Juice
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- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 1 day ago:
The Filmer is trying to get some Charlie Kirk attention and launch his streaming career or some shit, instead no one knows who that fucking creep is, but we all know the face of who hit him.
The filmer looks like such a punk, tall, acting cool, doing the “I have a right to be a fascist, what are you gonna do about it” bit. the kid who threw the punch is about as unassuming as you can be, probably not super popular, kind of a big guy, when he speaks, there is a waver in his voice from not being the kind of guy who initiates violence that even comes off as sort of meek. He probably got made fun of by people like the Filmer.
But the Filmer captured this brief moment, not the face of a fascist getting punched, but of the righteous anger and imperative to defend the defenseless, coming for your fascist ass. Those who try to get along, who believe in kindness and humanity, unable to be civilized about smug incivility.
I’m making these details up, I dont know anything about these young people personally, but thats the message we received. Smug self interest advocating the destruction of lives, gleefulness in the face of incredible fascist violence; met with the rising tide of popular anger against this acute sickness at the heart of a sick society.
Humanity vs the inhumane, in one still image. A picture that says more than 1000 words, it speaks to a growing sentiment among many. We see him and we see ourselves, or who we think more people aught to be.
- Comment on Anon is all smiles 6 days ago:
If we have learned anything in the last 15 years, it’s that speaking positively about Hitler is okay as long as its just a joke
/s for my homies that can’t easily process sarcasm
- Comment on Anon is all smiles 6 days ago:
Its awe-inspiring that our technological society finally has given humanity the ability to make lasers capable of splitting hairs this thin
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 1 week ago:
Its for the best
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 1 week ago:
sounds just like a grumpy old man yelling at a cloud.
Yeah totally agree with you there. The book is actually pretty funny in that regard, he spends most of what I read talking about Tricky and 90’s Jungle, and really, really hating the arctic monkeys. He spent his last years talking about how leftists were too mean on twitter, so he’s like a spiritual influence on the rights war against “woke”. In response, the twitter left was really mean to him about it. Like there was something to it but he also missed the mark, even though he early on recognized the trend.
But like I said those CCRU people like broke their own brains. Very sad. Except maybe Sadie Plant but she hasn’t published anything in a very long time to my knowledge
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 1 week ago:
Actually he wrote a lot about 90s music in this theory, his main example of a subversive musical genre from the 90s was Jungle/D&B.
I mean I don’t think its complete nonsense, this is definitely something that has always happened regarding the capitalization of popular music, Gramsci wrote about some of the tendencies, in his analysis of italian theatre and how monopolized capital exploited artists and small venues, back in the 1920s. I think the pressures certainly exist, especially because of the examples you mention, like clear channel, but also live nation and ticketmaster. Those pressures to homogenize and commodify music are objectively the result of monopolization of the music industry. Culture and economy are intrinsically bound up in one another.
But also I feel that he sort of over stated his point, like his analysis is sort of warped by chronic depression and like fiercely hating the Arctic Monkeys.
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 1 week ago:
Mark Fisher, the author of Capitalist Realism, in another book called “Exiting the Vampire Castle”, argued that in the history of recorded music, every 20 - 30 years or so there were new genres of music that wouldn’t be recognizable as music to the previous generation. But around the early 2000s this process stopped, and musical categories hardened due to capitalist logic. Record companies just wanted to churn out the same things that they already knew how to market, rather than invest in artists who were cutting edge. He called it “the slow cancellation of the future”.
Granted I think Fisher is kind of overrated as a practical theorist, all those CCRU research people went crazy, and Fisher is a particularly sad example. His vampire castle book is okay, and that generation was like preoccupied with marketing manipulation (a perspective that arguably was being marketed to them/us).
But through that perspective this meme is interesting, because the reason younger generations can connect about musical tastes, is because popular music has stopped being subversive. Chances are the band the younger boy is listening to has a sound that was copped from an older group, which is why the young man recognizes it as good. But to the older generations, music was still subversive, the young rejected the old and proper categories of music, which were themselves subversive in their own time.
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 1 week ago:
I vehemently disagree with many worlds theory. I think its a total mindfuck. However I do think that the future influences the present and the past.
- Comment on I liek tudles 3 weeks ago:
After Darwin owned the tortoise, it had to be sent away to animal prison. She was too much of a hard case
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 3 weeks ago:
If later you realize that you did have time, you will have already read and understood it
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
ChatGPT will fail, Altman will take the fall, Microsoft will get the whole thing, and nothing negative will be avoided.
