Also, I want to hear more about the Christman family fortune.
:amber-snacking: must be paying them so her book doesn't seem 6 years out of date.
Dirtbag
On Sale 12/05/2023
:picard: come on, talk about missing your window. this is like 18 months too late
And are currently to the right of the Tory party on plenty of issues.
probably talking about the one in the Theresa May era where she called for elections to try and boost the Conservatives' majority and got fucked (but Labour still didn't get a majority). it's a victory relatively speaking as it surprised everybody how well Labour did and how poorly the Conservatives did, but now that we're like half a decade removed from it and past Corbyn's defeat and now into Starmer doing his utmost to make it the most right wing party in the country, it's unintentionally very funny
Honestly that byline (or whatever it's called) is kinda just sad.
Mainly cause of the reality of how ineffectual US left is.
She's been at the vanguard of radical politics ever since
Amber disappeared at the same time as Virgil almost 3 years ago. She's the vanguard of nothing lmao, and the pod is trash now.
It isn't even a new or unquie commentary. This is something that has been observed about state craft going back thousands of years. It is quite literally "bread & circuses".
Even the fkn Roman Empire was concerned with "treats" and knew that the treats must flow or everything goes to hell pretty darn quick.
I mean Das Kapital basically starts with Marx saying that in a different way.
"The Wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails presents itself as an immense collection of commodities."
"The slop of those rat races in which porky runs everything presents itself as a never ending flow of treats."
Yeah treatiness is for sure the main defining characteristic of a commodity
it satisfies a need be it from the stomach or the imagination, sounds like a treat to me
Remember if you're wealthy you can't be a leftist. Class traitors don't exist! 🤡
i love using treat pejoratively it sounds so funny and then IRL i go out have little treats sometimes and it's cool as fuck
if you think it's bad that Matt brags about doing blow, wait til you learn he has admitted to two instances of using the illegal hallucinogenic drug LSD!
https://www.influencewatch.org/person/matt-christman/#hallucinogen-usean appendage of these people? USA is broken. Its got a serious infestation of reactionaries with too much money.
Jonas Kyratzes, pjf
@JonasKyratzes
Replying to @Leigh_Phillips
They've really missed the point of seizing the means of production. What do they think we're seizing them for? To not use themWhen their turn comes, they will make no excuses for the Funko Pops.
Leigh Philips is such a dipshit though. One of the biggest pseuds in the Jacobin left.
The fuck? They're really just playing word shuffling games online and calling it politics. The way this is written it's like Seizing the Means of Production is happening right now. Twitter acts like a person/movement's stated goals are like real acts they've already done, and need to answer for. It's mundane bullshit. Literally nothing has happened people, calm down.
Listening to the preview for trashfuture premium episode
Hears rosz and they're talking about public transport
"Wow i might bother pirating this"
Hears liam
"Well, nevermind"
Just realised that this isn't the megathread but this thread is wierdly fitting
What’s the deal with Liam, I’ve only really listened to a couple episodes of WTYP so I’m not caught up with the drama or the day to day struggles faced by the podcaster class
i've listened to maybe 20 or 30 episodes total and i don't think i've ever heard him do any of that. the first time he talks about drunk driving im gonna decapriopointing.jpg
i just listen to random ones i think i'll find interesting, which probably skews earlier. i think the newer ones i have listened to are mostly about current events which would provide less opportunity for talking about the soviets lol
He claims to be an anarchist of some stripe but is mostly just a reactionary anticommunist. He spends most of the time on the podcast musing about times when he was drunk or driving like an idiot (or both). He also loves to interrupt hosts and guests for inane shit.
My favorite episodes are the long ones because Liam goes to sleep. Or the ones without Liam as guest can talk about the technical aspects in more dept. The El Faro episode was a clear example that Liam needs to go.
he's the nepotism hire. Rocz is super knowledgable, with great delivery and fantastic dry humor. Liam is his best friend and brings no other skills to the table.
parasocial relationship time but one kind of gets the feeling liam is for all his faults a really great friend to Rocz. Doesn't necessarily make for good podcasting but you can see how it happens.
I have no issue with Liam as a person and I'm sure he's a great friend. I take no fault with any of that. It's just weird to have him on the podcast when it doesn't add anything.
I think he has some allright bits. Mostly I think the fact that people keep throwing a shitfit about him is very weird.
It would be impressive honestly. Seems like a moped guy though.
Liam is his best friend and brings no other skills to the table.
He did the editing for a while, before Devon took over.
Also, half of the Leftist podcast space is just best friends inviting each other onto their podcasts to grow out the space. Street Fight begat Chapo begat CumTown begat Pod Damn America begat Ballin' Out Super... Its all just dudes rocking.
