MasterBlaster

russia is the no-no country for doing bad things, like starting pointless wars and terrorizing a civilian population. so you can't support them. you'll have to find other alternatives to your services that support bad countries doing bad things.

Common misconception. Karl Marx was actually inspired by Quentin Tarantino because they both liked feet. Follow me for more facts

Now that Minecraft has received an update that allows leashing villagers together in train-like formations, how does this analysis change?

K-HOLE EXECUTIVE!!

All leftist video creators are overrated, leftist authors less so but there's still a huge contingent of them that are just co-opted by their main topic of critique. I don't think this is a failing on the creators themselves but a feature of the market.

When you get down to it, no matter how ideologically 'pure' you manage to be, once you're earning money for something - even if it's not your primary income - your ability to affect the change you're talking about becomes limited. You don't want to risk your income. You don't want to get 'cancelled' by your peers. For some this comes down to mindful self-censorship, but for most they don't even realize that they've started down the algorithmic intellectual death spiral.

But! I think this is very okay and for our purposes can be leveraged. I absorbed endless amounts of this content when I was feeling the full effects of alienation. Alone all day, underappreciated and working my body to the bone in a warehouse. The reason I read ML theory at all is because of some of these chucklefucks - ThoughtSlime, The Deprogram, even broader liberal-types like Hbomberguy. They were friendly voices to listen to and fueled an inherent rebellious nature most of us have within.

But content cycles, your interests peak and change, and if you walk away from ""breadtubers"" having absorbed any actual theory, your admiration turns somewhat to scorn, and you begin to feel frustrated with the endless complaining and no actionable solutions. You'll either fall back into liblight or your exposure to theory will grow into a larger revolutionary sprout.

That's when you're pushed out of the content mill and become exposed to the dreaded ideas that YouTubers can't actually say due to ad revenue concerns. Getting to this stage of radicalization, especially in the west, used to be like pulling teeth. You'd need serious organizational power to spread the education needed.

Now it can be achieved by listening to freely accessible (and even semi-mainstream) content slop and letting well-known parasocial elements play out in a listener. Learning, admiration, surpassing the teacher, and finally finding your revolutionary spirit.

I usually love reading about someones special interests but just feels like this guy is overcompensating and feigning an admiration for some bygone era of crafts work that obviously still exists but can't compare to buying a handbag for a price you can afford, all so they can dunk on the asians making their clothes

But there’s another way to appreciate fashion—through craft. It’s not about how well something performs or what it communicates. Instead, it’s about valuing the skill, time, and intention embedded in the object itself, even if no one else cares or recognizes those qualities

who motherfucker, who is appreciating fashion through craft that aren't already hobbyist tailors

Most anarchists that read theory and history eventually come round to realizing that centralized authority is a necessary part of revolution

honestly playing a sandbox game with spawnable NPCs could tell you this but that's neither here nor there

I think he really is just trying to line the pocket of his and his kind. Probably combined with cognitive decline meaning he's having a harder time hiding it.

This song really seems to wound my more liberal friends. They see the moon landing as a self-justifying, noble event that of course was worth every dollar spent.

Ignore that the problems people outlined back then never really got better. Ignore that humanity would have landed on the moon regardless. Just double down on some Reddit-tier reverance for "Science!"

Russian state disinformation is also, seemingly, the most powerful influence on Earth. Seriously, it can get into anything and affect everyone. US-based free media press are under Russian influence depending on who you ask. The president himself? A cold war sleeper agent. It's all Russia!

These are the same groups of people who, generally, can't comprehend how Trump won, and how many trumpists spout earnest disinformation like their lives depended on it. So much disinformation is present, Trump won the presidency!

But no, it's Russian disinformation that's causing all the problems. America just has, um, cooky rednecks.

I hope my kids don't grow up to murder me over unhinged conspiracy crap.

I think that just further highlights the disparity between media and the real world - imo a separate issue libs also struggle with. When you're raised on as much media content as a lot of westerners are, it leaves you alienated about what life is actually like.

I motion towards white collar workers gathering around the water cooler to discuss the latest shows, while blue collar workers like, actually hang out and drink after work. One of these groups is touching grass way more than the other.