MidnightPocket [comrade/them]

immiseration

always gets my goat how these them here marxist terms get the red squiggly underline’in

Imagine having all that corporate funding and still cutting costs on…stealing information.

I don’t think anyone for a moment thought that the US ditching some vassals would include Israel.

But, I’m starting to think that a lot of the foreign policy of the second Trump administration is rhetoric/bluster. I think the actual/lasting changes will primarily be domestic.

Yeah, I guess what I mean is if you are like me (and pay to unlock the entire thought cabinet), then at that point you should be able to forget thoughts for free. I guess I could still exploit that, but if I’ve thrown that many skill points into the thought cabinet already, I think it is clear that isn’t my angle.

According to a random guy on Quora several years ago commenting on Syrian troops performing this style of salute:

Why are these Syrians giving a Heil Hitler salute to Bashar al-Assad?

“it has nothing to do with Hitler, they are putting their hands on top of imaginary Quran or Bible and bledge (sic) to protect the country against all Enemies; I watched the video and heard them say in Arabic to bledge (sic) to protect Syria from all enemies.”

I am not Muslim nor am I from a non-western culture; I cannot confirm nor deny this rationale.

If it is true, I’m guessing that the specific angle is used so that they aren’t prodding their comrades in the back when saluting in phalanx formation.

Other commenters suggest that the fascist-style salute is less sensationalized/provocative in global south nations which were further removed from the Nazi atrocities in both geographic proximity and media influence regarding the topic.

At the end of the day, context does matter. This is a very simple salute style that is probably commonly used due to its utility in a mass formation context. Performing this salute outside of a military context, at a publicity event in a nation where there has just been a drastic change in leadership style, after decades of sensational coverage of Nazi mannerisms in media…is categorically different than performing it due to utility in a different historic context.

That said - it is still jarring to see. Feels like “culture shock”. In light of recent events with Elon, having to play the “context” card really does feel like an impotent explanation. It really is starting to feel like this salute style is just ubiquitous, though.

DotA 2: Should have had random items as rewards from matches based on the hero you are playing, instead of entirely random. Also, they should have had in-game currency for their stores rather than just barter and RMT.

Disco Elysium: Thought cabinet should not cost a skill point to remove an already internalized thought.

EU4: More internal realm management/struggle.

WoW: Raising the level cap is always a mistake. Obsoleting content is always a mistake. Worst storyline imaginable.

Heroes of Might and Magic: Conflux in HoMM 3 was lame

Trump never got the memo that a key tenant to US hegemony over the last several decades has been hiding/laundering their outright dominance from public perception.

Or he did get the memo and he’s ostentatious enough to the point of not being able to suffer it.

And Musk is a legit neo-nazi. Will this finally expose how power is appointed and not elected? Unlikely.

Prices disguise shortages in public perception. Technically the shelves are never empty so long as the prices become high enough to slow sales to the point of production’s ability to replenish the rate of consumption. Diminished productive capacities are synthetically translated into diminished merit of customers.

(Not implying you don’t know this. Just writing it out for the crowd.)

I don’t know what the current disagreement is, especially given that my comment centrally agreed with both you and the other commenter. I just pointed out that you were talking past each other in an unproductive manner.

You don’t think there’s a distinction between alcohol’s penetration into all American communities and the targeted attacks against the black community by planted narcotics?

As you claim, it is just a difference of scope. The Quote which constitutes most of your comment, at least without further context, doesn’t seem to be stressing the discriminatory drug sales but rather the pernicious nature of drug sales.

convience store clerk

alcohol is pretty destructive

2007 rhetoric: “Let’s close Guantanamo”

2025 rhetoric: “Let’s expand Guantanamo”

You’re both right.

Drug-dealing is a crime against the working class and the Chinese socialists along with the Black Panthers were so negatively impacted that they had no tolerance for it in their revolutionary praxis.

That doesn’t mean that a petty dealer deserves the same ire as US military members. If that were the case, every convenience store clerk is also an agent of reaction and death. Maybe you were specifically talking about opium? Even still, the other poster was also being bombastic rather than writing a thesis.

All these unsuccessful assassinations are starting to reek of “attempted self-coup” energy

While Biden was in office, you could at the very least imagine the reverse of what the topic of discussion is now.

Laws are just norms on paper that are constantly trampled via clever loopholes or spurious court-rulings - they don’t actually matter - what matters is who is wielding power and whether anyone is able to stop them. Law-enforcement or invocation of laws is how said power is applied to the stated laws, but stated laws are not a prerequisite to the enforcement of policy/statutes/whims. The lack of a legal pathway to achieve something simply articulates the class character of a polity, not the inability to obtain any certain goal. If something is made nigh impossible to do legally then that is just political deterrence and state-sanctioned

Not sure why you seem to imply people want to (or should) use the ballot-box as an “enlist as a dog of empire” box.

The most marginal demographics in the West have been getting raked over the coals since time immemorial; if more people need to see the inhumanity of bourgeoisie-rule in order to precipitate class-consciousness, that is better than scapegoating minorities to enjoy brunch another election cycle.

https://www.fox29.com/news/trump-takes-credit-for-covid-19-vaccine-i-hope-everyone-remembers

“I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all,” read a statement from the former president. “I hope everyone remembers!”

His comments come ahead of President Joe Biden’s planned primetime address on Thursday night, his first prime-time address since taking office, to discuss the “next phase” of the fight against the pandemic that has killed more than 529,000 Americans.

We probably should be looking closer at Argentina’s fallout to glean what we can actually expect. Starting to feel like Argentina was the beta-test for this similar to Chile with western neoliberal projects.

Neoliberalism may be going the way of Keynesian economics.

It takes some real convincing to get it to talk about Tiananmen Square, and got almost hostile when I asked which 100 Acre Wood character Xi Jinping most resembles.

I guess it is smart enough to not engage in bad-faith conversations with propaganda-sponges. I’ll have to give it a shake, sounds better than the Western models.

I mean honestly, try to get ChatGPT or anything else not to just spout US State Department sanctioned drivel at any point.

I imagine he just wants to convince other powers to disarm while furtively keeping US stockpiles.