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They should have asked Nick Mullen for a counter quote about Jake.

I kind of recall a blog entry from Nick about some poster named GameMasterAnthony or something or the other, about him being the same as this person but for the grace of God had turned out differently. I don't like Cumtown but Nick seems like a person with real and lived experiences. Even Stavros, whose persona seemed to be memery from the Cumtown clips I've seen, made it to Netflix, a movie deal, and a successful comedy career.

The Chapo hosts - save for Matt - kind of seemed to be lottery winners who just lucked into their success and fortune and have ceased to grow as people as a consequence of their fame and profit. Their reference about the "failson" encapsulates their status as hosts. Just frozen... in Arrested Development.

I'm kind of amazed at Chapo's success, but it is very much a right-place right time sort of success given its origin in 2016 as a counter-point to Hilary Clinton, the DNC, and finding irreverent catharsis against the Democrats and the state of the country since that point. Still, while they were impressive in getting excellent celebrity guests, journalists, and colleagues, I can't ever say they were the bastion of left-liberal anti-DNC thought. Their parity with CumTown is probably the best descriptor. I do respect them, even if I do not revere or really listen to them anymore.

Covid and Bernie's loss really did defeat them. I do think Matt, Will, and Chris are decent people, and the show gave us Blowback and Brendan James.

I never understood Felix's appeal. Virgil was funnier from earlier episodes. Aside from Felix being a man child who buys swords, I also think it might be his literal voice and speech mannerisms that grates me so, (like George Costanza's audiobook voice if you get that reference) that really seems like a resigned teenager stuck in a body of a man in his now mid 30s. He actively ruins the podcast for me since his man-child breakdown in 2020 Covid.

Probably to cope with Israel and the US's resiliency in sustaining and advancing their geopolitical goals.

Especially when the Israeli govt made their intent of extermination clear days, and weeks, and months after Oct 7 and up until Natanyahu basically told them to stfu about it.

I skipped to 25:00 ish. He rips into Destiny and Destiny is being completely dishonest regarding Israel-Palestine; quite sickening.

Adam looked infuriated to do the whole thing.

Can you expand on the monetary policy part with Biden cutting interest rates?

Oh nevermind you did in another thread. ty anyway!

I've been here since the offboarding from r/cth and when this was called chapo.chat. I was @Zodiark.

Probably just the occassional insight, leftist safe space, and good vibes all around. A general permissiveness and acceptance, even anonymized, to be who you wish to be. I did like to comment and post, but this space was a genuine thought refuge when 10/7 happened.

Europe, especially the imperial powers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, were and are a community of vampires, ghouls, jackals, demons, serial killers, and thieves.

The most telling part of the conflict was that despite Austria-Hungary initiating the conflict, Germany took most of the "blame" and was maid to payout reparations and had its colonies and industrial sectors and provinces swallowed up by the other European powers.

The causes stated by Lenin, in Imperialism: Highest Stage of Capitalism were:

Imperial expansion & imperial competition - a need to acquire new markets, materials, colonies, and growth. These empires were driven by monopolies and capital accumulation/centralization created existential rivalries among the European powers. Especially between Germany and Great Britain. These two powers considered themselves existential enemies since Germany had quickly industrialized and become on par with British industry in a short time, creating fierce competition in the market. These competitions justified and necessitated the need for new territories, raw materials, etc.

I can't remember much about Lenin's understanding of how finance capital's contribution to WW1, just that it was fuel to the fire of the overwhelming tinder that the need for new markets and resources made.

WWI as viewed by Lenin was an inevitability of crisis that capitalism produces. There needed to be periodic wars or catastrophic events that opened up new markets and populations open for domination, labor and resource extraction, and dominance of capital. I think the last great event like this was the dissolution of the USSR and the shock and awe policies that plagued Russia in the 90s that saw its industrial sectors siphoned and sold off.

WW1 is shocking in its cataclysmic damage and depraved indifference to the huge loss of life, but such a conflict was all but inevitable given that these were conflicts that capital needed to accomplish to break through to acquire new wealth and profits. The modes of imperialism that Europe had practiced were on this trajectory.

Ultimately the war weakened European powers, set itself up for WW2, and let the US readapt and manage the way these powers extract wealth and capital from its former colonial subjects and other states in the developing world.

Something by Rosa Luxemburg:

The Imperialism of all countries knows no “understanding,” it knows only one right – capital’s profits: it knows only one language – the sword: it knows only one method – violence. And if it is now talking in all countries, in yours as well ours, about the “League of Nations,” “disarmament,” “rights of small nations,” “self-determination of the peoples,” it is merely using the customary lying phrases of the rulers for the purpose of lulling to sleep the watchfulness of the proletariat.

The situation appears to be an attempt to redirect the narrative away from Israeli football fans being provocative. The counternarrative being presented is that these incidents are indicators that Europeans, the Dutch, and the residential Arab & Muslim populations of Europe are hostile to Jewish people.

Promoting the notion of Zionism that Jewish people are inherently unsafe in Europe, and that any current "bigotry" is not really European but an import of MENA immigrants, and ultimately the price of tolerance by these liberal democracies.

There's plenty of video evidence denying the narrative there, but that doesn't let the press stop them.

https://x.com/WVanwagenen/status/1855366838437150767

YNet says Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir are waiting for the hostages to die. The issue of the hostages in Gaza will be solved 'naturally and tragically.'

They will then use these deaths as further pretext to permanently occupy and establish Jewish settlements in Gaza, YNet says.

Netanyahu's cabinet has always wanted the hostages dead after the plan to kill them all with helicopters before they reached Gaza on 7 October was not entirely successful.

I think NoFap is a reaction to porn addiction. In that sense, NoFap appears to be about abandoning the simulation of emotional, romantic, and sexual intimacy and its hijacking of the pleasure centers of the brain and mind's self-deception of having romantic intimacy via said media.

I don't know much of it, but it just seems that people in the modern era struggle with respect for women/men/people outside their sexual dominions, romantic prospects, self-respect, rediscovery of the self, emotional growth, and maturity and find bizarre communities like this in their journey via self-help.

Look at me now, I'm unalienated from myself and from others! but by identifying and compartmentalizing sex/porn addiction as the cause.

r/shitliberalssay, r/trueanon, and r/thedeprogram already have this sort of content. I can understand the derision for this slop, but turning Hexbear into r/communism where only serious assessment of reality through Marxism is allowed also baffling given the name of this site and the site culture.