>>38396
It's pretty much this just being honest, but being even more brutally honest it is actually exactly that in every war ever. The only difference is that every great war tends to have a bunch of manipulative psychopathic piece of shit elders basically enforcing an outward explosion of controlled chaos using these men. Wars are themselves the expenditure of that useless, hopeless, alienated, angsty young male energy. Every single war is basically just some absolute twat cajoling a bunch of would be ISIS members and incel right wing terrorists into going and looting the countryside outside of their territories. They pump them up and give them meaning, massively inflate and massage their egos, and give them just enough of the barest structure to not actively go around doing nothing but getting drunk while burning down villages and raping the women.

I don't think it's entirely fair to say that ISIS is medieval even. I mean sure they are, but they are much more technical and modern. The type of society they wish to enforce is indeed a perversion of basically every man's native anarcho primitivist instincts, to sneer upon the modern world and hold up the great values of raising a family and doing nothing but wood working while also incidentally using hacked playstation parts to drive Ork impromptu armored vehicles and drop grenades from drones while utilizing modern propaganda techniques.

I do however think that the one thing which actually made ISIS unique was that regardless of its members being composed of basically unemployable incel hooligans that they did manage to be a genuine apocalyptic death cult and not necessarily a rational actor in the common sense of the term. To this day I am actually rather surprised on just how poorly our military and political and even intelligence leadership appreciated what they were dealing with and were woefully inadequate at understanding this group and its aims. I swear I couldve personally oversaw the operations against them in the beginning and done a much better job, but well that's what happens when your high command is composed of a bunch of lawyer businessmen and boomer carreerists.

Regardless I think it is easy to see and understand both the instincts of ISIS as well as its methodology, its technique, its tactics in recruiting and propagandizing. I think the one other thing people fail to comprehend is first of all it was deliberately provocative. They made those execution videos specifically because they were goading the Americans and Westerners into yet another invasion, and were frustrated by the lack of boots and the ground and constant dronings and air strikes. I think that again it wasnt a traditional rational actor but rather one genuinely driven by ideology, capable of being both fanatical as well as logical and analytical and that that is what made them so deadly and such a dangerous foe to deal with because they knew what they were doing.

I think lastly that it is an important yet routinely overlooked by our corporate media element the way they used those orange prisoner jumpsuits. That was completely understandable to me because of how clear and pointed a message it was: I'm going to hurt you the way that I do. I want you to see what you did to us, to my people, and I want you to hurt like I do. Those jumpsuits happened because of all the blacksites. Some of these men were tortured for months, years, in CIA monitored torture chambers and nightmares like Abu Ghraib. In that respect I cannot objectively blame them. They simply did not control the young men through anything but barbarian war booty including rape which is part of why they failed to materialize as a state in spite of actively promoting an alternative to all the things that even we Westerners hate.

I think that a large number of people are vulnerable to this in a modern society and I think that at least in America trumptards are indicative of that. It is all the same politics in essence and a failure to enfranchise large segments of the population who are now suspicious of, alienated, or outright in conflict with the global neoliberal establishment. The difference is whether you have slimy old men tricking them into enriching themselves, of the neoliberal establishment conning people into coming back into the fold while pretending to be an alternative like Trump did, or barbarians overtly attacking that establishment.

Regardless, I would say that the one thing ISIS was most indicative of was the broad global assault against the great neoliberal citadel and the sheer volume of humanity in all countries now actively opposing it and crying out for an alternative. I think it is a very good moment for us to engage in reflection of why that is.

I've decided to read a book during the weekend, and I picked Vladimir Voinovich's The Hat, a satire of Soviet society.

Yesterday I wanted to write a short biographical note on Attila József, but when I looked at the textbook, I realised it's 7-8 pages long and I decided to play Doom instead.
By the looks, he's a talentless hack who's been over-glorified by the commies.

