To my American comrades,

Things are bad right now, but you can take some comfort in studying good Marxist theory to understand how and why the nation is in this state. Your local library likely has Marxist literature. Reading it is an act of defiance against fascism. Knowledge is power.

Mao and Lenin can also give insight into how late stage capitalism comes to a close.
@Nimbius666

> Your local library

Or must marxists.org has everything. Basically all of it.

> studying good Marxist theory to understand how and why the nation is in this state.

> Reading it is an act of defiance against fascism.

I don't think that anything I read stopped fascism. It's essentially a manual of failure written by the people that either lost to fascists or, once they got power, were indistinguishable from fascists.

The Federalist papers are a better read.
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@p @Nimbius666 I like the theory that defines Communism as the failed attempt to establish Judaism for all (and its rule by the Jewish priest class) via secular means.

@irie @p this seems like nonsensical propaganda as the proletariat is the dictatorship and the USSR expressly discouraged religion.
@irie @Nimbius666 Hungry Santa was actually not a very big fan of the Jewish people: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ . In modern parlance, he was "problematic" (in this case the word means "racist as hell").
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@dcc @Nimbius666 @irie Hungry Santa suffered from the same affliction as many other Germans: he couldn't just leave people alone.
@p @Nimbius666 @irie I think the true issuse today is question of what do you do to people who won't leave you alone? (you kill then obviously)
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@Nimbius666 @p @irie No not really, you believe there is a moral high ground. Its not, it just has to happen.
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@Nimbius666 @dcc @irie "It could be if it weren't Western bourgeois decadence, comrade."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recognition_of_same-sex_unions_in_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_China

> Under the Xi Jinping administration, LGBTQ venues and events have been forced to shut and LGBTQ rights activists have become subject to greater scrutiny by the country's system of mass surveillance.

:xi2:
@p @dcc @Nimbius666 @irie i like how every time i see an article on chyna i see it accompanied by 'the country's mass surveillance system'

man that's just everywhere now, not just chyna :sad_dog:
@nach @Nimbius666 @dcc @irie

> i like how every time i see an article on chyna i see it accompanied by 'the country's mass surveillance system'

If we keep pointing out that theirs is worse, then people yell less about ours.
@p @nach @dcc @Nimbius666 @irie Pete you make a very salient point about mass surveillance in all Western Nations.
@irie @p @Nimbius666
"Antisemites do be mad, we'll do zionism now"
- "Noooo, you can't do that :alexjones: "
- "Uhm, okay, we'll build an advanced secular society in russia that tolerates us"
- "Noooooo, that is worse :alex_jones_meltdown: "
@dagda @irie @Nimbius666 Alex Jones, whose wife is Jewish and who has been a long-time vocal supporter of Israel, is probably not the person to use for this. (I don't know if snacks has these or not, but FSE has a fine selection of images of :idiamin:s and :arafat:s and a few :crowley:s; should you wish to represent the other side, we've got at least two of :dayan:, some :sharonsmug2:s, etc.; the emijoms of Charlie Chaplin can double as Hitler if you are careful about presentation. :chaplinsmug:)

While I'm here, because the Nazis' and the Commies' hyperfocus on each other has prompted them to make an informal agreement under the table to omit these inconvenient bits, and because the only sensible thing to do with a sacred cow is grind it into DELICIOUS AMERICAN CHEESEBURGER, the USSR is probably not the best example of "Zionism" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin_and_antisemitism ). Stalin was also buddies with Hitler until Operation Barbarossa, two years into the war, which Germany and the USSR began as allies; he appears to be responsible for some of the massacres of Polish Jews during the war as well.
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@p @Nimbius666 @irie I wasn't really going anywhere with Jones tbh, it was just one of the emotes on this server I had at hand. I'm well aware socialist antisemitism exists, especially in early utopian socialism and anarchism. Also with Stalin you basically have both, extreme philosemitism and anti-semitism in his lifetime (now that's some anti-centrism lol).
As for Alex Jones he isn't even as insane as people think, he has personally admitted that he puts extra pathos and exaggeration into his reporting. Ever since his whole "rich elites have huge organized pedophilia cabals" thing turned out 100% accurate I'm against leftist smugness over his style
@dagda @Nimbius666 @irie

> I'm well aware

In that case, hopefully it wasn't too boring. I try to never miss an opportunity to grind some sliders out of a sacred cow.

