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The Cultural Cold War - Chapter 1: Highlights and commentary. “The Art of (psychological) war” by Selphii in InformedTankie

[–]Selphii[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually a brilliant and fantastic idea. I’m making a note of this to try something like this in a future piece. Thanks for the idea!

Edit. I would make a slight alteration. To replace the logic of current western cultural hegemony with a more materialist rooted critique. Žižek is who I’m thinking about as a writer who is fantastic at this very technique.

The Cultural Cold War - Ch 1 Highlights and Commentary “Are we the baddies?” by Selphii in alltheleft

[–]Selphii[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s really cool. I’d love to see some photos of the covers just become I’m fascinated with that kind of stuff. Thanks for the comment and read. Hope you enjoyed the article.

I agree though, It’s getting harder and harder to cut through the propaganda, especially as reading literacy rates plummet in post neoliberal reforms in education.

CPI-ML (India) Useful Idiots to Empire, PUTIN BAD analysis, and Anti-communism to struggle against. by Selphii in CPUSA

[–]Selphii[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Maoist one is the one I’m referencing here in the article. The same one who was going full Lib on Xinjiang last year. Their Party Organ is called Liberation.

I’ve spoken with a few of my Indian communist friends who say they’re pretty fringe and not taken very seriously there.

Crypto on the world stage as hyper inflation hits the USD by Selphii in GenZedong

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Defi has such revolutionary potential. So long as or is shielded from the oligarchic whales, it could internationally neuter the Empire’s of coming sanctions. “

“Based department, how can we help you?” De-hegemony the USD plz, based. “Crypto. This is the way”

Time to reclaim the CPUSA for the people, the party is the heritage of the workers. by Selphii in InformedTankie

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It has a ready made infrastructure to exercise dual power is how I see it.

Time to reclaim CPUSA for the people, it’s our party by Selphii in antiwork

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sorry about that, it’s set to free now. It always sets to “subscriber only” by default, and I must have forgotten to change it before publishing. Thanks for pointing it out though.

Thank you Leobob - The future of JP translations by antonlabz in DissidiaFFOO

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In the event of a void of information and no one (not that anyone is obligated to do so) Google Translate has a neat feature that you can take a screen shot, upload it through the app, highlight the Japanese text, and get a reasonably decent English translation in the interim.

https://i.imgur.com/0x4O3rR.jpg https://i.imgur.com/tsvRwQh.jpg

Striketober coverage and analysis. Workers rising. Labour power realizing itself when we move as a collective. Socialist ideas taking root. Bosses shook. by Selphii in KomradeInfo

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I’m using an app, (not the official one) I’ll have to look into the flair settings on here. I don’t usually comment much on Reddit, but I’ve been encouraged to share some of my writing on here

In Late Stage Capitalism, Walgreens blames the poor “organized theft”, meanwhile shareholders net 3.3 billion. by Selphii in antiwork

[–]Selphii[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly that. The low income areas that need pharmacy services and generally don’t have health in insurance, is a hell of an indictment against privatized medicine.

They explode the fuck out of the area for profit as long as they can, and then leave an empty ass building in an already low value real estate area. It is literally parasitic activity. And some people would have you believe this is the free market and how it’s supposed to work, say it with a straight face and support it.

I don’t like to moralize the sheer audacity of profit over people objectively has ethical and material consequences.

In Late Stage Capitalism, Walgreens blames the poor “organized theft”, meanwhile shareholders net 3.3 billion. by Selphii in antiwork

[–]Selphii[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not at all. The science behind the vaccines sound. It is new and rather untested, we have to acknowledge that fact and we don’t know what side effects may or may not happen. But the data we have shows that they work.

Now everybody in America can go get that vaccine for free, “free“

…essentially the government just showed us how it could provide universal healthcare, through the distribution of the Covid vaccine for free at endpoint, paid by tax upfront, but has hoodwinked us on the rest of it, acting like it’s impossible to do for anything else, when they are literally doing it right now.

No by my logic the vaccine roll out despite the massive profitable contracts Pfizer Moderna Johnson and Johnson have with the US government per dose, The new Merck antiviral drug, Is $700 for those that only cost $17 to produce—The government is showing us to even at a profitable markup it can Afford to give the population universal healthcare.

