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The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated Hitler's attack on Moscow, the capital and largest city of the Soviet Union. Moscow was one of the primary military and political objectives for Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union.
The German strategic offensive, named Operation Typhoon, called for two pincer offensives, one to the north of Moscow against the Kalinin Front by the 3rd and 4th Panzer Armies, simultaneously severing the Moscow–Leningrad railway, and another to the south of Moscow Oblast against the Western Front south of Tula, by the 2nd Panzer Army, while the 4th Army advanced directly towards Moscow from the west.
Initially, the Soviet forces conducted a strategic defence of the Moscow Oblast by constructing three defensive belts, deploying newly raised reserve armies, and bringing troops from the Siberian and Far Eastern Military Districts. As the German offensives were halted, a Soviet strategic counter-offensive and smaller-scale offensive operations forced the German armies back to the positions around the cities of Oryol, Vyazma and Vitebsk, and nearly surrounded three German armies. It was a major setback for the Germans, and the end of their belief in a swift German victory over the USSR. As a result of the failed offensive, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was dismissed as supreme commander of the German Army, with Hitler replacing him in the position.
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A thread where this was posted got nuked earlier on /c/userunion, but a lot of people seemed to enjoy this half-coherent rant I put together as a reply so I decided to post it here. Note: this is mostly for archival purposes, and I don't want folks going into any sort of struggle sesh here. I just think someone might read this and pluck out the 1 or 2 good ideas in it and place them somewhere better. If linking it here isn't allowed, mods/admins, do tell and I'll delete it immediately (unless I'm asleep in which case feel free to do it yourself). Original post here https://hexbear.net/post/94999/comment/1043779.
It’s not intentional, but that doesn’t matter, because the outcome is still the same.
Yes! That is it! That's why Simulacra and Simulation is the most important piece of theory of the past 50 years except for maybe Necopolitics, because that's the basis for how we understand images in a modern context. When I speak on chapo, or hexbear, I construct an image which does the speaking. The same is true for any website I use--twitter, reddit, different discord servers are different, etc. Construction of images isn't a new concept, not at all, but S&S makes an important distinction that they are both simulacra and real; each of those identities has no less claim to reality than the supposed 'original.' The character stored in my head as "Halfe" is different from the one stored as "Eve," yet they are as real as eachother.
And what of that? It means that there cannot be a 'return to the real,' rather, a person's identity can only be described as a horrid amalgam of all these pieces interstitial. After construction of an identity, you cannot "log off" because you are that character, and that character is you, and that reality cannot be erased by any means short of a CIA memory wipe program or whatever.
What does this have to do with /r/vcj? Vcj is the perfect place to craft an identity that fundamentalist and hardline, past the point of what others would call reason.
It hits every box--it's on a topic that emphasizes its own importance, it features a wide enough base to supply the content to use as 'building material,' and it hosts a specifically aggressive attitude.
Most circlejerk subs miss one or two of these points.
A GCJ, or a MTCJ, for example, specifically diminish the topic that they're circlejerking over; a key theme of gamingcirclejerk is about not caring so much about videogames goodness gracious. As such, it becomes harder to build an identity for it, because it's about being uninvested in a way. It's not easy to get invested in apathy. Side note, these subs are great (partially) for that reason.
Most circlejerk subs are far smaller, and also far less active, than VCJ. What that leads to is content stagnation; they simply don't have enough slop to work from. You can't build an identity from like 30 comments and 5 posts a day, it simply doesn't meet the critical mass.
Finally, the tone. VCJ's tone is specifically aggressive towards non-vegans; not in the interest of conversion, no, there's no interest at all there, but rather as a conflict. Calling people "bloodmouth" won't convince anyone, just break a few rare people down enough into becoming bullies themselves. Saying that people who eat meat would support slavery, including POC, is not going to be the effective argument that makes them rethink their views; it's going to either be they break down and join you or redouble against you.
But that tone wouldn't be a problem if not for it striking every box. And what we see is that VCJ is perfect at crafting an identity, and a powerful one at that. A VCJ user is immediately identifiable as one because it is such a powerful reality that it stays with them even if they leave the specific subreddit. It's a powerful enough identity that they cannot tone match outside of the context because it is specifically overpowering.
I honestly feel bad for them, because this is the same thing we saw with groups like fatpeoplehate and the rise of the anti-sjw movement. Masses of content, the visage of utter importance ("fat" being an engine to drive in reactionary concerns over the so-called purity of humanity and its health), and a specifically aggressive tone. I'm just annoyed that the mods ever thought it would be a good idea to introduce such a group to this website, which definitely had potential.
Are you a Marxist? Would you say Baudrillard was - say after 1981 when they published Simulacres et Simulation - a Marxist?
