his scandal got revealed, only to disavow him after he had quarrel with their cult leader. The absolute state of American "communists". Y'all are never having a revolution.
No.1837616
>>1837150The latina one actually happened in Paraguay. Racists should wake up and see their real enemy
No.1837618
Meanwhile the blacks haven't even created any white woman rape camps in Zimbabwe. Come on man, the white race will be destroyed by latinas and asian women much faster if blacks don't get their shit together.
No.1837627
>>1837050Shes a weird combination of pro-anyone who isnt usa with anarchism because her american boyfriend is an anarchist. Not really a well read marxist.
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>>1836722Not a single wrong thing in this tweet.
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>>1837312>a chinese corporation is somehow "spreading socialism" with their datamining algorithmsit's called building the forces of production, chvd
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>>1837637He sounds like the worst posters here tbh
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>>1837616that's not what happened. the dictator forced eveyrone to race mix because he hated the left over caste distinction.
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