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masquenox , to technology in Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket

Maoist rocket says, “Fuck your imperialist and capitalist clamps” and commits revolutionary suicide.

masquenox , to showerthoughts in If Batman was real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters.

I would like you to explain how Captain America and Superman are reactionary.

I mean… c’mon. Captain America is low-hanging fruit - the correlation between Captain America and actual US behavior in the world essentially writes itself.

Superman is a far more sophisticated representation of US-style liberalism - but, just like liberalism itself, that doesn’t make Super Cheese any less of a reactionary.

However… we can talk about the individual politics of these characters all day long - and we’d be missing the entire point of the metaphor in it’s entirety.

The problem with the “super hero” genre is not the individual politics of the characters concerned - it’s with how they normalize and justify the concentration of power in the hands of these exalted individuals.

In other words - the problem is fundamental.

He doesn’t understand the core themes of superheroes,

I think he understand them perfectly, because…

Zack Snyder is an Objectivist

masquenox , to maliciouscompliance in Work from home

Nicely done.

masquenox , to showerthoughts in If Batman was real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters.

If Batman was real today, he’d be Donald Trump.

That’s what these (alleged) “super heroes” really are… idealized, ubermensch-esque metaphors for the actual power wielded by the rich and privileged.

In fact, I’d say that Batman is the ultimate Objectivist wet dream - he perfectly personifies the fascist (as Batman) and the capitalist (as Bruce Wayne) in one person. Even Ayn Rand’s creepazoid ancap sugar-daddy “heroes” didn’t manage that.

masquenox OP , to aboringdystopia in Honest Government Ad | AI

They are perfectly on point with the whole “flooding the world with infoshit” thing… though, as the recent collapse of Israel’s media coddling shows, it seems that it’s not working as intended.

masquenox , to insanepeoplefacebook in A fragment of your imagination

I thought God communicated through burning bushes - everything’s getting enshittified, it seems.

masquenox , to insanepeoplefacebook in A fragment of your imagination

EVOLUTION TAKES GOOD IMAGINATION…

And I suppose religion doesn’t?

masquenox , to aboringdystopia in Defendants in Panama Papers Trial Who Laundered Money For the World’s Billionaires have Been Acquitted

Colour me surprised.

masquenox , to showerthoughts in What if Tyrannosaurus Rexes moved and walked like chicken do?

I have no idea why people think chickens look stupid when they walk… to me, the way they walk just looks like the way they walk. And the prospect of a T-Rex being that alert and agile is pretty terrifying.

masquenox , to insanepeoplefacebook in My cousin posting this [warning: racist content, woke people or gay don't open this or you will cry like a baby with down syndrome]

We should force all the old white guys in the GOP to smoke crack.

It’s the only way to be sure.

masquenox , to technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

Of all the celebrity billionaire parasites this one is the one I hate the most. At least Elon and Bezos has the decency to show us what scumbags they are… they don’t call Gates “No.1 Sugar Daddy To The PR industry” for nothing.

masquenox , (edited ) to technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

tech has nothing to do with him being a piece of shit,

We don’t call tech bros tech bros because they’re technical. We call them tech bros because they are pieces of shit.

TV Tropes has the best description of them.

A Tech Bro is someone connected with the technology and business industry; cultivating an image of intelligence mixed with money, counterculture attitude and social savvy. Whether they are actually hip, business literate, anti-authority or even intelligent in any form depends on the individual. Their goal is to charm investors into funding their project, so some degree of false presentation is necessary. Typically they are young men in their twenties and early thirties, insisting on casual clothing, shaggy hair and Perma-Stubble. Some of them are keen on partying and getting up to wacky hijinx, and are easily distracted during business meetings. Their speech is a blend of Technobabble and corporate buzzwords designed to attract investors, self-promoting at every opportunity. They see themselves as leaders, even visionaries, and they want you to know it.

And Apartheid tech bro up there is their god.

edit: I have to mention that I have no idea where anyone gets the idea that tech bros are in any way “countercultural” or “anti-authoritarian” - I’ve never seen a tech bro that’s anti-capitalist, which means they are as drenched in the politics of bootlicking as the rest. I guess the only difference is that they perceive themselves to be deserving of having their boots licked - despite the fact that they will happily lick the boots of Musk, Gates and the rest themselves.

masquenox , to technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

Apartheid tech bro saying exactly what an Apartheid tech bro would say.

masquenox , to workreform in Pillaging by the Super-Rich Will Continue Until the Working Class Revolts

It’s been done before… before the “Red Scare” there was the “Black Scare” - it’s where the trope of the “bomb-throwing anarchist” comes from.

It’s a valid tactic - but if it’s not carefully done and well thought through, it can end up creating a lot of blowback… as it did for the anarchist Alexander Berkman when he attempted to assassinate the capitalist Henry Clay Frick (hint - don’t assassinate a capitalist during a strike… if the striking workers thought that’d work they’d probably do it themselves).

masquenox , to youshouldknow in YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead

Not sure about that paper - it recommends ocular irrigation (with water) for OC gas… the exact thing you mentioned hurting so bad in your first response. The thing to remember here is that a lot of the discourse on this doesn’t distinguish between the use of a liquid to flood particles away from skin and membranes through it’s kinetic action (possible with CS gas and very necessary with white phosporous) and relying on the chemical properties of the liquid itself to bring any kind of relief.

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