I'll never get the people who hate on Liam. Dude's not a RadLib or a Revanchist or whatever. He's just from Philly. If you can't handle that then you're never going to achieve anything resembling Leftist Unity.
I sort of agree with you. Again, I have no issue with Liam. I just also have no interest in listening to Liam. And I don't like when Liam keeps me from listening to Rocz, who I do want to listen to.
I don't like when Liam keeps me from listening to Rocz
I'll admit, I enjoy my hard-edged civil engineering lecture broken up a bit by folks heckling from the back of the classroom.
Even Trot Dads can get into this one. True left unity. (I don't hate Liam but he's annoying with the anti Soviet shit)
Someone got so dedicated to vomiting rage at me for saying "treats" too much about half a year back that I decided it wasn't worth the ongoing army of rage alt accounts howling at me over it, so I stopped.
I only resumed saying the word "treat" in that contextual way again after someone here went full
and told me (CW: gore, suicide)spoiler
to slit my own throat and die because I said Mortal Kombat artists shouldn't have to sit through slaughterhouse footage and snuff films, receiving documented psychological trauma in the process, just to keep their jobs.
Loots like treat criticism was back on the menu for me. :SickoUrukHai:
Loots like treat criticism was back on the menu for me.
in a way treat criticism is like a treat for you
I am 300% serious when I say you should write a 1500 page literary criticism treatise called something like "The Wages of Treats: How Porky's Slop Hypnotized The Hogs Of The Imperial Core"
I would read it.
I'm tempted, I really am, but it might just feel like a retread of stuff I've already ranted about years ago by now.
Maybe if something new comes out that really has it coming, I can go effortpost about it.
I for one am glad you are going to use it again. It's a perfect term for what its used to criticize. Sorry you had to deal with that harassment, but ngl, it's funny some loser would go to the trouble of making alts because they were so upset about their treats being called into question.
also i don't understand how they are still making mortal kombat games. they should have stopped after one
I really liked the most recent MK. Hadn't played one since the 90s. Then i heard about the shit the developers had to go through....
When they were silly comic violence I was all for it. The dae le epic realistic fad of recent years is unpleasant to me; never liked it.
Meanwhile, if you search for "[female character] fatalities" on Youtube, there's a disturbing number of videos that's "fatalities done to [female character]" instead of what you would expect with "fatalities done by [female character]." And the view counts of those videos are pretty big too. There's one that has 2.7M view counts. 2.7 million people watched some fictional woman repeatedly getting her corpse mutilated for 25 minutes. I think she's supposed to be an evil cyborg or something, and that seems to be the excuse people in the comments are running with.
I was completely turned off by the fatalities of the newer Mortal Kombat, but I wasn't expecting "developers getting PTSD from watching snuff footage so players can use the series as an outlet for their incel fantasies of dismembering women" to be another thing to dislike the series.
The unprovable negative of "entertainment has no effect on me" that some treat defenders trot out (demonstrating that they are already affected enough to get tribalistic about what doesn't affect them and try to shout down criticism of however possible) seems so glaringly laughably false at a casual glance that it makes me feel like I'm living in one reality and speaking and hearing into another sometimes.
Some dogmatically see a lack of 1:1 cause and effect as some sort of proof that no influence happens whatsoever.
There's one bug lady in the new ones that the fanbase fucking despises because she's the only new character that the devs and writers let accomplish anything and allow to kill legacy characters in the story mode.
Every time she does anything they think either that it shouldnt have happened at all, or that a legacy character like the ninja clones should have been the one to do it.
I'm completely OOTL with the series after MK4 (there's like weird timeline shenanigans that just makes me go "huh"), so when I searched for "Sonya fatalities" on Youtube, I wanted to see a bunch of videos of the fatalities she had and compare her fatalities from MK1/MK3 with the newer games. I didn't want to see a bunch of videos of every single MK characters performing their fatalities on a defeated Sonya. Like, that's so creepy. It's not even incel shit at this point, but full blown serial killer shit.
Oh yeah thats just complete creepy misogynist shit going on, the only thing people have been mad about with Sonya in the new games is that they had a transphobic UFC fighter who cant act play her in the latest released one, and guys who make youtube compilations would just be happy about that.
I love her and the fact that she is so hated fuels me.
I think she's supposed to be an evil cyborg or something, and that seems to be the excuse people in the comments are running with.
