They say “He’s got a gun!” Yet didn’t plant a gun. So much for sticking to your story.

When you start seeing the settler mindset in America’s capitalist ‘land use’ policies, you can’t unsee it

This is a month old and seeing it now I can’t but recommend Masses Elites and Rebels. It’s an essay that critiques propaganda and “brainwashing” in favor of material interest and social incentives. Best wishes

Reddit was fedora 16 years ago

“Everyone but JD and little Marco leave the room.”

Tech produces real products and fake speculation vessels simultaneously, because as much as financialized neoliberalism wants a world without workers, it’s not possible to worship fake numbers without a real computer to do the math.

Hello would you like to buy a newspaper

it is july 20 and stalin saved the world from fascism

This dope is your dope

This dope is my dope

From the Laotian hill tribes to the Afghan warlords

From the Contras warcrimes to the port of Marseilles

This dope was made for you and me

Thinking about the title, This Soviet World implies a sort of familiarity and tangibility, a sense of being at hand, very much with the zeitgeist. It could be The Soviet World, but that reads like a memorandum from George Kennan circa 1950- “The Soviet World seeks the free world’s destruction.” Strong talks early on about how people conceptualize eachother. In the Great Depression-era US, the unemployed ask, “If it gets any worse, they’ll have to do something.” She rightly considers this a statement of alienation. There’s a divide between I/They/Us that betrays class society. Soviet people would ask what we are to do in response to a challenge, and that’s why it’s This Soviet World.

The book evocatively takes you to that moment, where “questing hope that hardly yet dares call itself belief” stands. It’s not a history or a prose but one of those lovely primary sources that isn’t afraid to document and analyze and actively be a part of ongoing events. Living in the long 20th century, the weight still feels heavy and heavier when it comes to every attempt against that hope. “For this war differs from other battles in that all men, even the conquered foes, are absorbed into the ranks of the conquerors—joint heirs to all the fruits of victory.” It’s hard to read in the wake of the Cold War. Colonial war, total war, nuclear war, psychological war, while the process of one class asserting itself over another is so, the 20th century’s global anticommunist dirty war lingers, Killing Hope (Blum 1995).

“What happened to that faith in inevitable progress? If it still survives in some circles as a despairing habit, elsewhere it has been replaced by belief in inevitable doom. ‘Inevitable drift to fascism,’ ‘inevitable twilight of the West,’ ‘the old standard of prosperity can never return,’ are phrases common on lips that not long since hailed inevitable advance [of progress under capitalism].” The fact that such a passage can be read as a contemporary commentary proves the mission of that Soviet project is not irrelevant.

Romania was totalitarian tho she must have had to jump the wall

State of Katanga revanchism

I only know this is a thing because it’s historical context for Patrice Lumumba’s assassination. More 60s Congo larp like Dragon Rouge and 5 Commando too lol nobody remembers that what are you gonna namedrop Kongo Müller next?

Assorted Baltic Nazi shit

Ofc

OAS

You’re just a Frederick Forsyth fan

It’s interesting, if they did SCP it would probably be some sort of retro nostalgia bait around some famous entry like 173. Not sure how the licensing would work, but it seems like at this point the SCP community has moved on. A lot of new articles are overwritten novelletes, because so much has already been explored.

Talking to bots on social media is also using AI, unknowingly, of course.

His “decolonized” Russia and China maps are hilarious. Neolib imperialism wants to Yugoslavia (Balkanize) or Libya (immiserate) the whole world so their precious capital can flow in. That being said, I have a proposed map for Germany:

You mean the struggle session a month or two back?

A peak inside the minds of decrepit ex-Chapoids 10 years later. Who thought they were gonna get some social democracy bennies. May Brooklyn burn!

I’m not the original person but the reason we have chatbots and image generators and the whole concept of AI slop is because the “AI” sector got chosen as a vessel for speculation. I strongly question the utility/ethics/value of chatbots, versus the applications for this sector if it was not being turned into the ersatz centerpiece of global capitalism. I think you’re humoring these speculators when you try to understand it through the lens of sapience.

In a few years it will be some other tech sector where a lack of progress can be hidden behind billions from international finance gamblers. If we don’t have a 100th Anniversary Black Tuesday Reenactment.

The latest Radio War Nerd episode with Events in Ukraine covers this. A lot of organized crime/state/intelligence stuff happening.

What a shibboleth