Author Topic: Laissez-faire Politics Thread - Praxis? I didn't play Deus Ex, sorry. (Read 218875 times)

shosta · « **Reply #2101 on:** July 28, 2020, 06:56:40 PM »

misspelling leninist on purpose... I'd expect nothing less from the world's biggest coward

Mandark · « **Reply #2102 on:** July 28, 2020, 06:58:17 PM »

also made the white guy the ml

Kara · « **Reply #2103 on:** July 28, 2020, 07:05:00 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on July 28, 2020, 06:51:53 PM

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See, this is what I was talking about when I said we needed to overcome our differences.

Kara · « **Reply #2104 on:** July 28, 2020, 07:18:53 PM »

1979 was the year Deng Xiaoping announced that a moderately prosperous society was the goal of the CPC. Has Mandark been a core economy Maoist this whole time?

Mandark · « **Reply #2105 on:** July 28, 2020, 07:22:29 PM »

also soviet intervention in afghanistan

thatcher gets elected (reagan one year after)

wes unseld and elvin hayes start to really fall off

Kara · « **Reply #2106 on:** July 28, 2020, 07:38:47 PM »

Bummer, it looks like http://ijoined.dsausa.org/ is dead. Wanted to make a "Jimmy Carter joined DSA" card there and stick a Paul Volcker quote on it. :'(

Mandark · « **Reply #2107 on:** July 28, 2020, 07:43:54 PM »

man

ted kennedy should really, really not have done chappaquiddick

Kara · « **Reply #2108 on:** July 28, 2020, 08:08:16 PM »

I did one of those "the future if" memes about Chappaquiddick just now but I felt too bad about it to post. I guess we all have our arbitrary bright-lines.

Mandark · « **Reply #2109 on:** July 28, 2020, 08:30:07 PM »

Some scandals seem quaint when you go back and read the details. That is not one of them.

team filler · « **Reply #2110 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:32:39 PM »

Quote from: filler on July 28, 2020, 02:48:00 PM

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I feel like stost would fit nicely into these pics

curly · « **Reply #2111 on:** July 28, 2020, 11:20:01 PM »

Quote from: Mandark on July 28, 2020, 06:51:53 PM

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Hugo

Another of Obama's victims

team filler · « **Reply #2112 on:** July 29, 2020, 03:05:01 PM »

https://twitter.com/wellimover/status/1288270731395190791

Kara · « **Reply #2113 on:** July 29, 2020, 03:10:38 PM »

https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1288212348780544002

Leave our anarchist friends alone.

team filler · « **Reply #2114 on:** July 29, 2020, 04:54:56 PM »

https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1288569760800821249

Kara · « **Reply #2115 on:** July 29, 2020, 05:29:52 PM »

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1288567750261121024

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2116 on:** July 29, 2020, 09:13:26 PM »

Party for Freedom, don’t mind if I do!

Kara · « **Reply #2117 on:** July 29, 2020, 09:52:27 PM »

https://twitter.com/KawsachunNews/status/1288184667867353090

(For some context, the current government of Bolivia that did not come to power by winning an election has decided to postpone a long overdue election.)

VomKriege · « **Reply #2118 on:** July 30, 2020, 04:28:55 AM »

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1288574789150547968

Kara · « **Reply #2119 on:** July 30, 2020, 11:17:56 AM »

team filler · « **Reply #2120 on:** July 30, 2020, 08:52:46 PM »

https://twitter.com/Marxozoic/status/1288966418516639747

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #2121 on:** July 31, 2020, 01:17:31 AM »

Quote from: jakefromstatefarm

an American evasion of democracy

Quote from: d’Holbach on Representatives

In a purely democratic state the nation, to be quite accurate, is not represented: the people reserve for themselves the right to make their will known in the general assemblies, which are composed of all the citizens. But as soon as the people have chosen magistrates who have been made depositories of its authority, then these magistrates become their representatives. And according to whether more or less power has been reserved by and for the people, the government either becomes an aristocracy or it remains a democracy.