> Ever since his whole "rich elites have huge organized pedophilia cabals" thing turned out 100% accurate I'm against leftist smugness over his style

Did you see that video of that Nyberg guy that was trying to convince black women at a party to fly with him to a Caribbean island to so he could impregnate them so that he could have a doctor perform an abortion so that he could harvest the stem cells? I mean, as far as I'm concerned, all conspiracy theory bets are off.
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@p @Nimbius666 @irie I don't follow his reporting, I mainly just see clips of him as memes.
It's not an unreasonable assumption, Peter Thiel for example literally injects young blood to age slower (that's some dystopian vampire stuff fr)
@dagda @Nimbius666 @irie

> I don't follow his reporting, I mainly just see clips of him as memes.

I didn't pay much attention to him aside from meme songs until he got banned everywhere. I don't know how old you are, but if you remember when Jon Stewart was doing the Daily Show way back in The Day, like when he was covering the 2000 election fiasco, it's like that. Broad strokes of the news (everything else is a lie anyway, as Jefferson noted) and a lot of jokes, sometimes dark humor. We laugh lest we weep and the news is always depressing. It's also entertaining when he improvises because of the type of thing that happens during live broadcasts, someone isn't ready with the thing that needs to happen next or a caller runs long. Technically it's all improvised, but there's an outline; he's been doing radio a long time so he knows how to avoid dead air in an entertaining way when he's got to operate without a plan.

This was a very entertaining/fascinating article by David Foster Wallace about a local radio host: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/john-ziegler-as-david-foster-wallace-saw-him/240402/ . The reason I am bringing it up is because I have an excuse to (DFW is a good writer), and because of this bit: "What's amazing is that when you get new people who think that they can do a talk-radio program, you watch them for the first time. By three minutes into it, they have that look on their face like, 'Oh my God, I've got ten minutes left. What am I going to say?'" If you've listened to enough radio (like you live in Los Angeles and have to commute back and forth from the west side during rush hour), you can hear the things that go wrong and a good disembodied voice ("talking head" didn't sound appropriate for the radio) manages to actually be *more* fun when the parachute fails. Hard to explain, Alex Jones is good at his job; see attached.

> Peter Thiel for example literally injects young blood to age slower (that's some dystopian vampire stuff fr)

Ha, I remember the blood boys; I wonder if he still does that.
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@p @Nimbius666 @irie I do in fact do a radio show semi-regularly, in germany there's thing thing called "free radio frequencies", it started with pirate radios that were so pupular that the state was like "well if they won't stop we'll just give them some frequencies next to commercial radio to go wild with, easier then banning them against popular will".
It's a music show and not a news show, it's on for quite a while now. I'm somewhat introverted and sometimes even extremely socially awkward, but I can talk on radio to large audiences perfectly fine. I think what it really comes down to is the will to be entertaining as if you would want to be a listener yourself, and passion about what you have to say. When we talk about certain songs before we get the vinyls ready we all go to tangents about weird shit the artists were up to in their lifetime, because we can with a non-mainstream audience that is enthusiastic about it as we are. Also a lot goes wrong, Vinyls too damaged, equipment going wild, software issues, etc. If you know all that you get an idea of how crazy it is that commercial stations can go flawless in their execution for weeks. However while they outclass us in professionalism they do have less soul. Still, remarkable achievement.
@dagda @Nimbius666 @irie

