Kulturkampf

[benji]

More Barikampf
https://bsky.app/profile/attackerman.bsky.social/post/3m2jsjv2jqc2o
I remember when conspiracy posting about (((people))) controlling the media was Nazi-coded

I don't even like The Free Press, it's too contrarian, and I don't really care about Weiss beyond the derangement toward her.

I remember this guy:

At one point, Ackerman suggested that fellow members of the listserv should fight the way the right is fueling the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story by choosing one of Obama’s conservative critics, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

At another point, Ackerman acknowledged that, while he didn’t like having to toe a partisan line, “what I like less is being governed by racists and warmongers and criminals.”

He continued: “I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a right winger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously, I mean this rhetorically.”

If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.'

Let’s just throw Ledeen against a wall. Or, pace Dr. Alterman, throw him through a plate glass window. I’ll bet a little spot of violence would shut him right the f__k up, as with most bullies.

And yes, I remember him because of his constantly mentioning plate glass windows specifically.

[HaughtyFrank]

So how come Martyr has become so front and center for people talking about Palestine? Because in Islam martyr has a pretty specific religious meaning and yet activists keep telling us that this conflict has nothing to do with religion.

I also imagine that they must be quite aware that talking about "Honoring our martyrs" on October 7th sounds a whole lot like support for the Hamas terrorists who went on a suicide run to kill as many jews as possible. I imagine that's actually exactly the message they want to send.

[benji]

Damn on the day and everything too, that's crazy. It makes it seem like they are celebrating the October 7 attack.

[Nintex]

In this house we celebrate the launch of Mr. Nutz on SNES in Japan on October 7th 1994

[Polident]

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/10/happy-gilmore-2-golf-and-unity/

When Happy the sales clerk first battles Manatee, he asks his store supervisor, “Can you turn the security cameras off for like 90 seconds?” to teach the braggart a lesson. This sly Jeffrey Epstein reference bests Anderson’s over-obvious political alarm.

The greatest movie critic strikes again.

[filler]

they're celebrating our slaughter and don't pretend to hide it!

[D3RANG3D]

I'm old enough to remember that it was reported as dancing arabs...

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[Nintex]

Ok Elon, prepare the time machine we have to set in motion the events that will make me President I mean prevent 9/11  

  ok Mr. President but why are we taking the dancing jews from the ballroom with us
It's called we do a little trolling

[Alpacx]

Is Greta literally retarded?

[filler]

If Israel is starving the entire population of Gaza. That will include the prisoners of war.

[HaughtyFrank]

If Israel is starving the entire population of Gaza. That will include the prisoners of war.

Her post is directly referencing Palestinian prisoners suffering so I'm not sure that was intentional.

Wouldn't be the first time someone in this conflict tried to highlight their sides suffering and accidentally used images from their "enemy". Maybe at some point people could realize that there's suffering on both sides that needs to end

[filler]

the difference is that the palestinians are not intentionally starving their israeli prisoners, it's as result of israel intentionally starving the entire population of gaza. if the people of gaza were given enough food to not starve, the israeli prisoners would also be given food and not be starving. israel is directly causing harm to their own people, they've been more than willing to sacrifice their own kind. starting with october 7th when they allowed the attacks to happen.

[Nintex]

the difference is that the palestinians are not intentionally starving their israeli prisoners, it's as result of israel intentionally starving the entire population of gaza. if the people of gaza were given enough food to not starve, the israeli prisoners would also be given food and not be starving. israel is directly causing harm to their own people, they've been more than willing to sacrifice their own kind. starting with october 7th when they allowed the attacks to happen.

yes but you are forgetting one important detail, october 7th was just another day. You missed this, so I created a special extended new mix with improved sound  

https://suno.com/s/ZPRWlf2e372Oqoe4

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Also check out whatever the fuck this thread is: https://x.com/LevantJoseph/status/1975423392049422773

[benji]

This was mentioned in that thread:

Digital Conquerors: Minecraft and the Apologetics of Neoliberalism

The widespread popularity of sandbox games, and Minecraft in particular, may be a recent phenomenon, but their appeal may be much older. Rather than representing a wholly new development in gaming, these games may participate in a larger media ecology that flatters a neoliberal worldview. This research calls for greater attention to the coercive economic assumptions encoded in game mechanics. Drawing on scholarship in ludology, postcolonial studies, and phenomenology, it suggests that sandbox games like Minecraft habituate players to myths of empire and capital that rationalize political and economic inequality. More than simply offering a blank slate for player creation, Minecraft rewards players for assuming their entitlement to the world’s resources and thus their superiority over other inhabitants of the game world.

