bcham

@bcham@kolektiva.social

dipshit dilettante | og sjw | woke degenerate | apprentice of the cathedral | acolyte of cthulhu | partisan of the unpopular front | game theoretic moralist | free market communist | evangelist for anarchy | antistemlord aktion | mtm dysphoric | he/him/his

yungneocon is my spirit animal

nobody expects the cumming insurrection

moreover, fascism must be destroyed

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bcham, to random

this social media circulation of racist snuff porn and its mass voyeuristic consumption by performative vicarious sadists is a big reason why high profile police murders are functionally modern day lynchings

black death as white spectacle where viral clips and memes succeed picnics and postcards

bcham, to random

leftists learn to oppose liberalism without abetting fascism challenge

bcham, to random

with the death of satire we must adopt a stance of radical earnestness

when flippant parody saturates discourse the only source of dissident discernment comes from generous, audacious sincerity

the weaponization of irony and irreverence calls for an insurgent wholesomeness, an antifascism of mr rogers and bob ross

bcham, to random

worth noting pharmaceutical companies are just state sanctioned drug cartels
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/03/politics/dark-money-searle-foundation-invs/index.html

bcham, to random

conservatism is the ideology of the suburbs/exurbs which has a passionate disdain for cities, and an idyllic, peasant-role-play image of rural life

urbanism is conservatives' bete noire because it is the site where all their other hate objects congregate and comingle

mutual_ayyde, to random

> reactionary rages against "communism" after boycott dynamics make their life difficult

many such cases

bcham,

@mutual_ayyde 'me cartelizing the economy against you is free enterprise, you leveraging markets against me is communism'--every rightwing capitalist in history

bcham, to random

Yes. Cops paid by cities to be police officers there mostly see actual city residents as either animalistic criminals or as inconvienient obstacles for "good people" who are just trying to drive in and out of cities as fast as possible (like them)

bcham, to random

Who built Thebes of the 7 gates?
In the books you will read the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished,
Who raised it up so many times?
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live?
Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go?
Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who erected them?
Over whom did the Caesars triumph?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants?
Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar defeated the Gauls.
Did he not even have a cook with him?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.
Who else won it?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every 10 years a great man.
Who paid the bill?
So many reports.
So many questions.
--Bertolt Brecht, Questions From a Worker Who Reads

bcham, to random

frankly it is getting hard not to post something about israel that will get me cancelled or cops knocking on my door

anything less seems self indulgently flippant

bcham, to random

'the right’s meltdown over Swift is what might be called the “jilted lover” dimension. In the minds of right-wingers, Swift ought to be one of them. ... in a bizarre twist, her rival, Kanye West, turned out to be the Nazi sympathizer, which is less surprising when one reflects that fascism has always attracted those frustrated artists and intellectuals whose pretensions have perhaps outstripped their talents.'

'The ethos at the core of modern right, which does not reflect the mainstream of American culture, but bubbles up from the netherworld of racist and misogynist message boards, is “kill all normies.” (One reader pointed out that Swift and Kelce uncannily mirrored the Chad and Stacy cartoons made by incels.) This anomie is now even infecting the relatively well-adjusted, passing itself off as superior insight into the hard “reality” of the world when instead it’s own form of unreality and wish-fulfillment: above all, a thirst for revenge.'

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/reading-watching-020524

julieofthespirits, to random Spanish

Periodic reminder that Joseph Campbell was a Nazi sympathizer and that his ideas on heroism and the hero's journey aren't merely formulaic, but deeply problematic and disturbing

bcham,

@julieofthespirits i need to read middlemarch asap because it has a reputation for subdued yet perspicacious and searing social commentary

stephen jay gould quotes a passage in his mismeasure of man on the smothered potential of women under patriarchy and men's sneering scientific sexism (a posthumous jab at jordan peterson we might say)

bcham, to random

we need to appropriate degeneracy as a concept from fascists because it is the best term to describe what is happening to conservatives

bcham, to random

remember, contrarianism is just conformism with extra steps

self styled free thinkers let others tell them what to think by thinking the opposite of what they are told and adopting a sneer

so called independent thought is dependent on norms and mores which are then simply inverted and glamoured

bcham, to random

neofascism as neoliberal shock therapy and neocolonial failed statism turned inward

trump as third world anticommunist gangster-strongman brought home

bcham, to random

jacobro mag sucks ass:

