420 Gank Mid posted:

Cops have been legally murdering people every day

Jose posted:

That's lots of different cops. I guess I don't see what he's doing for them

business hammocks posted:

He seems to only go to small-time events without possibility of violence. In Boston where he took credit for organizing a rally with like 70 people, there were at least 200 police officers protecting them.

Jose posted:

I don't understand how he can be allowed to assault people repeatedly even as a fed

Terrorist Fistbump posted:

So when Operation Barbarossa kicked off, most army units were underequipped with somewhat outdated equipment, and there was little ability to replace losses quickly or start production of cutting-edge weapons. Properly supplying the army was touch-and-go up until the armaments miracle and the start of the defensive part of the war. The Nazis knew this (to some degree, who really knew what is a big mystery because of the structure of the Nazi economy) but went ahead anyway, telling themselves at every step that it didn't matter and things would go their way because they were the most excellent Volk in human history. There's a series of four books by David Stahel about the war in the Soviet Union in 1941 that shows in detail how this delusion carried over into the operational aspects of the war. They make a good companion to Wages if you're into that kind of thing.

Jose posted:

I don't understand how he can be allowed to assault people repeatedly even as a fed

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i've inched more toward the marxist view of fascism, where i used to have a more liberal view.

by that i mean a liberal school of thought about what fascism is; as like an independent ideology unto itself, where the marxist view (or at least vulgar marxist view) is that it's the bourgeoisie going full terminator 2: judgement day as a response to crisis.

there's a very thick book about nazi economics i've been meaning to read called "the wages of destruction," that apparently goes into some of this. you'll see nazis on the internet try to lure leftists to their side by saying that fascism is the real socialism. well, in this book, apparently it goes into how capitalist the fascist regimes really were. the term "privatization" was first used in english to refer to nazi economic policies. they went nuts with privatizing what were formerly state-owned industries. the rate of return on capital under hitler was higher than in the united states under FDR. and this shouldn't come as a shock but the nazis had a lot of problems trying to shift to a centrally-planned war economy.

The crimes of IG Farben posted:

At I.G. Auschwitz, the S.S. guaranteed the company access to 10,000 slave laborers under Nazi control. At first this seemed to satisfy the I.G. management. "Our new friendship with the S.S. is proving very profitable," Ambros informed Fritz ter Meer. Relations soon deteriorated between I.G. and the S.S., however, leading I.G. executives to claim--ludicrously since they were using slave labor--that the Nazi masters of Auschwitz didn't understand "the working methods of ... free enterprise."

If the I.G. Farben notion of "free enterprise" was to succeed, they would need to build their own concentration camp. "In July 1942," wrote Justice Department official and I.G. Farben prosecutor Joseph Borkin, "the I.G. managing board voted to solve its Auschwitz labor problems by establishing its own concentration camp." Though owned and operated by I.G. Farben, the new camp, Monowitz, would be run on Nazi forced-labor principles: "All the inmates must be fed, sheltered and treated in such a way as to exploit them to the highest possible extent, at the lowest conceivable degree of expenditure."

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/922190438311739392/photo/1

Data Graham posted:

Gotta be honest, if you’d told me in 2000 that SA would not eventually be counted among those ranks I’d never have believed you

Relevant Tangent posted:

LF saved us from ourselves. The people who were hard libertarian got weeded out by Paul toxxes.

Relevant Tangent posted:

LF saved us from ourselves. The people who were hard libertarian got weeded out by Paul toxxes.

420 Gank Mid posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

Relevant Tangent posted:

LF saved us from ourselves. The people who were hard libertarian got weeded out by Paul toxxes.

Bullfrog posted:

I would be surprised as gently caress if he wasn't a fed. My question is, when will we see any arrests / consequences from the info he's (probably) providing to the feds? If any?

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i would also note that kyle's lengthiest prison term came in 2009 after he (already a convicted felon) sold weapons to a BATF informant. then he went on the lam for awhile until surrendering to the feds, and went to prison. he got out in 2014 under supervised probation. two months after that ended, he showed up in berkeley in full based stickman gear, and then got arrested later on multiple felony counts but is still out there doing his based thang.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/meet-the-based-stickman-173908

business hammocks posted:

You think the feds just pressured him into being an inside man from the beginning by having him try his best to become a meme?

Terrorist Fistbump posted:

Nice post. The Wages of Destruction is also real good for showing how loving delusional the Nazis actually were about their ability to wage war.

One of the most mind-blowing takeaways from the book is that Germany was behind its enemies economically for the whole war by a huuuuuuuuge margin. The economic recovery under Hitler was almost entirely due to huge investment in infrastructure and basic materials production (steel, chemicals, electricity etc.) and not the production of finished war materials. The Nazis barely had the productive capacity to equip the Wehrmacht that invaded Poland, and in order to sustain the force they had, let alone expand it to take on the Soviet Union, they would need to continue to invest aggressively in actual arms factories. But economic reality caught up with them, and they actually temporarily reduced their capacity to produce basic supplies like ammunition in 1940 to make up for a shortfall in weapons production. Even this extreme measure was not enough to create adequate production. There just wasn't enough available capital to invest or enough productive capacity to shift around through brute force without causing the civilian economy to implode. This explains why German tank production was such a shitshow and why fewer than half a million assault rifles were built between 1943 and 1945: little thought was given to implementing efficient mass-production techniques, and there wasn't enough available capital to make it happen anyway. Big, efficient factories are really expensive.