- Comment on Randezvous 📅 4 weeks ago:
I thought monolingual meant someone who only licks one other person, as opposed to polylingual where someone licks multiple other people
- Comment on Great Mug 5 weeks ago:
Science isn’t an ontology, it’s a method.
God, what no humanities does to a mf
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 1 month ago:
Absolutely massacred this meme
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 1 month ago:
It’s not like his daughter isn’t the VP , and the president is BongBong Marcos, the son of the previous dictator.
- Comment on Russell Brand faces new rape and sexual assault charges 1 month ago:
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” --Samuel Johnson
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 months ago:
No time for learning, only tests
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 3 months ago:
So how would you calculate this?
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 months ago:
Y’all mind if I just uncancel myself like our lord and savior Jesus Christmas?
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 3 months ago:
I love how this whole premise never gets questioned. By anyone. None of the super smartest people on the in the movie were like, “no that won’t work.” The premise just gets accepted as true, but it would be bad.
“I’m going to eliminate half of all life in the universe” hey thanos did you know that scarcity in modern society isn’t driven by population at all, and is in fact an artificial condition imposed on the lower classes by the ruling class that hoards those resources?
No its just like, “well killing people is wrong but it would probably work, people might be sad though.” No Disney, fuck you. Don’t let people believe this shit. Thanks for your endless support for cultural fascism, ya fucks
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 3 months ago:
No but what if I did it?
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 3 months ago:
Okay fair. But what is meant is that leases, debt, market forces are justifications for class domination.
Remember that all financial activity begins and ends with the banking system. New money is created by banks, it circulates throughout the economic system, and then returns to the banks in greater amounts via interest and exploitation. This all supports a system that ensures a wealthy few have domination over the precarious existence of poor and middle class workers.
Small capitalists are especially vulnerable to these pressures. When you own a business to take a lease on a building then the price they pay is determined by the market. But market prices are driven by political and private interests. The commercial real estate market has been described as a “zombie” for over a decade. Supply is tightly controlled so that owners can return a profit on their profit year over year. This has created unsustainable circumstances, a bubble that could pop if a movement came along to seize it.
Power over the workers is the only thing that the system offers small capitalists, who are as beholden to large capitalists as the rest of us. But for us we get mad at our boss or manager, who is more like an overseer of wage slaves than a plantation owner. Coming back to work means people have to go buy new business attire, we spend more on gas, we put more wear on our vehicles, we get less free time to improve our lives or sustain a work/life balance. And for what? People are more productive when we work from home, we make more money for our companies, we are happier and more effective. What does keeping us poor and stressed and tired do to sustain a rational system of labor, even exploited labor?
But the system isn’t rational. And if it isn’t just about profit and productivity than what is it about?
As leftists have been saying for at least two centuries, it is about the power of one class of owning capitalists over all others.
Its like saying that an automobile drives with its wheels. In a very minor way it is true, but it is a complex machine operated by many essential systems. When we look at the car its important to inspect where the rubber meets the road, and understand the component systems, but to understand it we need to look at how all the seemingly disparate systems operate together, as well as who is driving it and where they intend to go with it.
Return to work is a mandate that one billionth of the world’s population demands of .0075% of the worlds population, in order to control the remaining 99.9925%.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 3 months ago:
Relevant screen name
- Comment on Manic Stew 3 months ago:
Shaky leg Ratatouille
- Comment on Time is of the essence! 3 months ago:
Mfw it took me 20 seconds to read the whole meme
- Comment on Anon plays GTA V 4 months ago:
The subjective is objective because people exist
- Comment on Brickshelf 4 months ago:
Occipital
- Comment on Brickshelf 4 months ago:
I lobe it when that happens
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 4 months ago:
Its funny that Italy is in 3 zones, increasing the quality of food of all three
- Comment on Can't argue that. 4 months ago:
I read a couple Teleb books about 15 years ago, they’re very funny. You go in thinking they’re these books about systematic collapse, but mostly its just about how he’s so smart he gets to be friends with Benoit Mandelbrot.
The theme of Anti-Fragile is “don’t be a sucker” which is really good advice tbh, but if you’re not a sucker you wouldnt have fallen for the apocalyptic framing of a book about how he’s so smart because he read some entry-level philosophy at some point
