Commiejones

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[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The grey zone lost all its Marxist credit when Norton got froze out. blumenthal is a reactionary

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 16 hours ago

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” - Lenin

I really like this one because the first step to de-liberalizing someone is to point out the source of their information and education is owned by people who would kill us all and destroy the world for higher quarterly profits.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Fucking brilliant

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 19 hours ago

I used to read tarot for people when I was a homeless wanderer. Tarot are way cooler than you think. They are a mentalist trick like cold reading but they have beneficial uses. The purpose isn't to blow peoples minds by tricking them into thinking you know things you shouldn't know (though it might seem that way) the purpose is to provide a new perspective for people think through their issues. They are a tool for single issue therapy sessions, A Dear Abby column where you don't have to expose yourself to anyone to get personal advice.

They get people to reconsider the inputs and outputs of their current situation some of them being glaringly obvious and others being obscure things they hadn't considered. Then they spell out a potential resolution of the situation based on those inputs.

If you spend lots of time around groups of people who are also wasting time they are a great way to pick up some pocket change or just make conversations with people.

more indepth explanation of the mechanicsEach card represents an archetype, a state of being, a mood or a type of transition and have keywords or phrases to express their meaning that everyone can identify with. The position of the card in the spread is where in the person being read's life that archetype or situation is. (so in a 3 card spread its past on the left present in the center and future to the right) Most of the cards tell a little story of their own in order to highlight what ideas they represent. (like the 3 of wands is a guy on a hill watching some boats, The boats are his and they are carrying his work off to another port and when they return he will get paid, and it symbolizes waiting for the results of your actions.)

A person asks a question which sets their brain up to focus on the part of their life that the cards will relate to. (I don't like them to say it out loud.) The more specifically worded the question the more focused the person is on the situation and more direct the cards can address it. (things like Will I get that job/promotion? How can I move my romantic interest to a romantic partnership? how can I help that that rad lib become a comrade?)

The reader then begins laying out cards, first explaining the meaning of the position, placing the card and explaining the meaning of the card.

The cards cast a bit of a wide net so the person reading the cards needs to pick up on which aspect of the card connects with the questioner. Depending on what the question was the questioner's mind will relate the description of the card to a specific person or situation and they will exhibit a subtle indication that this has happened. This is usually done subconsciously on the part of both the reader and the questioner which is why it seems like magic.

When all the cards are out the reader then reads out the whole spread saying only the parts of the cards meaning that the questioner reacted to. They tell a generic outline of a story and the questioner fills in all the details in their mind. The cards point the questioner at details that have contributed to their situation that they may not have considered or reaffirm their suspicions about their involvement.

So the meaning of the cards is really interpreted by the questioner. The reader is just facilitating a reexamination of the questioners situation with new context.

Its like the reader explains a synopses of a movie that they haven't seen but the questioner has seen. Some of the details the reader says are things that the questioner didn't really notice and suddenly they come into glaring focus and allow them to get a deeper understanding of the story. The reader also read a synopses of a potential sequel and the questioner is left to decide how to make the sequel better than suggested.

Side note: The reader and the questioner not knowing each other leads to the best results because the reader's job is not to think, it is just to read the cards and the questioners reactions to the cards. That way the reader acts as a catalyst for the questioner to talk to themselves. The less information the reader has the less personal conjecture they can accidentally slip in.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is CIA propaganda. Those people were protesting for Reactionary counter revolution. They were ignorant students who had been convinced that all their problems were the fault of communism. They were sold a lie about how great things are in western nations and they ate it up because they were kids who don't know any better.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Comparing those images and videos to the Sydney anti-genocide rally I highly doubt 350K people are there.

The street is around 20m wide and it looks like the protest is covering about 4 or 5 blocks (1000-1250m) and the people aren't packed together so its probably less than 1 person per square meter.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 day ago

whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes

Based.

run cover for ... Maduro

Based.

enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

Lucky!

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 day ago

I just realized where the drive for suburbanites to wash their cars comes from. They know they should be spraying something with a hose but instead of watering their tomatoes they are spraying their car.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

a whole episode trying to contextualizes yogopnik's bad tweet

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 days ago

getting recognition of task completion once I’m done.

oh yeah.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 days ago

There is nothing Reactionary about feeling rage towards hypocritical liberals. Giving into your anger is not a good tactic, especially not at this point in time so you should learn to channel that rage into something useful. Maybe practice some meditation to teach you to control your rage and learn to channel it into motivation for strength building exercises. When the time comes having access to controlled rage will be a good thing.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

You are not alone. You are one of us. One of us! One of Us! One Of Us! One OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

 
 

Cui Bono? Even if the drones hit their tagret there was no way they were gonna kill Putin in one of the most fortified buildings outside the Kremlin.
As stupid and irrational as some of the ukrainian commanders are, is there really anyone who would think doing this attack while trump was meeting zelensky was going to help their cause? They all know that Trump is annoyed with ukraine more than he is annoyed with Russia. Someone with the stripes to organize a strike with 91 long range drones must have just a little bit more foresight than to think this would be a good idea. (There could be a deep cover Russian asset inside Ukraine who could organize this but that is a tiny bit too "007" for real life)
Russia isn't against playing dirty they are just way better at hiding it.

That the attack happened while zelensky was having a meeting with trump is a perfect way to spoil the "last person he talked to" effect on trump in fact it would likely cause an inversion of trump's mood toward zelensky. (a very "judo" style move of redirecting the opponent's momentum and using it against them.)
Putin was the guy to tell trump and I'm pretty sure trump trusts Putin more than he trusts most of the people in his own administration.

I can imagine Putin on the phone to trump, hamming it up, acting angry and irrational and saying he is going to kill zelensky. Putin would let trump talk him down which would work his ego. (imagine trump telling the story of how he saved zelensky's life and stopped a nuclear war in a single phone call)
Meanwhile Putin would extract concessions from trump "Ok I wont nuke keiv or shoot down zelensky's plane, but I have to do some big strikes or my people will think I'm going soft, you understand. Tell you what I just launch a couple Oresniks at some military targets. It'll be a big show but it won't be radioactive and it wont kill millions of civilians."

Its a way to get trump's understanding that Russia is going to do a K.O. strike and that it's the only way to get ukraine to accept the reality that the war is lost. Russia gets to do an attack that could spark a nuclear war under other circumstances.

 

Good discussion about the depth of propaganda war in Eurasia.

 

Really interesting talk about how main stream environmentalism is pushed by liberal capitalists and how many leftists have been tricked into supporting green washed fascism.

 

A great discussion and podcaster telethon for Palestinians.

 

Really serious breakdown of the NED and the NGO network that manipulates geopolitics for the billionaire class and to a lesser degree american imperialism.

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