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is there anything gayer than heterosexual marriage men swearing a lifelong commitment to polluting their precious bodily fluids at the very fountainhead of estrogen incredible faggotry |
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Imagine being stuck in one of the gayest threads on the whole Internet. With Big. |
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sorry about jim rip in power |
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's reading on the trump/vance and zelensky stuff |
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not true breadtube, more like ragebait, but i thought it was fun for what it was. i kind of know how conservatives, or rather maga's, think, so i'm not too surprised or anything. Sam is being pretty educational, also to me. like, i didn't really know what DEI *really* is. i also watched a bit of with Destiny (a.k.a. Sex Pestiny), it was more entertaining because it has more horrible people (including destiny) |
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(Sam Seder i suspect is a somewhat of a social democrat: not full socialist) |
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on the advert for this which is a reaction to , by Sam Ceder/Majority Report. i'm waiting for the reaction by Sam to the whole thing |
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pretty well informed and in depth video by Benn Jordan |
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did you watch it? is it one of those "we used to have good capitalism but now it is bad" dealies? Regardless, epic should watch it immediately, as he loves benn jordan |
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he says the 40s 50s and 60s in the US were actually like communism, because of the high tax rates. that's not technically true, but in the context of where we're now it makes some sense. he really did study this stuff deeply, like, not just for a video. of course it's influenced in parts by someone's ideological background. a lot of stuff is touched on, because it goes over 100 years of US economic history, he gives an interesting look at the current gig economy as well. (i can't with the dumb xlt takes, though epic is kind of entertaining in general) |
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the xlt dumb takes in the case of benn jordan just people being pretty clearly jealous |
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Has anyone got a video of Bono explaining the Quantum Mechanics? |
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the communism part is stuff like food rations: stuff being centralized. which is centralization, more than communism/socialism. the point being made is that GDP went through the roof with the high taxes |
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he made shorts against Tesla and some other companies |
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people just be calling anything communism now, the new liberal leader in Canada is a banker and they're calling him a communist. Marx Carney Haz and the ACP saying the US is already communist. I'm sure Benn has some decent information on why grudging social democracy was better for American workers and even the economy in general than neoliberal market fundamentalism but calling it communism seems… misguided. I'm reading about late 19th century German social democracy and reformism and it's the same thing, oh let's just leave the bourgeois in power and they'll give us treats. And it was explicitly in favour of colonialism and imperialism because if it wasn't the German workers being super-exploited it had to be someone. I know you hate it when I fisk your youtubes. |
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i just know these considerations. it's interesting to see what others are saying and think about how you can relate more classical leftist ideas to it. |
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oh for sure, fascinating how variously people interpret things. incidentally (free pdf) is where I'm reading about the German social democrats. It's a history of revolutionary movements from the 19th century onwards. I'm finding it provides a good scaffolding for random details and names I've picked up over the years. |
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(maybe you already know this stuff, I've been a little shaky at piecing it all together) |
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i'm still reading Mandel, as we speak, with the socialist book club |
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. he's a very incurious person, says Sam Seder. i also tried watching the tim pool culture war episode (at double speed), but it didn't amount to much |
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broke the page , by Noah Samsen. most of this is summing up what said genocide looks like, which is pretty harrowing new one: , about regular new outlets. haven't watched this one yet |
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Tim Pool is like Vaush and Destiny, people I feel actual physical pain trying to watch. I can't be the only one. |
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bro what is with you guys who would waste their time listening to tim pool, vash, destiny, hassan, ben shaprio, peterson etc. Just adjust your wide rim black glasses for a second and take a step back from all this. Can't you play some fuckin' video games instead? Kingdom Come Deliverance is really good, just finished my first play through in 121.7 hours, 70% of achievements clear. I couldn't bring myself to do the bad stuff (thieving, betrayal etc). My Henry was a proper fucking Christian in the Middle Ages. |
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"there is no such thing as society" |
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. pretty much siding with Jobst, which surprised me i don't think it's really breadtube. but 's the judge's ruling. and 's an article |
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you are lovely and everyone else is scum.and i hope to god this is the last time i every say anything ever to anyone. |
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i hope darius will be back. can understand why someone wouldn't though (i'm saying it general terms, because i'm not sure she really left or anything, or just has better things to do). (i like how earthleakage seeks out pretty contested posts to say something like this.) |
