@comradedelaurier - Tumblr Blog

Imagine purging everyone left of Thatcher from your party and burning down every shred of goodwill you've ever had with your core voter base to pander to far-right lunatics and they just turn around and call you a clone of the guy you spent a decade trying to wrest control of the party from.

balaclava-trismegistus

its crazy how Steven Spielberg is just about single-handedly responsible for basically all of the most dangerous pro-war propaganda made in American history that directly led to the attitudes surrounding the global war on terror which extend into our present bare-faced fascist government worshiping martial force above all else.

balaclava-trismegistus

>releases Saving Private Ryan in 1998

>completely deranged movie that re-invented the mythology of WWII and forged it into a spectacle of righteous bloodshed

>has a character whose arc is completed by overcoming his resistance to gunning down unarmed, surrendering enemy prisoners

>whole thing is sheathed in uber-sentimental Spielbergisms about the duty and honor and sacrifice and shit

>Sets up Dreamworks Interactive

>Produces Medal of Honor, released 1999

>invents the genre-form of the military shooter and, again, slathers it in rousing sentimental justice and honor and shit

>In 2001, releases Band of Brothers, which he "created" and produced alongside Tom Hanks

>show all about camaraderie, and soldiers' duties to one another, about the bonds they form and the resilience these relationship provide these men in the face of the difficulty of what they must do, that being the war

>each of these stories are essentially about the burdened masculine duty of warfare, doing the difficult thing that must be done, the honor and dignity and sacrifice in the only war we've ever had that was ethically justifiable because of the the universal aggression of the axis forces

>makes the perfect case for why, sometimes, in the face of a truly great evil, warfare is just, and righteous, and men can choose to do it out of goodness, to protect that which they love, and that there is immense, heightened beauty in this love during war the likes of which nobody but a warrior can truly understand

>the first episode of Band of Brothers airs on September 9th, 2001

>In 2002, after working on and releasing Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault, 22 members of Dreamworks Interactive start their own studio

>In 2003, they release their first game

>it's titled Call of Duty

balaclava-trismegistus

YOU ‼️Understand completely! The wave he was riding at the time was so influential, so institutional, so powerful, that he completely re-defined the concept we have of what WWII looked like. Just the landing sequence changed America's vision of warfare. Each of its constituent parts were immediately parodied and, just as quickly, turned into genre tropes. Hacksaw Ridge is a movie I was sort of disgusted by. Nominally, it's about praising the nobility of a pacifist during wartime. But it was directed by Mel Gibson, who is a crazy pig, so it tries to have its cake and eat it too with gleefully reveling in the cartoonish destruction of human bodies. The pornographic quality of men being hacked apart with mines and mortars and machinegun fire, to behold their misery, is something cut from Saving Private Ryan whole cloth. But in Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson, in his worship of the spectacle of warfare, his jubilant bloodlust, even lifts the somewhat infamous detail of a flamethrower specialist having his fuel tank explode when it's struck by incoming fire. Somewhat infamous because it's now generally agreed upon that they can't explode like that. Much like everything else in that sequence, it is a theatrical fabrication to pull the audience into feeling certain ways, resting on an illusion of authenticity. Now that's just how people imagine the war. The spectacle of misery and brutality is what people expect. It's entertainment. It's pornographic. Americans can't cum unless they see a young man writhe on the ground in agony begging for his mommy. And then Spielberg's movie ends with his decadent, deep-fried sentimentality stating "well all that human suffering and loss of life was 100% worth it. No notes. Bye." This is a 30-year track we were set on by Spielberg. This was crucial for everything that happened, for the specific culture of veneration that sprang up around our military during the global war on terror. This is like a parasite he designed in a lab to inject into our brains and kill the country from within. He just completely, fundamentally changed the way America thinks about warfare. And that's before we even get into him inventing the military shooter! He's responsible for fucking CALL OF DUTY coming around. This dumbfuck, in all his talent, attempting to venerate the sacrifice and glory of The Greatest Generation, created the most fatal cultural time bombs anyone has ever made, specifically because he designed them to be so agreeable. Because of his domestic sentimentality.

tamamita

To substantiate on OP's claim, Spielberg even desired to make a COD movie.

