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Truga
May 4, 2014
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oh my god this is perfect https://twitter.com/BatmanXenomorph/status/1108869135088472069

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Truga
May 4, 2014
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The labor strike episode was a baseball bat to the face if you know what you're looking for because it all maps perfectly to a Marxist analysis of capitalism. Traditional magic is capital accumulated through say, feudalism, which the magical servants need to survive while the witches command the vast bulk of it just to have literal power. The crisis is only temporarily resolved by introducing a new mode of production for magic represented by the digital magic form, which is the industrialized capitalism that can eventually supplant traditional forms of power. That both forms are also revealed to literally exploit the surplus magical value of the masses makes it map to Marxism 1::1.
:same:
in a series of mostly good episodes, this was easily the best one for me.

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i can't believe STM isn't a school subject anymore tbf

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i can't believe i don't know what STM would be in english. "self-management with basic marxism"?

that's the thing schools used to have here. i was born too late to have that in person in school tho :rip:

Truga
May 4, 2014
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the only thing minigolf has in common with golf is it uses the same/similar ball tho.

Truga
May 4, 2014
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hezbolleninism dropping the truthbomb

Truga
May 4, 2014
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some people get tired of being the underdog when they smell cashmoney

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Dreddout posted:

This is also why the fully automated luxury communism meme is bad btw. It sets up an expectation that we're all going to be living in the culture in socialism

lmao "meme" look at this joker.

e: is a goal not a meme

Truga
May 4, 2014
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

russian communists are doing the youtube thing better i think

this is good poo poo

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Dreddout posted:

Uhh buddy a large part of why yugoslavia fell apart so spectacularly was all it's international debt that was necessitated by it's participation in the global market

entire yugoslavia had $19b external debt in 1991. for comparison, the tiniest ex-yu country slovenia today has 42b euros external debt and it's somehow not falling apart

Truga
May 4, 2014
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

there's a kind of bizarre notion developing among these reformist DSA types that the left is not liberal so therefore it should reject social liberalism, rather than recognizing capitalism's total inability to live up to liberalism's promises. these people are treacherous and should not be trusted.

IMO, those are just fash with a different coat of paint. "socialism and rights for our guys, gently caress others" is literally benito's jam.

what i'm saying is, lol if you aren't socially liberal, fiscally posadist.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Liberalism can't even live up to its own promises teleologically.

liberals got dragged kicking and screaming into the equal rights discourse, but also now people with money get equaler rights, but when you bring this up, they unironically quote animal farm at you, it owns. oh, also, corporations are people somehow

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i only make about 36k euros a year (~16k after all the taxes) and the people with six or even low 7 figgies aren't worth poo poo either, so no, it's not just 6 figures people saying it

until you're davos rich you're just another drone in the colony

Truga
May 4, 2014
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you can be on social welfare a walmart employee and still be an enemy of the proletariat, useful idiots don't only exist in white collar circles.

that doesn't mean you're not said proletariat, though.

Truga
May 4, 2014
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:yeah: bernie and xi are compromise candidates

Truga
May 4, 2014
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owns

Truga
May 4, 2014
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starin transport gonna take you to a gurag

Truga
May 4, 2014
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fiscally marxist, socially incel

Truga
May 4, 2014
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he did say

tho

Truga
May 4, 2014
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yeah no, it's way too late for that


what could *maybe* save us is a giant output in renewable/nukular energy sources to run the climate control in dome cities we'll need to survive post 2060, but nope we're doing the opposite instead lmfao

good news tho, the solution that would have worked 40 years ago is finally being considered!

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Ruzihm posted:

hold up are you saying it's back???

the cspam one. someone kramered in to stan for landlords for the weekend

Truga
May 4, 2014
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StashAugustine posted:

Citizen Militia

in yugosliavia we had a "militia" yeah.

my grandpa was a lieutenant in it for ~30 years after the war ended. he was doing the columbo routine before columbo was even a thing lol. he'd go everywhere without his weapon and if lovely people gave him trouble he just said "well, we can go to jail now, or you can kill me and be in some real loving trouble because everyone at the station knows where i am" and they just gave up lol

Truga
May 4, 2014
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rpg avenue

Truga
May 4, 2014
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gradenko_2000 posted:

I don't... how do people maneuver themselves into this kind of position?

dios mio *gestures a cross* a live tankie

Mr. Lobe posted:

