thefunkycomitatus

The subject of how important media is to the cause, if media consumption is politically transformative, where media careerism fits into practical strategy, etc are all good questions worth exploring as a community. Media consumption is one of the biggest issues for leftists online (or online leftists?) and we never talk about from the outside. It's always something boiling under the surface of these spontaneous slap-fights. We should start having structured discussions on issues that so many seem to care about.

Since we live in a world where people can make a career out of presenting socialist ideas to the world, we should probably address how that fits into a socialist movement. I can understand the USSR not getting too in-depth about radio as mass media. They didn't conceptualize it that way because it hadn't turned into this reality-defining commodity that has been for the past few generations. Anyone trying to do movement building in 2026 needs to address it in a formal, rigorous way.

Just as a general thing if you're going to look at history, people don't really subscribe to beliefs like they're choices on a menu or because they fulfill some kind of checklist of beneficial properties. So no they don't all prefer fascism like someone prefers the new iphone. Fascism is a result of the bourgeoisie trying to maintain their status and wealth. Whether they want it or not, it happens. People in the 1930s weren't sitting around looking for a belief to fall into their lap. It emerged as a response to the historical moment.

this is so much bigger than Vietnam

some kind of war involving the whole world...

it is 1807 and the enemy just sank the USS Chesapeake, the US decides to enter the war it is 1898 and the enemy just sank the USS Maine, the US decides to enter the war it is 1915 and the enemy just sank the USS Lusitania, the US decides to enter the war It is 1941 and the enemy just sank the USS Oklahoma, the US decides to enter the war it is 1964 and the enemy just attacked the USS Maddox (allegedly), the US decides to enter the war it is 2026 and the enemy just sank the USS Missouri, the US decides to enter the war

I have had it with these boat wars.

All those cheap Costco Iberian hams that feed the home-pro chef content on youtube are gone.

Dubai is really blowing up right now. So many opportunities on the ground floor. Something new launching everyday.

Really cool memes online about how badass the military is and for people to do the shining eyes thing to his official portrait and be like "Pete hogworth is frickin epic y'all dat boy comin"

It's not the x post that's the source, it's just the thing hosting the video. The video is the source. The video is from this network: https://www.canalcaribe.icrt.cu/

If you want an "Official" source: https://apnews.com/video/cuba-displays-military-hardware-seized-from-florida-flagged-boat-involved-in-firefight-with-troops-6149f23113aa455eb8cb63120aa20eb6

Pay no attention to the white hoodie, it is of no import and we shan't focus on trivial details.

I'm actually responding with the correct amount of levity, thank you. Blocking you now since you feel entitled to be involved in my posting decisions and seem to be operating under the assumption that I am somehow socially responsible to you in some way.

It's c/slop. If the site wants to seriously hash out this issue then why not make a serious dedicated thread and create an actual dialogue? Oh wait that's too productive. Let's just have serious discussions about twitter posts some more.

Oh yeah? Then why was I called a g*nji main.

Intelligence agencies could fake a death but they also could and do post fake shit online to confuse people or control narrative. Remember when the intelligence agencies said he killed himself? Then we said that they killed him because the hyoid bone stuff and his brother had beef with the medical examiner? They paid for a second autopsy? Now we're saying that same intelligence agency didn't kill him but faked his death. How can Epstein be too dangerous to let live but also too valuable to kill? Materially it can only be one answer. He has one place within the organization of capital and the whole point of all this was to examine that. He can't be in two places at once. Either he was a liability to the larger organization of intelligence blackmail, a medium to large cog in a larger machine or he's the absolute center of it all and his success can't be replicated.

Yeah but you understand that I'm not using the distinction in the way that Renaissance bourgeois used it. More so the Arts and Crafts movement way. We have to treat it like a real distinction, regardless of origins, because it's now economic reality. The artisans were laid off, fired, and couldn't find work. At that point it's not just a philosophical construct. The same thing is still happening with game devs.

I think it's her articles unless I am missing where she states she prefers he/him pronouns.

In the online discourse it seems to be two camps. There are the people who reflexively appeal to authority and intimate towards some institutional or academic notion of art. Then there are people who skip to the end by saying everything is art and view you as problematic if you try to specify it at all. It's obvious that the idea of art is heavily poisoned by centuries of being defined by those who could afford it. Also the chauvinism that art is made by only Western cultures. People want to push back by opening up the realm of art to cover all the neglected categories, genres, techniques, and mediums. But I find it specious to say everything is art based on it's existing lack of exclusivity. Maybe "art" is just a limited concept for what we're trying to describe. Luckily there is a third way!

I'm a huge believer in craft vs art. It seems that craft is what most people like more than art anyways. Craft is more Marxist than art because it focuses on actually making a thing rather than how it exists in the mind or heart. I'm not saying the two don't coexist in pieces that we all agree are art, but craft is my favorite child and the more noble pursuit. Also no big coincidence that you see a huge push in craft in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Also, also art academia pushed indigenous and non-Western art under this category, hmmmmm.

Games undeniably have craft and I think that's what most people mostly respond to that. When I see arguments like this blog saying "rules are art" without really expanding on that, I just assume she means rules are art because it's a crafted experience. That's the key word, craft, showing up to give us a clue. When people are saying games are art they really mean they enjoy the craftsmanship of certain games and want to celebrate it by elevating them to art. Crafts are just fine and we should instead work to elevate craft.

Corporations more often operate in the space of art because it's easier to tamper with concepts, reactions, and ideas of art than it is to fool someone on the material craft of the product. These companies have advertising, marketing, PR, and run influence campaigns. That's why these entities are completely on board with calling games art and stressing that in the media. Once everyone accepts games are art then it's only a matter of using the media you own to declare your products art and give yourself awards. Now you have a new marketing claim against your competitors.

It's much harder to operate in a space where craft is important. Craft demonstrably declines over time as companies cut costs and squeeze labor in favor of profits. Just as a heuristic, it provides a much better space for the game consumer. Even if a billion dollar company creates a well crafted game, that's okay. If every game company did that then gamers wouldn't dwell on this art question so much.

(I did read the article)

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