Pisha [she/her, they/them] @ Pisha @hexbear.net

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I remember people complaining about the podcast back in 2017 or so after Trump won. Everyone agreed that the years leading up to that were the prime of Chapo Trap House and everything after that has been a steady decline. Anyway, I never listened to the podcast save for that one time I had eye surgery and literally couldn't watch anything for half a day, so I don't really care too much.

While watching Andor, I was pretty underwhelmed at its depiction of a state that should be resisted. So an evil emperor has taken absolute power and how does that manifest? Opposition politicians get investigated for corruption, although they don't worry about the investigators planting evidence or anything. Suspicious individuals receive additional attention from the secret police, but they won't act without a proper cause. A civilian stalking a secret police agent receives a stern talking to. At one point, police occupy a building, commit some torture (only on a few people with valuable information, of course) and forbid a protest. Oh, and all public buildings look like a caricature of the Soviet Union or the GDR. Well, alright.

Dyson Sphere Program is one of those games where you build a giant factory and it's very good, maybe the best in the genre.

Flanagan's two previous haunted house series really pissed me off in the end. Hill House started off strong, but by the end you know exactly how the haunting works and it's basically just one ghostly "insane" woman who's the cause of everything despite having no relation with anyone. That's not how character-based horror is supposed to work. Bly Manor was even worse and I turned it off after some interminable monologue by a ghost misogynist about his ghost powers. In both cases, I think the source material played with the idea that you cannot be certain there's anything supernatural going on, so to instead have a clear list of rules about how ghosts work, like we're in some bad anime, really seems like a wrong decision.

Standing lessons not paying off somehow

Labor is not the source of all wealth. Nature is just as much the source of use values (and it is surely of such that material wealth consists!) as labor, which itself is only the manifestation of a force of nature, human labor power. The above phrase is to be found in all children's primers and is correct insofar as it is implied that labor is performed with the appurtenant subjects and instruments. But a socialist program cannot allow such bourgeois phrases to pass over in silence the conditions that lone give them meaning. And insofar as man from the beginning behaves toward nature, the primary source of all instruments and subjects of labor, as an owner, treats her as belonging to him, his labor becomes the source of use values, therefore also of wealth. The bourgeois have very good grounds for falsely ascribing supernatural creative power to labor; since precisely from the fact that labor depends on nature it follows that the man who possesses no other property than his labor power must, in all conditions of society and culture, be the slave of other men who have made themselves the owners of the material conditions of labor. He can only work with their permission, hence live only with their permission.

Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme

See, this is what happens if you don't ban people based on their transphobic votes on posts and comments. Now I know there's 13 accounts on there that are absolutely rotten with brainworms. Uphold Transcomrade69-thought!

Remember "people of NATO"? lmao

Good to see that their mods are still out there protecting the brave people of NATO and their allies 🫡

They're called Sandwich lmao

"tackle", "protect", "safer", "strengthen"... What a vocabulary. I can't tell if I'm reading something about football or a war report.

In Wrath of the Righteous, the one female love interest only available to male PCs is a flesh-eating serial killer, which should be the standard for romancable heterosexual characters.

It does make me sad how the only time there's a great number of comments about art or philosophy is in the monthly struggle session about whether all Western culture is just a tool of the CIA. I'm still holding out hope that we could get some genuine discussions going, especially because all other Internet venues for discussing literature are extremely fucked in terms of politics, but it doesn't seem likely.

Was that the person who, it turned out, was keeping fetus remains in their home or was that a different anti-abortion leftist?

Wait, whatever happened to Bari Weiss's fake university? Wasn't that basically the same thing?

I think right-wing propaganda, like TV shows watched by children that tell the viewer climate change isn't real, trans people are monsters and it's okay to use homophobic slurs, is much more heavily responsible for the rise of Trump, actually

Does the British government know that other countries don't use their Gender Recognition Certificate™? What are they going to do, ask every single immigrant to provide official proof of cisness?

That's the idea behind the film Ravenous (1999), which I can only recommend

If I'm reading the article correctly, the school tried to close down the club because they got too many threats of violence because of it. I can't even imagine how the sheer mention of Satan is enough to drive someone towards violence.