what they did in Afghanistan

And Iran in 1953

Thanks for the detailed run-down! You have a very practical application of language construction, and I appreciate your work with this, it’s interesting to me, since I write quite a bit, often trying to communicate social theory to people without a background in social theory. This leads me to do a lot of stuff like taking a passage from late 19th, early 20th c. and then rewriting it in easier language, concisely explain core concepts, demystify clunky philosophy words like “epistemology”, etc., so I’m def familiar with some aspects of “relighting” I think. I don’t usually make up new words for things, but i see some similar considerations between our processes. Just maybe where you start recontexualizing other words into new practical application, I’ll break it up conceptually, using simpler words.

Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois

That’s right I’m posting Trotsky on .ml

Thank you! I’ve read a little Deleuze, and I have a comrade who bases a lot of their views on Anti-Oedipus and ATP. I’m familiar with the rhizome, but its role as a criticism of “the root” is new, compelling.

Def appreciate the references, I’ll try and find these sources and acquaint myself with them.

Thanks. Where are you getting this from? Or is this your own set of theories? Do you have writing somewhere?

I edited my comment and then it got kinda long and took a while to finish and now I forget what my original post was. Probably just the first paragraph.

Okay…thats helpful. Now do “root” and “upholding the heart of walldoms”. If you don’t mind. Also “in this deem.”

Might use some help with your use of the word enlightenment, you mean kind of like a light, like how light changes the appearances of matter, an idea like nationalism is cast upon our direct experience I follow what you’re saying about “we aught to remove a word” and finding a new word to replace an old word. Which is all very abstract, I’m not sure who “we” are that is in the position to start making up words, and educating on their meanings. Also there’s always the possibility, probably the inevitability, that these new words will be used against us. Like how the word “woke”, a left wing concept, was turned around on us by the capitalists and the media. Which means, matters of language are not about words but about power. Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony is deeply rooted in the study of language, namely the Florentine dialect and its spread throughout Italy during the Italian Risorgiamento in the mid - late 1800s.

Coming back to the simile of a spotlight,alls a good comparison that illustrates sort of what I’m talking about, and can be extended in lots of interesting ways. Like, in order to shine a spotlight, you need to have a spotlight, and you need to have power. Light has a source so it is relevant who controls it. I don’t think you missed this per se, but considerations of language and meaning are purely practical.

I would love to understand what youre saying

That quote is from Doug Stanhope not accusing anybody of stealing comedy or anything, its a pretty basic view of nationalism, but its just a good way of phrasing. So credit where its due

DSA Liberation Caucus is good.

She’s like an IRL berserker. Shes like “I’ll have a panic attack,” never mentioning that her flight response summons the Norse God Loki

I believe that if you defeat a cop in battle then you can take his badge and gun and become the new cop. So its only consistent that if you free yourself while in custody, you are innocent of the crime

Fixing Education

Doubt

The polycule is a state of mind

Your “couple” is a whole extended polycule

Henry Ford was an executive board member of the ravenously pro - fascist America First Committee. At what point does it become appropriate to accuse someone of being a nazi? Surely, by the time when they are not just avowedly pro-fascism and pro-nazi, but one of the people trying to bring Nazi fascism to the United States, it would be appropriate to call him a Nazi.

As for him building weapons for the USA, like was he just supposed to give those sales to his competitors? Do you understand how capitalism and fascism work together? His ideology doesn’t prohibit him from working for the USA.

Check out the podcast Ultra. it’s about the old America First movement in the USA

You can read Marx’s chapters on technology in Capital volume 1, and what he describes from his own time about how tech is developed and for whose benefit and specifically how it has to exploit workers in order to be useful to capital; it matches so closely with the development of AI that we are seeing.

Remember when they built a $50 billion server farm in my back yard to run a GUI IDE?

I think your attitude toward AI in the abstract is pretty good, it matches my experience in tech, but also theres something much larger going on here

Here’s a nyt article I read back during his first term. I’m surprised this doesn’t get shared more.

Its long, but what it uncovers isnt someone who is bad at business, not really, its something else. Something more intentional.

If my memory serves, the casino was open for like 20 years. And it basically never made money. It was more like it was bled out, slowly. Trump kept using his fame and wealth to get more capital to keep it afloat, which he would then pocket. By the time it went bankrupt his name was on it but his personal money that he put in at the beginning, he’d already gotten that out of it, plus made millions and millions. The casino was paying him like 200k (cant remember if per month or per year) just to have his name up there.

Like I met a guy who was the CFO for Limited brands, Les Wexners old company. He was very rich, had a big house and all these druggy middle aged failsons, a whole fail family tbh, but looking into him he was like really good with money and number. He was a Mormon guy so he was playing straight. Still a filthy capitalist, but someone who was educated and “good at” business.

Trump is definitely not that. He’s more like somebody who is really good at legal crime. Its not about how good of a business man he is or isnt. He’s like a very wealthy, very powerful criminal. So the point was never to make money with the casino. It was about how to suck as much value as possible, technically legally, out of it for as long as possible, at which point you just cut it off having bled every penny out of it. Its not so much the casino went bankrupt, it’s more like it got butchered.

And that’s what he’s doing to the country right now. Him and everybody else who has been plotting for decades to hollow out the USA of anything of value, leaving nothing but a pitiful, nationalistic, fascist husk. That has been the plan all along and Trump is the mascot who is carrying it out, and getting mega wealthy doing it.

Is this his main work on rhetoric and propaganda? Ive been meaning to read that one

This but unironically