Kara · « **Reply #2122 on:** July 31, 2020, 08:27:05 PM »

The New York Times said WHAT?! /Clickhole

team filler · « **Reply #2123 on:** July 31, 2020, 09:11:59 PM »

https://twitter.com/red_tanjirooooo/status/1289071683547037697

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2124 on:** July 31, 2020, 10:34:05 PM »

Quote from: filler on July 31, 2020, 09:11:59 PM

https://twitter.com/red_tanjirooooo/status/1289071683547037697

https://twitter.com/CallistoYote/status/1289212489725440002

curly · « **Reply #2125 on:** August 01, 2020, 03:59:28 PM »

Quote

will you beat me daddy if I pee on your desk?

team filler · « **Reply #2126 on:** August 01, 2020, 04:02:16 PM »

curly · « **Reply #2127 on:** August 01, 2020, 04:11:21 PM »

Red Kahina is deranged even by the standard of internet personalities.

team filler · « **Reply #2128 on:** August 01, 2020, 04:25:26 PM »

VomKriege · « **Reply #2129 on:** August 01, 2020, 04:34:01 PM »

Quote from: curly on August 01, 2020, 04:11:21 PM

Red Kahina is deranged even by the standard of internet personalities.

Kara · « **Reply #2130 on:** August 01, 2020, 04:41:17 PM »

Une minorité à la 《retweet》 correcte n'est plus une minorité.

Kara · « **Reply #2131 on:** August 01, 2020, 06:54:15 PM »

Hetman Jan Sobieski it's happening dot gif

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1289231845842853890

team filler · « **Reply #2132 on:** August 01, 2020, 07:19:15 PM »

Nic więcej nie będę pisać...

jakefromstatefarm · « **Reply #2133 on:** August 01, 2020, 09:18:39 PM »

somewhere timothy snyder just went into cardiac arrest

Kara · « **Reply #2134 on:** August 02, 2020, 01:19:42 PM »

A debate where Mussolini tells Gramsci to read Bordiga.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1925/05/speech.htm

Kara · « **Reply #2135 on:** August 02, 2020, 07:06:14 PM »

Considered posting this in the rona thread but there are intersections in the story that our liberal friends don't like to think about (there is a god damn Cheeto in the White House after all) so I'm sticking it here instead.

https://www.propublica.org/article/similar-to-times-of-war-the-staggering-toll-of-covid-19-on-filipino-health-care-workers/amp

(Sorry if this is a repost. I'm using my brief sabbatical to catch up on 2020's reading queue.)

team filler · « **Reply #2136 on:** August 02, 2020, 07:08:24 PM »

stost has fallen $:-\$

Mandark · « **Reply #2137 on:** August 02, 2020, 07:18:20 PM »

In DC and Maryland it's black and African American women, especially in home health care where they're 80-90% of the workers.

Kara · « **Reply #2138 on:** August 02, 2020, 10:22:50 PM »

Weird how it's falling along racial lines. Must be a coincidence. Time to fire up some Jacobin and / or Chapo to hear about how identity politics (the kind oriented around racial inequality, not the kind screeching about Star Wars) is bad.

This is a companion piece to my last link I guess. More superficial, but covers a wider spread of stories.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-02/one-day-in-the-life-of-covid-19-in-los-angeles

Kara · « **Reply #2139 on:** August 03, 2020, 01:13:18 AM »

Quote from: VomKriege on July 30, 2020, 04:28:55 AM

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1288574789150547968

They talked about this some more on the recent free Corner Späti. Apparently some of the party platforms used stretch as far back as 2011, which is 2+ political lifetimes ago.

It's a bit damning that this data analysis fumbles so much with Portugal because it's a country that should exonerate their system. All the major parties there have names that straight up lie about their politics: Christian Democrats? Conservative nationalists. Social Democratic Party? Right wing. Socialist Party? Social-democratic. Communist Party? Brezhnevite revisionists. Left Bloc? Props up a minority Socialist Party government--they aren't blocking anything!

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The U.S. Democratic Party is a member of the Progressive Alliance along with Bolovia's MAS and Poland's SDL which you could describe as a special interest group for former state officials in Polska Ludowa that masquerades as a political party.

Maybe all those Republican accusations about being riddled with Marxists are true.

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e: My messed up brain.

shosta · « **Reply #2140 on:** August 03, 2020, 05:36:12 PM »

https://twitter.com/liz_franczak/status/1290390041064218625/

Kara · « **Reply #2141 on:** August 04, 2020, 12:48:15 AM »

Can't imagine why #3 is here.

Rufus · « **Reply #2142 on:** August 04, 2020, 07:51:16 AM »

Or civics.

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"[x,y,z] are also important"
- "oh, so you're against [a,b,c]!?"

Is there a good word for this willfully obtuse nonsense?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2143 on:** August 04, 2020, 09:09:02 AM »

Quote from: Kara on August 04, 2020, 12:48:15 AM

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Can't imagine why #3 is here.

