Wank Dad 2: Electric Wankaloo

[shosta]

Reed also was a founder of the US Labor party

This is the Lyndon LaRouche Party?

[team filler]

Uhh how else is the left going to learn to stop falling for absurd sex panics

biden, trump and clinton before them all proved that shid don't matter to the majority  they had to manufacture some shid with warren against bern dawg he was so clean and still it didn't matter to the majority 

all you have to do is not give a fuck and be good for the rich and empire 

[curly]

Reed also was a founder of the US Labor party

This is the Lyndon LaRouche Party?

Oops not the US Pabor party, a Labor Party that would be from the US. Also not the one from 1919. The US has had a lot of failed Labor parties.

[shosta]

 

this is why democratic centralism exists

[curly]

A History of the American Left

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/Malrodin/status/1297460405002997760

Mandark can't stop.me posting quality gootecks content.

[Great Rumbler]

A History of the American Left

[Mandark]

Missed the part of the Coleman saga where Greenwald said it was a way of keeping working class people from running for office (because the proletariat loves doing revenge porn?).

Greenwald's husband needs to limit his screen time or something.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

https://mobile.twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1297671914241089538

[Mandark]

https://twitter.com/PerBylund/status/1297537829615149058

The immortal science of Misesm-Lugwigism.

[curly]

Missed the part of the Coleman saga where Greenwald said it was a way of keeping working class people from running for office (because the proletariat loves doing revenge porn?).

Greenwald's husband needs to limit his screen time or something.

His husband used to unplug his router, he might need to start doing that again.

[VomKriege]

Missed the part of the Coleman saga where Greenwald said it was a way of keeping working class people from running for office (because the proletariat loves doing revenge porn?).

Greenwald's husband needs to limit his screen time or something.

His husband used to unplug his router, he might need to start doing that again.

Are ya winning, Glenn ?

[benjipwns]

This is the part where I note how Glenn's ignored multiple family dinners to argue with people on Twitter.

[VomKriege]

https://twitter.com/Oscarthedodle/status/1297650869840879616

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1296518855691390977

[BIONIC]

This is the part where I note how Glenn's ignored multiple family dinners to argue with people on Twitter.

Sounds like the average bore poster tbh

[Rufus]

What are you talking about? We're not even invited.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1297952075276529666
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1297949988526465032
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1297960753593450496

Matt Walsh having a normal one.

[Transhuman]

I have Infinite Jest because it was $2 and it has a lot of pages and I felt like it would make good tinder. And Ham on Rye is a good book.

[curly]

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1297947032305324032

[Joe Molotov]

I have Infinite Jest because it was $2 and it has a lot of pages and I felt like it would make good tinder. And Ham on Rye is a good book.

It's okay, don't let the matriarchy tell you what you can't read. Stand up for yourself.

[Transhuman]

I have Infinite Jest because it was $2 and it has a lot of pages and I felt like it would make good tinder. And Ham on Rye is a good book.

It's okay, don't let the matriarchy tell you what you can't read. Stand up for yourself.

I'm not going to let some pretentious twitter twerp reverse-psychology me into reading more literature.

[EightBitNate]

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1297947032305324032

Other countries don’t know BBT is cringe? That’s cringe within itself.

[EchoRin]

https://twitter.com/MchughJess/status/1297908630986076166

I'd like to get to the bottom of how this may be problematic if these books are on a man's shelf as it would be a different story if this was a woman's shelf containing these things (to some degree. Ayn Rand is a run for the hills scenario regardless of gender.)

1. I actually don't know. Never read any David Foster Wallace. Committed suicide is all I know and that I guess he was a writer that bent "the rulez" or something in literature. Long story short, not sure what male caricature is associated with DFW obsession.

2. Hemingway is problematic masculinity? Probably not something to overthink if you are a man over 40 who loves Hemingway, but maybe you got some odd masculinity takes if you are obsessed with Hemingway's form of masculinity and were born after 1980?

3. Bukowski. Never read him. I just know he said some weird shit to Flea (a racist remark when Flea told him he loved basketball  ). Toxic masculinity I suppose is the issue here?

4. Rand. Libertarian bullshalaka

5. Goethe. I have no idea. Frankly I only know of him. Not even a single work comes to mind. Would love to know why Goethe on a man's book shelf would raise red flags.