How would you answer the question if asked about Materialist, instead of Marxist?
Not OP, but whether Baudrillard was a Marxist (he wasn't) is unimportant to me. There are lots of theorists who made important contributions to thought that is compatible with and useful to a a Marxist perspective.
contributions to thought that is compatible with and useful to a a Marxist perspective
Sure, but it is good to frame it in different perspectives. I am of the creed that thinks he was pretty much Marxist or Marxist adjacent but developed away from it in his theory to describe the new aspects created by technology and such, which means the gap is to be bridged by us. There are others who read B. as being Marxist even in his later work, which might imply that the work on its own is already Marxist and Materialist. I think that isn't quite the case, but rather the theory advances away from materialism and it is precisely that field in which the most impressive conceptual tools are created.
That is my impression from mostly talking to people who are kind into that kind of historic development. For me this means that if you think there is no difference between simulation and reality (I simplify incorrectly) or even that the simulation is more real than reality itself and that the territory is rotting while the map remains the only thing intact, then you go a step to far. You have to see how those effects can be seen in the real world and which intensity or with what force. While all of us are victims of simulation and the hyper real, the reality of the people producing our goods and their exploitation remains deeply rooted in something that is real (in the sense of Lacan).
As such, it becomes harder to build an identity for it, because it’s about being uninvested in a way. It’s not easy to get invested in apathy.
I can assure you, I've met some pretty damn dedicated GCJ and MTCJ people before so while it's harder, it's not impossible.
i have a knife sharpener conspiracy. whenever i go to my local dept store, they have all kinds of knives but never knife sharpeners. stands to reason: much more profitable to sell you 20+ knife set again and again than a $2 sharpener. and that's why the US has never landed on the moon
Nice knives are one of those things that drop down hundreds of dollars when on sale. Get a good one and it's the only one you'll need. Maybe a cheap serrated one for bread. That and a sharpener a d your set.
Am I the only one that likes small serrated knives? Great for things like tomatoes and onions, and I even prefer it for potatoes and such.
I'm torturing myself today. Finished watching the Snyder Cut and now watching this new Marvel shit. When are these Hollywood people gonna learn that gopro action shots look like shit and it's jarring for the viewer? How did they not all learn this after The Hobbit?
EDIT: Oh yes, of course, if there is anything the US military would be worried about violating, it's Libyan airspace. Guess I am just gonna let myself be gaslit tonight.
EDIT: lmao are antifa the bad guys in this show?
Probably easier than choreographing a scene that looks both good and plausible.
IMO the shot was completely unnecessary and they just could have cut it without losing anything. The rest of it was all CGI anyways.
are antifa the bad guys in this show?
I think the bad guys are supposed to be generic Hollywood """""anarchists"""""
The only explanation for their goals was
Yeah. Essentially, these people, they want a world that’s unified without borders.
Could be worse, could be a whole lot better.
NO MORE REDDIT LIFEBOATS.
HEXBEAR HAS EVOLVED BEYOND THE NEED FOR REDDIT LIFEBOATS
Trump and Biden are blank slates for blue and red MAGA to project onto. Blue MAGA wants Biden to be the most progressive president in history, red MAGA wanted Trump to be a blue collar working man. Both camps do not live in reality and chose to ignore what their candidate says and does and instead continue to live in fantasy land.
I don't want to be rude to people having problems here, but I think it comes off as kinda unfair when people diss the site so much for arguments. Like have you ever been on other sites? Even the transphobia problem, while bad, was mostly just a bunch of douches finding it "annoying", while the worst arguments on Reddit would be some asshole straight up coming out and saying that they want to kill all the trans people.
The very worst of this site that deserved to be purged off was still miles better than the shit I've seen on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/Discord and other social media. Even this VCJ thing was mostly a bunch of passive aggressive arguments and people going "actually I'm less racist than you!" instead of the type of things you get elsewhere the competition is to actually be as hateful as possible instead. A reddit argument is a competition to get as close to the n-word as possible, a Hexbear argument is grunting and calling the other person a lib in disguise.
All the sites problems would be solved if white people were a minority here, CMV
holy shit the mods are banning every account that hasnt posted bc of the kerrys lmao. I mean its fair, if you havent posted here in 8 months youre probably not too attached to your username. But, the fact we have to do this still! is fucking insane. the Kerry's are a different breed
the great kerry purge
All August 5 accounts are gone.
:crab-party: :crab-party: :crab-party:
You seem familiar with deep kerry lore. Have you ever been in contact with kerrinist party?
But for real, how can you know they banned a dm account lol, if you have not posted once before?
You can't create a new account so everyone who scrambles their password is locked out
Wake up
What? Hexbear.net? Drama?
That was just a dream, come on we got chapos to chat
