That's why you have to burn it out from the roots

I was just listening to the trashfuture episode on the Falklands war, and fuck me if it isn't exactly the same thing.

They're so desperate to do special forces stuff, they are so absolutely obsessed with a squad of elite supersoldiers doing what no one else dares, overcoming all odds through grit and determination by being superior heroic individuals. And then, when all that failed, the Royal Navy bombarded the hills opposite the Argentinian position and they surrendered immediately with no further shots fired.

I feel the same way, although rather I feel dialectical materialism has made all bourgeoise philosophy obsolete. Any philosophical endeavor that doesn't take dialectical materialism as its basis is like a physics hypothesis that ignores general relativity. Like always, I will plug The Destruction of Reason, which shows how bourgeoise philosophy has only regressed for about 170 years since Hegel, and has no further purpose but to quiet the guilty conscience of capitalists or rouse their petit bourgeoise footsoldiers to defend capital.

So far this year China has added more solar capacity than the US in its entire history

The Site five minutes after a containment breach be like

Profile pic checks out

There are several hundred thousand vengeful dead patrolling the Donbas border by now...

Gozer the Gozerian gonna manifest in downtown Bakhmut Artyemovsk

The popularity of securing a state job - known in Chinese as "landing ashore" - has fuelled an unlikely fashion trend, in which young men display their aspirations with sombre suits, windbreakers and even Communist party badges, a vogue known as "cadre style"

Chinese chatbots have struggled to compete with ChatGPT [citation needed], because the Party imposed rules requiring them to uphold "socialist core values" (If you ask ErnieBot, a Chinese version of ChatGPT, whether Xi Jinping is pragmatic, it replies "Try a different question")

As if the capitalists would show such restraint

A book I can recommend on the Hungarian uprising is The Truth About Hungary by Herbert Aptheker.

It's been a while since I read it but to my recollection it makes a pretty undeniable argument that it was a fascist uprising, taking place as it did just 11 years after Hungary - an Axis member - was defeated in WW2.

Here's the Marine Corps Gazette explaining what happened.

The Kiev regime is controlled by genocidal Nazis trying to ethnically cleanse the population of Donetsk and Luhansk. Those places were already 'denazified', the problem was the Nazis on the Kiev side of the trenches continuously shelling the civilian population for eight years (with western support).

Well I was gonna bother responding, then I noticed your account was created five days ago and has done nothing but both-sides this conflict

Have a very shitty rest of your shift officer

I would like to jump in and specifically explain the word 'fetishism' because it causes some confusion, although it's also explained in this article.

The term or idea of fetishism originates in colonial anthropology. Basically, colonist anthropologists would show up in one of their victim's societies to take notes, watch their religious practices, and see them use objects such as figurines or statues to represent various divine or spiritual figures. The anthropologists would know that, of course, the inferior mind of the savage couldn't possibly be using these things as props or metaphors, they must be literally worshipping the objects - they must believe the objects themselves have a divine spirit inside them (and then those same anthropologists, without the slightest shred of irony, went back home, went to their Sunday services and worshipped the crucifix). The anthropologists called these objects 'fetishes'.

Marx would have been writing all throughout the period this 'research' was being done, and found it was a useful metaphor for the idea that commodities themselves contain value, rather than their value being the result of a series of social interactions (as other people have already explained). But Marx also opposed colonial brutality and was an abolitionist, and was probably about as anti-racist as someone could be under his material conditions, so I personally think the choice of term was a fully intentional irony - oh, you think the 'backwards savages' are so inferior because their society has these fetish rituals? Well, your allegedly superior society runs entirely on fetish rituals, with your fetishes being commodities.

Unfortunately, in the divergence of language, the term was also used in the phrase 'sexual fetish', which originally meant some object or act that someone required during sex, later just meaning something that someone enjoys. The phrase was eventually shortened to just 'fetish' so that for the majority of people the term has an exclusively sexual connotation. People then get the wrong idea and think 'commodity fetishism' is simply the 'sexual' thrill of owning or buying commodities, which is not correct. That phenomenon might be real in the sense of the related idea of conspicuous consumption, but the actual meaning of commmodity fetishism is a much deeper idea that cuts to the heart of social organisation under capitalism and how that organisation is obscured in the eyes of its participants.

The argument for it being Israel:

• Israel has complete air superiority
• Israel is conducting a bombing campaign against Gaza
• Israel has threatened to attack hospitals
• Israel has previously bombed hospitals
• Israel has previously bombed this exact hospital
• The audio and visual characteristics of the bomb and the damage caused (captured by multiple, independent observers) match with a JDAM guided bomb, which Israel has already used
• Israeli sources first claimed the hospital was a Hamas base or had Hamas tunnels or arms caches, before rapidly rolling back their position to "we didn't do it"
• It is clearly in Israel's interest to kill Palestinians and destroy Palestinian infrastructure, especially medical services and supplies, because they are conducting a genocide

The argument for it being Hamas:

• Israel says it was

Reddit, or rather

Banned for being factually incorrect in a blindingly obvious way

Tfu!