6. Might be a pedo fuck

7. To be blunt, I never heard of this book nor the author. Sorry for being an illiterate imbecile. So what is the issue with this book in terms of modern masculine thought?

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1297968033864904704

[Madrun Badrun]

Got me with Goethe.

[Transhuman]

You're telling me Hemingway was obsessed with masculinity? Are we talking about the same Hemmingway? Ernest Hemmingway?

spoiler (click to show/hide)

One time there was a bull and his name was not Ferdinand and he cared nothing for flowers. He loved to fight and he fought with all the other bulls of his own age, or any age, and he was a champion.

His horns were as solid as wood and they were as sharply pointed as the quill of a porcupine. They hurt him, at the base, when he fought and he did not care at all. His neck muscles lifted in a great lump that is called in Spanish the morillo and this morillo lifted like a great hill when he was ready to fight. He was always ready to fight and his coat was black and shining and his eyes were clear.

Anything made him want to fight and he would fight with deadly seriousness exactly as some people eat or read or go to church. Each time he fought he fought to kill and the other bulls were not afriad of him because they came of good blood and were not afraid. But they had no wish to provoke him. Nor did they wish to fight him.

He was not a bully nor was he wicked, but he liked to fight as men might like to sing or to be the King or the President. He never thought at all. Fighting was his obligation and his duty and his joy.

He fought on the stony, high ground. He fought under the cork-oak trees and he fought in the good pasture by the river. He walked fifteen miles each day from the river to the high, stony ground and he would fight any bull that looked at him. Still he was never angry.

That is not really true, for he was angry inside himself. But he did not know why, because he could not think. He was very noble and he loved to fight.

So what happened to him? The man who owned him, if anyone can own such an animal, knew what a great bull he was and still he was worried because this bull cost him so much money by fighting with other bulls. Each bull was worth over one thousand dollars and after they had fought the great bull they were worth less than two hundred dollars and sometimes less than that.

So the man, who was a good man, decided that he would keep the blood of the bull in all of his stock rather than send him to the ring to be killed. So he selected him for breeding.

But this bull was a strange bull. When they first turned him into the pasture with the breeding cows, he saw one who was young and beautiful and slimmer and better muscled and shinier and more lovely than all the others. So, since he could not fight, he fell in love with her and paid no attention to any of the others. He only wanted to be with her, and the others meant nothing to him at all.

The man who owned the bull ranch hoped that the bull would change, or learn, or be different than he was. But the bull was the same and he loved whom he loved and no one else. He only wanted to be with her, and the others meant nothing to him at all.

So the man sent him away with five other bulls to be killed in the ring, and at least the bull could fight, even though he was faithful. He fought wonderfully and everyone admired him and the man who killed him admired him the most. But the fighting jacket of the man who killed him and who is called the matador was wet through by the end, and his mouth was very dry.

"Que toro más bravo," the matador said as he handed his sword to his sword handler. He handed it with the hilt up and the blade dripping with the blood from the heart of the brave bull who no longer had any problems of any kind and was being dragged out of the ring by four horses.

"Yes. He was the one the Marqués of Villamayor had to get rid of because he was faithful," the sword handler, who knew everything, said.

"Perhaps we should all be faithful," the matador said.

[close]

[EchoRin]

Well go on. Why might Ernest be a possible red flag on a man's bookshelf?

[Transhuman]

She was clearly just name dropping books and authors she knows (she lives in France)

[curly]

Well go on. Why might Ernest be a possible red flag on a man's bookshelf?

Hemingway's shtick is macho to the point of parody

[team filler]

Well go on. Why might Ernest be a possible red flag on a man's bookshelf?

[EchoRin]

Well played Filler 

[Great Rumbler]

Well go on. Why might Ernest be a possible red flag on a man's bookshelf?

(Image removed from quote.)

Nooo, not like this.

It's Robin Williams in that picture, Epstein is just a photoshop. 

[BIONIC]

Well go on. Why might Ernest be a possible red flag on a man's bookshelf?

(Image removed from quote.)

Ernest Goes to Camp Pedo Island 

[Nintex]

Ernest

ARRESTED AND EXECUTED

[team filler]

"know what I mean, 'stein?"

