"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

I lost it when Null explained how "pig" is a common anti-Ukrainian slur.
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🥝Kiwi book club. I've bought a copy of The Concept of The Political. I recommend reading The Technological Society, it's quite a long book but Ellul has an interesting perspective on most things. It changed the way I think about the modern world. Really enjoyed the show, I hadn't really heard much about the sanctions and it is quite shocking to see the power of the U.S. financially over the whole planet.
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In the same way, the political technique of Lenin’s school made, and is making, possible the achievement of successes over all other political forms, even when these political forms are able to bring infinitely superior resources to bear. The tide of Leninian policy retreats for certain periods before the superior weight of the enormous politico-economic machines of the opponents. But to such a political technique only another political technique can be opposed; and since the American political technique, for example, is so inferior, it must deploy instead an enormous expenditure of resources.

The superiority of a technique to enormous but inefficiently used resources and machinery means that the point at which technique inserts itself becomes a real turning point The milieu into which a technique penetrates becomes completely, and often at a stroke, a technical milieu. If a desired result is stipulated, there is no choice possible between technical means and nontechnical means based on imagination, individual qualities, or tradition. Nothing can compete with the technical means. The choice is made a priori. It is not in the power of the individual or of the group to decide to follow some method other than the technical The individual is in a dilemma: either he decides to safeguard his freedom of choice, chooses to use traditional, personal, moral, or empirical means, thereby entering into competition with a power against which there is no efficacious defense and before which he must suffer defeat; or he decides to accept technical necessity, in which case he will himself be the victor, but only by submitting irreparably to technical slavery. In effect he has no freedom of choice.

We are today at the stage of historical evolution in which everything that is not technique is being eliminated. The challenge to a country, an individual, or a system is solely a technical challenge. Only a technical force can be opposed to a technical force. All else is swept away. Serge Tchakotin reminds us of this constantly. In the face of the psychological outrages of propaganda, what reply can there be? It is useless to appeal to culture or religion. It is useless to educate the populace. Only propaganda can retort to propaganda, or psychological rape to psychological rape. Hitler formulated this long before Tchakotin. He writes, in Mein Kampf: “Unless the enemy learns to combat poison gas with poison gas, this tactic, which is based on an accurate evaluation of human weaknesses, must lead almost mathematically to success.”

The exclusive character of technique gives us one of the reasons for its lightning progress. There is no place for an individual today unless he is a technician. No social group is able to resist the pressures of the environment unless it utilizes technique. To be in possession of the lightning thrust of technique is a matter of life or death for individuals and groups alike; no power on earth can withstand its pressures.

Will the technical phenomena of today be able to maintain itself, or must it suffer in its turn impairment or even liquidation? It is difficult to see ahead, and, in any case, this is not the place to try to do so. Doubtless, technique has its limits. But when it has reached these limits, will anything exist outside them? Its limits are presupposed by its object and its method. But is it not succeeding in undermining everything which is outside it? Beyond its precise and limited compass, whatever its size, will there remain anything in existence? We shall be answering this question all through this book.

Within the technical circle nothing else can subsist because technique’s proper motion, as Jiinger has shown, tends irresistibly toward completeness. To the degree that this completeness is not yet attained, technique is advancing, eliminating every lesser force.

And when it has received full satisfaction and accomplished its vocation, it will remain alone in the field. Technique thus reveals itself at once destroyer and creator, and no one wishes or is able to master it.
 
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I'm late as fuck, but I've been binge watching MATI
The spotlight episodes are my favorite. Except for Hartley Hooligans. That was fucking disturbing. Just actual real life horror. I feel really fucking bad for Cal. The mom's autobiography was absolute lunacy.
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I recently stumbled on Russel Brand's channel on youtube, don't know where else to put this and all I could think of while watching was "this is like watching Josh/MATI but with a British accent" so I'm going to shit up this thread for a second.

I remember this guy being on Never Mind the Buzzcocks like 15 years ago and now he's gone full red pill and is screaming about globohomo and crypto. You love to see it.
For those who don't know he is (or was) a mainstream comedian in the UK, frequently showing up on TV talkshows and was even in some Hollywood movies in the mid 2010s. I guess at some point in the last 10 years he went full politisperg.
 
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Stasi said:
I recently stumbled on Russel Brand's channel on youtube, don't know where else to put this and all I could think of while watching was "this is like watching Josh/MATI but with a British accent" so I'm going to shit up this thread for a second.

I remember this guy being on Never Mind the Buzzcocks like 15 years ago and now he's gone full red pill and is screaming about globohomo and crypto. You love to see it.
For those who don't know he is (or was) a mainstream comedian in the UK, frequently showing up on TV talkshows and was even in some Hollywood movies in the mid 2010s. I guess at some point in the last 10 years he went full politisperg.
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He is still pretty left wing and cringe at times, he has enough of the red pill to say a lot of based things from time to time. He also has somehow understood the right a lot more
 
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Stasi said:
Trannies, crypto scams and a fat greasy pedo having a slap fight with JK Rowling. What more can you ask for? Well, maybe Ralph doing something monumentally stupid in the next 12 hours or so for a truly epic show.
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Ralph is waiting until after the stream to do something retarded. But I think you are missing something else


 
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