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  • This is your brain on permanent treats, bereft of imagination. Contrary to what it would have you believe, the treatbrain is not more imaginative, no, it is performative, it’s about infinite referentiae, rickrolling into each other; a compartmentalized set of words to convey an insider framework for in-the-know acolytes. Yes, we’ve come back to the snake eating its own ass, because in the milieu of such an immaterial reality, the snake seeks its ass as a way out.








  • Also, Ben does good analysis but he doesn’t do investigative journalism which is what was good about Grayzone.

    Yeah, this was the best about them. They had a track record of consistently good work, and Moderate Rebels was one of my favorite shows. It was funny, educational and the guests were how I found out about a lot of cool people.

    Aaron from what I remember is a radlib á la Chris Hedges, people with a good heart, but without theory, who still regard the USSR as ‘‘authoritarian’’, or speak ill of the Stasi and East Germany without understanding the context of those moments in history. He’s still got some anticom brainworms and it’s related to his father coming from Hungary. He lived through the 1956 counterrevolution, and regards that uprising against the socialist government as a good thing. Despite all this, Aaron does good work when he sticks to the facts, he just has this blindside, or hurdle. I haven’t followed them in years now so this is going from memory.

    What came of this disappointment with Grayzone was a great lesson in applying Ockham’s Razor. When Covid happened, instead of observing the fact that China did better than the West, and understanding how they did it, people decided to spin tales and over complicate everything with antivax conspiracies. It was so baffling to see otherwise smart people getting spun around like that. I think that was my main takeaway from all this, that the simplest explanation is the way to go.




  • The shift began with Covid, specially when the ‘‘Freedumb Truckers’’ showed up in Canada, and the Patsocs were on the rise, which also coincides with the return of the Larouchies and the notoriety of CPI…It also coincides with Max showing up on Jimmy Dore’s show more frequently, and instead of influencing Jimmy towards the left, again, since he had been shifting right himself, Max fell in with Jimmy…He marched in D.C along with reactionaries that were against lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and the day I saw him walk out on stage with sunglasses to the cheers of MAGA, alongside Awaken with JP and some snake oil peddlers, I unsubscribed from the Grayzone. During that time, as an addendum, I was subbed to Mint Press News, and Max’s friend, Dan Cohen, whom has done decent work before on Haiti and isn’treal, also chomped at the bit of the antivax bullshit that swept the US, and was at that same march. That day, I unsubscribed from Behind the Headlines, Dan Cohen’s show, and Mint Press News for giving a platform to that shit.

    After Ben left The Grayzone, the quality of guests, articles and the audience itself, got worse…This is not a matter of taste, or an opinion, this is a fact. If you’re listening to people whose focus is on the WEF, Karl Schwab, Covid, punching down on LGBTQ+ people cause you think it’s part of some western assery to interfere in other countries, that speak of ‘‘globalists’’, that think the US can be reformed or fixed, and are still attached to it, then you’re not getting the correct information, nor, ideological formation. I don’t care if every blue moon, they say something right about Ukraine or some other world issue. If that comes at the expense of selling some new form of ‘‘Judeo-Bolshevism’’, then I want no part of it. Cause at the end of the day, things in the world have simple explanations.




  • Many of us cannot attest to this because we have not lived it, but, if you go to China right now, and meet an old man in his 80’s, they can tell you where they were at, materially speaking, back before and after the revolution, and how much their lives in 1 lifetime, have improved. These people are still alive to tell the world their story, which is the second greatest story of human development since the Soviet Union.




  • The_Filthy_CommietoThe Dredge Tank@hexbear.netAcademics
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    26 days ago

    Yep, this is an absolute classic. ''Oh, it’s just like the Stasi, Stalinism and the gulags, amirite, fellas? ‘‘And all the fellas nod along:’‘Yeah, bro, we’re not like that’’, while something they live through is like the cartoon they invented of those filthy commies.