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the HOI4 fallout mod is gonna get a strange new update soon

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really cool that debating a twitch streamer is seen as the kind of propaganda effort a socialist movement should perform. content producers and consumers are the real proletariat

just like posting here
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mt.real
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experiment: pretend the internet doesn't exist for a year
#364
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just a year?
#365
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debate with destiny
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manifestmanlet destiny
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Belphegor posted:

I wish I had your idealism, synergy.



after seeing Richard Wolff debate a bunch of reactionary people on tv shows it made me realize that he's doing a good job of bringing new perspectives to audiences that have probably never heard them before. even if only 5% of the people who watch that start to doubt their understanding of the world, it's still a better outcome then expecting the masses to suddenly become "woke" by themselves somehow. also in regards to my unpopular opinions on this forum, i'm never going to pretend to agree with every point made here to win upvotes or whatever. collaborating with the average joe means not having 100% consensus, or people that have read every book, or have the same level of intelligence you have, that's the reality. being like "ha ha your so stupid" is not going to win anyone over to your cause. that kind of hostility has nearly made me leave a couple of times in the past and while i'm sure some here would consider that a victory, applying that kind of purity test to the rest of the world is going to leave you with very few allies.

edit: btw, the majority of this post isn't directed at you Belphegor, sorry if it appeared that way.

i also wanted to point out that regardless of what anyone thinks of Hasan, when he debated Destiny a lot of viewers were convinced enough (1-2k increase in viewership) to join Hasan's channel in defense of socialism

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this just in, the masses watch twitch and are not yet woke.
#370
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debate me cowards
#371
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Destiny has cultivated a loyal audience that already either agrees with him on everything or is to the right of him and are just waiting for him to start agreeing with them on everything.
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How do you read Marx and Lenin and come to understand history as the history of class struggle and Marxism as a theoretical weapon of the proletariat and then act like Marxism is something you evangelize to petite bourgeois nerds who are as a class descending into fascism and misanthropy globally?
#373
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web 2.0 communists
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#375
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toyotathon posted:

twitter has strategically cut every rope i used on this forum to speak and listen, and reds on there are truly wasting their time, spinning in place


back in like 2014 i genuinely learned a good deal from some twitter reds, and i'd credit them with helping me overcome some trotty klimanite tics -- hell, discipline's open rhiz recruitment calls over there are how i found my way back to this little enclave

but yeah, its usefulness has really collapsed. a few worthwhile voices still float around, but mostly it seems like a platform for harrying people until they have mental breakdowns

#376
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everyone who talks about debating people on Twitch after this post will be IFAPed and banned to prevent self-harm. Because I’m going to jump into traffic if I read any more of this shameful bullshit
#377
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https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/us-army-unveils-esports-team-at-pax-west-as-recruitment-tool/981581962
#378
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"Are video games good? Should we debate Marxism on Twitch?" the thread that went on 400 posts and destroyed the forums, spiritually locked by the de facto moderator elemennop
#379
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elemennop posted:

"Are video games good? Should we debate Marxism on Twitch?" the thread that went on 400 posts and destroyed the forums, spiritually locked by the de facto moderator elemennop



respect elemennop but that’s like one demented guy using one page of Petrols thread on his path toward a meltdown ban... Hell,

#380
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now that the forbidden topic has moved to another thread, killed that thread and died forever, Im curious about video games...... will they still exist in 2020? 2021? Mods??
#381
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video games will not exist in 2020. not sure about 2021 but im leaning towards no
#382
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i agree with cars, as the war has spilled over to the china thread, i rescind my earlier spiritual edict and propose we use this thread like the syrian's used idlib to focus the terrorist into one manageable location
#383
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i agree with cars, as the war has spilled over to the china thread, i rescind my earlier spiritual edict and propose we use this thread like the syrian's used idlib to focus the terrorist into one manageable location
#384
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The motion has been seconded and carries without objection.
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#386
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y'know, im starting to think that video game isn't all that communist after all.
#387
lies half the time
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now hiring programmers & graphic designers, responsibilities include making my dream of a communist vidego game a reality. i can't pay you right away & pay depends on how our kickstarter goes
#388
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i cant stop playing this stupid fucking game. almost a decade of solid communist and workplace organising hamstrung by some buggy SoCal liberal trash heap that crashes to desktop if your feng shui is shit. i fucking hate this

#389
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Yeah new vegas was great, i put almost 600 hours into.
#390
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my video game idea: a video game, but good
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cars posted:

toyotathon posted:

toyotathon posted:

cars posted:

Tetris, by The Soviet Union.


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kinda interesting the global south is into ck2
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trakfactri posted:

kinda interesting the global south is into ck2



reminds me of one of those proto-fascist "races of the world" atlases

global south = filial piety, working to improve one's station

eurasia = "totalitarian*" fetishism (*paradox's usage)

old world west = undead imperialist animus

anglosphere = escapist technofetishist trash

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ck3 confirmed
#395
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Fuck all you, vicky is queen.
#396
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for anyone else curious about the new-old imperialist agitprop, there are already uploads on youtube

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damoj posted:

for anyone else curious about the new-old imperialist agitprop, there are already uploads on youtube



25 minutes in:

- CIA-Marine night-time raiders don't use night-vision goggles
- Russians use mercs, West doesn't and is obsessed with the Laws of War
- visibly Kurdish commander lady is just a genericised Arab rebel who takes issue with The Real Terrorists and Russia

now this is pod-racing

#399
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where's the mission where i hike into somethingistan with my friends to take pictures for the CIA stock photos department But It All Goes Wrong
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serafiym posted:

where's the mission where i hike into somethingistan with my friends to take pictures for the CIA stock photos department But It All Goes Wrong



not sure but one hour in...

- CIA guy is just blindly falling into supporting these rebels, no intentionality whatsoever except some sympathy & anti-Russian antipathy
- the rebels employ C4-ladden drones to attack a Russian base; totally their idea, the CIA dude that they all suddenly like and trust for no good reason is just given the privilege of guiding a few
- at the very beginning there's a lovely CIA-commander vs Those-Are-My-Guys Marine argument that exposes the fact that the regular Russian forces are not to be openly targeted by US assets... but an Apache is just called in for no particularly good reason to help the rebel assault on Russians



the level of narrative consistency here is just pathetic, arguably worse than real-life "objective media coverage". only treyarch CoDs seem to have some grounding in reality/consistency (cf. Black Ops 2)