I loved it! But def need to rewatch it, I saw it when it came out and it warrants another go.

I tuned in for the full Lynch, Fire Walk With Me was very good and scary. Depictions of transcendental evil hook me every time. I love cosmic horror, and I love Twin Peaks

“In a rich man’s house there is no where to spit but in his face”

Twin Peaks!

Marx did actually consider human nature

No it was a test, you failed.

Austraillia has 2 L’s and 2 i’s

Shits crazy

But no Australia is definitely all south

Why does this picture of Australia have North written all over it?

I didn’t say Mao was a peasant, I said that he facilitated a peasant revolution. But I appreciate the history lesson

The actual material conditions that underpinned the revolutions in China, Russia, and other socialist experiments couldn’t be more different than our situation. China was a country that had a brutally and bloodily repressed peasant revolution before Mao rose to power and, in many ways, allowed that peasant revolution in China. Though I’m not an expert in Chinese history, def have some books here I gotta crack open.

The Russian revolution too, had an extremely weak bourgeois class, a despotic royal family, and like 70 years of hardcore Marxists building the workers movement. Lenin was still exiled when the workers soviets seized power in February, with the Bolshevik revolution taking place in October. We haven’t had our Bloody Sunday, yet, that scares the peaceful worker movement so much that they have no choice but to face facts, organize for power, and overthrow the monarchy.

No, the ruling classes can afford to be like detached from reality like this, they can call themselves Leninists and maybe even read and somewhat understand some of his work (or surround themselves with ppl that do.) But they’ll never understand these movements

I’ll have to check out that Crowder book. Yeah they want to restore the gilded age.

But there will be no new deal. This time we don’t stop until every last one of them has been thrown down put of power, and faced the judgement of the people for their excessive crimes

Oh absolutely, 1000%. Its not communism, but they’ll use whatever affectation/artifice to get to slavery.

Bourgeois conservatives are obsessed with 20th century communism. The billionaire class has had its own vanguard since Prescott Bush. Steve Bannon calls himself a Leninist, though I’m not real sure what he means. The Republican obsession with culture war is influenced by Gramsci and his theory of hegemonic power. And the republican strategy of politically controlling cities through rural areas, as in “the country surrounds the city,” is a component of Maoism.

Not saying there is an affinity between far right conservatives and communists, I don’t believe that there is one. But 20th century communists’ application of dialectical materialism uncovered new political dynamics through their work with the masses, and unfortunately the far right learned many of these lessons, though only as a way to gain power for themselves noy liberation for all; while democrats clung death like to liberal idealism and refused to learn anything from the left, since it is the dems job to oppose and keep power from us.

Yeah that’s about what I found too

Wild. The video itself is getting memory holed. I found a version published by the guardian that has the section of video with a glitch cut out.

I found this one that still has the glitchy frames. Its around 1:05, “Charlie was a patriot…”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hsx6Tii0E

Rippin donies

Here’s a video of Trump today https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1neg8de/trumps_face_appeared_noticeably_drooped_on_one/

Here’s a video of him yesterday. ~~ https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1965940221612273913/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1965940221612273913&currentTweetUser=disclosetv ~~

In the second video, there’s even a weird glitch at about 18 seconds, where he says “Charlie was a patriot” and if you look over his head there’s like a shift or something that is noticeable.

I noticed this yesterday, I think its at least edited, but seeing him today…he does not look quite as feisty as usual. Its not worth spending time on, proving that a video was faked is not exactly the most pressing issue of our time. But I think there’s merit to the claim

EDIT : The video I think is AI generated was taken down from twitter and the WH YouTube. Here’s a secondary source, the “glitch” is around 1:05. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hsx6Tii0E A video with the glitchy frames cut from the video was published by the Guardian.

No

Most of his works have been moved or destroyed, I think. He’s had works washed off, he’s had works vandalized, the walls where a work resided has been broken out and then the wall has been sold to collectors.

He spray painted a piece onto plywood at a charity Boys Club, confirmed with the people running the club that the work belonged to them, so they removed it and eventually sold it for a pretty penny to keep the club running.

That dynamic seems to have always been present. I’m seeing some people saying he even may have etched the wall first, so I’m not sure. But with stuff like this you have to assume it was the artist’s intention. This is what artists spend all their time thinking about and discussing! In art school even, beginner students are made to critique every line and mark of each others work. Any single piece of art itself is a conversation with the history of art. We aren’t used to thinking like that, we think of art works as commodities with a dollar value. I promise you, banksy does not think that way

Banksy knew that it would look like this if they tried to remove it. He put it on a building where they couldn’t just break a chunk of wall off, but they had to remove it. He understood exactly what kind of commercial removers were out there, he understood that it would leave a shadow.

Banksy has experimented with this theme before, of the art being destroyed, where the act of destruction is like a transaction.

One of his paintings was sold at auction, and when the bidding was closed, the big frame the work was displayed in began shredding the drawing. Except with the murals the “destruction” of the art was carried out by the state bureaucracy that the work is critiquing. But its a mundane, meaningless sort of removal. Human creativity and expression of injustice, likely worth millions, wiped away because of faceless, mindless state bureaucracy.

This is what makes Banksy an incredible artist. The after shot is the art.

Its at least partially a statistical trick. People of lower competence rate themselves closer to the middle, but people with high competence also do this.

I also find it hilarious how virtually everyone acts like an expert in diagnosing dunning-krueger. Like looking at a graph for a second and then repeating an academic mystification and 5-10 word snippet repeated ad nauseum is pretty fucking ironic given the subject