BeamBrain

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

The politics of appeasement has historically been very successful.

Episode 89: How Charges of ‘Appeasement’ Equate Diplomacy with Treason

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

Orcs

The only time before the Ukraine War that I saw this term used to refer to real human beings was on Stormfront

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

Libs saw the events unfolding and were all like “YES! Now I can do socially acceptable racism! ORCORCORCORCORCORC”

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

sh.itjust.works/post/4274675

Of course their community image is a fucking racist caricature lol

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

And the people involved started killing Jewish people and communists

On brand for libs

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

Dark Souls: I played it for like 20 minutes but the controls just felt wrong. The combat just didn’t feel good.

Journey: Felt boring and empty to me. Came off as the game equivalent of a pretentious film student’s sophomore project.

TUNIC: This is a very weird one to me. Theoretically, I should love it. I like retro games. I like old-school Zelda. I like the conceit that the manual is in a foreign language and you have to use the pictures and diagrams to infer what to do. But for the life of me, I just cannot get into this game, and I have no idea why. I tried to start twice, and each time, I played it for about half an hour before putting it down and never really getting back to it.

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

Crushed protestors were washed down drains with hoses

Hey, did those protestors have bones? Were they wearing clothes? Do you have the first clue about how the human body and/or physics work?

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

You can actually go to Hexbear communities like mentalhealth or mutual_aid and half the posts are shit like “I need help paying rent” and “I hate my job”

You’re so married to the reactionary idea of “Communists are all just ignorant teenagers” that you can’t see the evidence against it when it’s right in front of you

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

Liberalism and fascism are two sides of the same coin.

Capitalism requires endless growth, endless expansion: the economic engine that drives it is profit. It must constantly take more. But the world is not infinite. Once capital has nowhere else to expand, the only way it can increase profits is by intensifying exploitation within its territories: unions are busted, wages are depressed, costs of living rise. The working class must give more and get less. To facilitate this, capital funnels money into police, passes ever more draconian laws, restricts franchise, defunds public services, and redirects working class anger against suitable scapegoats - minorities who do not have the population, money, or political power to fight back. The result is widespread political persecution, pogroms, impoverishment, decay of infrastructure except the tools of oppression: features characteristic of imperial periphery countries arising in the imperial core.

Aime Cesaire describes this process aptly in his brilliant work Discourse on Colonialism:

CW for descriptions of colonial violence, including sexual violence>Each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and interrogated, all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.

And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific reverse shock: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss.

People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the [slur]s of India, and the [n-word]s of Africa.

Michael Novick likewise explains this in Fascism And What Is Coming:

In general, fascism can best be understood as bringing the methods of imperial rule in the colonies into the metropole. In the colonies, genocide has been the rule, not the exception, of imperial rule. Democracy is only for a select few of settlers; dictatorship and slave labor applies to the indigenous and other colonized people. The corporate model developed in colonial enterprise. The first corporations were the colonizing corporations—British East India Company, Hudson’s Bay Company, etc.— who could bear the costs and risks of colonization because of shared and limited liability, and exercised state power directly over the colonized territories and populations. The mass base of participation in colonial rule came via the settler population, who participated actively and often independently in land grabs and extermination without waiting for bourgeois legitimacy.

All this was translated to the metropole by Hitler, however he may have defined or proclaimed his system. Except that the mechanisms— dictatorship, slave labor, corporatization of the state and society, mass participation in militarism, looting and oppression independently of the bourgeoisie—were seen operating directly within the German population at large, including against its racially and ethnically defined minorities, and its European neighbors.

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

Well there’s plenty of comments in the modlog being racist against Chinese people. Though funny enough, they’re all coming from anti-“tankies”

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

Removed Comment specter by PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
reason: I hope you’re just trying to make an edgy joke, but even so, Soviet symbolism has no place on lemm.ee.

hitler-detector

BeamBrain, 9 months ago

You’re only allowed to post the symbolism of good wholesome nations like the US (don’t ask what happened to all the Native Americans)

BeamBrain, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

the endless targeting of infrastructure

Wonder how this person feels about the US’ bombing campaign in the Korean War. Somehow I don’t think they’d hesitate to justify killing 20% of the North’s entire population us-foreign-policy

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

CatholicSocialist’s criteria for who counts as people: us-foreign-policy

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

Maybe the US should try bribing people instead of bombing them

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

Just like there were totally WMDs in Iraq and Kuwaiti babies were definitely thrown out of incubators

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

RandAlThor, more like AynRandAlThor

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

Uhhh, that’s obviously different, America is a white western country and so it owns the world

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

Capitalism by its nature has an interest in keeping part of the working class unemployed. Look up “reserve army of labor”.

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

America falling apart would be horrifyingly destructive for the rest of the world, for it will allow other corrupt capitalist powers that are, let’s be honest, not as humane, take over the rest of the world.

This is what every imperial power says about itself

BeamBrain, 10 months ago

It’s easy to think the empire is good when you live in the imperial core