Kaiser Exterminente

Bourgeois

I prefer console gaming for anything but map games and the like. I want to be able to recline while I shoot/punch/etc. Conquest or resource management are serious business, I’ll sit upright for that. Not that it matters, neither my budget nor my hovel have room for a PC at the moment. PS4 or 5?

lol

Many substitute the “I” for “My” in “IP”

Wouldn’t be surprising. Otoh, if I had anything to do with Chinese propaganda, I’d be doing my damndest to get that kind of thing in front of Americans.

O fuk

What you describe sounds more like the political economy of the moon anarchists in The Dispossessed. A great novel which I recommend to anyone curious about alternative modes of production to capitalism- which, it is vital to point out, is not conducive to ongoing human civilization.

What you’re describing here isn’t what anyone serious theorizes a communist society would look like. The distinction between “property”, ie the means of production, and “possession”, ie the things produced, is important.

Now, are they effective absent the kind of global financial and economic chokehold the US had for the last half century or so? Nooo… but that doesn’t mean a socialist state with worldwide economic hegemony couldn’t use them justly and effectively against capitalism

Tl;dr: sanctions are an act of war, so if there are circumstances where waging war is justified, there are likely circumstances where sanctions are justified.

in all likelihood a prerequisite for a govt in the US that’d be having this convo. Even if there’s somehow a way to be having it in a pre-revolutionary context, presumably military and economic support would already have stopped, and w/o US propping it up pissrael collapses within a year.

Honestly? Yes, every Israeli bears enough responsibility that a sanctions regime that I’d support could be calculated. Theoretically, I’d rather that than there be a war on land intended to be returned to the Palestinians. Point is moot, though, because the dissolution of the pissraeli state is

These people believe in literally nothing except their own fucking comfort

Lol

I almost went with stranger in a strange land instead of imperium in the OP, but figured that would go over Jennifer’s head.

Probably deemed “too subtle”

Are books powerful or powerless? Do they influence the reader at all beyond practicing the skill of reading for its own sake? If no, what is the point?

What matters is that you were reading

I used to hem and haw and be all regretful about the necessity for limitations on “free speech” under a workers’ state, but having been on this site for a while, I’ve decided you’ll need a license to publish your words anywhere someone might be subjected to them.

That’s asinine.

Wheeling a cart weighed down by copies of the turner diaries and Imperium into a school, excited to contribute to the rekindling of the American literary spirit

“Conspiracy theorist” 🙄

Well sure on the one hand they’re claiming AI can do everyone’s job

But, and this is important, they seem to want to kill everybody

Wait

ICE operation at near 6th and Cedars in Minneapolis. Fucking worms

We love casting spells

Libs have dealt with that by deadening those pesky human instincts to empathy and mutual care to whatever extent they need to in order to convince themselves that their “I” is the ideal sub-unit of “us”. Anyone who has done so to a lesser extent is an existential threat to their self-image as “good”

Americans have had to figure out how to deal simultaneously with the existence of their human instinct for cooperation and mutual care, and the reality of their lifestyle being an output of a machine whose inputs are suffering and oppression on an incomprehensible scale.

“them”, or, faith forfend, participating in exactly the one activity all of the politics-as-team-sports theater is designed to suppress: stepping back critiquing the categories of “us”, “them”, and, the most painful and carefully avoided one of all, “I”.

People who they think should fall into their “us” category based on signaled culture, morals, ideals, etc but refuse to act the way “we” should are worse than “them”. You can write “them” off as.. well, “them”… but if one of “us” differs it means either making those differing members of “us” into