If it's just a title screen banner for a game by the "same studio" then that barely even qualifies as advertising lol. They're not being paid to insert ads for dick pills or something
I'm assuming the in-game thing isn't real (even if it is, it'd just be a cheeky little easter egg).
But like every game I've played will have a title screen message if the same studio publishes a new game
So passing even more decision-making powers to private insurance agencies
If you dipped the filter side in acid it'd probably work well enough
Waste of a lot of acid, though
I don't know the details of this specific situation and it's too triggering for me to research, all I'll say is parents who send their kids to these torture camps deserve worse than this. I don't give a fuck that some may have been "tricked", this industry has been well-documented for decades at this point. They spend more time researching a fucking blender than the prisons they send their own kids to.
God I lean on parentheticals a lot (at least my incoherent ramblings are probably distinguishable from chatgpt)
I dunno, I find in my limited experience it isn't hard (but is annoying) to associate with trots as an ML, up until they find out you're an ML (although a bunch of the newer converts don't even know what that means lol, since they just call everyone Stalinist. I openly identified as an ML and was let into a Trot org, and they had no clue lmao).
I imagine he's getting most of his opinions from his friends in the org, so it might help if you feel out their philosophical strain so you can find common ground. Social circles are essential for well-being
You can probably get him to come around on the Soviet Union under Lenin, then emphasize the accomplishments of the workers after Lenin's death (which is true anyways).
Deprogramming is a frustrating process because it's simultaneously sooo much work for such little return-- just getting someone to have a reasonable opinion of Stalin-- but also anti-Stalin obsession is a major roadblock for western leftists to overcome in order to accomplish anything. And Trotsky was such a disinformation artist that it can sometimes be more difficult with trots than radlibs.
Ultimately it kind of doesn't matter that much? Or at least it's low on the priority list. Your brother has friends that are keeping him healthy. You have a lot of common ground with a brother who's communist. Try to have political conversations that aren't antagonistic. Ask open-ended questions, tap into his knowledge to learn things. Humility isn't just essential for having good conversations and relationships with people, it's also necessary for dialectical thought. (I say as someone who's burned bridges probably unnecessarily over political issues).
Being an insufferable elitist, on a personal level.
On a political level, putting his own ego above the survival of the revolution and deliberately violating the democratic centralism he himself had supported previously. Continuing to do so after being removed from power, then after being exiled, even to the extent of considering (or actually) collaborating with the US government to split and undermine the international communist movement.
On a theoretical level, being dogmatic and revisionist (simultaneously, somehow). He was like an inverse to Lenin's principled scientific Marxism: elevating his own opinions as universal truths, but then retroactively adjusting them after the fact to make himself appear correct and his enemies stupid.
On a symbolic level or by association, because every trot party that came after him is at best similarly dogmatic+revisionist and insufferable, and all too often wreckers or harboring sex pests.
Some reading material off the top of my head:
Black Bolshevik has a first-hand account by Harry Haywood of Trotskyites wrecking in the Soviet Union.
Losurdo's History and Critique provides an overview of some of the wrecking and conspiracies.
Stalin's Wars by Roberts and Kotkin's works on Stalin provide ample evidence contradicting most Trotsky/Trotskyite inventions, notably the misnamed "Last Testament" that supposedly proves Lenin preferred Trotsky to Stalin (if you read the letter itself, that is. The way it's sold by trots, it somehow proves Lenin and Trotsky were besties struggling to prevent Stalin from gaining power), as well as Trotskyite claims that Stalin was somehow at fault for the Nazi invasion and/or sat by and let it happen.
But to be honest, reading Trotsky himself (after I had a decent background understanding of the Russian Revolution into WWII) is what turned me from an agnostic to a hater. Especially his letters and congress speeches, stuff he didn't have a chance to go back and revise to paint himself in a better light.
Just a tiny one, occupied by a single person
There's a tiny blue dot outside the red circle. Not gonna tell you who it is
That's fair lol, hard to read tone
Those are two different people
Effective is subjective and entirely beside the point, which is that a few terminally online people are obsessed with the fact that technology gets used in production. I don't give a fuck whether you like this specific post or not, Yogthos is prolific in sharing news, information, and agitprop.
But sure, this specific example is fine. It's a famous poem that's frequently put on posters. It resonates with people for a reason.
Iconography featuring diverse, hopeful workers has been a mainstay of agitprop for over a century. Showing Lenin as a badass is always cool. A lot of people like the comic book style.
I highly doubt anyone would have a problem with this if it were laboriously hand-drawn.
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I hope for their sake they never get exposed to the Simpsons.
Did this image create itself, or did a human have a concept and bring that concept to fruition? "AI" can't think. It doesn't know who Lenin is or why this poem is meaningful. That was a human thought.
If by "creativity" you just mean mechanical skill, then sure. If OP decided it was personally meaningful to spend a few hundred hours honing the skill to draw in this style and then a few hours manually drawing this meme, then that's cool. If you want to bake a loaf of bread from scratch, that's cool. It'll even taste better than store bought! But as cool as hobbies like that may be, they aren't leftist praxis.
It's a weird feeling to see a value form get transformed by technology, I understand. But griping about it is unmaterialist.
Beautifully put. The human element can still persist.
But this isn't an art page nor is the post trying to be art, it's agitprop. OP isn't trying to showcase their talents. There's no trickery or deception.
Requiring a disclaimer might make sense if that were the case, or if the post was difficult to distinguish from reality.
If you have a problem with the idea that you might have to have a conversation with the human that posted something in order to get arbitrary details, then I'm afraid you might be a slop consumer.
Or you could just have a conversation with the human being who posted something if you have questions lol.
"This is cool! Did you make this?"
Friendly conversation ensues
Or would that interrupt scrolling?
I'm not equipped to argue the definition of art (I've read Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction twice and still don't know if I get it). It seems like the concept of art is going through another radical transformation, and I'm not sure what it'll look like on the other side.
I can see how usage of technology might reduce the artistic essence of a work (if we define it as something to do with human creation) but I don't think it necessarily eliminates it. A human had a concept, thought of a way to communicate it, and used a fine-tuned tool to create a representation of it. It makes little difference in this case whether they used a paintbrush or a digital program.
That's a pretty tangential response to your point.
I'd argue the survival of old agitprop has to do with its ability to resonate with people's experiences, and human input is essential for authentic understanding. This isn't precluded by the use of technology, but technology does make it easier for non-humans to pump out soulless garbage.
But it also can't be understated that the experience of art in the 1700s is different than the experience of art in the 1900s is different than the experience of art will be in the next decade. The printing press obliterated the value of written text but made it accessible to the masses. Photographs and mechanical reproduction did the same to painting.
Even up until the internet, people might see a little bit of art occasionally when they travel or in poor definition on TV (ignoring TV itself as a new art form), so some essence of the old form still persisted.
But now we are inundated by content. I like the idea of buying a painting to hang on my wall, but after a month it stays the same while I've seen a hundred thousand new images.
The memetic speed of ideas spreads so much faster than it did in Soviet times, people don't look at a single poster every day at their factory. They see a meme for five seconds and move to the next.
I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that it's new and unprecedented, so old tactics need to adapt.