SeizeTheBeans [comrade/them, they/them]
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25·15 days agoMore discussion about it in this thread if anyone is curious.
Well it aligns with what the “people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity” said in the article itself. I think it’s safe to say it’s unprecedented.
Top commanders in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region are among those expected to attend Hegseth’s meeting, said people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the issue. The order does not apply to top military officers who hold staff positions.
None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this. Several said it raised security concerns.
“People are very concerned. They have no idea what it means,” one person said.
Two others expressed frustration that even many commanders stationed overseas will be required to attend. One said, this is “not how this is done.”
“You don’t call GOFOs leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why/what the topic or agenda is,” this person said, using an abbreviation for general officer or flag officer.
“Are we taking every general and flag officer out of the Pacific right now?” one U.S. official said. “All of it is weird.”
21·15 days ago80% of americans have no ideology
*80% of Americans have no coherent ideology. And 80% is low-balling it. But they all of them absolutely have ideology, they are fucking saturated in ideology, they just aren’t aware of it and will deny it, thinking that ideology is only something the evil other has, but not they themselves who are above such things and only see the world “as it really is” untainted by any “lens.” They are the ones with the most ideology. They have white supremacist ideology, they have settler-colonial ideology, they have American exceptionalism ideology, they have a mishmash of wacky Marvel slop and courtroom/cop drama TV series ideology. They have CNN/MSNBC’s ideology or Fox New’s ideology. In other words, their brains have been pickled by the ideology of their ruling class.
5·20 days agoThat is a good one, yeah. To anyone checking that one out, I’d recommend reading the short FAQ. Excerpt:
CARI defines a consumer aesthetic as a visual movement unified by overarching attitudes and themes that survived long enough or became popular enough to be appropriated by capital (a bar that is being lowered constantly as our cycles of cultural propagation accelerate).
Here are a few…
Every noise at once. Really just check it out if you find music interesting. Also fuck spotify.
https://everynoise.com/Amazing collection of classic puzzle games
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/Absorbing and enlightening even if math and physics aren’t your thing
https://falstad.com/mathphysics.htmlAn interconnected way of learning about and understanding mental health
https://integralguide.com/AboutSurprising amount to do, lots of nostalgia if you’re old enough
https://www.windows93.net/
Another old PC emulator in your browser
https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015/09/21/All the old robots. Click them.
https://theoldrobots.com/might need some content warnings, but undeniably fascinating, sometimes very revealing
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/An index of Aesthetics
https://cari.institute/aestheticsbrr - an Antarctica blog
https://brr.fyi/Cat bounce!
https://cat-bounce.com/
Community. If you can, surround yourself with comrades or at least people you are confident will have your back like family and good friends which can of course include genuinely sympathetic libs. Make sure all of them know the kind of threat that is looming if not already present. I know this isn’t possible for many people (including me) in this hyper-atomized broken society, but the more you can form and solidify a close-knit network of people who are ready and willing to support and protect you and each other, the better off you’ll be in terms of immediate protection as well as general mental health and well being. Don’t go places alone if at all possible, but in a group or at least with another person. If we’re already “terrorists” then we’d do well to be in a gang. Organizing isn’t just for being a good activist, it’s literally something we’re going to have to do for survival as all of this continues to get worse. Stay aware of what’s going on locally, like in your town and city. Get armed.
5·22 days agoWell said. Even if I may be frequently disappointed, I do tend to be more optimistic than I suspect most users here are as far as believing there’s potential for well-meaning liberals who wander in here to become radicalized over time, in part because of the seeds that we can help plant by talking to them.
3·22 days agoPeople on the left don’t turn it into an ethnicity thing because people on the left, most of them anyway, understand that “white” isn’t an ethnicity, it is a socially-constructed supremacist in-group that ethnicities can be added to or subtracted from. The term European isn’t an ethnicity either, but a broad and vague conglomeration of various ethnicities. As leftists, we recognize, as anyone readily should, that it was mostly the European ruling classes (though not exclusively - no one would deny for example Imperial Japan’s settler colonialist ambitions) that overwhelmed the rest of the world with settler-colonialism. Nothing about that is “turning it into an ethnicity thing.” Most leftists are also historical materialists, which absolutely refutes the idea that any ethnicity is imbued with inherent traits of domination, but describes the historical events that led to our current conditions as being entirely a result of the material circumstances of any given place and time.
People on the “left” turn it into an ethnicity thing, because humans have always liked to do that.
No, people have not always “liked to do that” by turning “it into an ethnicity thing” - people have always tended to make in-group and out-group distinctions and carry prejudices of each (usually positive for the former and negative for the latter), but that can be done along any lines of convenience and it can also be intentionally rejected. Leftists explicitly reject and deliberately avoid doing this by examining human development through a materialist lens.
😔 I suppose I should know by now never to have any optimism when it comes to liberals.
I don’t know, they stand a chance of learning something on this one. Slim, but nonzero.
The use of stochastic terrorism has become a core tenet of modern fascism. It works, it keeps their hands looking clean, and it keeps the liberals from getting too nervous about the actual dirty work, since it’s just free speech of course.
65K is the number the UN just “officially” declared a few days ago. But yes, it probably is an order of magnitude more than that
25·23 days agoI would just say to consider Chapo_is_Red’s response and then Nopeace’s response to that in this same thread. And OP’s response, “could be true for all we know.” It could be. But that’s the problem. The narrative on any given event is so openly and nakedly just an agenda that doesn’t even need to have a tangential relationship to reality, so our best bet at landing somewhere within the realm of truth is to first assess who benefits from the story as it is being presented. It might be true, but it’s on equal footing with all the so-called conspiracy theories because that’s all any of it is anymore, an ocean of spin. It’s not that feds weren’t always compulsive liars because of course they were, but the lesson there isn’t that they can be taken at their word like most people used to do before the post-truth era, it’s that we never should have trusted them about anything to begin with. But we should even less now because it is a lot worse than it used to be, where they practically flaunt how batshit they can be with the media fully on board no matter how contradictory the shifting narrative gets in comparison to what it was the day before and vast swathes of the public will eat it whole because their team is the faction currently pushing it.
You’re right, not everything is a government plot. But everything they say is a narrative they’re pushing, and it may or may not have any relationship with reality. If it is true, you have to ask how they benefit from actually telling the truth this time.
8·24 days agoSomeone should maybe mention that the art was ripped from the youtube channel The Marxist Project
That’s they’re signature little Marx animation they use in a lot of their videos.
3·26 days agoThey don’t call pretty natural landscape centerfolds “Earth Porn” for nothin’.
Sounds pretty fuckin’ ominous to me.