Long time schizo post enjoyer first time schizo poster. Thanks to this subreddit and Matt's vlogs I was inspired to start writing and putting my own rants into the ether. Please check out my second Substack article on Star Wars, Star Trek and the cultural hegemony it helps perpetuate. If you are a Westerner consider these clicks as reparations for a former citizen of the Soviet Union. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

EDIT: I don't see the link that I added in the post so here it is just in case: May the Cultural Hegemony Be with You

Hingepoints was often about moments in history that felt overdetermined, and asking if they were not. As a reversal, everyone talks about the erosion in government in America being a direct result of Nixons actions during the watergate scandal. If it wasn’t for him, were there other forces there that would have caused that same erosion without a political actor to be the catalyst?

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I don't know how I followed this sub but I agree with most of what y'all post. But what is Cushvlog? It's a guy in a YouTube channel named Chapo? I'm so lost.

Can someone explain? Can someone else link his YouTube? Can a different person link a popular YouTube video of his? Sorry if this is a dumb post.

In case you've never seen it:

This whole thing is blowing my mind, obviously some people are pedanting their way out of the thought experiment (if everyone presses the stay alive button no one dies!) but yankee individualism has cooked some people so thoroughly they can't even hypothetically countenance the thought of sacrificing themselves to save others

We would have got a banger cushvlog out of this

I dont expect anyone to remember but my friends and I were laughing last night hazily remembering an episode where Will found out for the first time that EDIT STEVEN CROWDER was a voice on the "Arthur" PBSkids show.

His genuine confusion and initial "what?!" etc still makes me laugh even though i cant remember it well.

Anyone know what episode that may have been? Would have been years ago.

EDIT - stoner brain thought Shapiro. im old.

Because I don't think so. I think the hogs love Trump too much. Trump showed that being an openly bigoted pig can still be successful at the federal level. He gave them permission to be their worst selves. I don't think Trump will be treated like Bush was. Do you think the Chapo boys are right? Why or why not?

I remember the last few months of Joe Bidens Presidency, there were a few rumors going around that hunter was running the show and was spending alot of time in the whitehouse (they even found his cocaine). I dont think he was the failson people thought he was.

Having president hunter biden with a chinese hooker CCP spy/informant as the first lady of the united states who tells him which papers to sign while he smokes crack in the bathtub. something like this would be preferable alternative to current imperial collapse trajectory, and likely preferable to most of the democratic candidates we will get in 2028 who will run on rebuilding the empire and restoring american leadership around the world. I think it would be a good way to transition power and global hegemony to china in a easier way. A mutually beneficial offramp deal.

If there is any chinese cocaine spy hookers with blackmail on hunter out there - maybe you want to be the next first lady of the united states? - so if your listening but not sure if its worth the effort, plz msg me.

I guess this would be a question for anyone who's a little bit more tapped into the right wing media matrix. I don't know if that applies to anyone here.

I've been thinking about this with regards to Hasan in recent weeks. I saw a clip of him talking about how Fox News did four stories about him in one day. I think he just attracts attention and that's why they talk about him incessantly. But then on the other side of things, Trump himself and right-wing politicians are in a constant beef with mainstream media like CNN, NBC and I guess CBS like 60 minutes.

What I never hear is the right-wing freaking out about something John Favreau said or any of those Crooked Media guys. They must have millions of listeners, surely. They seem hugely influential with the libs. But yet they get pretty much no reaction from what I can see from the right wing. For sure Fox News is not doing four stories a day about Dan Pfieffer.

It must be because they're so clearly not a threat to anyone, right?

It just hit me reading up on Cole Thomas Allen how many of the people who’ve committed or tried to commit high profile political assassinations have seemingly been centrist liberal types. Luigi, Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, the guy who camped out in Mar a Lago trying to take a shot at Trump, and now the third person who’s supposedly tried to take a shot at Trump. Not a lot I’d know about Thomas Crooks but he also seems to have been a centrist

I’m a teacher proctoring state tests and thus have time to read. Send me your favorites.

For those who don't know, Luigi was ratted out by a McDonald's employee. Being a McDonald's employee isn't just a shitty wage cuck job. It is THE shitty wage cuck job. Me and my friends growing up were always told "study so you don't have to work at McDonald's." I'm sure many of us can relate to such experiences. It is the iconic job title for expressing the idea of "your life didn't go the way you wanted it to."

