ill let him know

Everything under heaven is in chaos. The situation isn’t just heated — it’s cooked.

There’s a lot of very common ones that people don’t even think about. Mano a mano (often ‘mano y mano’ when anglophones say it), simpatico, and mi casa es su casa.

Is this a joke about Tiananmen square? How often do propagandists claim the tank didn’t stop?

I think that if you’re being racialized you aren’t white, the white supremacist system doesn’t really care what continent your ancestors were from and its verdict is the main thing that determines race anyway. Though the weird thing is that in LatAm if you have this guy’s skin tone you are definitely white. It’s relative and a bit ambiguous

I think my professor who picked up Disco Elysium for his Switch at my recommendation had the same problem.

There’s a lot of things in LatAm that even Milei’s people aren’t unwise enough to say.

He already killed the Pope.

Next to getting tear gassed, seeing things and remembering them might be the most radicalizing experience a human can have.

I mean absolutely no disrespect to the Somali people, but I think Bollywood, Tollywood, and Pegate al Mediodia combined beat 1 AI video.

“Do not forget that, together with the Chinese, Albanians make up one quarter of the world’s population”

-Enver Hoxha

I don’t know the first thing about Roblox, but I find it hard to believe that a game company with that much global appeal apparently has been publishing content so blatantly pro-LGBTQ that Russia actually felt like they had to ban it for that reason. User made content? Maybe. But Russia has been trying pretty hard to secede from the US dominated tech market this year, banning a lot of Western internet sites with the idea of rolling their own. So I think your explanation is plausible.

A big part of the appeal of AI is that it offers an illusion of talking with someone who is flattered by everything you say, but isn’t complete enough to push back or assert itself like a real person. It doesn’t have the ability to back away from you and ask for some space. Effectively, there is no risk of your interaction going wrong. You go in with a certain intention, you get the reward.

Real people might be real, but they come with the risk of failure and therefore disappointment. I guess this isn’t really something to be worried about if you go to some kind of service where someone gets paid to entertain you, but even then, there’s a certain fear of interacting with someone who has (if only in theory) the ability to say no.

The right wing culture war is what you pivot to when your star is waning and real studios aren’t very interested in picking you up anymore. Kevin Sorbos, Ben Shapiro, Gina Carano. For an actress still very much in the ascendant phase of her career it’s a laughably miscalculated move. I think that despite the countless horrors that visit upon the world daily, we should count chudslop’s minute place in the culture among our blessings.

Dropping a podcast so bad they’re gonna go back to writing and reading books.

Another interesting hypothetical: how much more favorably would Mao be viewed if he either died or retired at 60?

There’s two approaches, you can try to slowly break down to them why those things are fallacies, or you can skip to the point and say that they’re being manipulated by the rich to hate people who do no material harm to them, when we should be unified against the ruling class who create the scarcity they’re reacting to in the first place.

Since the former is hard and the latter is easy, I’ll just contribute some ideas for the former here:

1. You’re not putting your culture last by skipping pork in the cafeteria. I don’t know what country you’re in, but generally speaking, meat consumption in modern society is incredibly high compared to any point in history. There is no culture on earth older than 100 years that valued eating pork every day for lunch except for very wealthy people. The amount of labor, land, and animal exploitation necessary to make an average person’s diet consist of so much meat consumption just wasn’t really a possibility until the 20th century in specific parts of the global north. On an individual health level, you could honestly benefit from taking the opportunity to change your diet too.
2. Letting girls wear religious vestments doesn’t allow their families to abuse them any more or less. For starters, Westerners generally have an erroneous view that no Muslim woman wants to wear any kind of Hijab. That’s simply false; they aren’t just religious attire, they’re also fashionable items of clothing that are just as much of a means of self expression as a dress or piece of jewellery. But even in the case of girls who don’t consent to wearing their hijabs and are forced to do it by their families, why should one expect that the family (hell even the girl herself) would suddenly be fine with the state stepping in to force a different kind of dress code? You’re going to cause more friction this way.
3. There also is a phenomenon where Westerners understand immigration, and benefits for immigrants backwards. Especially in countries with falling birth rates, immigration helps bring in more workers who can strengthen an economy^[1], making it more productive, and in many cases bringing in talented people that will be productive and make life better for subsequent generations. Too often liberals paint immigration as something that should be virtuously accepted, like it’s a self-sacrifice to take in more workers. If anything, this is backwards; the self-interested thing for capitalists to do is to take in more immigrants and exploit them more, while for workers it benefits us all if immigrants are entitled to living wages, security, and the same rights as everyone else. Ideally, these conditions would be available in all the world, but that’s not the reality of imperialism.
4. Follow-up from the last one (and this is a useful thing to understand when talking with reactionaries and liberals regardless of the topic), but also taxes don’t work that way. The government spending money on benefits for immigrants means more money is being created, which goes into the industries providing the benefits e.g. healthcare, agriculture, etc. This economic activity is just generally good and necessary for a capitalist economy. Without giving people benefits, capitalist economies spiral into deflation because capitalists find ways to produce more stuff while paying workers less to produce it, which means workers can’t buy as much stuff, but capitalists are in deeper debt (having invested more to produce stuff with less labor input) and end up crashing the market. If you’re talking with someone conservative who reads a little (rare but possible), the standard counterargument to this Keynesian/MMT thesis is that government driven economic growth in capitalism also isn’t a sustainable model because, when it was implemented in many countries following the Great Depression, it eventually led to stagflation in the 1960s which only recovered in the neoliberal era. I think the simple counter-counterargument here is that neoliberalism only delayed a problem that capitalism inevitably will be consumed by, no matter what brand, and that it’s extremely contradictory for workers to support neoliberalism as a means of extending capitalism’s lifespan. These contradictions can only be resolved with socialism.

Also while I’m up on my soapbox I’ll just mention, some people called this movie Lynchian but I don’t think they realize that Lost Highway is a Lynch film with a very similar kind of gnostic vibe, dealing with dissociation and rejecting a truth that is so hard to swallow that it’s easier to construct and live in a fake world, only for the contradictions from the real world to catch back up to the protagonist.

I literally listened to the episode you’re talking about and it took me a minute (granted I didn’t understand while listening either)

Who I think is fine but kind of a liberal douche. Triangle of Sadness is like a less talented, Western Bloc artist’s Disco Elysium. The Square is maybe a bit better politically but it’s very navel gaze-y.