Has Sanders made any political moves towards international reparations of any kind in the past? If not, this seems like an optimistic assumption on top of an optimistic assumption (that he could become prez)
i dunno about reparations specifically, but he's the only candidate saying he'd stop the bullshit abroad, i.e.:
"We would also listen to the voices of Venezuelan activists themselves who warn against broad sanctions, such as the Trump administration’s oil sanctions, that mainly punish the people, not the government. My administration would not be in the business of regime change. The United States has a long history of inappropriately intervening in Latin American countries; we must not go down that road again."

anyway, the take "morales got couped because he was too nice" is right next to "well, why do you dress that way then??", it's not only dumb, it's also incredibly toxic. the takeaway shouldn't be "wow, what a bitch he shoulda consolidated power while he had a chance", it should be "first, we must kill all the nazis without pity or remorse, *then* we'll see if brutality/authoritarianism/<whatever> is even required anymore"

Truga
May 4, 2014
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GalacticAcid posted:

I don’t think “toxicity” is a useful concept when the normative course of action involves killing thousands of people without pity or remorse

nazis aren't people hth

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i was waiting for this, this owns lmao

e:
https://twitter.com/AnarchoCynical1/status/1194259310672519170

Truga fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Nov 12, 2019

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Atrocious Joe posted:

how can you complain about tankies and then advocate preemptive mass killing as a solution to reactionaries. the account you're mocking is wrong and some dumb maoist, but in general the term tankie is applied to socialists who defend the use of violence to protect revolutionary movements and states.

because there's reactionaries, and there's nazis. if you're saying killing nazis is bad, i have incredibly bad news for you.

Truga
May 4, 2014
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maybe i misunderstood his post, sorry

Truga
May 4, 2014
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gradenko_2000 posted:

Vice President Nina Turner
Robert Reich for Treasury
Stephanie Kelton for Director of OMB
Jimmy Dore for Press Sec
Tim Faust for HHS
Jesse Ventura for State
Jimmy Carter for HUD
Vermin Supreme for Defense
Ilhan Omar for CIA Director
Richard Wolff for Labor
Danny Glover for FBI Director

oac gonna be secretary of agitprop

Truga
May 4, 2014
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truly, the end of an era

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i say swears online posted:

wasn't aware scandinavia had a strong left

has a strong enough left that not all the goodies socialists and unions fought for have been rolled back by neoliberalism yet
which is more than you can say for most other places, thought that's not exactly saying much lol

anyway, you can say what you want about eurocommies, the music we have is the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXvmXlNcPRY

Truga
May 4, 2014
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owns

Truga
May 4, 2014
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slovenia didn't vote for the "don't glorify nazis" thing in UN for some weird reason(??). also our country map kinda looks like a hen, so now the flaghen is eating swastikas

Truga
May 4, 2014
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"fermented drink made from black tea with added basil and rosemary
for over 2000 years it's been refreshing life, suppressing bacterial growth, enriching gut microbiome, breaking neoliberalism"

Truga
May 4, 2014
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dunno i'm on the balkans, the techlords here are nazis, libertarians or commies, libs all moved out lmao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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tane? tane.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

having opposition to neoliberalism as part of your brand is the height of neoliberalism *sniff*

lmao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Zas posted:

lets discuss fyad... from a communist perspective :twisted:

"this tank ain't big enough for both of us"

Truga
May 4, 2014
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the 3-5 million figures quoted often include "people who haven't been born due to famine" or some amazing galaxy brained bullshit like that

nearly 2 loving million people died, why inflate it? isn't that terrible enough? i guess "almost twice the potato famine" doesn't sound bad enough or some poo poo

Truga
May 4, 2014
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makes sense, anime is commie as gently caress

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

The Ghost in the Shell tv series touched a lot on class divides and the rapacity of financialized capital, but can never quite reach a revolutionary outlook because it's post-punk and all the main characters are ultimately cops who work for a capitalist government that literally owns them.
and all that poo poo completely flies over people's heads. a fairly early example of this is the first gundam. it has a bunch of muslims in it, fighting for independence against a federation of douchebags, which is, according to creator himself, both trying to invoke an image of palestine, and show how stupid and hosed wars are.

meanwhile in real life, fans gush about how great the robots and characters are

lmao

i'm glad LWA dropped the metaphor thing and went straight for the striking workers

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Truga
May 4, 2014
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miyazaki is funny. he basically invented moe because he had a crush on some anime as a kid, now he shits on otakus lol

also, the best miyazaki is porco rosso.

coathat posted:

The fans are right
sometimes.

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