There is one more hurdle before the matura exams, and that is the fact that a few years ago they introduced an extra requirement to even taking the exams.
Essentially, you need to do 50 hours of community service to even be able to sit down and take the exam. So I'm trying to get paperwork for this bullshit done too.
I'm pretty sure it was some Christian Democrat boomer's idea to introduce this requirement. Seriously: Fuck the ""Christian""-""Democratic"" ""People's"" ""Party"".
Nobody votes for them, but they still get government positions because they're in a coalition with Fidesz on paper, and they usually get the Ministry of Human Resources, which also includes education.

I'm making hamburgers for lunch.
Hopefully it turns out good. Never fucked it up, but there's always a chance.

>>38289
But the church itself isn't a person, it is an organization, moreover one that if you follow anything at all about what Jesus said puts feeding, clothing, housing and so on the poor and downtrodden at its highest mark on the to do list solely below replicating belief in itself. Going by that one could easily regard or organizer churches as large aid societies and sprawling international communes and cooperatives.

I'm guessing that part of what must've happened in Europe is that in addition to the clergy getting tied up into monarchist and feudal politics that they eventually began getting land deeds not organizationally but for individual members of the clergy, thus putting monks who really should've been more like professional medics and charity workers taking a vow of poverty into being even more useless and pompous versions of the aristocracy. That being the case it seems to me that church reform is what was always what was needed. I can also see how that would lead to the church itself becoming incredibly separated from the laity until finally reaching the point that it outwardly was jockeying for position as a pillar of the system itself because it had been bought out and coopted by nobles, and had in return spread the message of such nonsense as claiming loyalty to your "lord" was the same as loyalty to the LORD which come to think of it makes a lot of things about the wording of the KJV make sense. Speaking of which what's particularly difficult for me to imagine is how any of these peasants tolerated their king being such a murderous adulterer that he outright schismed from the Catholic Church solely to create a church that was okay with his adultery. I can never take Anglicans seriously and I strongly suspect that may be part of why England in general is such a starkly atheist country.

>the classless society which is the end goal of the communist revolution.

I dunno. Something always struck me about it as like the counterfeit version, like a godless version of Christianity that wanted the State to become god and for the politburo to become its prophets. Outwardly the two things seem very similar to me, at least way more so than right wing ideologies which are fundamentally egocentric in a different sense, or rather in the way you have the utterly bizarre spectacle of people like Paul Ryan supposedly being a deeply religious man but who made his congressional staffers or whoever read Ayn Rands trash in spite of the fact Ayn Rand hated religion generally and Christianity particularly at least as much as the worst Communist. This as opposed to Christianity which is centrally an internationalist ideology that had always pretty much hated the very concept of nation or of any sense of border or government existing other than the Kingdom of God.

>>38291
Just like any other organization, church can be corrupt as well, and just like in other organizations, for one decent person who genuinely cares about people and trying his best to help them there can be scores and scores of assholes who only in it for money and power. Also, despite claiming to be a non-political entity, churches were a part of politics from the very beginning, even in pre-Abrahamic times: think Egyptian priests who were a considerable political force, pretty much holding the rulers on a short leash. Judeo-Christianity is no exception, as the early Jewish priests had both legislative and tax-collecting (called "tithe") functions, which are normally associated with the state rather than the church nowadays. So, there you have it: despite ostensibly being a charity organization created with only good intentions, church also offers an opportunity to fill one's pockets, and that of course attracts a lot of people with flexible morals, who in turn the church into yet another mechanism of exploitation. This is also why I'm very skeptical about different non-religious charity organizations, especially here in Belarus, because it's extremely likely that the money they collect to help the orphans or world peace or whatever end up in bureaucrats' wallets and accounts.

Henry VIII may have been a piece of shit, but he definitely wasn't an idiot. He understood well that the church is a part of politics, so he just used it for his own ends. And peasants? Peasants were completely dependent on their landlords. So what could they do? Or rather, why should they do anything? Material needs always trump spiritual ones; after all, it doesn't matter much what confession you belong to when you're dead. There could be some trouble from more independent strata, like yeomen, but they too probably decided that they don't like the church enough to risk their well-being for it.

