Haven’t seen it, don’t plan to, don’t care to tbh.

But having talked to some people about it, this is my takeaway: “Messaging” is simply a new tool of marketing, especially “subversive” messaging. You’re not buying a car - you’re committing a revolutionary act of activism against climate change and fossil capitalism. You’re not buying an ethically farmed, grass-fed, local steak, you’re fighting animal cruelty and big farming lobbies with your consumption. You’re not simply dressing up skandidly in pink to watch a multi-hundred million dollar Hollywood production of Barbie produced and approved of by its parent company, giving new legitimacy to that old rubber toy franchise and boosting sales numbers. You’re totally subverting gender roles and criticizing capitalism by doing so.

Imo you’re not. You’re just buying a new car, munching another steak and going to the movies again promoting one of the most famous IPs of all time. It’s the same thing we’ve done our entire lives. Changing the messaging around the act without changing the act, doesn’t change the act. You’re just doing the thing.

There can’t be anything really subversive coming out of the hegemonic culture industry. By the very nature of its production, via the commodification it undergoes, it has already become toothless and assimilated. Neoliberal anti-capitalism is just the newest sales-pitch. It’s along the lines of “diverse” CIA targeting officer recruitment ads. Just like capitalism can’t produce true anti-war movies, it can’t produce anti-capitalist or real anti-gender-role movies. It would be self-defeating if it did.

That being said, if you enjoy it more power to you. Nobody needs a grand narrative of subversion and messaging to go see and enjoy a movie at the theater. If you get something deeper out of it, even better.

The absolute effect of liberalism on women’s perception of themselves and their role in the world

Capitalism’s ability to provide moral and ideological cover for the self-commodification of every aspect of humanity is incredible. 100 years ago you’d have to force women to do this, today some are not just willing to do it, but see it as a noble cause and contribution for the war machine of empire.

people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments

Where do you get the impression from that the people rose up and overthrew their governments?

Well some parts of Wagner apparently tried the dumbest semi-coup against the MoD. Seems like this was known in advance, because some videos, etc by the RAF were spread immediately. Western media reacted so fast, it looks kinda sus too, especially factoring in that Navalny called on the Russian military to join Wagner.

Also Putin being the revisionist he is dared to compare this to February 1917.

The whole thing as in there is something happening, just not the Russian army shelling Wagner forces. That part seems fake, but not Wagner doing something and the government reacting. Because people unironically believe all of it is a psyop. The messages by TASS, Peskov, FSB, the generals, Prigozhin - all fake to idk “troll the Ukrainians” or something.

The video showing the supposed shelled Wagner base looks super fake and I don’t think that happened, but I don’t think this whole thing is fake like people on TG say

Gotta agree. While I enjoy just vibing with the comrades here, having those clashes adds hilarity, memes and develops a culture that made eg GZD so unique.

You see, the purpose of the Western tanks wasn’t to achieve anything on the battlefield anyway, it was to keep the crews safe so they can come back and downvote these posts

I really wanted to openly show my support for my comrades here

Based. Welcome, comrade o7

Beware of the tankies though, they’re literally everywhere

Every book from the ASOIAF series. They’re all massive, but A Dance with Dragons has over a thousand pages

Am I wrong here for not supporting Russia?

Nobody here is supporting anyone in this war. At most people on the internet are cheerleading for a war they’re so alienated from it’s become a team spectable to be consumed in their leasure time. Nobody here is sending weapons, money or doing anything tangible to support Russia in this war.

Most users on here, however, probably hold the opinion that a victory for Western imperialism in Ukraine would have worse ramifications for the world. And if anything is abundant, it’s Western people and media screeching about Russian imperialism. I don’t think there’s a need for principled communists to preach to that choir.

Mostly agree, but we shouldn’t forget that expansions and war do not only happen in the highest stage of capitalism to avoid collapse. They happened before imperialism, so imperialism isn’t necessary to wage wars for material/financial reasons.

Napoleonic France wasn’t imperialist in terms of the developmental stage of capitalism, it was expansionist, militaristic and warfocused anyway.

Edit: Not saying Russia is like Napoleonic France obviously

What you posted is based though

It’s terminally online cringe garbage. How any self respecting communist can repost stuff like this or take it seriously in any way at all is beyond me.

There’s a clear difference between analyzing the reasons for this war, the benefits a Russian victory might have and the terror a Russian defeat would bring and whatever abomination this bs is and the reddit brain needed to celebrate this or “z post”.

Jesus Christ that top comment alone. This whole Ukraine business has changed people. Before I could watch mainstream news and read threads like that and some of it would irritate me, most of it I’d disagree with, but it was still tolerable. It was chauvinistic, often racist and ignorant, but often relatively bening. Since 24th Feb it’s pure, unhinged racism, imperialism and stuff like this is bordering on ethno-nationalism.

Mainstream left and right seem to agree now that our free, social and prosperous European way of life is to be cherished.

Literal third way fascist rhetoric. Mainstream libs are getting scary man

What’s crazy to me is that the liberal mainstream not only accepts the US threatening an entire group of countries for choosing to produce goods in their own national self-interest instead of hurting themselves by submitting to US demands, they actively cheer it on. While simultaneously denying such behaviour from the US could ever exist in any other respect (literally 1489).

I also don’t quite get how the US is fucking up this bad. Like they’re not just imperialists, they’re bad imperialists too.

Yes, just coincidentally another gas supplier to Europe - the third largest no less.

Don’t see the point of having it outside of extraordinary circumstances like war or revolution. Only has downsides as far as I can see.

100%

I just can’t with how fucking ridiculous this war is, especially from the Western side. There are god damn doge pictures on a Pion and Western automatons paid fucking money for this. Hundreds upon hundreds are dying everyday in this war and these wankers are having a laugh spending on whatever this shit is.

This is war, not a Twitch thot they can tip a fiver to write superbonker 9000 on her body. It’s fucking surreal man.

Can’t speak for other European countries, but in Germany not present at all. The DKP (German Communist Party) is so small it’s almost irrelevant. The Left has some communist and anti-imperialist factions, but the party at large is getting pummeled in elections atm and as it’s doing so, it is moving even further to the right. Only hope is the very large (non-revolutionary) union movement. Other than that it’s an unorganized mess or one that’s organized/coopted by the right. Mainstream politicians already going ahead preemptively labeling protesters as far-right certainly doesn’t help either.