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Tariq Khan on his book The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression. We’ll be releasing this conversation as a two part episode on this excellent book which studies how anticommunism within the US is deeply intertwined with settler colonialism, anti-indigenous thought, and genocidal violence. This helps us to reframe our often twentieth century centric view of anti-left repression in the US. Khan’s work on the 19th century in particular also helps us to see the ways things like race science, eugenics, and phrenology were formed a backbone of the original assumptions of US policing, anti-anarchist repression, lynching, and regimes of deportation. Alongside and related to settler colonial violence against indigenous people, and anti-Black violence, we also through this conversation really get into how central the repression of anarchists in the 19th century was to the development of logics and technologies of anti-left repression in the so-called United States. It is also important to see the resonance between US genocidal violence and state repression and that of the so-called State of Israel on Palestinians, something we explore a little bit more in part two of this discussion along with delving into William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt and more. |
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i finished reading Naomi Klein's Doppelganger! also touches on these subjects; feel akin |
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Does it really? I thought it was mostly about her being butthurt over people confusing her with Naomi Wolf. |
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anything that doesn't align with your world view, will get a bad faith reading. an extreme bad faith reading, in fact. it's cool anti-colonialism apparently has a place in your world view now, but i wish you'd give ideas in general the benefit of the doubt: they're not the enemy |
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review The Doppelganger concept was interesting but maybe wears thin after a while. I didn't fully get what the shadow lands are, as opposed to the mirror world: two big parts of the book. Or the shadow lands are things like sweat shops in China, making our smart phones: things we don't want to see. While the mirror world is the fun house mirror version of our world. The obvious example being conspiracy theories (obvious because it's what the book is about). Like covid being designed, instead of a result of unfettered capitalism. But what is the connection between the shadow lands and the mirror world? There's too little of one. I do like the separate parts, though. I like Klein's research into the mirror world, talking about literature and Freud (who, I guess, now holds a place between fiction and non-fiction). And I like the chapters in the shadow lands part of the book dealing with autism treatment in 'Red Vienna' in the 1930's and Jewish thought in that same period, of which only Zionism survived. And also I like the very beginning of the book, where Klein lets herself go down the rabbit hole of conspiracies, following her doppelganger whom people confuse her with: Naomi Wolf (my favorite moment being her getting caught by her husband Avi, listening to Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, while doing yoga). That it's not made into a convincing whole, is maybe fitting for this book being also a diary of the years of covid lockdown and isolation. |
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probably i'm taking a joke too serious again. but also i do have this feeling |
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Sorry if I came across as flip. I was responding based on what I had read in a number of reviews of her book and honestly didn't understand how it connected to the subject of my post. If you think anti colonialism is something brand new for me then you haven't been understanding what I've been saying for some time now or I haven't been expressing it well. Once again I urge you to read . Lol at doing yoga while listening to a Steve Bannon podcast, that's so Covid. I like Naomi Klein. I saw her speak in Montreal in the 2010s. I get the impression she's too focused on the power of ideas in doppelganger. Also, it's OK for us to disagree, don't turn it into a feud! |
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covid was capitalism?? |
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Having a look now and it's better than I thought. I apologize for being dismissive, big. When radical and anti-establishment writers and scholars attempt to analyze the underlying systems that built and uphold power in our world, including the proven existence of covert operations to eliminate threats to those systems, it is common for them to be dismissed as conspiracy theorists. In truth, it is one of the most battle-worn tactics used to bury and marginalize ideas that are inconvenient to those who wield economic and political power, or who feel personally attacked by anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, or anti-racist analyses because the critiques implicate them. Every serious left-wing analyst of power has faced this smear, from Marx onward. So there's, like, systemic analysis of oppression and the material interests and mechanisms the analysis uncovers, and then there's the doppelganger mirror image of that, the right wing covid conspiracies from Naomi Wolf? Am I getting this right? Anyways I'll read it now that I've got it downloaded, seems like a quick read. |
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yes, correct the general theses might not be new for you. the cultural history stuff i mentioned might be though (btw: that's actually what i have a degree in). that's the appeal, as well as the the personal approach. i really think you could broaden your horizon with that sort of stuff. there's of course other writers to do that with as well, whom you'd possibly like more you weren't *that* dismissive, but it was a gripe that had been building. i could communicate better about that as well. |
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+thanks for listening |
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yes, but there's so much to say about that. so many approaches to explaining it. mass production of meat and monoculture of crops made it possible but you can argue those could have happened under socialism as well. but then you also come to the reaction: short term profits needed to go on. and you come to close allies of capitalism, so to say, like eugenics: the system being fine with non-profitable people dying off |
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your problems are not political. they can not be solved by protesting, voting, or watching youtube for 4 hours. they are biological & mental and will most likely persist until you die. there are no homosexuals or communists in the afterlife, so i doubt you will be preoccupied with the thoughts of such things either at that point. |
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as the monks saying goes: "in heaven there's no beer, that's why we drink it here" |
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gawd I miss a good alcoholic drink… A simple jack and coke….15/11/2025 |
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i don't doubt there will be alcoholic beverages for you in heaven |
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and on 15/11/2025. stay strong ✊ |
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lol 😂 it ain’t no thang, just on this dumb probation until mid November. Then have a drink or two, no big deal. The water flows freely and soda and tea are always there lol |
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