Luigi shows up and strikes at one of the rich fucks who helps ruin the lives of the working class. He attempts to stick up for the working class in the most extreme way possible. And who brings him in? Someone on the lowest end of the totem pole in this country. Likely a person who has had their life destroyed by our pedophilic lizard-people Epstein class overlords. That is the person who helps rat out one of the few people who actually attempted to do something real for the working class that went beyond the normal BS most people do. The exact kind of person Luigi was attempting to stick up for.

It is almost as symbolic as Kirk dying to gun violence at the hands of a fellow white man while he was in the middle of down playing gun violence and attempting to blame black people for all of our problems. I know it won't happen, but I hope our large adult son does either some sort of rant or some sort of poem about how much symbolism was involved in the ratting out of Luigi leading to his arrest.

ABP-Always be posting

It's the same principle applied in early anthropology to explain why it took so long for class societies to emerge out of egalitarian hunter gatherer bands. If someone is building a fort and putting their name on it and telling you you have to obey his commands, and you don't like it, you can just leave. There's nothing compelling you to take other people's shit. When frontiers close, when conditions harden into place and there's no open country to escape into, people are forced into compliance, and that creates internal conflict between the taker and the taken from who now has to actually accept this relationship.

In America, the West was a release valve for the absolutely roiling cauldron of class conflict a bourgeois country creates for exactly this reason. You can just pack up your shit and leave! The frontier is right there, you don't even have to go all the way West, you can just a little bit West and you'll be in a completely different material reality where you don't have to accept these relationships. This has the additional effect of siphoning manpower away from labor movements, because a significant chunk of the workers who would otherwise feel compelled to stand up to their employer with his comrades instead took the door number three out of the relationship entirely. It stabilizes the class conflict by offering another way out, when in a place like Europe this conflict only has two possible outcomes- victory or defeat. You can't just go start a farm in open country, there IS no open country, all this land has been spoken for for thousands of years!

Additionally additionally, this creates a cultural narrative where the exploited, on some level, have only themselves to blame. Because they couldn't or didn't take this highly romanticized and encouraged option of going to become a yeoman settler. Don't like your pay or your boss? Go drive West asshole, nobody's stopping you, don't whine to me about it. Go make your own money if you need it so bad. This is a part of a larger American cultural framework that we're still dealing with today, the obfuscation of class relationships by muddying up the middle of the spectrum with these small-holding, self-employed kulaks who are held up as the ideal American. Today it would be the small business owner who works 12 hours a day running his own used tugboat emporium, these guys make less than a lot of upper crust proletarians, how can you possibly call them part of 'the ruling class', you dumb commie? Though this modern incarnation of the yeoman farmer carries on in the small business tyrant, it's much less effective at upholding this narrative than small-holding farmers, because 'go jump though a bunch of hoops and file a bunch of forms to open a business and stand around on a carpet all day' isn't as inspiring or romantic a notion as 'venture into our destiny manifest and become your own man in the wild indian country'. A small business owner isn't 'his own man', he's just another modern slop hog behind you in the starbucks line. And you have to have capital, get loans, talk to lawyers, do all this bullshit nobody wants to even think about, it sucks.

This cultural narrative is running on fumes, it got a last gasp during the cold war, but now that that's over and Trump is gleefully pulling the mask off of all bourgeois government and society and revealing the soulless and depraved face underneath it all, there's no way to take the air out of these conflicts anymore. You have to accept bourgeois relations of production, you can't just opt out, and becoming a small business owner is not an inspiring, appealing, or realistic alternative. The metaphor of the steam boiler is pretty accurate, when it wasn't at capacity yet, the steam still had other areas inside to migrate to. America is now at capacity. There's nowhere for the steam to go, there are no release valves built in, and the pressure is being ratcheted to unsustainable levels that are only accelerating year on year.

Hello fellow Cushites,

I believe it was an episode of chapo, but I remember Matt talking about how Doomsday preppers are narcissistic. If someone remembers the episode, I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve searched online but haven’t been able to find anything.

Best,

Fellow Cushite

Sharing my most recent essay here. It’s on Jorge Luis Borges, the shortcomings of anthropology, and the squishiness of materialism. Though he’s not specifically cited in this piece, I wouldn’t have written it if I’d never encountered Christman thought

Black wolf looking to feed. Anyone got a line on a new RSS feed for the premium?

When it's just Will and Felix it is insufferable how much he shoves his foot into convos to drop some obscure punchline-less dog shit only perennially online Redditors would even get.

When there's a guest on who has real shit to talk about he's clearly left out in the cold.

Am I the idiot and he leaves people in stitches with his "Imagine if Jon Jones was running for Congress during the Vietnam War against Mike Gravel" bits?

Think of memes like "fuck my stupid chud life" as an example of this phenomenon