All that sounds pretty dope tho?

shosta · « **Reply #2144 on:** August 05, 2020, 12:49:06 AM »

https://twitter.com/dogisland69/status/1290711974163218433

Kara · « **Reply #2145 on:** August 05, 2020, 01:34:14 AM »

Ike also helped decolonize the Middle East.

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Then he intervened in Lebanon.

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team filler · « **Reply #2146 on:** August 05, 2020, 10:55:17 AM »

https://twitter.com/ev4ngeIion/status/1290801671182983169

VomKriege · « **Reply #2147 on:** August 05, 2020, 10:58:45 AM »

Quote from: filler on August 05, 2020, 10:55:17 AM

https://twitter.com/ev4ngeIion/status/1290801671182983169

BIONIC · « **Reply #2148 on:** August 05, 2020, 11:20:23 AM »

Quote from: filler on August 05, 2020, 10:55:17 AM

https://twitter.com/ev4ngeIion/status/1290801671182983169

shosta · « **Reply #2149 on:** August 05, 2020, 05:17:21 PM »

https://twitter.com/RajaKorman/status/1291098919229771776

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2150 on:** August 05, 2020, 05:41:53 PM »

Quote from: BIONIC on August 05, 2020, 11:20:23 AM

Quote from: filler on August 05, 2020, 10:55:17 AM
https://twitter.com/ev4ngeIion/status/1290801671182983169

1/3rd of 100% is 33.333% (repeating, of course), so they should have gotten an F. I hope this wasn't a math class.

team filler · « **Reply #2151 on:** August 05, 2020, 06:15:44 PM »

shosta · « **Reply #2152 on:** August 06, 2020, 03:57:52 AM »

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1291211363755360260

https://twitter.com/MattBruenig/status/1291205398586851328

EchoRin · « **Reply #2153 on:** August 06, 2020, 04:26:12 AM »

I liked Boy Meets World (ya I know that was the Girl Meets World edition), but it always had some little things like this. Remember the cult episode? And when Shaun is confronted by Corey's dad, the dad says something like "You don't believe in anything? Not even God?".

Then the cool teacher wipes out on his motorcycle and Shawn is alone in the hospital room while he lays in a coma. Of course Shawn then goes and asks God for the teacher's good health. Now I like that episode anyways, but even as a youngster who wasn't religious and didn't know jack about media communication I was still very

about that.

Whatever, I don't have much love for communism with my background ("your country of origin was not real communism!!!

", I know jack off), but ehhhh, I could have done without an episode tackling the subject matter in such a blatantly stupid American cold war hot take way.

BIONIC · « **Reply #2154 on:** August 06, 2020, 05:24:08 AM »

https://twitter.com/mechanicalastra/status/1291111580747194368

He lives

remy · « **Reply #2155 on:** August 06, 2020, 07:04:15 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 04, 2020, 09:09:02 AM

Quote from: Kara on August 04, 2020, 12:48:15 AM
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Can't imagine why #3 is here.

All that sounds pretty dope tho?

for real, whenever i see this right wing hitpiece type shid i'm always like damn that sounds sick as hell

Kara · « **Reply #2156 on:** August 06, 2020, 11:44:45 AM »

Quote from: remy on August 06, 2020, 07:04:15 AM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 04, 2020, 09:09:02 AM
Quote from: Kara on August 04, 2020, 12:48:15 AM
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Can't imagine why #3 is here.

All that sounds pretty dope tho?
for real, whenever i see this right wing hitpiece type shid i'm always like damn that sounds sick as hell

I got it from the accidentally left-wing account on Twitter.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2157 on:** August 06, 2020, 11:46:14 AM »

None of y'all praising Communism ever heard of Voldemort and it shows.

OnlyRegret · « **Reply #2158 on:** August 06, 2020, 01:13:59 PM »

Quote from: EchoRin on August 06, 2020, 04:26:12 AM

Whatever, I don't have much love for communism with my background ("your country of origin was not real communism!!! ", I know jack off), but ehhhh, I could have done without an episode tackling the subject matter in such a blatantly stupid American cold war hot take way.

be careful, when bismarkie tried to pull that on shosta, kara materialized out of the warp to shank him. what I'm tryna say is watch out for slav-on-slav violence

Kara · « **Reply #2159 on:** August 06, 2020, 01:23:53 PM »

This is LF Bore, where we keep things chill. Anything goes, you might say.

This event seems to have been an indelible one for you, however.

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Author Topic: Laissez-faire Politics Thread - Praxis? I didn't play Deus Ex, sorry. (Read 218875 times)