https://live.hexbear.net/c/news
Today @ 9 PM EST, I will be playing the Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris Debate at the link above. I played the Biden v Trump debate on the same channel. For the Biden v Trump debate, we had around 200 hexbear users in the chat. Before/after the debate, I will play news and commentary related to the debate. The video feed will be streamed from youtube.
I am choosing to not watch the debate on /c/movies because of their usage of peertube (tankietube). Before the debate they are playing Sopranos from peertube. Using peertube exposes your IP address to other users which is why their thread mentions using a VPN. Peertube will not be allowed in the channel that I linked.
I have noticed that /c/movies has mentioned that they are playing the debate.
I am choosing to not watch the debate on /c/movies because of their usage of peertube. Before the debate they are playing Sopranos from peertube. Using peertube exposes your IP address to other users which is why their thread mentions using a VPN.
CGTN has released a dozen videos onto youtube promoting Black Myth Wukong. Why would Chinese media promote a game that is unliked by China?
Who is even the author of this article? No author is listed. It says it is an opinion piece. Whose opinion is this? There is a reference link to a quora-like website, but the link is an unrelated question. The question on Zhihu asks people how they feels about a video on bilibili called "Who wrote journey to the west?", which doesn't seem specifically about the game. The commentor on Zhihu seems to be someone who doesn't like the story of "Journey to the West", not specifically the game.
For the last debate, I played a youtube stream on a hextube channel that I set up. https://live.hexbear.net/c/news
The debate will likely be streamed on youtube by CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. It can just be pasted into hextube.
Service workers who are payed a wage by a capitalist are proletarian. Service work is productive labor. The capitalist is extracting value from their labor.
Whether a barista is proletarian is entirely situational. Some baristas are proletarian. If a barista works for starbucks for example, then they are proletarian. If a barista works for themself and owns the coffee shop, then they are artisan, small business owner, petite bourgeoisie, middle class, etc. Baristas do not inherently fall into a specific economic class. If you ask, "Is a barista working class?", if they work for a capitalist, then yes, if they work for themselves, then no. The discussion is pointless because it could be either. Some baristas are working class, some baristas are not working class.
Cops are not service workers. Being a cop is not a service. Cops do not produce any service or commodity. Cops are never working class.
Did you seriously compare cops to baristas? Baristas make coffee. Police make nothing. Baristas serve coffee. Police use violence to enforce the will of the capitalist class. Some baristas work for a capitalist and some baristas are artisans who own their own coffee show, they could either be a worker or a small business owner. Police serve the interests of the bourgeois state. Stop going on twitter. Stop doing twitter discourse. Stop posting twitter discourse on hexbear.
The Marx quote is not a direct comparison because police as we know them today did not exist during the time of Marx's life. However the passage matches the characteristics of police as we know them today.
Managers and supervisors are often considered to be petite bourgeoisie depending on the amount of authority that they have in a company. Cops are part of the state and the state acts in the interests of the capitalist class.
The Engels quote you posted is saying that the working class of pre-capitalist economies were not proletarian, because the proletariat is specifically the working class of the capitalist economy. The working class that the Engels quote is referring to is slaves and peasants of past economies, ie slave society and feudalism. Slaves and peasants still had productive capacity but did not receive a wage for their productive capacity. The defining characteristic of the working class is still productive capacity. The additional characteristic of the proletariat is receiving a wage for the production. Cops do not produce. Cops receive a wage but not produce. Cops are not working class.
What you are saying is absolutely liberalism. If you don't understand why cops are not working class, then you don't understand class conflict and if you don't understand class conflict, then you are not a leftist.
Class is a person's relationship to labor and the means of production. The defining characteristic of being working class is doing productive labor while not owning the means of production. A working class person uses their labor to create commodities or services which they do not own.
Cops do not do productive labor. Cops do not produce anything. Cops are not exploited by the bourgeoisie. Cops are guard labor and guard labor is worthless.
Here is an excerpt from chapter 13 of Marx's Capital.
