it revolves around making both the host and said interviewee increasingly suffer by way of capsaicin while general interview questions (both career and personal) are asked. they do a "flight" of incrementally-hotter hot sauces until it's just asinine scoville levels toward the end. idk what the gag is here, if the VA ate wings as the character or what. I don't care enough to watch it to figure this one out.
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Fanon right again
Many such cases. I've said it many times and will never stop, The Wretched of the Earth ^(pdf^ ^DL^ ^link)^ is fundamental required reading for anyone in a colonialist or colonized country (or both, in the case of settler-colonies). It is absolutely critical for a material understanding, and Fanon being a professional doctor and psychologist as well as a Marxist gives incredibly valuable foundational insights to not only a dialectical and historical materialist analysis of the material conditions, relations, and struggles in and against colonialism, but also of the superstructural political, social, cultural, and psychological outcroppings from the colonial relation and their mutual interpenetration and cyclical reinforcement.
It is also the direct theoretical lineage of so many liberation struggles which came after, including in the US with the BPP and BLA; and so it is quite literally necessary, in general and in particular in the places which inherited the legacy of those Fanonist struggles, for one to engage with in order to not be speaking nonsense about colonialism and the colonial relations which exist, and the contradictions and struggles therein. Fanon is no lesser than what Malcolm X was to the heart of the struggle and its history and theoretical body of work.
From there the next step is reading the criticism and self-criticism and analytical adaptations from the experiences and lessons of those struggles (Huey Newton, George Jackson, Maroon Shoatz, and newer generations such as Kevin Rashid Johnson), which are also necessary because their knowledge derives from practice and its lessons better than anyone who has not this experience. As Mao wrote in On Practice:
Marxists hold that man's social practice alone is the criterion of the truth of his knowledge of the external world. What actually happens is that man's knowledge is verified only when he achieves the anticipated results in the process of social practice (material production, class struggle or scientific experiment). If a man wants to succeed in his work, that is, to achieve the anticipated results, he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective external world; if they do not correspond, he will fail in his practice. After he fails, he draws his lessons, corrects his ideas to make them correspond to the laws of the external world, and can thus turn failure into success; this is what is meant by "failure is the mother of success" and "a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit". The dialectical-materialist theory of knowledge places practice in the primary position, holding that human knowledge can in no way be separated from practice and repudiating all the erroneous theories which deny the importance of practice or separate knowledge from practice. Thus Lenin said, "Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality." The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice. The truth of any knowledge or theory is determined not by subjective feelings, but by objective results in social practice. Only social practice can be the criterion of truth. The standpoint of practice is the primary and basic standpoint in the dialectical materialist theory of knowledge.
If one could hypothetically only read one thing about colonialism, the Wretched of the Earth would be firmly at the top of the list I give them. There is also Orientalism by Edward Said which is too invaluable for those in "the west", but is more of a broad-focused general deconstruction of the historical notions of "the west" and "the east" and such politically-charged and inherently violent concepts as "western values" (as opposed to the values of these 'others') which Fanon touches on in its specific relations and expressions in colonialism, but Said does more broadly in its superstructure and relation to its base in the roots from whence it arose and was constructed out of the dialectical relationships of the history of europe, and of imperialism and colonialism, etc. It is more of a deconstruction through historical and dialectical materialist analysis of the broader history and concepts in and out-of-from "orientalism" than acting as a direct foundational analysis of and for the specific struggles which have been carried out as the Wretched of the Earth has.
yeah I commented above before I saw this it's the same trend as that Frankie Boyle joke
American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later, and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad~ boo hoo~
Americans making a movie about what Vietnam did to their soldiers is like a serial killer telling you what stopping suddenly for hitchhikers did to his clutch.
Reminds me of that Frankie Boyle bit
American foreign policy is horrendous 'cause not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but what's worse I think, is that they'll come back 20 years later, and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad~ boo hoo~
Americans making a movie about what Vietnam did to their soldiers is like a serial killer telling you what stopping suddenly for hitchhikers did to his clutch.
this game kicks ass. some of the most fun multiplayer, and totally perfected the 'goldeneye lineage' of shooters of those 2 console generations to its apex. The map-maker was incredible too. Even had event flags and such, where you could make your own little campaigns. Was mad disappointed they removed that when future perfect rolled around.
cozy 
"Energy is so big. It's so like amorphous. It's all over the place. If you make donuts, it's a stove, and the truck a bringem tuhhh
wherever they're bein delivered"
lmao hell yeah dude
i've been in a similar boat (not at mcdonalds but kitchen work) where I couldn't afford anti slip shoes for a while til paychecks came through and I could get checks cashed. It was DIRE and it's only by the grace of luck I never threw boiling liquids all over myself from any slippage. I became immediately convinced that every restauraunt owner/operator should be required by law under threat of 20-to-life or death penalty to finance non-slip shoes as part of a day-1 uniform for any and all hires. utterly criminal I was made to do that to work to live as many others are.
Mikhail Rogachev is the latest of nearly a dozen Russian energy executives to die in mysterious circumstances over the past two years
idk. he fell from the window, and the sudden stop on the hard floor made him dead. doesnt seem particularly mysterious to me
Telegram channels close to the Russian security services said his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, who was walking the dog of a senior spymaster in the building’s courtyard on Saturday morning.
I love both possibilities of this
that this was the way of security services in general to show their adjacency without implicating themselves and the domestic intelligence services directly, as a message to others
or that this foreign intelligence agent was legitimately walking his boss' dog and was like "what
oh god damn it"
Fear is a natural human impulse; no one is "wrong" to have fear, and deserve compassion for it and to have their concerns heard. But one is wrong to make fear their politics and then choose to spread that fear in their political groups. HB is not an organization, but it is a socialist space where people come and learn things, as well as where people exist who do or will participate regularly in real life organizing (as everyone who is able it is necessary and heavily advised to, not only for the practical reality of building a better future but as well as it actively helps these emotions not fester into directionless helpless fear because they are put towards positive construction for change). This must be held in mind, and cognizance must be taken about what is being said and what effects it has on not just the construction of socialism and peoples ideas and political education and development (which is important to consider), but also the immediate emotional and psychological effects on our comrades. It is not good for them or us personally let alone in a mass-politics sense that some of these un-dialectical and idealism-rooted fantasy-horrors are painted as if they are an inevitable reality and are not just allowed but encouraged and reinforced in a race-to-the-bottom as in some of these comments and many threads. It serves no one. It serves reaction in its effects. It's part of why I really dislike the existence of the 'c/doomer' community, which actively encourages all of the worst strands of these trends both emotionally and politically. But that's my part on all this.
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