So when Operation Barbarossa kicked off, most army units were underequipped with somewhat outdated equipment, and there was little ability to replace losses quickly or start production of cutting-edge weapons. Properly supplying the army was touch-and-go up until the armaments miracle and the start of the defensive part of the war. The Nazis knew this (to some degree, who really knew what is a big mystery because of the structure of the Nazi economy) but went ahead anyway, telling themselves at every step that it didn't matter and things would go their way because they were the most excellent Volk in human history. There's a series of four books by David Stahel about the war in the Soviet Union in 1941 that shows in detail how this delusion carried over into the operational aspects of the war. They make a good companion to Wages if you're into that kind of thing.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

GoluboiOgon posted:

Fascism is just capitalism carried to it's logical conclusion. Note that IG Farben made not only synthetic rubber and oil, but also Zyklon B and nerve gas.

Ague Proof posted:

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/929508444318482432
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/476112846330159104

Captain_Maclaine posted:

Since we're on a book kick, I suppose I should mention Industry and Ideology: IG Farben in the Nazi Era. It's an all-encompassing history of the company and its relationship with the Nazi government, and also an appallingly dense read even by the standards of economic history, which is why I mention it, rather than recommend it.

quote:

3,000 German nationals were employed at Hochwerk, all equipped with respirators and clothing constructed of a poly-layered rubber/cloth/rubber sandwich that was destroyed after the tenth wearing. Despite all precautions, there were over 300 accidents before production even began and at least ten workers died during the two and a half years of operation. Some incidents cited in A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret History of Chemical and Biological Warfare are as follows:

Four pipe fitters had liquid tabun drain onto them and died before their rubber suits could be removed.
A worker had two liters of tabun pour down the neck of his rubber suit. He died within two minutes.
Seven workers were hit in the face with a stream of tabun of such force that the liquid was forced behind their respirators. Only two survived despite resuscitation measures.

Bullfrog posted:

I would be surprised as gently caress if he wasn't a fed. My question is, when will we see any arrests / consequences from the info he's (probably) providing to the feds? If any?

Visidan posted:

valve won't even hire someone to screen a game before its put on their store, you can put any old trash with stolen assets/copyrighted material on it if you have $100. in 2017 i think they're at 6000 games already



there's so much trash every day that some indie devs are making way more money on consoles


good luck getting them to lift a finger (they'd have to hire one) to ban nazis

Dreddout posted:

Steam's decent into being XBLA xbox indie games is loving hilarious

Sir Tonk posted:

no way

how can one man be so stupid

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i've inched more toward the marxist view of fascism, where i used to have a more liberal view.

by that i mean a liberal school of thought about what fascism is; as like an independent ideology unto itself, where the marxist view (or at least vulgar marxist view) is that it's the bourgeoisie going full terminator 2: judgement day as a response to crisis.

there's a very thick book about nazi economics i've been meaning to read called "the wages of destruction," that apparently goes into some of this. you'll see nazis on the internet try to lure leftists to their side by saying that fascism is the real socialism. well, in this book, apparently it goes into how capitalist the fascist regimes really were. the term "privatization" was first used in english to refer to nazi economic policies. they went nuts with privatizing what were formerly state-owned industries. the rate of return on capital under hitler was higher than in the united states under FDR. and this shouldn't come as a shock but the nazis had a lot of problems trying to shift to a centrally-planned war economy.

William Dodd, U.S Ambassador to Germany posted:

A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. ... A prominent executive of one of the largest corporations, told me point blank that he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism into America if President Roosevelt continued his progressive policies. Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there. Propagandists for fascist groups try to dismiss the fascist scare. We should be aware of the symptoms. When industrialists ignore laws designed for social and economic progress they will seek recourse to a fascist state when the institutions of our government compel them to comply with the provisions.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

There's not gonna be another video game crash. Gaming is arguably bigger than movies at this point. What's gonna happen is that there's going to be a big crash in indie games, at least on the PC, because market saturation will make it impossible to make any headway unless you've already got a built-in fanbase or become a games media darling. That's a very limited frame for success. The market itself will become more thoroughly dominated by AA and AAA releases, and eventually gaming will be dominated by a handful of production conglomerates just like film, radio, and television are.

Tokamak posted:

Pretty sure he used to be a social justice type, but jumped ship to the alt-right when his good guy act didn't get him any attention from women. Notice that the old tweet is pre-gamergate.

Sir Tonk posted:

hold on, are you telling me this guy couldnt get laid?

Tokamak posted:

Pretty sure he used to be a social justice type, but jumped ship to the alt-right when his good guy act didn't get him any attention from women. Notice that the old tweet is pre-gamergate.

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

lot of good thread titles in this thread

https://twitter.com/ProGrowthArthur/status/942215859753193472

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

lot of good thread titles in this thread

https://twitter.com/ProGrowthArthur/status/942215859753193472