[EchoRin]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEPiNeKsXd-

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/vadimnewquist/status/1297763342480744448

[Mandark]

1. I actually don't know. Never read any David Foster Wallace. Committed suicide is all I know and that I guess he was a writer that bent "the rulez" or something in literature. Long story short, not sure what male caricature is associated with DFW obsession.

Infinite Jest has a reputation like Gravity's Rainbow or James Joyce's Ulysses: really difficult books that a ton of people buy and never actually read. I think the idea is that it signals obnoxious intellectual pretension.

DFW's inclusion is a bit ironic since he wrote a famous takedown of John Updike, Norman Mailer, and Philip Roth, who would have been shoe-ins for this sort of list if you compiled it 25 years ago.

[benjipwns]

https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1297785982515732480

https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1297787924348461057

[Nintex]

Winners like Joe dropout Biden 

[team filler]

I don't live in a house or own any property 

[Great Rumbler]

You can't own property, man.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1298328529042468864

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1298330558175383552

[team filler]

they aren't my possessions 

[Joe Molotov]

What kind of dummy actually pays their taxes?

[team filler]

I only pay bills I can't get away with not paying like utilities 

[jakefromstatefarm]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200818071225/https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/

[shosta]

well played

[shosta]

Ok I finished and I'm going to admit I thought this was another stealth piece that made it past the Quilette editor. Congrats on exposing the whole readership to a clear and coherent summary of Marxism

[jakefromstatefarm]

the claim that starbucks is “entirely dependent” on a “marxist framework” when they post pro-blm on their social media didnt trip any alarms for you?

[shosta]

As others have said if you aren't judging him on his actions when he was a minor then you've got a year to work with.

turns out that's probably too long a timeframe too

Passow’s relationship with Coleman ran into trouble quickly, even as she remained impressed by the drive of the young political candidate, and the two spoke of starting a life together. According to Passow, one particular incident irreparably broke their relationship. In a hot tub at an Airbnb in Kansas City, she said, the two were discussing Coleman’s interest in a threesome on December 27, 2019. Passow said it wasn’t her thing, but maybe as a birthday present she’d break up with him for just one day and he could do one. Coleman didn’t like the joke, she recalled. “He sat there for a few seconds, then he jumped on top of me, put his hands around my throat and started squeezing, and slapped me three times, and said ‘I don’t know where the fuck you think you’re going,’” Passow recalled, and said she pushed him off of her.

[shosta]

the claim that starbucks is “entirely dependent” on a “marxist framework” when they post pro-blm on their social media didnt trip any alarms for you?

I'm don't know what's real or what's not anymore. My detector is completely broken

[Nintex]

Angry Joe has entered the wank dad realm

https://twitter.com/AngryJoeShow/status/1298530778708619267

[Oblivion]

https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1298454637713010689

[Nintex]

It's hilarious to watch the blue checkmarks fight over Melania's speech 

[Mandark]

https://web.archive.org/web/20200818071225/https://quillette.com/2020/08/16/the-challenge-of-marxism/

Explains Marxism as the belief that classes exist and the ruling classes do oppression, without any discussion of capital, labor, surplus value, etc.

Concedes that Marx had some salient points about institutions being designed for the benefit of the ruling classes.

Example: The public school system.

Because district lines and funding based on local property taxes steer resources to the children of the wealthy. Because it's a monopolistic system that oppresses Christians by not teaching the Bible.

[Madrun Badrun]

[jakefromstatefarm]

Explains Marxism as the belief that classes exist and the ruling classes do oppression, without any discussion of capital, labor...

he literally said marxism is when you believe there are groups and that one group has more power than the others.

it leaves open two moves. the first is decrying how left/liberalism is about ‘victimhood’. the second is pseudo-empathizing and playing up the pseudo-affinities with your reactionary hot take of choice; conceding without actually giving anything up. hazony is a founding member of that national conservative movement from the past two years, small wonder he opts for the latter.

[Mandark]

He does a rhetorical two-step: concede the existence of power differentials between groups, then assert that the "Marxists" have the whip hand and that liberals, conservatives, and Christians are reduced to being the opposition.

[shosta]

I thought that was bait to make wank dads keep reading