Time to post spooky and monster-themed Marx quotes. My two favourites:
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
derrida has entered the chapo dot chat
yall talkin bout ghosts? ghosts arrive from the past! a ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back. ooOo spooky hauntology!
derrida has left this plane of existence
i hear it takes twenty years for the :specter: to fully form.
derridas ghost 2024 :vote:
Capitalist societies can always heave a sigh of relief and say to themselves: communism is finished since the collapse of the totalitarianism of the twentieth century and not only is it finished, but it did not take place, it was only a ghost. They do no more than disavow the undeniable itself: a ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back.
That's Derrida in Specters of Marx (page 123). Hauntology is such a cool topic. I actually wrote a thing on climate change and hauntology, using a Marxist lens with a little help from Derrida if that's interesting to you! Pretty spooky stuff.
yep. derrida is an interesting dude with some interesting ideas for sure.
ill give the thingy a read in a bit!
I am still working the same job with no real differences. It isn't any better out here
Watching the kanye interview
first things that came to mind
- It's kind of sad to see a person having difficulty being coherent and being somewhat paranoid.
- In his way he is describing how capitalism is failing people and is evil (by example of the music industry). But he can't seem to quite put it together or express it very well.
It’s kind of sad to see a person having difficulty being coherent and being somewhat paranoid.
This point makes him a prime candidate for president this election
In his way he is describing how capitalism is failing people and is evil (by example of the music industry). But he can’t seem to quite put it together or express it very well.
fair, though that whole "put visionaries in charge" thing really smacks of the fashy hero cult to me. a lot of people turn to fascists (like kanye has with musk and trump) when faced with the horrors of capitalism, which i guess is why some of them call it "the third way"
i only skimmed through bits and pieces of the interview (saw the length and decided not to spend the equivalent runtime of a blade runner movie listening to this dude) but a few takeaways i had:
- this man has never really come to terms with his grief and trauma, like, at all. "I said, 'God, deliver me from pain.' And then he took my mom." not to get all freudian but im pretty sure you can create a pretty accurate through line that connects all of his recent career trajectory starting with his mom's death in 2007 and his inability to ever really properly process it and deal with it - even in his born again Christian phase. on second thought, definitely in his born again Christian phase.
- the brief parts where you get to see behind the yeezy "curtain" for a moment, strangely enough, were some of the most interesting parts. there's a part where he straight up says he was paranoid about people in his own circle "Bob Marley"ing (poisoning?) him and how he fired his CFO... then he drops the thought 2 minutes later and starts talking about how he met the Haitian president.
- the whole thing was kind of exhausting and because it reminded me of many convos i've had with people close to me who are bipolar/schizophrenia, and even myself when i was at my most strung out, where totally abstract and unrelated thoughts just make perfect sense to you because the filter is like, gone (the sky is actually green and not blue? okay, sure, makes sense). saw someone basically say that rogan basically is just letting kanye interview himself here - no real pushback, which i guess is fine when he's chilling celebs but also illustrates why people are pissed when he brings on reactionaries, because the man has no critical bone in his body. one of the first times he finally asks Kanye "why?" is when Kanye said he agreed to be medicated lol
the OAS is such a joke, their 'assembly' looks like a fucking 20-seater meeting room in an office building.
whats up with Venezuela voting in favor of that resolution tho, are OAS reps not actually appointed by their respective governments?
time to bring out the gusanos with german names from nicaragua.
My brothers birthday was this weekend and we drank a handle of tequila with our ma n pa.
This put a lot of things into words that I have been trying to say. I moved from group 1 to group two a while before r/chapo was banned. It's hard to be here every day and keep your head up. I've started to use this more like I used to use reddit, I go directly to the community rather than skimming main. I still skim main, but I go to the communities first because that's where I find the comradery.
doomposting just feels like emotional abuse at this point. We need a doomer community.
To me, main is the doom posting community already. The doom posting there encourages more doom posting on main. I was thinking of basically what you said in the last sentence.
I can agree with this. I love working on the site and I'm passionate about where we can go, but at the moment a lot of the content and comments just feel... defeatist anda might bit nieave.
We absolutely have a large base of power users who post most of the threads. before I tweaked the spam flags to be less sensitive we would get warnings about the same 20 or so people posting 3-4 threads in 5 minutes. there are a number of users who in my opinion don't really think through what they are saying and end up with bad takes that sound ok at first glance.
The other thing is I think there are two distinct groups of genral users here. people who come here to vent and feel comfortable, and people who come here looking for comrads fighing to make the world better. Both are valid but the different purposes can have friction when one assums motivations.
in terms of content things just seem played out when they’re not super dramatic
Kayfabe Chat
only as toxic as you let it be. Havent seen anything toxic in a week! If you see dumb infighting just ignore it imo. We all know exactly what both sides are gonna say.
pronouns? :halal:
islamophobia? :haram:
drugs :halal: but addiction :haram:
how is any of this complicated? people still fighting against pronouns need to be site banned for being terfs. end of story.
welp, you belong here way more than whomever "debated" that you didnt. :cat-trans:
religious sub are generally full of chuds.
Religions are generally full of chuds
I literally come here every day and I didn't see any muslim or drug addiction struggle sessions
some of y'all are way too online
I only managed to see the first one somehow. I guess I have been sick all week.
It was a diffrent pronoun fight than normal. So it was at least kinda intesting.
This community will die if all it does is continue to talk about only politics. We're a separate site now, we should be trying to just set up a more generalized forum like the internet had tons of in the mid aughts
I only go out to go grocery shopping or pick up food and only see my boyfriend who also self isolates once a week when we go grocery shopping. My family has been having parties and going on vacations and I'm pissed off because I know if i get sick I'll get it worse than them and if they get sick ill be the one taking care of them.
