GarbageShoot

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Lenin was dismissive of the peasantry, but I'd say perhaps a better answer is for him to read Mao and read about Mao. Read Mao for his discussion of the revolutionary potential and actions of the peasantry, and read about him not only because of his successful leadership of the peasantry, but also because the mistakes Mao made over and over again from the start of the PRC to his death were in large part having a blind faith in the masses just spontaneously doing the right thing (See the hundred flowers campaign, the four pests campaign, and a lot of things having to do with the Red Guards* during the CR). He was a great leader and did a lot of good things, including the productive use of democratic input through the Mass Line and more grassroots initiatives, but many of his errors were clearly on the side of what you might call democratic idealism.

*I have a feeling the Red Guards were slandered just like a lot of things about Mao were slandered following his death (or ongoing slander was given more air), but I think it's like the Four Pests campaign where even beyond the slander some shit went wrong that was totally the fault of the Party.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

I hate league, but I'd argue in a better setting than the present culture and present game, a Dota-like RTS is ideologically better because it encourages teamwork, while a Starcraft-like RTS is basically great man theory the game.

Yes, they both have great man theory to a comically literal degree with the disposable and physically tiny minions spawned in each team, but in a Dota-like those adds operate autonomously and again, it's lead by a team.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

Sorry, I guess my confusion was that the post isn't even calling Azov Nazis, but I guess even the implication just by facetiously calling them "non-political" is enough to set people off.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Never mind proof, what would the motive for faking something like this, which could be so easily contradicted by the devs and doesn't seem to further any propaganda aim, be? Is it just more of liberals saying Azov doesn't even exist or has no prominence and therefore couldn't get the chance to voice act like this?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

that would be a prefix but yeah.

Prefixes are a type of affix, along with suffixes (and infixes, and circumfixes, though English doesn't have those)

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

in middle east i wish everyone involved regime change, situation is fucked with any of current people in power staying in power. Put Netanyahu, Assad, Erdogan, Khamenei and their cabinets and top people from Hezbollah in Hague then we can talk.

Great man theory doesn't stop being great man theory if you add "and their cabinets" after.

At some point you need to engage with the problem of why things are the way they are, and the answer isn't "The bad guy is in charge (and his cabinet)"

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm trying to think of what the actual affix would be, and my best answer is genuinely "enentropy"

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to do the reddit thing and say the title was ackshually "To Serve Man", but the reason I mention it is that the pun works much better with the uncountable noun "Man" than the countable plural "Humans", because it's more like how we speak of most types of meat, as an anonymous, indifferent material (lamb, beef, pork, chicken), and I think that's kind of interesting.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's possible, I just decided for whatever reason that it wasn't likely to be an internal psycho-drama like that. I think because it was saying "we" and not "you," suggesting (but not denoting) that it is its own patient and not just some figment of the artist's mind or internal toybox, but you're right that it could be that they are both meant to be patients via both being the main character, meaning the "we" is more literally an "I" and I was indeed being too literal in my interpretation of the dialog, too.

Anyway, I am glad I gave you the opportunity to tell someone that ;)

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I think it's about nonspecific external hardship (because there are functionally two people there, so it might not be depression/etc)

But it's also probably so deliberately nonspecific that it could be about almost anything

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's totally a valid reading, it might even be correct

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

A lot of you haven't been following Dax's country rap turn and it shows.

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