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ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· 1d

"the magic of science"

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· 16d

It's a purely zero-sum worldview of moral nihilism in which every sort of causal influence or application of physical force is the same, so you just have to ruthlessly fight for your team. And anyone who believes in the concept of freedom is a deluded naive fool.
Once you demonstrate that freedom is a tangible material thing -- the expanse of accessible states of a system and informed intentional choice in accessing them -- and that this can be increased or decreased *overall* there's no longer a zero-sum game and their shit collapses.

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· 19d

re @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social's interracial cuck porn theory of everything, the hindu right in india believe they are up against a muslim "love jihad" (from richard seymour's disaster nationalism):

This brings us back to the problem of sexual theodicy: of who is sexually evil, and who deserves pleasure. Nationalists have always killed to defend themselves against their sexual fantasies. For example, in 2020, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh passed the Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance. The target of the law was what its advocates claimed was a wave of ‘love jihad’ cases, in which sexually wicked Muslim men lured Hindu women into the camp of the enemy, feigning love in order to drive up the Muslim birth rate. This law had been won through decades of agitation by networks of grassroots vigilantes linked to the BJP, such as Bajrang Dal and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), who claimed that Muslims were using amulets and black magic to trick Hindu girls. To stop the ‘love jihad’, according to activists, it was necessary to destroy the submissive, secular, anglicised upper crust linked to the Indian National Congress and the ‘left’.9

The ‘love jihad’ is a popular cuck fantasy of the Hindu right, which is fascinated (as in ‘fascinum’, as in ‘fascism’) with the idea that Muslim male potency has illegitimately dominated India for 1,200 years. It draws directly from the visual idioms of fascism – Der Stürmer’s depictions of ‘Germania’ as a beautiful, blonde female in the clutches of an unattractive (yet sexually successful) Jew, or Hitler’s expostulations about ‘bow-legged Jewish bastards’ seducing German girls.

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· 25d

one of the nastier realities you have to come to terms with is that oppression is not edifying and that every demographic is susceptible to reaction and political neurosis

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· Jun 28

lonesco describing the intellectual climate in 20s Romania, that
served as inspiration for his play "Rhinoceros". | get echoes of
this whenever | think of the slanderous perception media,
politicians and "dissident intellectuals” have created about trans
people and refugees today
» University professors, students, intellectuals were turning Nazi,
becoming Iron Guards; one after the other. We were some fifteen
people who used to get together, to discuss, to try to find argu-
ments opposing theirs. It was not easy . . . From time to time,
one of the group would come out and say: “I don’t agree at all
with them, to be sure, but on certain points, nevertheless, I must
admit, for example the Jews ...” And that kind of comment
was a symptom. Three weeks later, that person would become a
Nazi. He was caught in the mechanism, he accepted everything,
he became a Rhinoceros. Toward the end, it was only three or
four of us who resisted."

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· Jun 24

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· Jun 17

julius streicher was hanged at nuremburg for publishing in der sturmer the same type of grisly snuff pornography ("jewish sex crimes") that elon musk now posts daily ("muslim rape gangs") hitler articulated the same lurid trope of the racial other as sexual predator in mein kampf:

The black-haired Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end, satanically glaring at and spying on the unsuspicious girl whom he plans to seduce, adulterating her blood and removing her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew uses every possible means to undermine the racial foundations of a subjugated people. In his systematic efforts to ruin girls and women he strives to break down the last barriers of discrimination between him and other peoples. The Jews were responsible for bringing Negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate. For as long as a people remain racially pure and are conscious of the treasure of their blood, they can never be overcome by the Jew. Never in this world can the Jew become master of any people except a bastardized people.
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 11: Race and People

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· Jun 16

and dont forget mr g nails matt yglesias and ezra klein just as eerily

Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has
been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of
those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known
him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain
Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Chestertonian
distributism, and everything else one can imagine. Mr. G will never be a
Nazi, because he will never be anything. His brain operates quite apart
from the rest of his apparatus. He will certainly be able, however, fully to
explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along. But Mr. G is
always a “deviationist.” When he played with communism he was a
Trotskyist; when he talked of Keynes it was to suggest improvement;
Chesterton’s economic ideas were all right but he was too bound to
Catholic philosophy. So we may be sure that Mr. G would be a Nazi with
purse-lipped qualifications. He would certainly be purged.

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· Jun 5

Why This Combination Is Particularly Potent

What makes this propaganda format so insidious is the layering: it begins with real footage (lending false credibility), exploits genuine human responses to violence (bypassing critical filters), uses the architecture of social media (algorithmic amplification, shareability, community reinforcement), and delivers an ideological payload that feels like a personal discovery rather than a received message. Countering it requires not just fact-checking but media literacy education that addresses the entire emotional and cognitive stack — because the argument is not primarily propositional; it is visceral, tribal, and affective.

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· May 28

I've been beating the drum for going on two decades that neuroscience obliges us to more radically ground and reformulate anarchism to shed off old liberal assumptions of all moral subjects being discrete cartesian individuals. Moving from "rights" talk to agency/choice talk.

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· May 16

Yeah, it's not just a matter of being incentivized to *lie* -- even angels have issues turning human language into accurate *weighting*.

*How much* do you need widgets? How would you consistently tradeoff that need against another need for doodads?

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· May 13

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· May 10

This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, “the combination of different forms of belief or practice”; such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a silver of wisdom, and whenever they seem to say different or incompatible things it is only because all are alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· May 8

A.R. Moxon
@JuliusGoat

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.

It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

ben chambers 🏴@benjaminchambers· May 7

every police & prison abolitionist should read randall collins's violence on the causes & contexts of violent behavior violence, ie physical, face-to-face harm, is precipitated by situational & interactive variables which overcome, bypass, or break through *confrontational tension* (technical term)