dont call them knife ears bro! @abraxas@shrike.club

DSA games journalists reviewing Disco Elysium when they see The Deserter say that the bourgeoisie are not human

rephrased some of the stuff on classpect i said in a thread with ruby before into its own thread

as put much shorter in my notes:

Capital has a vested interest in the precise terms and parameters by which the past is drawn back into the present and the framework through which it is distributed. The revival of the dead is not a neutral act, the bourgeois interest in nostalgia necessarily serves their goals.

memories of historical conflict refracted but nonetheless maintained through the production of a commodity, like two insects locked in a permanent struggle to survive by a piece of amber sold as jewelry

https://twitter.com/abraxasgrip/status/1300492427891933184?s=20 back at it

Jentha's appreciation of the Furby as an object with a capacity for learning, above its corporate assigned purpose as a source of revulsion, resembles what Adorno discusses as relationship between toys & those too young or sheltered to be acquainted with the reality of capital, which prioritizes use value over exchange value

Oomf is planting an IED🤭

Wow so my peoples army regiment can afford to build 2 killdozers but refuses to offer me a keto ration option? Normal war.

The Roman Empire is nothing but the collective dreamscape fabrication of old school fascist Italians, wishful archeologists, and neo-nazi aesthetes, all jerking off to sun bleached marble busts of imperial pedophiles. It is a radioactive corpse remembered only by its bones (laws and ruins) whose holy marrow provides endless sustenance for the continuing rule of kings and slaver republics.

I love my old tumblr blacklist

it's no coincidence that Disco Elysium depicts a marxist as entirely unable to comprehend a mystical entity, a fascist as a pursuant believer in it, and 2 cops as its discoverers. Fascism is a fundamentally mystical framework, envisioning and realizing a society welded together with profoundly paramaterial abstractions: the nation, the volk, the race; each attached and articulated through esoteric rhetoric that cops uphold and marxists struggle against.

Endless credit to disco elysium for managing to make a showdown between 2 men voiced by chapo trap house dudes still be extremely tense & effective

entirely conjecture but i have a feeling that one reason for medieval settings in fiction is that it allows for a supremely simple survey of class contradictions & struggle, laid bare in easily digestible symbolism (destitute serfs, gilded knights)

I think one of the most interesting lines of comparison is June’s house above the clouds; towering above the toiling masses of peasant salamanders; and Griffith’s idealization of a castle in the clouds & its meaning as a symbol of noble aspiration

Trying not to make this a thread so I don’t fall prey to the “tweeting instead of writing an essay” blight. But. I just think the way each creates hyper fantasized medieval European societies then demonstrates several axis of class struggle and contradiction within is interesting

Homestuck and Berserk are both stories about class struggle within a feudal polity

people wont stop sending me the femboy fishing youtube channel saying it's me im sick of getting owned