Also they'll probably kill at least 3 people we know if they give them corona.
Fuck anti masters and anti vaxxers
Wake up to see all the goblins crying about Chile overwhelmingly voting to throw out the Pinochet constitution. Get owned you fucking vampires
they pushed that fucking constitution out a helicopter. you love to see it
Currently waiting to get a covid test. There's a 2.5 hour wait despite there only being about a dozen people here. It's also $275 out of pocket. They have us all crammed in a room about 12x12. Some people here said they have symptoms or have been in contact with people who have tested positive. This is the only place in town that has "rapid testing" with results in 15 mins.
Can I get some burning american flag emojis in the chat
Update : tested positive. Fuuuuuuuuuck
:amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka: holy fuck that is not good. You can’t wait outside?
Not until they finish running my insurance cards but I've been here over an hour so far and nothing so uhhhhhhh
:amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka: :amerikkka:
Holy shit, i hope you don't get any bad symptoms, get well soon.
“rapid testing” with results in 15 mins.
I don't even think that's a legit test? I've had to do several tests now (for work) and we consider 4 hours to be quick.
Idk, I looked up covid tests on Google and it brought me this urgent care/walk in clinic on the rich side of town. I'm still in the waiting room lmao
I know it's a symptom of brain poisoning, but I have been having a wonderful time telling libs on reddit I won't vote for Biden and Harris because of their toxic online supporters.
Being slow at work has been great. How's everyone doing? I haven't logged on in several days. Did we fight about anything? Feeling great today, comrades.
So I have this orange toilet freshner thing hanging in the bowl. And it colors the water yellow and now it constantly looks like some one didn't flush.
brb removing the door to my bathroom for aesthetic purposes
Libs are blaming Lenin for Chernobyl.
He died before Nuclear power was even a thing.
Apparently commies just love to appoint incompetent people.
Comrades, how do I cope with my existence near the top of the global system that's destroying the planet for the sake of iphones and 2 dollar hamburgers? I know this is a common feeling and I know I'm just whining that my life is better than other peoples' which in extremely selfish and ungrateful, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm reaching the point in life where my last vestige of belief in true systematic change will be stomped out by the reality that I am powerless to do anything but try and maintain my position in the social order by robbing others of the means to improve their own lives.
I'm extremely privileged to be graduating from a university and receiving my "I deserve to stay in the middle class" paper, and this privilege gives me a constant guilt that the only meaningful way I could improve my situation would be to give away everything I have and voluntarily live in poverty so I could elevate one or two people more deserving than myself. However, I'm also a massive fucking pussy and I know that realistically I don't have the will to do that, so my punishment for my selfishness is the constant feeling that I'm a hypocrite who exploits those less fortunate than me while protesting the people who do that to me. Even so, feeling guilty about my hypocrisy makes me feel like even more of a coward who stands idly by feeling bad for himself instead of making any substantial effort to help others at his own expense. I'm in the level of the American middle class where I'll be renting all my life and constantly be on the verge of bankruptcy and homelessness unless I can work my way up at some soul crushing, flannel-shirt, beanbag, craft beer, post modern office where I make 6 figures for being one of the people I despise, managing 15 late 20's yuppies with Master's Degrees in journalism as they crank out facebook posts getting boomers to buy meaningless bullshit, or god forbid vote for the newest liberal ghoul who will drink our blood with a smile on their face.
I know this rant is just me wallowing in a perverse self pity about how GOOD my life is, but nonetheless I wonder how I, a meek and timid zoomer who posts on chapo.chat in between watching episodes of mad men and listening to lectures about Syria and the people who are REALLY suffering from the blight of our modern global capitalist condition, can better the lives of others without destroying my own when I am powerless to take anything from the people above me? Alone I can do nothing, and in the US we have no means of centrally organized resistance, so the only power I have is the insignificant capital I control. Even if we did have a means of really organizing, any sustained protest that showed enough promise to change the nature of our country would be wiped out by waves of drone strikes and white phosphorous as our government thrashes and screams in the face of that dark night which every empire must face. In short, im a whiny suburban white guy too powerless to help more than a few people by sacrificing all he has, knowing that they'd be as powerless as he is now. Waawaawaa.
Your anxiety and guilt will be treated the most effectively by taking irl action. Even stuff that from your current pov isnt completely transformative.
You will feel better amongst real life comrades and you feel especially good doing real life praxis - even little things like doing mutual aid for the homeless or taking part in a brake light repair.
This has only been studied for climate anxiety, but the actual, effective therepeutic treatment you will be recommended by therepists and psychologist is (essentially) solidarity and praxis. The actual treatment for people feeling overwhelmed by climage anxiety is to do stuff about it, even little stuff like recycling and attending protests. It will be the same for you.
Join a local org that does actual praxis in your community. Tendency doesnt matter all that much so long as theyre doing real community work. If there is no org, you will have to start one or join another one as an at-large member and try to find some comrades.
I know this is a late reply but I do really appreciate the advice. As someone unable to drive for medical reasons and living in a rural area with little public transit/safe bike routes, it's hard for me to get out. Even so I've started doing what I can like going back to the soup kitchen with my roommates. Part of me still says it's not enough but doing these little things helps ease my mind at least for a bit. Soon enough when I move somewhere that I can actually fucking get around via bike for more than 2 months of the year I'll be able to take more action in my community. Hopefully then I won't be surrounded by entirely Trumpers and libs either.
