I have been quoting Gramsci to people for two decades now. It's not like the guy didn't clearly state what the strategy and the plan was. His thesis was that because the well-to-do industrialized West was NOT like Czarist Russia, and people lived in relative comfort, violent revolution wasn't possible, as seen in Germany, Italy, the UK, etc. Since the mechanism by which the bourgeoisie controls society and keeps "workers" in check and docile is "cultural hegemony", that is, ideology imposed and spread by cultural and political institutions, that's what the Marxists had to do to bring about the changes they want. Specifically, Gramsci perfectly identified education and academia at large, and universities and media specifically, as the priority target for infiltration. He wrote all this in the 1910 and 20's! They've been at it for 100 years, and probably in earnest since the 60's, especially in Europe where they have achieved basically total and absolute hegemony, as he wished. I always remark on this fact: it's taken them 100 years, and they've done it. Even if we all become aware of it, and we decided to undo it, how long do you think it's going to take? No "democratic mandate" completely conditioned by the 4 year electoral cycle can ever be enough. This is a much deeper and longer process that must be undertaken. View quoted note →

It's fuckin incredible how even today, I go to the YT website having logged off, click on the "trending" tab (I think it's the first time in my life I do it), and the first result is still Kamala.

Exactly what I was saying yesterday. These people don't seem to learn. They're going with the "racist country", "cultural resentment" narrative, and that Kamala was Jesus come again and the dirty hateful deplorables just refused to accept her Word as Mixed Race Woman Of Color, and that of her Apostles the Swifties.

It's really mind-boggling to see the US fascist media coping and seething by saying that it's incredible that "a flawlessly run campaign" like Harris's has failed to get her elected. And that it is all the fault of the voters, who couldn't bring themselves to elect a "woman of color". "Voters racist" seems to be their conclusion. Let's hope that they don't ever correct it and that they persist and once again next time they hand pick the candidate that loses the primaries but ticks all the right boxes to get maximum victim brownie points. So they lose again.

It's the other victories behind the curtains, like getting that piece of shit Sherrod Brown (even his name sounds like turd splattering on the floor) ousted, that really mark the difference.

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BTW, gently reminder, because it's been a while since the last one: Effective Jan 1, 2025, all BIS member central banks (that's ALL of them that matter worldwide, including the Fed, the ECB, Japan's, China's, Russia, Emirates, Singapore...) will be allowed to have "exposure to cryptoassets" (tokenized RWA, stables AND "unbacked cryptoassets" i.e., BTC, ETH, etc).

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OK chill please. My stack is insufficient. Give me a few more months, FFS. View quoted note →

Unironically, I have pondered some times about the fact that 40 years ago, in the 80's, we were a lot more free in the West, globally speaking. The caveat is: there were a lot of people in our societies that were objectively less free. A good example are homosexuals. So, as time passed, such collectives or groups of people who were less free than the majority, gained more freedom, while as a whole, we all lost it. The problem is that this has been presented as correlated and inevitable: in the Marxist mindset, everything is a zero sum game, so homosexuals (to stick to the example) can only progress if the rights of heterosexuals are infringed upon. This mindset has an obvious counterpart in the corresponding right wing reaction, that appropriates the same rhetoric and frame of the zero sum game. Both are glaringly and dangerously WRONG, obviously. That's the true cultural war that must be won. View quoted note →

LOL It's kind of clunky but I did manage to fool it into drawing Trump, which it refuses to do if prompted directly.

"Holy smokes" My sides. They're gone. Please. View quoted note →

What does Polymarket say about which major US metro city is going to be rioted, looted and burnt this year?

My peeps in the US are also giving me 100% radio silence today. Which is totally unusual because they are the type that are at work by 6am normally. They're also extremely anti-Trump and must be seething and coping beyond their ability today. Oh well, it's tea time over here. I will just take it easy and chill, and let them be and not gloat. Until tomorrow. View quoted note →

Just take your medicine now, Doctor. I know, I know. It's orange and sticky and you don't like it. But it's going to be good for you anyway. View quoted note →

I know, I know. As it always happens with this sort of food, the generic brown color and sauce make it quite difficult to take a picture that makes it justice. But I can tell you, of all the things I've posted about on #cookstr #foodstr, today I've outdone myself. This was simply heavenly. View quoted note →