Yes, I am SO happy that Ukraine is no longer under the colonial domination of the U.S.S.R., they must be doing very well today as an independent capitalist nation, aided by NATO. Ukraine is doing well, right? And liberal, capitalist Russia is also doing much better now, right?

87% chance to order potatoes, 13% chance to order some pots and ho-ho’s. I’m taking the shot.

I honestly do not understand why you are angry. This is a video of Itamar Ben-Gvir. We both agree on that. It was posted. We both agree on that. The only thing we don’t agree on is who originally posted the video.

I assert: It does not matter who originally posted it. Ben-Gvir is looking at the camera, talking to the camera. He intended this video to be released to the public. Therefore, I do not care at all in what way the video was birthed unto the internet. Can you explain to me why the original source of this 10 second clip is important? Do you think it’s AI or something? Personally I do not think it’s AI.

You are asserting that “angelo in china” is a sock puppet of ben-givr.

I never said that. I have no idea who “angelo in china” is. Might be a terrible person, that is entirely possible - many people on Twitter are disgusting.

Admit you are wrong. this is a disgrace.

My comrade in Marx. This website is a posting forum, it is not the Oxford University debate club. It is not a peer-reviewed academic journal. I apologize if my shit-posting is not up to your rigorous academic standards. This website is named after animal meme. C/chapotraphouse is named after a podcast where lazy, entitled New York leftists blabber on about the news.

If it makes you happy, then here: yes I was wrong when I said “Ben-Gvir posts” this video. I was using colloquial language. Like if someone said: LeBron James just released a new Sprite commercial. Did LeBron direct the video? Did he hold the camera? Did he edit it? Did he post it on his account? No, other people did all that. But he is the star of the commercial, so colloquially people say he “posted” it or “released it” even if this is not literally true.

Is it a good use of your time to analytically pick apart every single word someone uses like this? Are you the reincarnation of Ludwig Wittgenstein? I just don’t understand why you’re so worked up over someone not speaking 100% technically correctly about the provenance of a 10-second video.

I really don’t think it makes a difference to re-word it to: “Itamar Ben-Gvir gets one of his social media interns or something to post video where he displays the new execution chamber Israel has built to mass murder Palestinians. [Content Warning: Noose]” The fact of who posted it is of no importance whatsoever. It’s splitting hairs.

People make posts in c/slop all time time with titles like “Trump tweets x” or “Trump posts y to Truth Social.” Does it matter, at all, that it’s not actually Donald J Trump physically writing those tweets? Do you want every title to be “Donald Trump, or potentially one of his social media interns or other employees whose job it is to send out messaging for him, posted xyz today.” ?

No, I really don’t have any idea where that person got the video from.

AFAIK this is the original source: https://xcancel.com/angeloinchina/status/2039206395086848423

You have nothing to lose but your Chain-Chomps.

I would agree with that. But my criticism does not really come from a place of “childish equals bad,” but instead “capitalist IP exploitation = bad.” These people in the original post didn’t just read Harry Potter as a kid. They re-read it, watched the movies, bought the merch, went to the theme park, and are incredibly excited to re-watch the SAME story with worse directing so that HBO (Paramount) can make more money off their nostalgia.

There’s plenty of silly things I love, like early internet videos (Charlie the Unicorn / Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom ). But one of these original posters said “This is what sets Harry Potter apart from other books. You experience them differently at different ages.” Which is just false. MOST books, you see them differently at different ages. Romeo and Juliet is romantic when you’re young, frustrating when you’re old (they’re not really in love, they’re just horny).

Capitalism has taken these silly children’s books and made them into something bigger. The story is presented to us by advertisers in such a way that they almost seem like myths, and reading them has become a capitalist coming-of-age ritual. People are expected to recite their favorite Harry Potter quotes like Jewish kids reciting the Torah at their Bar-Mitzvah. Capitalism has dumbed down culture - I think that’s undeniable.

But there are very many books, tv shows, movies, video games, etc. that are UNMARKETABLE but still richly fulfilling. I read the Foundation series last year, and Asmiov (a socialist) basically ends it by turning the galaxy into a communist paradise (with a twist). The TV show, by Apple, removed the socialist elements from the books. Streaming sites will make steamy romances adapting or ripping off Jane Austin books, but never mention that Austin and her fellow upper-class elites had their lifestyles sustained by the Atlantic slave trade and exploitation of India.

So I agree, most people have a mix of tastes. It’s important to keep your inner child alive, even when you’re reading books about Stalin or digging into Thomas Pynchon. But capitalism has stolen the images and sounds of our childhoods and turned them into propaganda-filled dopamine traps. And the capitalist suppression of media with left-leaning themes does actively hurt the socialist movement in the west by limiting our imaginations.

If the original post was made by a child? Then yes, I would understand and wouldn’t judge. But if an adult is saying “I almost cry every time I think of G. I. Joe, because Joe has been through so many battles,” it just makes me sad, because obviously this person has missed out on an entire depth of self-understanding and cultural literacy which comes from engaging in and enjoying actual literature / art.

This is exactly how I feel about Power Rangers. Loved it as a kid. I tried watching it as an adult once, and oh my god it’s completely horrendous.

I consider Xillennials and Zillennials to be honorary members of gen Y, subsumed by the Millennials’ culture-altering purchasing power.

It’s 100% Minecraft. There are videos on youtube making entire movies / tv series inside the Minecraft engine. I would bet any amount of money that there will be a prestige Minecraft series on HBO (or its equivalent) within the next 30 years.

Bold of you to predict that slop-loving Millennials won’t absolutely love a 1-for-1 recreation of something they have already seen. The live-action Lion King movie was literally the highest-grossing animated movie of all time when it came out. Plus this new series is now a period piece, taking place in the 1990s with 1990s fashion, so it’s hitting the same nostalgia-dopamine centers as Stranger Things did for the 1980s.

like it’s the cold war

The Cold War never ended.

Third Way

Third Reich

The United States of America just assisted in carrying out a genocide.

China has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty through progressive economic policies.

Please tell me, specifically, why “both states are awful.”

Hm. Thus techno-feudalism just sounds like regular feudalism with extra steps. How long until we have robo-knights who hire human squires to oil them up and charge their batteries?

Yeah, Tezuka wrote an Astro Boy arc where he goes back in time and fights the American military during the Vietnam War. But he also has Astro Boy commit 2 separate genocides (against alien species) which are portrayed as a good thing. Tezuka also wrote a manga called “Message to Adolf” about Hitler (I haven’t read that one, so not sure what the politics are).

In that same thread they said it’s not a real image.

Hasan owns a home, so he should be safe from Gavin’s wrath,