Haven't seen it, don't plan to, don't care to tbh.

But having talked to some people about it, this is my takeaway: "Messaging" is simply a new tool of marketing, especially "subversive" messaging. You're not buying a car - you're committing a revolutionary act of activism against climate change and fossil capitalism. You're not buying an ethically farmed, grass-fed, local steak, you're fighting animal cruelty and big farming lobbies with your consumption. You're not simply dressing up skandidly in pink to watch a multi-hundred million dollar Hollywood production of Barbie produced and approved of by its parent company, giving new legitimacy to that old rubber toy franchise and boosting sales numbers. You're totally subverting gender roles and criticizing capitalism by doing so.

Imo you're not. You're just buying a new car, munching another steak and going to the movies again promoting one of the most famous IPs of all time. It's the same thing we've done our entire lives. Changing the messaging around the act without changing the act, doesn't change the act. You're just doing the thing.

There can't be anything really subversive coming out of the hegemonic culture industry. By the very nature of its production, via the commodification it undergoes, it has already become toothless and assimilated. Neoliberal anti-capitalism is just the newest sales-pitch. It's along the lines of "diverse" CIA targeting officer recruitment ads. Just like capitalism can't produce true anti-war movies, it can't produce anti-capitalist or real anti-gender-role movies. It would be self-defeating if it did.

That being said, if you enjoy it more power to you. Nobody needs a grand narrative of subversion and messaging to go see and enjoy a movie at the theater. If you get something deeper out of it, even better.

Basically if there were patty’s with some teeth they would enforce party discipline and education and that would lead to higher quality discourse online.

Not necessarily. Comrades that engage in actual praxis in RL mostly just don't care enough to engage in discussions online. I can certainly attest to that. Since I started organizing offline my interest in engaging with libs online has stopped almost entirely. It's time consuming, annoying, unpleasant and for the most part simply unproductive. 99% of people of any political affiliation do not engage in good-faith debate online - including me and most comrades here. The time I have for political activism is sparse and I can do more productive things with it than talk to a liberal who's just gonna reply with a sissy-pee social credit meme to a comment I took 30mins to write. RL discussions for the most part are much better in this regard, because the human component shines through much more and you tend to pre-select the people you engage with to a much larger extent. Getting into political discussions with people completely opposed to your view doesn't happen that much, whereas it is the standard online.

Is there anyway to work on like, an online party discipline?

For existing real-life parties going online maybe, but their energy is used much better elsewhere. For a bunch of randos like us? I don't think so tbh. We are not organized, there's no discipline, no organizational structure, no mechanisms to enforce things, no participation to come to conclusions and analysis.

I agree that communists in 2023 have to use the online space productively. Creating platforms like lemmygrad, producing content like podcasts, videos, articles, streams, etc is just much more worth-while (and even that's limited) and lends itself more to concerted efforts than discussions with dorky libs.

US bases, uranium and gold for France and the EU and transfer country for a planned 20bln cube gas pipeline from Nigeria to Algeria (and then the EU).

Essentially they're mad about the stream of critical colonial loot drying up.

Fuckin hell that comment section is such a cesspool I had to comment there for the first time. If I bust a vein from that stress you'll be responsible for that lethal dose of liberalism, comrade

The absolute effect of liberalism on women's perception of themselves and their role in the world

Capitalism's ability to provide moral and ideological cover for the self-commodification of every aspect of humanity is incredible. 100 years ago you'd have to force women to do this, today some are not just willing to do it, but see it as a noble cause and contribution for the war machine of empire.

Mostly DayZ recently and some Rocketleague again for the first time in a while.

Gave TW:Attila a decent shot recently. Pretty good game, TWs just get stale fairly fast for me.

Also tried the HP game a while ago and...it's just boring. Looks pretty good, there's tons to do, they put in a lot of effort, but idk. Still feels weirdly lifeless and unengaging to me. Can't really put my finger on it. On paper it's everything my 10yo self would've wanted from an open world HP game, but it isn't. Played maybe 8h, haven't touched it in weeks and I highly doubt I'll ever finish it.