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus-value, [14] and consequently to exploit labour-power to the greatest possible extent. As the number of the co-operating labourers increases, so too does their resistance to the domination of capital, and with it, the necessity for capital to overcome this resistance by counterpressure. The control exercised by the capitalist is not only a special function, due to the nature of the social labour-process, and peculiar to that process, but it is, at the same time, a function of the exploitation of a social labour-process, and is consequently rooted in the unavoidable antagonism between the exploiter and the living and labouring raw material he exploits.
Again, in proportion to the increasing mass of the means of production, now no longer the property of the labourer, but of the capitalist, the necessity increases for some effective control over the proper application of those means. [15] Moreover, the co-operation of wage labourers is entirely brought about by the capital that employs them. Their union into one single productive body and the establishment of a connexion between their individual functions, are matters foreign and external to them, are not their own act, but the act of the capital that brings and keeps them together. Hence the connexion existing between their various labours appears to them, ideally, in the shape of a preconceived plan of the capitalist, and practically in the shape of the authority of the same capitalist, in the shape of the powerful will of another, who subjects their activity to his aims. If, then, the control of the capitalist is in substance two-fold by reason of the two-fold nature of the process of production itself, which, on the one hand, is a social process for producing use-values, on the other, a process for creating surplus-value in form that control is despotic. As co-operation extends its scale, this despotism takes forms peculiar to itself. Just as at first the capitalist is relieved from actual labour so soon as his capital has reached that minimum amount with which capitalist production, as such, begins, so now, he hands over the work of direct and constant supervision of the individual workmen, and groups of workmen, to a special kind of wage-labourer. An industrial army of workmen, under the command of a capitalist, requires, like a real army, officers (managers), and sergeants (foremen, overlookers), who, while the work is being done, command in the name of the capitalist. The work of supervision becomes their established and exclusive function. When comparing the mode of production of isolated peasants and artisans with production by slave-labour, the political economist counts this labour of superintendence among the faux frais of production. [16] But, when considering the capitalist mode of production, he, on the contrary, treats the work of control made necessary by the co-operative character of the labour-process as identical with the different work of control, necessitated by the capitalist character of that process and the antagonism of interests between capitalist and labourer.
This excerpt tells us that the exploitation of productive labor on a large scale requires a "real army" to prevent workers from taking control due to the opposing interests between the capitalist and laborer. The excerpt tells us that this is a "special kind" of wage-labourer ie not a productive labourer, not working class. The excerpt tells use that this kind of laborer is "faux frais of production", meaning that this person does not add value to production. The excerpt tells us that the role is the person is to control the antagonism of interests between the capitalist and working class.
The class interest of police is aligned with the capitalist class interests. The class interest of the police is prevent the working class from gaining power. The police of the capitalist state exist to prevent socialism from happening.
There is importance in understanding that cops are not working class because when you organize working class people, you have to be aware that the police will be working against you 100% of the time. It's not a "moral reasoning". It is materialist analysis.
Part of gaining class consciousness is recognizing that your own productive capacity is being exploited. The capitalist takes value from what you create and gives you less than the value you generated. Cops do have productive capacity and are not exploited. Cops are part of the exploitation process.
I went to the repo manager and added a bunch of repos until I saw more up to date versions of VLC and other programs in the package manager, then used AntiX Updater again and said yes to the over 1,200 updates.
Debian tells us that you should never add repositories to a Debian distro. It's the first rule on the Don't Break Debian page. "don't make a franken-debian" https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
Third party repositories could have malware or be compiled incorrectly for your system.
Also 1200 package updates means that probably every package on your OS was replaced. Your computer reenacted the Ship of Theseus. There's probably no AntiX left in your system.
World of Warcraft did the same thing 2 years ago. Chuds acted outraged for a short period but then they just kept playing the game.
He obviously said a lot more stuff during this period. He was arguing against Kamala supporters in his chat and saying that Democrats move further right ever political cycle. He also said some stuff like that America is in a state of collapse. I was going to type it out but then I realized that you could just go watch it for yourself.
