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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Why is that? I would think the USSR staying around as a rival power would make things more difficult, not less difficult, for the west.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 39 points 12 hours ago

Water prevalent in Pacific Ocean

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 31 points 13 hours ago

She gained my suspicion the moment she started posting anti-vegan shit.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 14 hours ago

The good news is that Israel had a limited window of surprise and it exhausted that before it could deal a killing blow.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 41 points 14 hours ago

In many cases it's because they live in that empire and benefit from its economic subjugation of the world.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 16 hours ago

It goes well for Porky.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 19 hours ago

I can't think of Tolkien's work without thinking of Marx' words on "Feudal Socialism":

Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French Revolution of July 1830, and in the English reform agitation, these aristocracies again succumbed to the hateful upstart. Thenceforth, a serious political struggle was altogether out of the question. A literary battle alone remained possible. But even in the domain of literature the old cries of the restoration period had become impossible.

In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate their indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

In this way arose feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half an echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.

The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner. But the people, so often as it joined them, saw on their hindquarters the old feudal coats of arms, and deserted with loud and irreverent laughter.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's the one! Thank you.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 20 hours ago

His vision was realized with the creation of Reddit

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 37 points 20 hours ago

C'mon Pakistan, you have over 100 nukes, you can spot Iran a few

 

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Incidentally, I stumbled on this while looking for a Marx quote about how representatives of the old feudal order falsely positioned themselves as allies to the lower classes by attacking the excesses of industrial capitalism. If anyone has that quote, please let me know.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 22 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Libs sure do love ignoring the basic fact that the choices of those without power are constrained by those with power.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Simplicius is now only more sure than ever that Israel expected the decapitation strikes to cause an immediate collapse, and when that did not happen, Israel was forced to go to Trump and get the US involved because Israel cannot handle a war of attrition with Iran (running out of interceptors to protect critical infrastructure)

This is what has me absolutely convinced that the US is going to get involved. No way it gives up its staging area in the Middle East without a fight.

Really hoping this turns out to be America's Suez Crisis though

 
 

Book is Lightbringer, from the Red Rising series

 
 
 

It's basically a Bible "End Times" movie but without the Rapture

I wasn't familiar with the right-wing Bircher paranoia that influenced Christian end-times eschatology at the time so I recognized that the cinematography was portraying the Antichrist as sinister but I couldn't figure out why he was supposed to be bad? He was uniting the world into a global democratic union and preaching cooperation and an end to war and I didn't see what the problem was supposed to be. Then he made himself dictator and started mass-executing dissidents and that felt like it came out of nowhere.

Casper Van Dien and Michael Ironside are both in them. I dunno if that's a coincidence or if the creators were fans of Starship Troopers

The US and China team up to take down the Antichrist's global dictatorship (this would never get made today lmao)

The second movie's climax is Casper fistfighting a CGI Devil

 

The third category of the relative surplus population, the stagnant, forms a part of the active labour army, but with extremely irregular employment. Hence it furnishes to capital an inexhaustible reservoir of disposable labour power. Its conditions of life sink below the average normal level of the working class; this makes it at once the broad basis of special branches of capitalist exploitation. It is characterised by maximum of working-time, and minimum of wages. We have learnt to know its chief form under the rubric of “domestic industry.” It recruits itself constantly from the supernumerary forces of modern industry and agriculture, and specially from those decaying branches of industry where handicraft is yielding to manufacture, manufacture to machinery. Its extent grows, as with the extent and energy of accumulation, the creation of a surplus population advances.

 

Disclaimer: I'm stealing these from Fred Clark's Left Behind Critique because I'm sure as hell not buying any of these books.

 

Like any time I present it with a society that doesn't uphold liberal capitalist notions of freedom and individualism, it reads sinister motive into even the most unambiguously good things. Like I can tell it to "Expand on the following: this society maintains public granaries to ensure that no one starves during times of famine" and a good 2/3 of the time it'll go into a tangent about how this program to feed everyone is all just a plot by the ruling powers to maintain their control over the populace and keep the masses downtrodden. I am only barely exaggerating.

My point here is less about Deepseek (if you use AI expecting any results suitable for serious purposes, you're a fool) than about what it says about its training data, that being the Western internet. The level of bias in Deepseek only further demonstrates that this shit is the air we breathe, and it is why liberalism is anathema to any real understanding of politics or society.

 
 

I have seen the quoted take unironically upvoted here on Hexbear

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