-trite vulgar marxism 101
-social democracy nostalgia and socialism as bismarckian welfare state
-anti idpol class reductionism
-anti anti trump and red brown populism
-alt imperialist campism
-dsa revivalism and horserace journalism
-inane pop cultural criticism
etc

bcham, to random

as someone with the exact same demographic profile as these guys, id say the precipitating incident for their hateful trauma was encountering for the first time in their life a woman who was smarter than them and who either humiliated them in a debate or rebuffed their advances

the male insecurity and sexual frustration comes first then the racial resentment and white identity

rechelon, to random
@rechelon@mastodon.social avatar

“The mother of a young boy who died from untreated diabetes, and the Christian Science practitioners who administered prayer rather than insulin as the 11-year-old slipped into a coma, failed today to persuade the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a $1.5 million damage judgment.”
– Christian Scientists Rebuffed in Ruling By Supreme Court, NYTimes, Jan. 23, 1996

“Sokal is attacking a view that no-one since Berkeley holds.”
– Mackenzie Wark, The Australian, 25 May 1996.

bcham,

@rechelon there is a difference between views held by academics on long standing debates within their institutionalized milieu and the beliefs of cultic fundamentalists that crop up in pathological subcultures

bcham, to random

'what’s animating these efforts are not just ideas or an aggrieved sense of fairness, but burning, passionate contempt for women and minorities. They want to see these people humiliated, re-subordinated, and pushed from high-status roles they believe should be reserved for whites.'

'Their end goal is to dismantle the Civil Rights infrastructure and to reimpose de facto segregation: They want whites on top again — baasskaap.'

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/whats-at-stake-in-the-war-on-woke

bcham,

my comment

'to raise a point of yours--that the dreyfus affair is a more instructive historical analogy--the rancor of these chattering class reactionaries is not at a revolutionary transformation of society (whatever their apocalyptic fantasies might indicate) but at a diversification of high society. then with dreyfus it was the incorporation and elevation of jewish people, now with claudine gay it is the integration and advancement of black people, liberal women, and other minorities. in both cases there is resentment against colleagues and competitors who are different and paranoia around imposter citizens and civic interlopers. they rage against not communist barbarism or imminent revolution but anodyne civic nationalism and cosmopolitan modernity.

a crisis of elite overproduction only further intensifies their status anxiety and vengeful legacy entitlement.

happy to see you acknowledge the psychological aspect to this because libidinal economy is much more at work here than orthodox political economy.'

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/whats-at-stake-in-the-war-on-woke/comments

bcham, to random
bcham,

@rechelon there is no perspective taking without black boxing a set of assumptions. that box can be unpacked from alternate vantage points but only after black boxing another set of assumptions.

standpoints of the oppressed and travelled are valuable because they can see into our black box. science is a community of people looking into each other's black boxes to create common models, to enrich the model commons, like the proverbial blindfolded scientists feeling out individually assigned parts of an elephant to collectively conceptually reconstruct the whole.

what emerges is not a singular view from nowhere or everywhere but a collage of perspectives from a plurality of somewheres.

the reactionary complaint is to the assertion that context is constructed and evolving rather than inborn and primordial. they hate rootlessness because it opens interstitial contexts for different backgrounds to comingle and reconfigure, for black boxes to be exchanged and explored.

bcham, to random

occupationally doctors were the fastest to join the nazi party. they were also the highest jewish concentrated profession. gentile doctors were jealous and status anxious of their jewish colleagues and competitors

the frenzy around 'dei,' 'affirmative action,' etc among legacy professionals and chattering classes maps onto this

bcham, to random

decentralization and localism without robust interconnectedness, chaotic diffusiveness, and a borderless solidaristic ethos is balkanization and micronationalism

bcham, to random

this is the historical backdrop and implicit motive behind much ostensibly race neutral libertarian theory about the inferiority of public goods to private goods, the tragedy of the commons, and voluntary exit from the social contract

white abandonment of the public sphere and retreat to private fiefdoms

bcham, to random

the social base of trumpism maps perfectly onto the social base of nazism

bcham, (edited )

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