> I do in fact do a radio show semi-regularly,

AH, okay! Then you probably know what I mean (and probably a lot of

> "free radio frequencies", it started with pirate radios that were so pupular that the state was like "well if they won't stop we'll just give them some frequencies next to commercial radio to go wild with,

Oh, that's pretty cool. We used to have "public access" television stations that were sort of like that. The origin was a little more dull, the idea was first that cable stations, being monopolies, owed it to the market they monopolized, and also that there was some value in letting people build up the skills (professional and technical) needed to put a television broadcast together, since it's not exactly the type of thing you can do in your room. The internet more or less eliminated all of those concerns: you have (in theory) a medium that allows for equal access, global reach, and most of the gear has turned into software that runs on commodity hardware.

> I'm somewhat introverted and sometimes even extremely socially awkward, but I can talk on radio to large audiences perfectly fine.

I believe that. I'm socially terrible, someone asks how I'm doing and I freak out, but public speaking hasn't ever bothered me.

> tangents about weird shit the artists were up to in their lifetime,

Ha, really entertaining stuff. Artists are fuckin' weird, weird shit's great.

> Vinyls too damaged, equipment going wild, software issues, etc.

Ha, yeah, it's kind of amazing how much can go wrong with anything. That must be a lot of fun. I imagine no advertisements, right? Out of pocket on the gear or donations or is there some way of generating profit?
@p @Nimbius666 @irie non-commercial strictly. While it's basically do what you want the legal framework is under the umbrella of public broadcasting. The small office is rent by public money and the equipment is mostly old stuff that has been left over by actual public broadcast stations, dodging the dumpster. It still works fine, as broadcasting equipment is standardized and we broadcast to analogue and digital radio, which has consistent technical interfaces. Our show is also available as a web stream from an old-ass website, but that is more or less hacked together by us and not common for all shows in the house.
The only legal restrictions are no profit and no explicit endorsements of political parties because of public money, which doesn't affect our music show. Other non-music shows in the house are ethnic minority radios, some show about local events and theatre stuff, mental health self help initiatives and education/ city history, that kind of things
@dagda @Nimbius666 @irie That's really cool.

> Our show is also available as a web stream from an old-ass website,

I was gonna ask.

> The only legal restrictions are no profit and no explicit endorsements of political parties because of public money, which doesn't affect our music show.

Is there any weird encumbrance from the owners of the music, or can you mostly play whatever you can get onto the turntable?
@p @Nimbius666 @irie

https://www.freies-radio-kassel.de/live-stream.html

The show is live-only for online broadcast aswell and our date is mostly "when people have time" roughly once a month, name of the show is Aoxomoxoa, the Rock caleidoscope. I can give you the date when it's set.

>Is there any weird encumbrance from the owners of the music, or can you mostly play whatever you can get onto the turntable?
We have 2 guys who are always there and me and others who are semi-regularly there. We bring our physical copies mostly and have a legal public broadcasting license for basically playing anything without getting into trouble with copyright owners. Of course people are somewhat biased in their genres, you got the hippie guy, the heavy metal veteran, the funk expert, etc. I usually bring some zoomer spice with some post-punk, dark wave, goth rock, new indie stuff, etc. On my birthday I even insisted we play a song from Sonic Adventure 2 as a joke, you can really do anything. We also try to feature local bands a lot and indie bands that visit the region (including concert reviews)
@dagda @Nimbius666 @irie

> https://www.freies-radio-kassel.de/live-stream.html
> Aoxomoxoa, the Rock caleidoscope.

Nice!

> I can give you the date when it's set.

Yeah, that would be awesome.

> bring our physical copies mostly and have a legal public broadcasting license for basically playing anything without getting into trouble with copyright owners.

That's awesome!

> On my birthday I even insisted we play a song from Sonic Adventure 2

Pro-gamer move.

> We also try to feature local bands a lot and indie bands that visit the region (including concert reviews)

Yeah, main thing I miss about LA next to the food: really good town for music.
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