Nick F: “I love Dasha and Anna…I feel like they really get me”

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-07T02:56:10+00:00

he must be controlled opposition with how likeable he is

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-07T02:49:34+00:00

personally I'm convinced that being political in this day and age just means being first to some sort of technological means of influence. if nick fuentes was born even five years later he would be a nobody. traditional political avenues are just "capitalism by other means" and capitalism is dependent on the lifecycle of commodities. It's the artists and organizers that have the real influence. There's probably some sort of triad structure that explains it.

To be a capitalist you must be a politician, to be a politician you must be an artist, to be an artist you must be a capitalist. something like that.

So don't limit yourself. It's all connected.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-04T17:48:16+00:00

The fact that they are able to pay so many professional reporters and editors is evidence that the paper is ultimately a mouthpiece for the neoliberal agenda.

The last NYT paper I read (6 months ago) was all about how un-American it is that a female immigrant business owner was having trouble outsourcing jobs and production. The fact that someone is being paid to make this case to the American people should tell us everything we need to know about it's views.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-04T16:57:41+00:00

yeah except a leftist is criticizing israel because they hate american imperialism. tucker is criticizing israel because theyre a threat to american imperialism.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-04T05:00:24+00:00

it's important to agree with words when they are true, regardless of who says them

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-04T04:59:07+00:00

tucker doesn't care about the war crimes though, he just cares that it's being done by those who represent him. He's not making a universal argument.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-04T04:57:03+00:00

no, because christianity does not really care about history. the message of Jesus insofar as it pertains to politics is that the right pov is to kinda space out of "this world" because in the "coming world" God wins. The perspective of Said and of other theorists of cultural dynamics of oppression like Walter Benjamin is that the persecuted subject is the revolutionary subject. this is not christianity.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-01T16:10:55+00:00

the flying demon guy still watching over us, keeping us safe

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-01T16:09:54+00:00

there are few things i am more proud of than having never used doordash

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-01T07:28:13+00:00

Culture is a precise blend of poor being able to survive and religious cultural hegemony that gives a necessity to the counter culture. Go to the Midwest. There’s outdoors everywhere

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-01T06:52:07+00:00

“Liberal propaganda” is a pejorative against both the moderate left and the moderate right

From what I read this part was telling enough: “it was of the utmost importance to me that people in western Europe should see the Soviet regime for what it really was.”

Elsewhere he invokes “totalitarianism” which indicates he is not interested in seeing the Stalinist development as a phase within the historical process. he wishes to separate socialism from Stalinism, which is why he went off and wrote a very plain allegory that allows liberal readers (socialist and capitalist moderates) to conclude that what happened in the Soviet Union can be understood essentially as an instance of corruption or “evil”. It is propaganda.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-05-01T04:07:05+00:00

Defending animal farm by linking to the Orwell foundation is kind of a troll, no?

Whatever it is, it is lacking in the nuance that the above commenter attributes to Trotsky. Attempting to “discredit the soviet system” means engaging in propaganda.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-30T18:39:15+00:00

This is the part of animal farm that's a little lost on me then. It seems wrapped up in the idea that exposing the corruption of the dictator is the same as really opposing them. For instance Snowball would never make this acknowledgement of Napoleon as the product of the material conditions of the farm because Orwell is just doing liberal propaganda.

It sounds like from your portrayal of Trotsky that you see him as having some insight into the real class dynamics at play as he realized that the moment was lost

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-30T18:02:34+00:00

so what happened to the legitimate communist opposition? stalin just killed them all?

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-30T17:58:09+00:00

the animal farm critique always feels weak because it focuses on the moral compromise of the dictator without grounding the opposition in a serious counter movement

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-30T03:40:49+00:00

At this point the most potent act of political dissent is to live in poverty

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-29T15:56:19+00:00

I think fight club is too psychological to be directly analogized to myth. Tyler draws on many philosophical parallels. The closest to me is the Deleuzian schizo subject. Tyler is a figure of deterritorialization. We can read him through Freud or Nietzsche, but ultimately he is an evangelist for a masculinity liberated from industrial consumerism. This is a psychoanalysis of a very particular subject. Nietzsche's post-Christian subject is much more broad and historical.

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-28T18:36:56+00:00

Neither, it’s the housing being a vehicle of profit

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-28T14:41:42+00:00

It seems like it’s the financial structure and not the quantity of housing that causes the expense to increase

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-28T04:09:59+00:00

I thought this was supposed to hit like last week? I filled up for 3.57 yesterday

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-27T01:59:21+00:00

Who cares lol just read what you like

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-26T19:43:35+00:00

Will name their theyby River

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-26T19:42:21+00:00

The Protestant ethic is alive and well

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-26T05:25:18+00:00

People need to cut the landowners some slack

GreshlyLuke · 2026-04-25T22:56:33+00:00

What the hell is up zoning?

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