Chana [none/use name] @ Chana @hexbear.net Posts 0Comments 116Joined 3 wk. ago
It's actually the opposite of a weapon. It is false catharsis. Liberals watch shows like John Oliver's and feel like they've resolved a problem when all they've really done is make themselves feel righteous.
lmao holy shit chat is this real he was a Maoist Third Worldist?
I was slightly misremembering, it was Bernie libs + DSA peeps in 2021. This comment provides more info: https://hexbear.net/comment/6189731
Ah yes you are correct I was mixing a few things together.
That would be cool! If you find a way please let me know!
The tea party was absorbed into the GOP having achieved nothing threatening to capital. All it spawned was a new brand of pandering, i.e. being more crass.
Neither major party is reformable. There is literally no mechanism to make it happen. The people at the top of the parties can change their own rules whenever they want to so even if a group fought a hard-won battle, they would be kneecapped at their moment of "success". For example, DSA libs essentially took over the NV Dems in 2016 and were rewarded for it with complete defunding and were then undermined until out of power.
A party must be internally healthy and driven by an educated and committed membership to be resilient against capital. It must be a fundamentally different beast than Dems or the GOP.
Parties don't follow what voters say they want. If that were the case then voters' taxes would be cut, Americans would have universal healthcare, every war would end a month or two in, and minimum wage would be $30. Parties rely on bourgeois media and politicians to control discourse: what topics are brought up, what is taboo or "controversial", when the exact same activity is career-ending or defensible or actually a very good thing. Parties follow those narratives because they are the followers of bourgeoisie-funded think tanks and political donor funds.
Dems can't go left because going left alienates their donors and donor-serving geriatric leadership. At most they only want strategies that pander vaguely left without following through and even the pandering is a bridge too far for most of them.
Dems are fine with losing. They don't really believe in anything aside from neoliberal warkhawkishness that would make Reagan blush, so they feel no psychological damage from being unable to enact policy. And they are personally economically just fine with lossrs, they can use them to solicit money and positions by being the "lesser evil'.
Gain minor cred by doing some PMC Dem bullshit (work for a campaign, be a liberal in a union and shmooze with politicians, etc) and start a consultancy. Or work for an existing PMC Dem consultancy and steal clients to start your own.
The Democratic Party is 90% consultancies like this keeping its "thought leaders" well-paid through a combination of party funds and direct donor funds, funds directed to carry out "strategic" work in the directiom defined by donors.
They should really enable on-the-fly compression and normalization for every podcast in the player itself. Some podcasts are horrible to listen to not just because they are too quiet but because they are quiet 99% of the time and then way louder 1% of thr time.
ffmpeg can do all of this via various incantations but I don't know how much effort you want to put into your pipeline.
The tools to do it are buried in the ffmpeg incantation here: https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/ffmpeg/dynamic_range_compression_dynaudnorm_compand
"Socially liberal but fiscally conservative" is just an embarrassed white supremacist or one who has never critically examined an iota of their own politics and just lives their PMC suburban (white) life on vibes.
Incredibly cringe. Fascists want communists dead, though they usually don't even know what communists even are and will kill you, too, liberal, and call you a "tankie" while doing it. Because "tankie" doesn't mean anything except someone to the accuser's left that pushes back on anti-left smearing.
And that is your level of discourse and understanding and it is why we must distinguish ourselves from you as much as possible. You're the civility troll for imperialist genocide.
Never. Those who realize the types of actions needed will go down a path that removes their liberalism.
Every time I want to know something about a topic the results are 7 AI slop "articles" with incorrect information, 2 forums posts from the 2000s, 5 Reddit posts with incorrect answers because Redditors think they know everything even when they're just making things up, and 1 authoritative and correct result from a company website.
Public relations and advertising are always propaganda. Anglos just reserve the scary P word for nations or people they want you to villify.
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He just likes gold stuff, thinks it looks fancy. It isn't consistently rococo.
And it's no worse than any other presidential palace shit.
They are probably orientalist racists. Deprogramming this will be challenging. I would start them on a path of media criticism, like reading FAIR.org articles.
"Gonna be better" doesn't mean anything when they are not discernable qualities. Not even worth arguing about whether one is or not, it is throwing money away.
And yes a USB-C to 3.5 mm with a half-decent DAC in it, which you can get for $15, will sound just as good unless you are in a perfectly silent room with electrostatics or something. At which point you don't want or need something portable.
With what army?