We almost got a Steven Spielberg Call of Duty movie, but according to a new report, Activision just couldn't go through with it.

elbiotipo

Also, regardless of your feelings on human nature or anything, I think that a world where children can go to school without fearing being bombed from an ocean away is a world worth aspiring to and worth fighting for. Okay we might never abolish war because the inherent human nature or whatever mighty idealism you have. We could at least try to stop these wars, though?

elbiotipo

Again. Everybody get more anti war right now.

depsidase

lovethythrall

This tag needed to be included.

depsidase

lovethythrall

This tag needed to be included.

schoolhater

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

tinyuglyworld

Muhammed Ali visiting a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, 1974

hagiomoto

The same Palestinian refugee camp is being bombed by Israel right now

Israel continues to attack Lebanon on a near-daily basis in violation of a yearlong ceasefire with Hezbollah.

evil-space-empress

The Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Communist party based in the USA, just announced the Joe Tache 2026 campaign for senate in the state of Massachusetts. This is, to my knowledge, the first time they have run a candidate for senate outside of California, and it comes on the heels of a very successful Claudia & Karina 2024 campaign for president which successfully introduced socialism and the PSL to hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions of workers. This reflects well what a correct orientation towards bourgeois democracy is for a Communist party: not to ignore it as the ultraleftists would have you do, not to blindly support bourgeois candidates and parties as right-wing Communists would have you do, but to run your own candidates and intervene in electoral politics to build your party platform, popularise socialism, and develop experienced cadre, all while still maintaining a revolutionary platform. It is very exciting to see a US Communist party take this seriously and I hope other parties will follow.

This is what a revolutionary, anti-imperialist political programme actually looks like in the context of the US.

https://www.tache4ma.com/our-program

Importantly, it's getting at the heart of the real issues while still remaining accessible to most proletarians, who ultimately have never read Marxist theory and probably aren't going to.

evil-space-empress

Another one

evil-space-empress

The Party for Socialism and Liberation, a Communist party based in the USA, just announced the Joe Tache 2026 campaign for senate in the state of Massachusetts. This is, to my knowledge, the first time they have run a candidate for senate outside of California, and it comes on the heels of a very successful Claudia & Karina 2024 campaign for president which successfully introduced socialism and the PSL to hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions of workers. This reflects well what a correct orientation towards bourgeois democracy is for a Communist party: not to ignore it as the ultraleftists would have you do, not to blindly support bourgeois candidates and parties as right-wing Communists would have you do, but to run your own candidates and intervene in electoral politics to build your party platform, popularise socialism, and develop experienced cadre, all while still maintaining a revolutionary platform. It is very exciting to see a US Communist party take this seriously and I hope other parties will follow.

This is what a revolutionary, anti-imperialist political programme actually looks like in the context of the US.

https://www.tache4ma.com/our-program

Importantly, it's getting at the heart of the real issues while still remaining accessible to most proletarians, who ultimately have never read Marxist theory and probably aren't going to.

mysharona1987

initiate-operative

Last week Greta Thunberg planned on boarding the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at a port in Malta headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid when one of the ships got struck by Israeli drones which forced her to cancel plans.

A ship getting destroyed by Israeli drones with a Palestine activist nearby is NOT a coincidence, this was an assassination attempt, and we're sure it won't be the last.

If the IOF kills her don't expect much coverage from the mainstreams, independent media like Breakthrough News and Liberation News are most likely to cover this if it happens, but hopefully it doesn't.

(We are doing everything we can to stop Israel's Genocide, one of the main things we do is disrupting Sigma Team's Operations in the area and assassinating Israeli officials installed by Abstergo, لا شيء صحيح، كل شيء مسموح به and From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free, WM)