He has also been covering Gaza every day since October 7 and even many years before. I watched his coverage of Palestine during the Trump presidency.
Your other comment in the thread you say that you would do things better and in this comment you posture that you have better analysis. Why are you inserting yourself into the situation? Why are you making this about yourself? That's so narcissistic.
Hasan attended the DNC as a news reporter, not as a supporter of the Democratic Party. Left leaning news outlets such as Democracy Now (Amy Goodman) and Drop Site News (Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill) were also at the DNC. Even right wing outlets like Fox News and Newsmax were at the DNC. Even cranks like Charlie Kirk and Mike Lindell were allowed into the DNC.
Hasan also interviewed the representatives of the Uncommitted Movement outside of the DNC on the same day as being kicked out and marched with the Pro-Palestinian protests 2 days before.
He was critical of Kamala the entire 3 days that he was at the DNC. There were many people who asked him if he would support Kamala and he told them that he was waiting for her to show a change in the US policy towards Israel/Gaza before he was willing to show any support for her campaign. I think he might have told people to support Kamala if she had stopped weapon shipments to Israel and forced Israel to do an actual ceasefire. He also has said that he wanted her to have a different border policy than Biden. Kamala's border policy is very bad.
Hasan was being interviewed by a journalist from the New York Times when he was kicked out. The DNC had given him a private room to stream. Around this same time, Hasan tweeted that the DNC was doing hasbara. Some person walked in and said they were revoking his access to the room and they did not offer him any other similar space to stream. He canceled the interview with Shawn Fain of the UAW and went back to his hotel room.
At his hotel room, after being kicked out from the DNC, he reacted to Kamala's speech and said that he now believes there is no chance Kamala will change her policy towards Israel/Gaza. A few reasons cited were that the DNC did not allow any Palestinians to speak, Kamala said she wanted America to have the most lethal military in the world in her speech, and because they kicked him out for criticizing Israel.
full event video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnnKXuYcDU0
The event had celebrity guests such as Mark Hamill, Josh Groban, Bradley Whitford, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sean Astin, Paul Scheer, Jeff Bridges, J.J. Abrams, maybe more
Politicians who participated were Pete Buttigieg, Roy Cooper, JB Pritzer, and Tim Walz.
They had a twitter account but it is mysteriously banned.
Participants in Celebrations of 71st Anniversary of War Victory Arrive Here
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- The revolutionary will and indomitable fighting spirit of all the people are growing stronger to glorify forever the immortal fame and ever-victorious tradition of heroic Korea under the guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee along with July of victory. Celebrations for the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War will be held with splendor in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK.
The celebrations will demonstrate before the world once again the dignity and prestige of the great state and the great people who are writing a heroic record of the victor nation from year to year, paying high tribute to the defenders of the country in the 1950s who created the myth of miraculous victory. Invited to the celebrations were war veterans and persons of wartime merits and officials and labor innovators in the field of munitions industry across the country.
The participants in the celebrations for the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War left from relevant areas, blessed by the whole country amid the special interests and warm benevolence of the Party which has put forward the brave fighters of the Fatherland Liberation War who created models of the noble life and struggle to be respected and followed by the posterity, and the workers in the field of munitions industry who devoted themselves to bolstering up the national defence capabilities and contributed to demonstrating the dignity and mightiness of our state, and arrived here on Thursday.
Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea warmly greeted the participants in the celebrations.
Citizens extended warm congratulations and greetings to the participants, the masters of the great V-Day celebrations, in token of respect for them, in streets of the capital city. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.7.26.)
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/c6db8cdad82d2dbfc92818586a4b3af2.kcmsf
Evening Gala of Youth and Students Held
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- The great joy of the victors celebrating the significant V-Day with splendor and the great excitement of the successors who are full of pride of being descendants of the victorious wartime generation led to the cheerful dances and wonderful fireworks.
Youth and students in the capital city of the DPRK gathered at Kim Il Sung Square on Friday with the mettle of the patriotic youth taking the lead in opening up a broad avenue toward comprehensive development and prosperity of Korean-style socialism while ensuring the continuity of the brilliant history of victory of Juche Korea under the guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea Central Committee.
