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offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 14:14 [#00115579]
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jonesy: i don't mind if you do mate. It's just there's no
time/ space here to seriously discuss such difficult topics
(besides, phobia and co. would probably have me banned for
spamming). I have a lot of thoughts on this but that would
need a lot of evenings over a pint or two to discuss. (not
that I drink alcohol, but you get the general idea). We are
not at the mercy of the imperialism as long as we refuse to
play the political economy game. When I talked about
damaging our bodies yesterday I was only half joking. Try
and find Baudrillard's "Symbolical Interchange and Death"
for more ideas than I could ever give you. Or see Apocalypse
now again.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 14:16 [#00115584]
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Its turning into a homogenization of culture. I went to
Barcelona about a year and a half ago. I haven't done much
travelling (Spain twice in ten years) (poor working class
me) and the first think I saw as I came out of the train
station was a huge Marks and Spencers. I sighed in utter
disappointment. Capital knows no boundaries.


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 14:16 [#00115585]
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and you're right JC. This simple set of rules (reproduction,
consummation, recycling) is what makes capitalism so
resistant to it's opponents. Most of them don't realise they
follow same basic patterns that actually make capitalism so
"evil".


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 14:17 [#00115586]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



Jonesy, you posted before me, but echoed my thoughts.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 14:19 [#00115589]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



What the film?

I love talking about this stuff, and yes its difficult here.
If you're ever in Wales I'll buy you a pint (of non-alcholic
liquid) and we could talk properly.

I will investigate Baudrillard. I just wish I had more time
to read. Damn you capitalism - you take all my time. Both
working for you and fighting you.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-03-07 14:21 [#00115591]
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I'm all for pooling of medical knowledge etc. but perhaps it
would be better if art and architecture was kept a bit more
segragationalist? I really like Parisian architecture and
it'd be a shame to see it "Americanised".


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 14:21 [#00115592]
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Exactly, and we even work for capitalism when we fight it,
if we choose to fight it's way. Cunning bastards, those who
thought that up. Thanx for the invitation jonesy.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 14:22 [#00115593]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



How else do we fight? That's what I'm trying to tease out of
you.


 

offline Narkotic from United States on 2002-03-07 14:23 [#00115594]
Points: 667 Status: Regular



wow reflex i'm quite the sick fucker but what you did made
me genually angry at you. This is a perfect
example/definition of being psychotic. People always think
of doing things like this, but actually acting on them is
what makes you crazy. good luck in life, cunt.


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 14:23 [#00115595]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



You're right, JC. But this is the way capitalism works. It
knows no boundaries, it's more cosmopolitan than any leftist
movements I know.


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 14:26 [#00115600]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



Ugh, jonesy, I'm typing furiously here but still fail to
catch up with you and JC (not a lot of work gets done here
in my office). We first extract what are the basic features
of capitalism (the VERY basic features of capital) and work
the other way. These are the things we usually don't ever
question because we think they are part of natural order of
things. That Battailes' book I mentioned yesterday is a good
one to read.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-03-07 14:27 [#00115605]
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My father has a good analogy about "right" and "left"wing.
He reckons that rather than being a line it's a circle,
after a point, leftism becomes similair to fascism. You only
have to look at russian "communism" and see how similair to
Nazi Germany it is. And lefty "eco-terrorists" who kill
people to draw attention to their cause.



 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 14:27 [#00115606]
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Hey man, if we carry on like this we'll bring it down
ourselves. I do no work here. Ha, ha.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-03-07 14:31 [#00115619]
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Doing no work just skanks those who do and they work harder
because they're proportionally poorer for supporting
"non-workers".

I honestly can't see any viable way to fight capitalism,
even if you have a street protest, you have to *buy* the
loudspeakers, banners and markers.

I think you just have to resign yourself to the fact that
you can't fight capitalism.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 14:34 [#00115623]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



The people who let everyone else do all the work are the
legion of shareholders not us.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-03-07 14:36 [#00115628]
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But people who go on the dole to "Fight Capitalism" just
skank the working class. I saw a recent poster at my uni
saying "capitalist students unite" non-payment of fees to
build a better communist future. No, you'd just be ripping
of the students who do pay.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 14:42 [#00115634]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



Mate I finished uni last summer and paid a load of fees,
despite the fact my parents are low-wage earners. If someone
didn't pay I'd support them. It wouldn't have effected me.
In fact it would have benefited me because someone would
have been standing up to the government.

