I hope this image speaks for itself. They admit to not reading books, and they gain a following by making absurd takes.

Sure. Here is my identical post on Hexbear.

The “discussion” that takes place is ambiguous at best, however, it didn’t get too many views. It seems theory-type posts like that wouldn’t do so well. (Again, most likely because of differing attitudes and communities)

Yeah, I did two identical discussion posts about the LTV on Lemmygrad and Hexbear, and the results were very interesting. I had four or so comments here on Lemmy that were basically discussing and having a civil debate over how people in sales and advertising do or do not create value, and some talk about art. On Hexbear though, I just got a few people giving brief, badly summarized explanations of the labor theory of value and basically just said “maybe” and “IDK” to my inquiries, which isn’t really helpful because I was wanting more discussion, and I obviously already know the LTV.

This isn’t conclusive or anything, but yeah, my example definitely highlights a difference in the userbase and communication of the different communities.

So that’s why. The sooner that pedophilic, liberal-infested, Western-centric, Anime-filth-filled “social-media platform” dies, the better.

I didn’t realize that Lemmygrad had a new flood of users. That’s pretty sweet!

I’m sorta new, and my account is a few months old. I loved GenZedong on Reddit and got really pissed off when it was removed for being too based. I also saw a few posts that reeked of liberalism and it pissed me off so much, I deleted all social media for good. However, I wanted to continue to consume more leftist content, so I found Lemmygrad from a GZD archive. All in all, I have been lurking for less than a year, and barely making posts and comments this past few months.

Thanks for some further consideration! However, I do have a few things to say…

I’d say both adds to the value of the commodity being advertised and the value of the commodity advertisement itself. As such advertisement isn’t just not useless, but actually quite essential…

You do have a wonderful point about advertisements being necessary for commodity production. However, it almost feels as if I were to delve into philosophical idealism when agreeing to the idea of continuously more distant labor that creates value for an increasingly abstract commodity.

I would be reluctant to agree that advertisers bring value to commodities they make advertisements about. It seems more as if advertisements are commodities themselves that have their use-values realized when viewing said advertisement, and the ability to advertise is exchanged by host websites, radio waves, television, or even not viewing ads with a premium on websites.

Honestly, I’d avoid discussions around use-value with people like the one you were talking to. In my experience you don’t ever really get to anything, because you mostly just end up discussing semantics and terminology.

Yeah, unfortunately, I am arguing with a relative of mine(who is not Marxist but knows I am), and I have foolishly used many Marxist terms with either no or poor elaboration. They have even unironically told me, “We need more diverse oppressors!!!”

Why should we even make such a broad categorization [to advertisers and the labor aristocracy]?

We shouldn’t. I have had poor experiences with people working in advertising, so that’s coming out a little bit, I suppose… It’s certainly a stretch to even consider categorizing all advertisers in the labor aristocracy.

But anyway, I pretty much agree with most of what you have said. Great analysis!

I am going to copy my list of pick-up lines from the cross-post here (warning: Stupidity ahead)

ZAMN cuh, you can put your vanguard in my revolution!

You can seize my means of reproduction, baby!

You must be a dialectic, cuz you got me feeling contradictions

Can you be my cum-rade?

I say “No gods, no rulers” in the streets; “Yes master” in the sheets

Girl, are you a Trotskyist? Cuz, I have something to pick with you.

Girl, are you an MLM? Cuz, I wanna boil a baby in you.

The capitalists may own the means of production, but you own my heart

You must be a collectivized farm, cuz I wanna eat your ass (or something else…)

Are you a collectivized farm? Cuz I can’t resist to sow seeds of love with you

Damn, you must be good at praxis, cuz you got me rising up…

Are you a crackkker imperialist? Cuz you just colonized my heart

Damn, you make my heart do The Great Leap Forward

Are you Enver Hoxha? Cuz I wanna bunker down in your [explicit]

Is this hexbear? Cuz I wanna do a 5 hour struggle (or snuggle) session with you

Are you public transportation? Cuz I want you to f*cking rail me

Here are some (WARNING: Incredibly terrible and corny):

ZAMN cuh, you can put your vanguard in my revolution!

You can seize my means of reproduction, baby!

You must be a dialectic, cuz you got me feeling contradictions

Can you be my cum-rade?

I say “No gods, no rulers” in the streets; “Yes master” in the sheets

Girl, are you a Trotskyist? Cuz, I have something to pick with you.

Girl, are you an MLM? Cuz, I wanna boil a baby in you.

The capitalists may own the means of production, but you own my heart

You must be a collectivized farm, cuz I wanna eat your ass (or something else…)

Are you a collectivized farm? Cuz I can’t resist to sow seeds of love with you

Damn, you must be good at praxis, cuz you got me rising up…

Are you a crackkker imperialist? Cuz you just colonized my heart

Damn, you make my heart do The Great Leap Forward

Are you Enver Hoxha? Cuz I wanna bunker down in your [explicit]

Is this hexbear? Cuz I wanna do a 5 hour struggle (or snuggle) session with you

Are you public transportation? Cuz I want you to f*cking rail me

I can come up with more later… But yeah. Just reading them aloud makes me want to kill myself for writing this and so on and so on…

Yeah, the article stated:

For instance, during the Covid ‘crisis’ the federal government infamously began confiscating monoclonal antibodies and other anti-covid ‘therapies’ from red states simply because they were too successful, and red states could not be allowed to cure their populations of the scam disease as that would expose the lie. To allow the disparity between red and blue to become obvious on the national stage would be dangerous for the ruling class.

So yeah, it seems like in many areas the author is talking out of his asshole