Its much worst if its Frost you talking about. She was a normal character who was brought back as a cyborg randomly in the new game with a new motivation of being the better cyborg version of sub-zero with her own group of cyber frost ninja that are supposed to be superior. The cast basically treats her in game as little more a joke and she has short hair so the fandom treats her as the feminist, karen imitation of subzero. Given her new story it was probably the developers' intention.
I know which videos you're talking about- my guess was that the reason they picked frost was simply that graphically dismembering or disemboweling a cyborg woman with motor oil for blood was less likely to trigger Youtube's filters
The upcoming MK is called Mortal Kombat 1.
I don't like MK but I think the recent titles before this one had elements of artistic merit even if the writing and character animation were dogshit and as fighting games weren't especially good.
I hate when corpos practice "reboots" that are titled in a way that intentionally erases previous works.
Probably the games comm seeing as it’s mortal kombat.
I didn't even go as hard as I sometimes do against the treats; I didn't even say anything directly against Mortal Kombat Historically Accurate Snuff Film Edition that time but just the suggestion that workers shouldn't have to sit through snuff film/slaughterhouse footage to keep their jobs meant that I was "delusional" about "privileged" video game artists (hahaha, privileged, suuuuuuuuure) and of course that I deserved death because I was uncivil by not kissing
ass and actually stood by my original point instead of citing holy conciliation words like "to each their own" 
I mainly just think it's weird how they tried to play victim after. Like, there's something to be said for "You signed up to do Mortal Kombat viscera, what did you expect?" with possible answers like "Let them pace themselves," "pay for them to see a counselor before they break down," "Get them minimally-offensive content, maybe let them visit a mortuary or something and talk with a mortician instead of watching a dozen videos of someone getting fucking murdered on camera" and, of course, "consider if any of this shit is worth doing compared to the campier approach where someone explodes into 5 femurs and a dozen rib cages," but telling you to die and then acting like a smol bean is just baffling.
Mortal Kombat is a weird case because the games are written in a senseless way at their core. So many of the fatalities aren't "Make sure he's dead" they are "tee hee I love mutilating corpses!" even when it's not even remotely appropriate to the character. It's just newage shock marketing, basically, and all for a game with shitty balance and shitty animations outside of cinematics. It's just not even good slop.
I mainly just think it's weird how they tried to play victim after.
I used to hate the term, but "crybully" really does apply to some people, especially
types.I think that that
really, really assumed I would follow some poorly understood but dogmatically expected ritual of seeing their point (his point being utter garbage to begin with, because it was a claim that Mortal Kombat artists are "privileged" and can "easily find other work") and respecting it equally, which I will not do if I see that point as bullshit.Did you see the part where that
weaponized the act of having given financial aid to another Hexbear user as if that was a way of purchasing compliance, or at least silence?Why is that
not actually banned anyway?Did you see the part
I did, that was arguably the most pathetic part of the thread
Why is that not actually banned anyway?
I just assumed they were! They should be a thousand times over, so maybe a few more of the comments need reporting . . .
I was uncivil and didn't respect their point about some workers being too privileged to have jobs without experiencing psychological trauma which means I must (CW: gore, suicide, heated
moment)spoiler
slit my own throat and die. But wishing death to me isn't the same as commanding death to me. That would be uncivil.
Treatbrained leftism is like adding sewage to a smoothie. No matter what the other ingredients are, it's now sewage.
Of fucking course their avatar is AVGN.
really funny that there are people still mad about the dirtbag left bernie brocialist champaign podcast nihilist cryptofascists. like my Comrade there is No Active Left In America. Why are you still on Twitter.
They're pioneering entirely new magnitudes of being terminally online: hyperventilating over a half-baked movement that has been dead and rotting in the ground for three years and will never return. All that's left for western leftwing podcasts to do is get excited about things happening elsewhere in the world or laugh about how absurdly bad things are getting at home.
If the left is going to return in the west, and I'm somewhat hopeful it will, then it's not gonna be how it was in 2016-2020 because the illusion that anybody left of Reagan will be let within 10 miles of the White House has been violently torn down
President Xi, my name is WayeeCool. I am 7 years old. I live in USA. My government is starving my family, and is not ensuring reliable electricity even though everything is burning. Please send Chengdu J-20 Multirole Stealth Fighter Aircraft, my people yearn for freedom.
The electoral left will return, it always does as memory fades and a bunch of people who've not been burned (heh) grow up.
It'll be more radical this time I hope, more committed to leninist takes on elections.
OP sounds like someone who calls you a tankie for even suggesting they not cross a picket line for snacks.
What if some handicapped people need snacks and the picket line will kill them if they don't get snacks in a very specific scenario? You didn't think about that huh?
covid policy. 
is out.