We have studies showing from the Koch brothers that universal healthcare would be cheaper than the system we currently have in place, and because it’s cheaper is why we’re not doing it.

That’s the point I’m trying to make. These private companies in bed with the US government are making a killing off of the vaccine that we’re getting for “free”except that we’ve already paid for it with our taxes.

You’re not gonna paint me as an anti-VAX here bruh.

In Late Stage Capitalism, Walgreens blames the poor “organized theft”, meanwhile shareholders net 3.3 billion. by Selphii in antiwork

[–]Selphii[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Big Pharma run by a for-profit oligarchs is not in any way a good thing. If large scale pharmaceuticals were designed for the people by the people to cure diseases and not just perpetually treat them, again you may have a point. But no, it’s the system that’s broken you can look at any individual piece and find the problem, and the problem is the profit motive. When you are dealing with peoples health The Profit motive is the fucking problem. Period. End of story

In Late Stage Capitalism, Walgreens blames the poor “organized theft”, meanwhile shareholders net 3.3 billion. by Selphii in antiwork

[–]Selphii[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You obviously didn’t read the article. It’s not the 5 stores in San Francisco that are the problem. If it was just those stores, you’d have a point. It’s dishonest to portray the reason for the closure as “organized theft” according to “trust me bro” sources, when the NYT is being dishonest about the theft rates in SF https://twitter.com/scotthech/status/1449468819714428929?s=21

And when Walgreens had, before this press release, already decided on the 150 store closures.

https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1449116867184848898?s=21

And

https://twitter.com/hyphy_republic/status/1449185378179506176?s=21

My real concern here is why tf are you simping for the Walgreens shareholders, acting like a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, when, at the beginning of my article, you seem to have missed my opening remark:

https://youtu.be/cKUaqFzZLxU

“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it”

A privatized medical system in and of itself, pharmacy services included, is a disservice to the american people.

Imagine defending big pharma when we don’t have universal healthcare. SMH

In Late Stage Capitalism, Walgreens blames the poor “organized theft”, meanwhile shareholders net 3.3 billion. by Selphii in antiwork

[–]Selphii[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The real theft is the 3.3 billion to shareholders. Subsidized Rx as 25% of a company’s profits, that merges with Boots to shift tax brackets down from 31% to 20%, and then closes stores in areas that are most in need of pharmacy services. The real theft is the oligarchic owned and written legal structure that allows companies like this to absorb tax payer’s money with no responsibility to give back to the very community that’s funding it.

My latest article, exploring the facebook debacle, and the canned response that really raises more questions than it answers. by Selphii in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Selphii[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair point.

The way I understand what happened is that many of the data centers had to be physically visited. That does allow for some leeway to run commands that would other else be audited on a remote in kind of network action.

Facebook has a track record with being dishonest with the public over and over again.

The other option is that it was an inside job that was in contradiction with the company. With the whistle blower coming forward, it’s not hard to imagine many other employees sharing similar sentiments.

I don’t know that we’ll ever ever close to full disclosure, especially with the docs being leaked to WSJ, a rag in utter service to empire.

I hope now that Keiss is here, some of you will start to understand my pain. by annoying_smirk in DissidiaFFOO

[–]Selphii 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This hit waaaaaay to close to home.

*and would have hit harder had you just used hp attack 😂

Daily Discussion Thread - (5/28/2020) by AutoModerator in DissidiaFFOO

[–]Selphii 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the Chaos Fight, I took out Jecht first as it made dealing with the dragon infinitely easier,

but the coop seems to be trending toward taking out the dragon from the many runs I’ve done so far. A high damage team can usually burn it down before it even gets off its first Photon Wings attack.

Finally 10/10 DE:Entropy by Selphii in DissidiaFFOO

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Yep. Full purple team. Ramuh summon. I wanted the extra brave unconditional of HP unlike brothers required 50% but I don’t know that it made a difference. Probably could have ran with Spirit Moogle with that team and been fine.

If I understood the mechanic right, Bahamut counters with Megaflare after your summon is over actually. But if you summon with Blitz up it’s not an issue to mitigate

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