Guys was Stalin a revisionist because he met with Churchill???

people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments

Where do you get the impression from that the people rose up and overthrew their governments?

Well some parts of Wagner apparently tried the dumbest semi-coup against the MoD. Seems like this was known in advance, because some videos, etc by the RAF were spread immediately. Western media reacted so fast, it looks kinda sus too, especially factoring in that Navalny called on the Russian military to join Wagner.

Also Putin being the revisionist he is dared to compare this to February 1917.

The whole thing as in there is something happening, just not the Russian army shelling Wagner forces. That part seems fake, but not Wagner doing something and the government reacting. Because people unironically believe all of it is a psyop. The messages by TASS, Peskov, FSB, the generals, Prigozhin - all fake to idk "troll the Ukrainians" or something.

The video showing the supposed shelled Wagner base looks super fake and I don't think that happened, but I don't think this whole thing is fake like people on TG say

I hate this cringe war so god damn much. It's so fucking disgusting how commodified and marketized it is and how alienated people are from the horrors of the soldiers in the field. Hundreds of thousands are dead and will probably still die, yet they have to post shit like this to get the seals on leddit clapping and updooting.

And you can't even fault the Ukrainians, because they're dependent on externalities and thus need to pull sunts like this else the Western viewership won't come back for another season of the show

Gotta agree. While I enjoy just vibing with the comrades here, having those clashes adds hilarity, memes and develops a culture that made eg GZD so unique.

You see, the purpose of the Western tanks wasn't to achieve anything on the battlefield anyway, it was to keep the crews safe so they can come back and downvote these posts

MLM vernacular is so god damn cringe, I just can't with this smug, self-gratifying crap. Like is it some kind of precondition to be an MLM to shoehorn the term "revisionist" in every single paragraph of every single text you write? It's so excessive and annoying

I mean technically there's some truth to that if your conception of the revolution is Non-Marxist and limited to armed struggle. Because that was a broad coalition for national liberation. "The first revolution" going from feudalism to socialism so to speak.

However, we know that revolution doesn't begin and end at armed struggle. The real smashing of the state, those incremental administrative steps ultimately resulting in a qualitative leap after quantitative change - as Lenin puts it - happen after armed struggle takes over the state. In Cuba that very quickly happened at the exclusion of bourgeois forces and became explicitly Marxist, along with Castro himself, within like 2 years of the defeat of Batista. Any self proclaimed Marxist that doesn't understand this...idk should read State & Revolution (again) or stfu

Literal COINTELPRO: Use leftcoms and anarchists to divide revolutionary movements

Ultras: No u

It's also just demonstrably false. MLs are the only revolutionary tendency consistently, constantly and strategically willing to work within broader organizations of the working class, foremost the unions, student bodies and the peace movements. Union-orientation is and has been the core tenet of real-life ML praxis for many many decades. Whereas ultras at best constantly struggle to fracture away from those established organizations of the working class, to build rival ones or outright sabotage them to engage in performative, nonsensical vigilante violence to jerk themselves off over the revolutionary aesthetics of it.

Definitely look into bodyweight programs. Freeletics app has like a million programs with all kinds of difficulties, goals, etc. They're generally similar to what @CjkOvPDwQw recommended. Not sure how monetized it is nowadays, but it used to be pretty decent. Depending on how overweight you are some of the exercises eg squats might be too taxing on your joints. I'd say try them out and if you can't do them with decent form or they're painful for you, don't worry about it and skip them for now. Just do what feels comfortable and healthy for you, as long as you do something regularly and it gets your heartrate up.

Once you've built up your work capacity, got your tendons and joints used to stress again, you can look into real calisthenics if you want to gain strength and build muscle too.

But, I'd say, you should probably also take a good look at nutrition. They say "You can't outtrain a bad diet" for a reason. Working out is always better than not working out, but limiting calories even moderately would probably be the single most effective thing you could do right now. Limiting calories even a bit and increasing workload would be even better and should yield good results in no time.

Just look at these mfers, like what the hell

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