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For me... Prob coffee, chocolate, tea, and bananas.

I really enjoy expensive liquor and going to fancy restaurants, even better if I can have some expensive liquor at a fancy restaurant.

a really big turnip

cash is not exactly bourgeois

Nothing wrong with watching copaganda, but paper money is an unacceptable degree of bourgeois decadence. I only ever pay for shit with quarters and dimes. Anything higher than that is reactionary and liberal.

Video games. Like I'm sure in a communist utopia there would still be video games but I'd probably have less free time to game. Maybe not though. As a poor person in the first world I'm not sure where I sit on the scale of redistribution of wealth but I'm guessing its kinda middle of the pack.

I enjoy strategy games, and yes, that includes paradox titles (if you know, you know). Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis etc. I think they're well designed games, apart from the recent releases, but the fanbase and some of the ideological fantasy, it's... not great.

My partner works in the art industry so by default we have a lot of artsy friends and a lot of them live in these incredibly beautiful historical appartments in the middle of the city. We hang around there often and it is always a bit decadent. Classical music, champagne, nice clothes, etc. Through networking we (and they) also know a lot of people higher up. Politicians, business owners, whatever. We sometimes see them around and hang out with them.

Apart from that I also frequent hipster soy milk coffee bars and stuff.

I'm basically a huge hipster soyboy guy coming straight out of an Instagram influencer page except I'm a communist. I didn't grow up like this for what it's worth. So it always amazes me a world like this exists.

Nutella, stuff is basically imperialism destilled.

is studying and following geopolitics bourgeois? because i guess i am guilty

I live and breathe video games, and I like cop and superhero-related movies and series.

I also get how you feel about money.

I also prefer cash but its because I am ADHD and the number aren't real to me unless I can hold them and watch the stack lower

Energy drinks. Sugar free of course.

I don't see why paper money would be bourgeois. Sure, in a socialist society i see no issue doing away with physical cash, and in fact it can help suppress black market and criminal activity, which are undesirable as they re-create bourgeois mentality and carry seeds of capitalist restoration.

But as long as we live under capitalism and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, digital transactions are dangerous since they allow the bourgeois state to track you and your activities, making physical money actually a necessity for revolutionaries once the phase of active underground resistance is entered.

Context is everything, and imo in our context paper money is not necessarily bourgeois, and it has the potential to be revolutionary.

I like currency in general as a public art piece. We don't live up to the potential though.

You can argue that the most successful sculptor in history was Victor D. Brenner, who got his boring-ass profile of Lincoln reproduced several hundred billion times since 1909.

You're not the only one; there's someone whom i won't name (public-facing comrade who's involved in organizing against 👮, and for prison abolition) who admitted a few years back that they love all the police procedurals; like, all the most problematic ones, too lol which i, of course teased them about.

on that note, i was really into Southland (2009-2013) (despite hating police procedural dramas);
and while it doesn't necessarily fit into the same box, i was also hooked on The Wire, too.
Phenomenal show.
i watched it before i finally conceded that Marxist theory was important for everyone to study, and i think that it'd make an interesting re-watch and reassessment (despite the creator's politics) through a critical, Marxist lens.

that said, here's a relevant article:
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating ‘Copaganda’ By Alec Karakatsanis {July 20, 2022}

initially, i was compiling a lot of interesting material related to copaganda (entertainment) in bourgeois media, but i decided to cull it at the last second. maybe i'll try to take some time and do it properly one day; (i probably won't actually do it lol), but it'll be a fun project for me ~~if~~ when i do.

As far as media goes that you know is shit ideology, but you do it anyway, probably AC series for me. Now that I'm replaying some of it post-liberal-brain, it's glaringly obvious to me how much weird stuff is going on in it. Lot of "great man theory" and that's not even getting into the whole thing about

I thought it was much cooler when I was younger and was oohed and awed by the mystery of it. Now I see the superhero/supervillain themes much more distinctly, along with cartoon portrayal of class divides that are common to superhero themes. But the gameplay and the power fantasy of it is fun. Not enough to buy the newest one coming out though, screw that lol. Overpriced to hell and probably the same repetitive Ubisoft gameplay formula to a forgettable degree. I'll stick to enjoying what I already have.

Superhero movies, I like DC more than Marvel so I dislike MCU at least, otherwise yeah some cop movies.

And idk why would videogames be inherently bourgeois but that too if it counts.

Roblox, when I was young.

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