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  • What are the few things that Orwell DID get right?

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  • He just took what was ongoing in liberal democracies, and their tendrils across the world, and projected it unto his communist boogeyman. It only seemed novel for some because of how backwards western literature was at the time (which is not necessarily the fault of the reader nor a mark against the reader to enjoy liberal media; we just have to recognise what our limitations are and strive for a world where our children may not need to make such concessions)

  • What are the few things that Orwell DID get right?

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  • Some truth in the relationship with Westerners and their fascists, even as self-claimed "socialists"; see his praise about Hitler.

    Hitler could not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not been for the attraction of his own personality, which one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one hears his speeches. I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power — till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter — I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs — and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme

    https://redsails.org/on-orwell/

  • How much damage do you think bad English language history channels like Oversimplified and Mr. Beat have done to students?

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  • The damage started from being a westerner. If falsehood does not hurt your material conditions then the narrative ends up being a social license to reflecting the above rather than brainwashing.

    https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

    It's really hard to convince a class of a narrative that contradicts their present material conditons (consider relationships rather than stresses)

  • PSA if you're moving to Linux: backups are NOT optional

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  • More to do with US-based proprietary than anything else. Thanks nonetheless. Will check it out

  • A deeply unserious human being

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  • Also the whole anarchist idea that the state is worst thing ever is some really childish understanding of history - you would have to ignore when states weren't that powerful for most of history and some of the worst atrocities committed was by civil society. Manifest Destiny with the birth of the USA being a glaringly obvious one. The amount of bigotry needed for a human adult of the West in the 21st century to overlook that(!)

    (Also no scientific theory of imperialism, how capital works, how national liberation works, any real decolonial theory, development theory, theory of underdevelopment, just zilch... all you have is westerners pontificating how brown folks should "correctly" resist Western imperialism through an orientalist lens in some pseudoscientific hodge podge of leftly sounding vibes)

  • A deeply unserious human being

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  • His main criticism against ML is his "theory of hierarchy", for lack of a better term. It's not very sophisticated, almost to the point that it looks like he is trolling:

    https://xcancel.com/BadMouse101/search?f=tweets&q=hierarchy

    I'm pretty sure if one were able to peel off the veneer of whatever this is then there's probably some deeply held Western bigotry against brown folks because his angle is a really weird hill to die on.

    If one understands his whole purpose, intentionally or not, is to defang any real resistance to Western Imperialism it makes a lot more sense. He and his ilk are the fascists' PR wing, to negate any real threat to Western Hegemony.

    It also makes a lot more sense why he chose to frame the video from a hyper-individualistic navel-gazing perspective, and devolve it to some social media drama.

  • Today, as the Cartel attacks Mexico, it's worth remembering that a DEA agent and a CIA agent were arrested in December for a $12 million money laundering and arms dealing operation for the cartel.

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  • Thank you for your good work

  • PSA if you're moving to Linux: backups are NOT optional

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  • Thanks for the recommendation. You wouldn't happen to know an open source equivalent?

  • Where my fellow 1dime haters at? We have been vindicated, again.

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  • For me he and badmouse are significantly worse than BadEmpanada (the latter at least has anti-US heuristic going for him), despite what I said about BE on the other thread.

  • BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.

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  • 💯

  • “Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this”: A family’s nightmare in ICE detention

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  • I'll be honest this way of thinking I have pointed is relatively new for me - as I am learning more as an ML, or more accurately understanding more clearly from a DM perspective certain leftovers I have assumed as left-liberal aren't necessarily so cut and dry. I wonder if many of the X-industry-complexes have similar aetiolgies; rather than a tiny elite extracting surplus value it is a whole system of bourgoisie + petty-bourgoisie + borugoisie proleteriat that benefit from the exploitation; the content/essence is capitalism but the form might be private or public, state or civil society.

    (Another one is western intelligence services like the CIA - rather than a small groups controlling things from behind the scenes they are instead the vanguards of the masses of bourgoisie society made up of the above three groups).

  • “Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this”: A family’s nightmare in ICE detention

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  • I used to think that for-profit prisons are the problem but looking the industry as a whole it is significantly a state system. I now think the prison industry (state or private) in the West is the outgrowth of having a capitalist "middle class" - for example here it is the average white US American and their co-westerners as a class that has helped with the the formation of the prison indusry as we know it now. It is an extension of the civil society and their lynching of black and native peoples in the formation of the US.

  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world

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  • I used to consider marxism-leninism as anti-moralism, and anti-purity/anti-dogma but I am not so sure now. Now I wonder if we just have a different set of morals and dogma - a scientific one

    https://redsails.org/aristocratic-marxism/

  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world

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  • Nice analysis

  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world

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  • It's only through ML the contradictions are sublimated ie the solution to privatised control is not to unsocialise the labour but to socialise control of the means of production as an extension of socialised labour... which is why China is winning whereas the best West has to offer to counter what they consider "corporatism" is limitinv - either anti-AI artisanal variety of reaction or "pro-AI" but some version of what Doctorow has to offer as a solution - ie individualised "emancipation" (and I still think your article was a good share)

  • But at what cost?!

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  • Left-liberal rag.

    Left-liberals have killed more in total than the Nazis have.

    The latter, though brutally evil, create an instability that necessitates non-communists to tail the communists, the only real threat to fascists.

    The liberals, however, help create a type of stability that prolongs mass murders by adequately subsiding the bourgoisie proleteriat with spoils of imperialism and bribing enough comprador groups in the global south, and thereby helps negate the non-communists need for solidarity with the communists (effectively making the non-communists into anti-communists during "peace time").

    The other way liberals kill more than the fascists is that they also responsible for the fascists murder rate too by delaying an earlier end to fascism or revolution in the imperial cores.

    Case in point: "China has done nothing for palestine"

  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world

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  • Maybe after all this time the artisanal reaction dressed up in anti-corporatism is still going strong.

  • Americans be like

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  • Hitler shot the Strasserites. USAmericans are more right wing than the latter (and one could argue the former too).

  • Acting ethically in an imperfect world

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  • Good share!

    You know what's better than refusing to use a technology because you hate its creators? Seizing that technology and making it your own. Don't like the fact that a convicted monopolist has a death-grip on networking? Steal its protocol, release a free software version of it, and leave it in your dust

    If liberals/anarchists can understand the above then self-claimed MLs should do too.

    3:5 downvote ratio on your post at time of writing, wth; am I missing something here