What makes you think there are people on the dole to fight
capitalism?

A certain level of unemployment is necessary. The governor
of the Bank of England is famously quoted as saying so.
Capitalism needs a reserve army of labour to keep wages
down. If there are less jobs they can pay us lower wages.
Competition between workers is how the system survives,
amongst other complex structures.


 

offline Vader from € Lisbon, PT on 2002-03-07 14:55 [#00115647]
Points: 1000 Status: Lurker



Quote:
REFLEX from Edmonton (Canada) on 2002-03-05 23:37
[#00113291]
Points: 1033 Status: Wizard

" Thats not so bad man! In high school we used to pick on
this
one kid, we made him get naked in a public place and yell
"im a duck!" and stuff like that, he would cry and stuff
too.... we would make him do and eat things we found on the

ground, make him do too many drugs and stuff.... he said we

ruined his life... and we did.. so be happy you didnt know
poeple like me or my friends..... cheer up!"

And then you tell that wonderful story about you robbing a
McDonalds with a fake gun, I´m so sad :-( I wish I had
friends like you in my childhood I bet my life would be a
lot more INTERESTING and FUN! (sarcasm is tha best!)


 

offline jthm from in my garage (United States) on 2002-03-07 15:00 [#00115653]
Points: 248 Status: Regular



little green people are eating my brains
and it tickles
hahahahah



 

offline Fernz from A Scottish Wanker (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-07 15:01 [#00115655]
Points: 1692 Status: Regular



Id like to see what Reflex has to say bout this one.


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 15:02 [#00115658]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



uH, i'M FALLING BEHIND MAJOR WAY.

Anyway, just in short: the common misconception about left
and right is that left is nice and caring and right grim and
aggressive. This is untrue, the defining feature of the left
is its revoulutionary intentions (striving for change of
things) and the defining feature of the right is its
conservativism (striving to preserve current status). So,
German Nazis were basicly a leftist party: their full name
was National-socialist WORKERS party of germany.

I know, doing no work just fucks those who work.


 

offline Ubik from United States on 2002-03-07 15:04 [#00115660]
Points: 662 Status: Lurker



wow... you guys sure have gone of on an tangent, thou not a
bad one...

the real question is, whether what he did what he said or
not, is why does he think this is funny? if what he wrote
is suppossed to be satire, or absurd sillyness, it is not
that apparent... certainly based on stuff he has wrote in
the past. emotionally, he seems like a disturbed 13 year
old, poor reflex against the world.


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 15:04 [#00115661]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



I have been absent for longer than I thought.

That reflex type is one nasty mutha.

jonesy, you're right.


 

offline Fernz from A Scottish Wanker (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-07 15:08 [#00115667]
Points: 1692 Status: Regular



I was thinking... isnt it odd how the topic strayed from
Reflex being a complete fucking idiot to Nazi Germany....?
:)


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 15:11 [#00115670]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



fernz: no, this things are linked (especially when having
idle theory wanking bastards like me around)


 

offline nacmat on 2002-03-07 15:11 [#00115672]
Points: 31271 Status: Lurker | Followup to jthm: #00115653



I was in portland for two months back in 1990


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 15:16 [#00115676]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



How is this related to any of this, Nacmat? (I'm glad you
were in Portland, though, one of my fave bands is from
Portland)


 

offline nacmat on 2002-03-07 15:17 [#00115678]
Points: 31271 Status: Lurker | Followup to Meho Krljic: #00115676



do you know about the follow up messages?
I was talking to the guy from portland...
:-)


 

offline Fernz from A Scottish Wanker (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-07 15:18 [#00115680]
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I like theories though. :)


 

offline Fernz from A Scottish Wanker (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-07 15:20 [#00115682]
Points: 1692 Status: Regular



In fact Im fond of Nietzsche and Marx.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 15:22 [#00115688]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



"Marxism is all powerful because it is true"

V. I 'nice beard' Lenin

"When we are victorious I think we shall use gold for the
purpose of decorating public lavatories"

Also Lenin


 

offline Ubik from United States on 2002-03-07 15:26 [#00115698]
Points: 662 Status: Lurker



who did Lenin say was gonna CLEAN these gold public
lavatories?