>godless version of Christianity that wanted the State to become god and for the politburo to become its prophets

Soviet flavor of socialism isn't exactly communism, you know. But yes, it's quite ironic that Marxism which supposedly aims to do away with ideologies altogether ended up turning into an ideology itself in the USSR, and quite a dogmatic one to boot. It wouldn't be as bad if the state didn't have a complete control over all spheres of life, but the Soviet ideology influenced not only economy and politics, but also arts and sciences, and not in a good way (cases in point: socrealism and lysenkoism).

>>38293
I'm never going to be able to see Soviet Realism in any way shape or form as anything but blatantly superior to the absolute piece of piss trash garbage that American and other modern Capitalist culture had produced, from Piss Christ, to canned tins of shit, to those fucking abomination sculptures of I think he's Brazilian and look like malformed drops of molten lead that somehow was perverted into being even more crass and tasteless, to bubblegum pop and most 80s music, to most of Warhol, to most of Marcel DuChamp, to just on and on up to and including whatever the fucking hell you call nuStar Wars and capeshit. This is all the more evident of our blatant inferiority in the realm of painting with SocRealist bullshit. Was it actually good? Well no maybe not, but compared to just about every single MoMA installation it sure as hell was.

Besides which what I've found so far is that a lot of Soviet artists, composers and so on were kept on a pretty loose leash by the Party. They all pretty much seemed to basically only have to be all yeah yeah and Marx Lenin blah blah whatever to get crap past the censors and get funding from the state apparatus. I also have long suspected that the USSR would've just chilled out had the roles been reversed and much of the Capitalist world collapsed by the mid 90s. We may not have had as many cool vidya games on the one hand, but I still have doubt that the USSR wouldn't be producing computer games anyway and besides which we probably just lost out on a lot of supremely awesome technical and scientific advances as a result.

But again, you have to keep in mind your audience here. I know you are dealing with the horrible realities of your shared cultural experience, but the sheer volume of pure shit I must put up with on a seemingly daily basis here and the absolutely superstitious and outright doctrinal anti intellectualism of my country are only among a few of the things that have left me so completely jaded it is hard not to see the places where the differences among us were admirable. It also isn't like we don't have the same stuff going on here constantly where pretty much the only reason things like pornography and videogames are even legal at this point for good or ill is because it's directly in our Constitution, and even then this country has a rich history of censorship official and otherwise anyway. Like right now the GOP leadership is trying to convince the Justice Department to make combating pornography its number one priority for one example. It seems to me that a lot of stuff in the USSR particularly the later period was pretty hands off.

Tbh as it was already metioned, don't remember if I posted it on EC. But my memory is blackhole so sorry if it is repeating. But storry happened like this - my old 775 PC was just in storage for year or so since I built new computer, I absoluetly tired of dealing with old one. But recently for friend (for whom I ordered Xeon CPU recently, and who have old 775 MSI board I metioned) I detached ddr3 2gb memory sticks for him, since I no any need for ddr3 or 2, my current motherboard is ddr4 only. And after it he said that one of mine memory sticks not work. And this was it - this was the cause of "death" of my old PC, probably together with power block. So I decided - if rest works, why not built a seconday PC. I bought ne SSD drive - cheap one, I don't need something huge and reliable, same as new power block - also cheap, since I not care about this old PC. I also had 2 1gb DDR3 sticks, which I used. My old Asus P5KC Motherboard was perfectly fine so now.. I have second late 00s computer connected to TV. I installed there things like Red Faction, Heroes 2 and King's Bounty the legend, to relax on bed with keyboard and mouse. Thanks that my old Philips 1280x768 tv already have HDMI connectors so it was not hard to connect PC to it.
For videocard I picked best from my collection you may see on other pic - GTX260 1GB, it's still works without issues and why not, I don't need much more from this second PC. old ~2005 case has no any help for cable mengment or easy placement, but it's almost fully full metal and after full wash and clean is like new.
My collection of videocards if anybody wonder about those:
ASUS NVidia GTX260 1gb
Sapphire RADEON HD 4850 gddr3 512mb (deda, my old videocard that RIP somewhere in 2015)
Leadtek WinFast PX6600 TD​ 256mb
ASUS Radeon A9600XT/TD 128mb

Btw I'm not that other Russian who ovarcloack stuff early in thread.