echognomics

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[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yup. It's all either the most cliched sinophobic meming you've seen, bitching about traffic caused by Xi's presidential convoy (kinda reasonable I guess because they're closing off or redirecting something like 17 highways, but it's just 3 days), or getting performatively offended because the state visit got headline & special pullout coverage in the Chinese & state-linked newspapers (they're making a minor fuss that a long-planned state visit is overshadowing ex-PM Abdullah Badawi's sudden passing, but who the fuck cares about the guy who was basically Malaysian Sleepy Joe - a mostly ineffectual centre-right figurehead propped up by and upholding a wider reactionary establishment political apparatus, who is now somehow retrospectively praised by liberals because he's supposedly an improvement over a more disruptive and proactively-right-wing/authoritarian predecessor; and (ii) the guy died at like 7pm local time; papers have already gone to press, literally just wait one day lah you entitled babies).

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yup, it's the same tradition/genre of analysis being carried on into the internet era by Natalie "all radical ideologies are rooted in envy" Wynn.

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Xi is visiting my country at the moment, and the libs on my country's subreddit are (predictably) spamming Winnie the Pooh and social credit memes debord-tired

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by echognomics@hexbear.net to c/gossip@hexbear.net
 

Basically:-

  1. Complains that Marx is just too obscure/complicated for his liberal know-nothing peabrain. (in a earlier version of the article, lets slip that he's definitely lying about having read anything written by Marx)
  2. Gets a "Babby's First Marxist Analysis" explanation of economic class contradiction from Ken Loach, and immediately thinks he's completely disproven Marx by asking "what about Premier League footballers though?".
  3. References an LSE/BBC study about class in Britain that that places crude social and cultural signifiers on equal standing with a deliberate misunderstanding of economic relations - apparently, your economic class has all to do with your income level, whether you're a homeowner, and your savings, and nothing at all to do with how you earn a living - and acts surprised when it makes him feel confused about his own class position. And this is after he already admits earlier in the article that judging class through "superficial markers" is "prejudice and almost certainly wrong".
  4. Gets a slightly more in-depth explanation of the Marxist conception of the petit-bourgeoisie, and how petit-bourgeois people like him are increasingly being proletarianised by neoliberalism, but then dismisses the entire idea because being petit-bourgeois is not as romantic as being working class, and because it makes him feel "parasitic".

marx-doomer

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

It's an old-fashioned British English word that's originally mostly used in the context of its own elite education system (i.e., Oxbridge), which filtered down to its Commonwealth territories (college/school administrators naturally applying the terminology they used back home to the institutions they establish and run in the colonies). Why you don't see comments speculating that this ad was made by MI6 agents to propagate Wodehousian Tory ideology among feebleminded Youtube-watching youth, I guess we'll never know...

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

jinx does the piltover equivalent of 9/11

whew thanks for the clarification google AI overview

 

edit: it seems that the ai account deleted their tweet containing the video (a "hyperrealistic" ai reimagining of the trailer for Arcane season 2). Probably the only proof the thing ever existed online is a reply posted by a former Fortische production assistant who worked on season 2.

https://x.com/Lordupe/status/1862768046487502904

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Off the top of my head: "follow your leader", "[group/person] gets the wall", "actually it's a good thing that your grandma's [slave plantation/egg farm/toothbrush/pony] got confiscated?

You can maybe also take a visual approach, eg. romanov-wall.jpg, pictures of Lyudmila Pavlichenko/giant spoons/motorised paragliders/[communist "dictator"] with shining laser eyes, the "your grandpa deserved it" video.

Seriously though, dogwhistles shouldn't be a leftist's go-to tactic in any remotely serious argument. Shitposting is fun and all, and has a place in conversations among like-minded people, but communist revolution won't be built using obscure online forum in-jokes. It's always more important, and productive, in internet debates to focus on clear-headed material analysis and education. There's a reason why Marx says that Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims, and Sankara says revolutionaries must never stop explaining.

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

Chinese Harry Du Bois with maxed out Authority confronting Scab Leader

 

Just found out about this today

The musical follows John Rawls on a journey through time to gain inspiration for A Theory of Justice from a chorus of singing and dancing political philosophers, including Plato, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Wollstonecraft, Marx and Kant. As he pursues his love interest, a beautiful student named Fairness, Rawls is menaced by villainous libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick and his lover Ayn Rand, who plot to stop Rawls writing his redistributionist theory of justice.

Besides being one of the writers, Tommy is also appearing on stage: “I’m playing Karl Marx. “He’s a slightly crazy, homeless man. He goes around shouting that the end is nigh. “He comes across a bemused John Rawls, who doesn’t quite know how to react to him. (Interview with writers)

Silly commies, didn't you know that communism is when you want everyone to be poor?

guess who wrote thisOne of the 3 co-writers is Eylon Levy, former official Israeli government ~~spokesperson~~ propagandist/genocide apologist, when he was an Oxford PPE undergrad.

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Hmm what I heard was: “你好中国朋友们,这是(?)之家,我叫利,欢迎来和我们一起玩“

"Hello China friends, this is <probably the bear's name?>'s home, I am called Li(?), you're welcome to come play with us"

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

matt-guerrilla Joint-Dictatorship of the ~~Proletariat~~ Pierrots of Oppressed Nations

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Why waste time scrounging up both a sock and a half-brick when a single cast-iron frying pan is already more than adequate for any imaginable problem, plus fairy incursions? Typical PMC wizardry, always trying to overcomplicate magic.

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Malala could have had some vaguely "left" sympathies when she was attending that Trot summer camp 2012 as a 16 year old. But I doubt that she has any kind of real socialist convictions left in her as a 27 year old adult, when she's been safely ensconced within Western elite liberal "progressive" institutions for more than a decade, and is now so financially secure and socially accepted within that crowd that she's co-producing suffragette Broadway musicals with the Hilldawg herself. https://archive.ph/rURQV

She's not a comrade or any sort of revolutionary. At most she's a safe brown "activist" who's ultimately compatible with Western capitalist hegemony.

[–] echognomics@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the chap who did thisstomp stomp

Was making a reference to Overlord: an overworked salaryman from near-future cyberpunk Japan wakes up in a fantasy world as his VRMMO player character (i.e., the skeleton in the pic), and alongside with the evil NPCs created by himself and his former guildmates (they were a guild dedicated to roleplaying evil grotesque monsters) proceed to take over the world using the power of fantasy violence. Because the MC and his NPCs are absurdly over-leveled compared to the fantasy world natives, the casualties are incredibly one-sided and genocidal.

The show's a bit above average compared with other isekai, as it balances out its shameless powerfantasy with some decent comedy of errors and quite some effort being put into the worldbuilding/power system. It has a fair amount of typical anime horniness though, though I think it's relatively tame compared to the lowest common denominator isekai slop.

 

We need a total and complete shutdown of all Ivy League anthropology departments until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

https://twitter.com/Magnus_Fiskesjo/status/1764725547827859605

Interesting that Viking battle-axes used to rape and pillage defenceless seaside villages are fetishised by some Scandanavians/Europeans/Americans today as "rad" and "totally awesome as fuck" -- that's truly sick.

And, it is probably part of the broader psychological denial of the gruesome history of bloody violence, on which modern Western capitalist hegemony is founded. a-little-trolling

 

Loved Adam's bit near the end about fidel-cool taking away the slaves owned the CIA lady's parents

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