This was in the similar articles column:

On the 10-year anniversary of minecraft: two interventions in extractive colonialism

In light of the 10-year anniversary of the release of Minecraft, the wildly popular survival/building game, this retrospective considers the game as a vastly impactful digital text of settler colonialism. The ways in which the game’s ‘survival mode’ approaches the extraction of resources from land is fundamentally entangled in colonial fictions of indigeneity, gendered systems of property, and a Euro-humanist sense of entitlement and ownership. Considering Minecraft as a colonial text allows for two theoretical and aesthetic interventions: first, the visual art of Peruvian-American Eamon Ore-Giron, who challenges colonial extractivism in the two-channel piece, Morococha, and second, the 2006 flash game released by XGen Studies, Motherload, which approaches mining-based gameplay with key differences. These two interventions highlight the importance of digital realms as a terrain of colonial space-making and thus a site of analysis for cultural geographers. Moreover, they may help to chart useful paths to the production and realization of anti-colonial digital textuality.

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[HaughtyFrank]

The idea that harvesting resources is inherently colonial seems kind of dumb and infatalising of indigenous cultures. Like were Aztecs and ancient Egyptians building pyramids with paper? No? Or does this mean they were also colonizers? Well in that case what even is indigenous.

Edit: where does even this idea come from that indigenous people automatically lived harmonically with the environment. Isn't one assumption about the Easter Islands being mostly treeless that the indigenous people ended up cutting down every single tree?

[Uncle]

think fast: redesign the game so that this isn't the optimal mode of play, and whatever philosophy you espouse becomes optimal instead (presumably sort of imagined, mythical "harmony with nature" native american vision? as if they didn't optimize their shit to the best of their abilities at the time?)

even the coziest games like animal crossing can be optimized this way, grind more get more, visit others so you can grow at least one of every tree so you can harvest every kind of fruit...shake them daily to earn money to pay off your loan faster...



genuinely, what would be the alternative? a game where you get more for doing less? so optimal play is to interact with nothing so earth's bounty falls in your lap every day?

[benji]

It sort of reminds me of how people complain that algorithms (on YouTube, etc.) give people more of what they want. Like, you're saying that the goal of companies should be to recommend you crap you don't want? And you think people will just watch or buy it? And that maybe they should be forced to recommend you stuff you don't want? (Ignore that these same people are often complaining that the algorithms are imperfect and will sometimes show them something they don't want.)

There's so many people out there who have some unimagined perfect alternative they compare everything to and are often very angry that nothing that actually exists or can even be conceived of matches it. I think this is why will to power politics appeal to them so much, it tells them that the only thing stopping perfection is everyone's will to have it.

[Uncle]

I can be sympathetic to the idea that sometimes it's good to give people something unexpected that they didn't know they wanted, but that still boils down to giving people what they want

(Ignore that these same people are often complaining that the algorithms are imperfect and will sometimes show them something they don't want.)

never considering for a second that this could be a noble attempt at intentionally not giving them what they want to promote seeing new/different ideas, exactly as they're asking for

[Potato]

It sort of reminds me of how people complain that algorithms (on YouTube, etc.) give people more of what they want. Like, you're saying that the goal of companies should be to recommend you crap you don't want? And you think people will just watch or buy it? And that maybe they should be forced to recommend you stuff you don't want? (Ignore that these same people are often complaining that the algorithms are imperfect and will sometimes show them something they don't want.)

There's so many people out there who have some unimagined perfect alternative they compare everything to and are often very angry that nothing that actually exists or can even be conceived of matches it. I think this is why will to power politics appeal to them so much, it tells them that the only thing stopping perfection is everyone's will to have it.

Once again you're missing the point with your logic Benji. 

The goal of companies should be to recommend to YOU more of what I, AN INTELLECTUAL want!

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[benji]

Both this tweet and the quoted one:

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