Amid the playing of the song "July 27, Our Victory Day", the dancing party began along with numbers "7.27" projected onto the square floor and changing formations of dancing groups around the grand sculpture "Victory."
The participants danced in boundless reverence for President Kim Il Sung who brought about a miraculous victory to be eternally etched by mobilizing all the civilians and service personnel to the decisive battle for beating back the aggressors and death-defyingly defending the inviolable land of the country.
Fantastic fireworks were let off to gorgeously decorate the night sky of celebration.
The spectacular fireworks, reminiscent of the ones set off on the war victory day 70-odd years ago to reflect the prestige of the heroic country and people in the East, were displayed in the sky above the square like confetti for celebrating the immortal feats of the victorious wartime generation.
The cheerful dance and colorful fireworks revved up the festive mood.
The night gala, filled with ardent enthusiasm and revolutionary optimism of the patriotic youth, fully demonstrated the revolutionary spirit of the young successors to perform miracles and feats at every worksite of national prosperity for implementing the decisions of the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee, remaining single-mindedly loyal to the idea and intention of the respected fatherly Marshal Kim Jong Un. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.7.27.)
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/3a76722dc5bbfb4058880bfc4681c285.kcmsf
Reception Given to Mark 71st Anniversary of Victory in Fatherland Liberation War
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -- A reception was given at the Mokran House, the People's Palace of Culture, Okryu Restaurant and Chongryu Restaurant on Friday to celebrate the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.
Present there on invitation were war veterans and persons of wartime merit attending the celebrations.
Senior Party and government officials, including Kim Tok Hun and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and leading officials of the armed forces organs, were on hand.
Congratulatory speeches were made at the reception.
The speakers warmly congratulated the participants in the Fatherland Liberation War on the day of auspicious event of all the people, the glorious holiday of victory of the DPRK, saying that we have recorded the 71st V-Day the great victorious wartime generation provided for the times and history by devoting their all precious things.
The noble mental world and the revolutionary life of the war veterans serves as a model for the descendants and nutrition for their growth, they said, adding that the indomitable spirit and fortitude of the victorious wartime generation gave birth to the great spirit and disposition and opened up the road of prosperity.
Saying that every age and every generation of our country is characterized with the name of victory and our national name and flag are brilliantly shining as the symbol of miraculous heroism and the banner of anti-imperialist struggle, they stressed our Party and people always remember that this proud history is associated with the precious sacrifice, blood and sweat of the generation of war veterans.
The speakers said that the rising generations would continue to win only victories in the grand creation struggle for the national sovereignty and prosperity and surely attain the goal of a powerful country with the indomitable revolutionary spirit, mission of defenders and the undaunted fighting stamina bequeathed by the brave wartime fighters, hoping that the war veterans would spend their days in high honor and happiness under the respects and warm care of all the people, along with the vigorous advance of the country.
The participants in the reception toasted to the good health of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, to the eternal prosperity of the DPRK desired by the revolutionary forerunners and to the health of the victorious wartime generation. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.7.27.)
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/4999d6131810e3058d7cb5b386bc2113.kcmsf
“Our unions are hearing the cries of humanity as this vicious war continues,” said Mark Dimondstein, the president of the postal workers’ union, in a statement. “Working people and our unions are horrified that our tax dollars are financing this ongoing tragedy. We need a cease-fire now, and the best way to secure that is to shut off U.S. military aid to Israel.”
https://xcancel.com/msainat1/status/1815763445159010373#m
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/us/politics/union-biden-letter-israel-gaza.html
https://archive.is/TaaGP (mirror of nyt)
https://xcancel.com/KamalaHarris/status/1815122383415529963
Potentially recognizing that there is going to be a contest. The Democratic candidate has to be chosen by the DNC in August.
Other photos
Another related article from DPRK
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/3eca1a97382b681962d68fdc025cf89a.kcmsf