 

offline Meho Krljic from Beograd (Yugoslavia) on 2002-03-07 15:27 [#00115700]
Points: 6617 Status: Addict



Sorry, Nac, didn't look. I'm a jerk. But I Loooove Poison
Idea!!! And they're from Portland.

Nietzche would kick Marx's arse in a bare knuckled fight. He
was a fucking bully. In print at least. But with such grand
style and ideas!!!


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 15:29 [#00115705]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



Yeah but he went round the bend. Marx had a protective beard
and a sharper pen.

Americans would clean the loos of course.

Just kidding. I nominate the English


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 15:33 [#00115711]
Points: 6650 Status: Lurker



Did Poison Idea have a song called Alan's on Fire?


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-07 16:45 [#00115871]
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jonesy - Ceri...

Check out textz.org .... lots of great ctheory texts
there...be warned, once you visited the site, you may never
have another spare moment....



 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2002-03-07 16:49 [#00115880]
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Cheers Jand will check it out


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-03-07 16:51 [#00115882]
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Thanks Jand.


 

offline Resident Evil from heat some coffee, mmm, mmm (Australia) on 2002-03-07 16:57 [#00115896]
Points: 1643 Status: Lurker



What ever happened to ringing someones door bell and running
off?



 

offline nacmat on 2002-03-07 17:11 [#00115930]
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I felt so exited when I did that back when I was 24
LOL


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-03-07 17:17 [#00115933]
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I've done stupid things... I mooned some girl when I was 13,
but I didn't have a fake gun sticking out of my ass to scare
her half to death.


 

offline Peter File from the future!!! Ooooh chase me! on 2002-03-07 17:18 [#00115935]
Points: 2020 Status: Lurker | Followup to Ophecks: #00115933



Just your ass was enough?


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-03-07 19:36 [#00116144]
Points: 8864 Status: Regular



I just find it totally funny that most of you are
contemplating the point behind it all, so what if some of
you think it was lame? I didnt, nor did my friends, are we
immature all around and just fucks? No. Far from it. And
none of you know me or my friends, so why try?

It was hilarious, and ofcourse we are going to get different
responses, some people feel it in their power to, for some
reason tell me or "us" why it wasnt "cool". But I tell them,
dont bother, because I thought otherwise, so what your
saying is just... filler.

Im sorry that this isnt something you would maybe do, but
then why would you care? Do some of you have that close to
no lives to actually try and figure out mine?


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-03-07 19:39 [#00116150]
Points: 8864 Status: Regular



And its nothing beyond what it is. You can all SO easily sit
there and think your some sort of socialite guru by telling
each other that i was moronic, or a 13 year old lashing out,
or angry at the world. Neither of those are true. I was
having fun, so stop being so fucking uptight and live a
little, oh wait - im so sorry getting out of your parents
basements or your rooms is beyond comprehension.


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-03-07 19:41 [#00116152]
Points: 8864 Status: Regular



And its not changing me in the least, do you think that I
would care about the girl? She was about 18, why would I
care what she thought? And you may say "what would you have
done?" I would have done nothing... and not cared after.

And its SO funny how you can all sit here and say things
like "what he did is so moronic" so this is fact? you all
find it so? last time I checked someones opinion didnt
constitute for a fact. Just stop talking about it like you
have way too much time on your hands.


 

offline Duble0Syx from Columbus, OH (United States) on 2002-03-07 19:46 [#00116159]
Points: 3436 Status: Lurker



I you do that shit in america you get arrested for armed
robbery whether it was real or not...


 

offline que from vancouver (Canada) on 2002-03-07 19:47 [#00116160]
Points: 268 Status: Lurker



crazy guy!


 

offline que from vancouver (Canada) on 2002-03-07 19:48 [#00116162]
Points: 268 Status: Lurker



i still like you though


 

offline que from vancouver (Canada) on 2002-03-07 19:49 [#00116163]
Points: 268 Status: Lurker



ps im not gay


 

offline alienworkshop from Claymont (United States) on 2002-03-07 19:51 [#00116167]
Points: 215 Status: Regular



DUDE REFLEX, i TOTALLY support you, i think its pretty damn
funny. nobody was hurt. its a win/win situation. you have
free food, the girl has a strange story


 


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