Haven’t seen it, don’t plan to, don’t care to tbh.

But having talked to some people about it, this is my takeaway: “Messaging” is simply a new tool of marketing, especially “subversive” messaging. You’re not buying a car - you’re committing a revolutionary act of activism against climate change and fossil capitalism. You’re not buying an ethically farmed, grass-fed, local steak, you’re fighting animal cruelty and big farming lobbies with your consumption. You’re not simply dressing up skandidly in pink to watch a multi-hundred million dollar Hollywood production of Barbie produced and approved of by its parent company, giving new legitimacy to that old rubber toy franchise and boosting sales numbers. You’re totally subverting gender roles and criticizing capitalism by doing so.

Imo you’re not. You’re just buying a new car, munching another steak and going to the movies again promoting one of the most famous IPs of all time. It’s the same thing we’ve done our entire lives. Changing the messaging around the act without changing the act, doesn’t change the act. You’re just doing the thing.

There can’t be anything really subversive coming out of the hegemonic culture industry. By the very nature of its production, via the commodification it undergoes, it has already become toothless and assimilated. Neoliberal anti-capitalism is just the newest sales-pitch. It’s along the lines of “diverse” CIA targeting officer recruitment ads. Just like capitalism can’t produce true anti-war movies, it can’t produce anti-capitalist or real anti-gender-role movies. It would be self-defeating if it did.

That being said, if you enjoy it more power to you. Nobody needs a grand narrative of subversion and messaging to go see and enjoy a movie at the theater. If you get something deeper out of it, even better.

The absolute effect of liberalism on women’s perception of themselves and their role in the world

Capitalism’s ability to provide moral and ideological cover for the self-commodification of every aspect of humanity is incredible. 100 years ago you’d have to force women to do this, today some are not just willing to do it, but see it as a noble cause and contribution for the war machine of empire.

people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments

Where do you get the impression from that the people rose up and overthrew their governments?

Ok comrades, not to beat the ‘muh modernity is degenerate’ drum, but can someone seriously explain to me what’s going on in this vid?

Like I honestly do not get what’s happening, but whatever it is, it gives me serious existential dread

Am I wrong here for not supporting Russia?

Nobody here is supporting anyone in this war. At most people on the internet are cheerleading for a war they’re so alienated from it’s become a team spectable to be consumed in their leasure time. Nobody here is sending weapons, money or doing anything tangible to support Russia in this war.

Most users on here, however, probably hold the opinion that a victory for Western imperialism in Ukraine would have worse ramifications for the world. And if anything is abundant, it’s Western people and media screeching about Russian imperialism. I don’t think there’s a need for principled communists to preach to that choir.

The onus should be on the lawmaker imo - so the question should be “should x be illegalised”. I don’t know a single valid reason why weed should be illegal, so yes it should legalised.

BREAKING: China has announced the end to the following cooperation with the US

1. Calls with leaders
2. Defense meetings
3. Maritime Security Consultation
4. Climate Change Talks
5. Anti-Drug cooperation
6. Transnational crimes
7. Illegal Immigration

Source

Nah. Mostly pointless arguing about communism with people that understand neither capitalism nor communism and haven’t read a word of Marx or any Marxist.

Had someone tell me Das Kapital is a work of linguistics and an opinionpiece void of empiricism. Naturally they hadn’t read a word of it or any political/economic theory ever for that matter, but were completely adamant about their position.

You can’t argue with someone like that. Most libs are like this. They’ll just nod it off or go on anticommunist tirades they’ve picked up somewhere from someone.

Not sure what to think about him either. I’ve watched a couple of his videos at the beginning of the war, a livestream or two with the Deprogram guys and see comrades recommend him quite often, so I thought he was pretty decent. But this video combined with the China takes really brought out the Maoist leanings of his and…yeah, controversial at least.

But imo MLs online really haven’t bothered wrestling with this conflict on a theoretical basis too much. I’ve seen almost no deeper analysis and even the big Youtubers like Hakim have hardly touched on it. Day to day analysis of the events and consequences is almost non-existent too, so I reckon some controversial takes about it ain’t too bad to discuss about honestly.

Book: Walden. Was so hyped to read it, had massive expectations due to it’s popularity and because it sounded awesome. Horrible book. I can’t even really put my finger on it, but to me it was just trivial, boring, uninspired rambling and it made me unreasonably angry. One of the very few books I’ve consciously not finished.

TV show: Big Bang Theory. The most milquetoast normie shit dressed up as nerdy and quirky. It’s not smart and the humor is atrocious. Bazoongy! xddddddddddd hahaha Shelbot did le random thing omg what a nerd, btw Batman xddddd Just hate everything about it. The fandom, the characters, everything.

Movie: Coldest Game. Just because I’ve seen it recently. Horrible pacing, horrible writing, horrible acting, horrible story. Absolute dogshit movie and on top of that it’s one of the most unabashed anti-communist piles of garbage I’ve seen in quite a while. Polish resistence guy literally calls a couple of Soviet soldiers fascists. The whole ‘dark ebil empire with the gray sky and grey buildings’ aesthetic dialed up to the max. Most cartoonishly evil Soviet antagonists. Fuck it.

Also Transformers. Literal US military propaganda with some fancy boom boom, garbage actors and the most nonsensical stories ever. Fucking sentient car robots from outer space…

Funny as, but the cuts and the interviewers loaded questions really aren’t doing him any favor. Anyone who watches this and isn’t a comrade already will just see this as some absurd curiosity unfortunately. The wall thing is suicide in any but the most niche contexts.

Just filter by “Local” for now, that’s pretty much /all for the lemmygrad instance. “All” is for other instances too and “Subscribed” is, well, what you’re subscribed to.