listening to some Bolt Thrower 🫡 antifascist Death Metallers

the two genders in music are bands like Ulver that do something new with every album, and bands like Motorhead that keep a consistent sound for decades both are valid

the best representative of this kind of thought is Jürgen Habermas, his scholarly career really encapsulates the sad decline of critical theory and its eventual capitulation to anti-Marxism

We can literally trace the maturation of Marx's political theory in his critique of 𝘣ü𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘧𝘵, Hegel's conception of civil society as a 'third realm' between the family and the state, one where social inequalities were mediated and ultimately resolved

this is where capitalism ultimately ends up, the total destruction of civil society as a space of resistance - this has been clearly understood for at least a hundred years in socialist theory and is only a surprise to those who refuse to educate themselves

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from Althusser's Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Analytic philosophers are so allergic to historical/sociological analysis, it's a riot Like I interact with a lot of ppl who are academics in that tradition, and I've never seen a book about the history of analytic philosophy that they actually endorse, it's always called bad and misrepresentation

I remember absolutely losing my shit at this article it holds up

listened to this a couple of times while I was doing stuff I think it's easy to dismiss his point as sort of pop-buddhist, and maybe parts of it are, but I do think there's something of actual profundity here

I'm shocked

the slop feeders are going to eat well for a while

please do not fall for this, there is no shock collar nor is there a fob. tectone (the guy who's father is in the congressional record for being the army's rape monster), kiwifarms, ethan klein, etc are trying to spread this because they are trying to find another venue to get hasan kicked off.

today we have a good organic test for critical thinking certain parts of the Internet are spreading the idea that Hasan Piker has a dedicated button to torture his dog, on his desk, and he reached for that button during his livestream to shock the dog it's now on bsky so it's going pretty viral

did they break bluesky search or something, I'm getting zero results for everything

In fact, if we go back to Marx's earlier philosophical terminology, the proletariat can be described as a 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, its defining feature is its 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 status in the capitalist order - its interests do not align with it, they were not agents of its constitution

Here's my attempt to explain the Marxist critique of capitalism in a single skeet: The quantitative abstraction and homogenization of labor forms the foundation of the modern economy. The full consummation of this process can only result in the complete ruin of the social fabric and our humanity.

I need to rewatch the Matrix series cuz it's been on my mind a ton recently going to become the world's biggest Resurrections defender

i don't know who i am

"There is no such thing as human body. There are individual cells, and there are organs" - Targaret Matcher

MORPHEUS You have been living inside Baulliaurd's vision, inside the map, not the territory. This is Chicago as it exists today.

skimming the original script for The Matrix and it's so much more delightfully nerdy

this is a post by a philosophy professor, from an academic philosophy-focused discord server extremely grim to contemplate

it's genuinely so depressing how quickly ChatGPT has been completely integrated into the lives of people around me I've seen my cousins pull it up for the most trivial of things, and at that point resistance seems almost futile

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

that feeling when you're reading a wikipedia article and get flashbanged

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today I learned that George Michael joined a communist party in Britain RIP king

pikachu nodding has become my favorite emoji to use on discord, it's really hard to leave it behind when I use something else

They’re working as hard they can to further their own ends at the expense of everyone else under the guise of care…it’s truly fucking sick

Netanyahu calling himself a Kantian might be the greatest critical hit against german idealism enjoyers so far

"Marx did not waver in his condemnation of the metaphysics of absolute idealism. But in effect he insists in this passage that Hegelian categories are required by the critique of political economy. In his view 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘭’𝘴 𝘈𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦."

I've noticed how often I hear liberal commentary that has absorbed some surface-level 'postmodern' points, namely Lyotard's distrust of metanarratives Such that when you have a Marxist trying to give some structural explanation, it will be termed a 'narrative' condescendingly as if this refutes it

the liberal answer to structural violence is to look at each instance of violence separately and repeat, in a very stern voice, that it's horrible and we should try looking into the personal history of the perpetrator for clues

Douthit calls attention to Piker's worldview as "dark" and "bleak" because he called attention to some of the issues of the way discussions around Hamas are framed, etc. I think it's telling that both Klein and Douthit think real-world observations can be pessimistic or fatalistic.

possibly the one cool thing Bill Gates has done

I know enough about One Piece to say Luffy would be punching the IDF

The noblesse oblige paper

time to watch a fresh attempt by NYT to portray entirely sensible descriptions of political reality as unhinged and dangerous

My parents having a bad taste in movies really cramps my style My dad is so capitalism-brained that he doesn't like it when the characters have a lot of free time and aren't employed

Chopped in haughhhhhhhhhhlf

I'm curious to know how obscure this game actually was if anyone has played it, please let me know! it was a very interesting Yu-Gi-Oh! fangame with a ton of content