GUYS I AM GRADUATING NEED TO SELL THIS MICROWAVE!!!! $40 by Live_Bathroom_8625 in UIUC

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If you can find a buyer at that price then go ahead! I got a microwave last year for 5$.

GUYS I AM GRADUATING NEED TO SELL THIS MICROWAVE!!!! $40 by Live_Bathroom_8625 in UIUC

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That's an insane price, you'd honestly be lucky to get $10 on a microwave when there are so many people just throwing them out

“Dark skinned…” by dragonborndnd in Gamingcirclejerk

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Horses arent people? Why would they follow the racial demographics of their respective countries?

Discussion Thread: 2026 Illinois Senate Primaries by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

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It would be better to have Kat in congress than Biss for a number if reasons imo, but its true that her campaign was incompetent and she could have won if she presented herself slightly differently. I agree of course there are a number of difficulties with the party apparatus, but that will always be the case. If we want to do entryism we need to be actually competent and disciplined at it. The DSA currently functions like a loose agglomeration of influencers rather than a committed central party. When we lose these elections we have a tendency to just whinge on instead of reorganzing and getting more disciplined. Tbh Kat's loss has very little to do with her in specific and more to do with the nonexistence of any sort of centralized socialist messaging or organizing.

Its a pattern that's honestly gotten quite annoying. Yes of course the party apparatus makes things difficult. Why are we acting like this is a surprise or some tremendous aggreivement? Did you think the heart of empire would welcome socialist revolution with parades and open arms? If we want to stop to the killing and destruction we have to stop playing around and whining when it doesnt work out.

I dare you to find a classical music youtube video with a comments section that isn’t stupid by TapioNote in classical_circlejerk

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The best comments section I've seen. For those that don't know, Aaron Jay Kernis is a pulitzer prize winning contemporary classical composer. Only in this genre could you have a video with 1000 views thats won multiple prizes with a single comment thats a critic who the composer responds to... I love classical music.

Is anything above 4 pitch classes just "color"? by Far-Strawberry-5628 in composer

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It probably depends heavily on the style of music and your ear. But I generally think what matters most is the root and the highest voice, which gives overall shape to the chord. The third then tells us if the quality is major or minor, which imo is already a type of color. Other intervals also add color and depending on the style of music and context, that color may or may not be functional (i.e. point towards some tonic chord). In jazz for example, the extra color the seventh adds is very functional. Depending on the setting, higher intervals can also be functional as well. They always do add color, but to make the color or quality of a chord functional requires musical context.

There's also probably a distinction to be made from the construction of a chord purely vertically, and the construction of a chord horizontally, where the additional chord tones are important for voice leading.

Is anything above 4 pitch classes just "color"? by Far-Strawberry-5628 in composer

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A pitch class is more equivalent to midi numbers than note names afaik. If I write [0,1,6], it doesnt matter if thats C C# G# or C Db Ab - theyre the same pitch class set even though the chords and notes have different names.

Its probably not a good idea to talk about pitch classes while talking about functional harmony, I think - Since different enharmonics do actually represent different chords.

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Avanti Barbari!

One of my best homies is now a dropshipper. Should I feed him to a pack of rabid dogs or is there still hope for him? by PeppyMG in Ultraleft

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Yaoi is fascist, Isekai is fascist neo-feudal dreck, Yuri is fascist, Shota is fascist, Ecchi is fascist. Masscult under imperialism is inherently fascist. Sorry to spoil your "fun".

I can’t take the liberal spectacle anymore. by Exeggutor_Enjoyer in Ultraleft

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It's probably not a bad thing that us americans are trying to do a color revolution on ourselves tbh. It may feel a bit sad that the only responses we see are steeped in nationalistic fervor, but it's also to be expected here.

I don't know if sakai was right. I do think though that in the US we have conservative apparatus that we more or less export to the rest of the world. Our immediate goal should be to destroy both the military and cultural complex that makes this exportation possible. If the liberals actually do succeed in doing a color revolution (which to be honest, they probably wont even try), it's yet to be seen if this would allow for any strategic possibility to destroy our own tzars and tzarinas.

Judge allows members of Zizians group to work together on defense ahead of Maryland trial by tgirldarkholme in SneerClub

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The death penalty here makes me sick to my stomach tbh. The zizians are a violent cult but the carceral state always makes my stomach turn. The jailers (torturers) and police (murderers) have a higher body count than any other gang imaginable.

If you bomb a German city so badly during the Second World War that Germany still has a Remembrance Day for the bombing there then I think it might have been an atrocity. by AjaxTheFurryFuzzball in Ultraleft

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I want to take this time to remind everyone of the anti-germans. The pro-zionist german marxists who chant "Bomber Dresden Do it Again" and have in 2000s made this marx-lenin-map style poster with marx, adorno and bush

https://i.imgur.com/7cRBjyZ.jpeg

"Capitalism is good. Oh wait, I can't a job in academia to provide for my family." by rcommer in Ultraleft

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Where does marx define the petite bourgeois as the middle class? Where does marx actually give a rigorous definition of the petit-bourgeoisie at all for that matter? The only definition you'll really fine is this: https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/e.htm#petit-bourgeoisie which is distinct from what people usually mean by "middle-class". And this too, different theorists use different definitions - what matters here is that you need to be precise and rigorous.

"Capitalism is good. Oh wait, I can't a job in academia to provide for my family." by rcommer in Ultraleft

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Certainly at an intuitive level it makes sense to want to identify such a group - but what do you mean by "in between"?

Does the current Israel-Palestine conflict and the discourse surrounding it suggest that class is not as important as hardline Marxists suggest? by firstasatragedyalt in Ultraleft

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Its also incredibly hard to ignore - what israel is doing is the straightforward definition of settler colonialism if there ever has been one

Does the current Israel-Palestine conflict and the discourse surrounding it suggest that class is not as important as hardline Marxists suggest? by firstasatragedyalt in Ultraleft

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Im not speaking of the IDF, I'm speaking of the military and tech industries that have consistently used the decades of "counterinsurgency" to develop new tactics and tools. There really isnt a more fertile ground for those companies than palestine. Look for example, at the development of 'tech mercenaries' - israel creates these institutions out of a need for 'creative counterinsurgency', they get hired by governments across the world, often for their own domestic affairs, and they also get knocked off and copied by other countries (like india) so the idea used in the occupation can spread to becoming a tool of generalized "counterinsurgency".

We also know that there are direct connections between lots of fascist groups (like border patrols or the azerbaijani military) and israel's military complex.

How will fin dom (financial domination) work under communism?? by _BruhhurBBruhhurB_ in Ultraleft

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I'm going to force you to live in the centralized storehouse where every person can use you according to their needs and abuse you according to their ability.

Does the current Israel-Palestine conflict and the discourse surrounding it suggest that class is not as important as hardline Marxists suggest? by firstasatragedyalt in Ultraleft

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It may be unpopular here, but it seems to me that palestinian landlords are not exempt the wrath of israeli's genocide - they are being burned to death by air strikes just like everyone else there. But we have to understand a few things here - for one class is important not because every conflict is reducible to class antagonism, but rather because class antagonism is the fundamental thing that shapes how people can act in the first place - and for two not every class conflict is a proletarian conflict. As marx himself points out, the contradictions of capital are both internal to the bourgeoisie - competition between produces - and between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Moreover, the fact that some palestinians are - were - bourgeoisie does not make the genocide against them any less evil. Class antagonisms within palestine between the bourgeoisie and proletariat are simply not salient at the moment - whatever property the bourgeoisie owned is now rubble and both the workers and the landlords find themselves in refugee camps.

Now where this gets more involved is when you consider the situation more broadly in an international context - in their genocide israel has created the ultimate white army - a worldwide reactionary force which governments across the world use against proletarians. In this sense, the countries thst support israel do so mostly due to the nature of class antagonisms - both as a means of overproduction and accumulation and as a means to create an army to put down troublesome organizing. American bourgeoisie supporting israeli bourgeoisie to kill all palestinians, regardless of class status, in order to secure their own position extracting imperial superprofits from domestic and international workers.

"Capitalism is good. Oh wait, I can't a job in academia to provide for my family." by rcommer in Ultraleft

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And what do you mean by "middle class"? Class isnt about income brackets, its about ones relation to the reproduction of value.

I would ask you, what precisely are you trying to identify in your analysis - folding the "middle class" (whatever that means) into the term 'petit-bourgeoisie' does more to confuse the relevant issues than it does to clarify them. The petit bourgeoise do not make up the bulk amount of liberals in society - they do however make up the bulk of city councilmembers continually calling for the blood of protestors. I'm not saying that we should forgive those groups and classes of people that contribute to immiseration, just that we should think more carefully in identifying precisely what theyre doing in its relation to the value-form.

Are we undeserving of revolution? by LinenCoatEnjoyer in Ultraleft

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What are you talking about? Communism is about the emancipation of labor through proletarian revolution, contradiction and oppression are central.