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« Reply #1260 on: February 10, 2020, 11:53:24 PM »
if your points just that the chapos arent good brainthinkers then i think we’re all in agreement

as much of an autist as i wanna be about plebs getting the s word wrong, de-chudifying america after a century+ of  firm-as-fiefdom agitprop is a little more important right now than capital-t Theory

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« Reply #1261 on: February 12, 2020, 12:17:30 AM »
smugness of internet lefties reminded me of this


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« Reply #1262 on: February 12, 2020, 04:10:54 PM »
if your points just that the chapos arent good brainthinkers then i think we’re all in agreement

as much of an autist as i wanna be about plebs getting the s word wrong, de-chudifying america after a century+ of  firm-as-fiefdom agitprop is a little more important right now than capital-t Theory

Didn't see shosta's post but piggybacking off this a bit I've been somewhat surprised by the degree to which Sandersismo has become hegemonic on the left in my mostly anecdotal experience, drawing in support from both ideologically adjacent wings: people who are generally left but were turned off in 2016 by the evangelical tone of his supporters and weren't primed to break with more orthodox Democratic politics yet and radicals who were skeptical of voting at all and have become more open to a hybrid electoral/direct action approach. I expected more discord tbh. The aggrandizing tendencies of the Chapos and the Jacobin set of his supporters are definitely obnoxious (Bernie or we're all doomed!) but easier to overlook now that the primary is underway and there's something to distract the left's interest from navel-gazing over the flaws of its celebrities.

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« Reply #1263 on: February 12, 2020, 04:46:16 PM »
now that the primary is underway and there's something to distract the left's interest from navel-gazing over the flaws of its celebrities.

Roughly same dynamic as moving from primaries to general election for normal party politics, isn't it? Hating on Mayor Pete smooths over the differences, the way hating on Trump will among casual Dems.

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« Reply #1264 on: February 12, 2020, 04:54:14 PM »
Pretty much

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« Reply #1265 on: February 13, 2020, 10:12:19 PM »
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« Reply #1268 on: February 15, 2020, 01:52:17 AM »

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« Reply #1269 on: February 15, 2020, 01:58:08 AM »
Shhh.

But if we're going to get technical, it's a bit earlier than that. Although you could pretty well argue that the major regular European succession wars essentially proved the system never truly went away.




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Re: Laissez-faire Politics Thread - Praxis? I didn't play Deus Ex, sorry.
« Reply #1274 on: February 15, 2020, 06:44:20 PM »
https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/06/u-s-senate-candidate-selects-guillotine-as-symbol-of-the-work-we-have-to-do/
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A U.S. Senate candidate in Maine has selected an unusual logo for campaign T-shirts – the guillotine – citing the need for a revolution to remove big money from politics.

The logo, unveiled this week by Democrat Bre Kidman, recalls the execution device known for its role in the 18th century French Revolution and is intended to symbolize revolt by low- and middle-income people, Kidman said.

“The guillotine is an image which calls to mind what people have done for revolution before,” said Kidman, an attorney who’s running for the seat held by Republican Sen. Susan Collins. “If we can find a better path to revolution than that we owe it to ourselves and our country.”
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Kidman said the campaign, which had raised about $16,000 by the end of last year, stopped actively fundraising in July. Merchandise, including t-shirts, patches and buttons, with the new logo is not for sale and instead will be given away to people who want to talk about the campaign ideas with fellow Mainers.

Kidman said the logo is not supposed to be taken literally.

“We’re not going to start a guillotine in Monument Square (in Portland) and start beheading people,” Kidman said. “It’s a symbol of the work we have to do to overcome flaws in our system – flaws that have become deeply evident in the last few weeks.”
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« Reply #1275 on: February 16, 2020, 03:22:19 PM »
shosti, you gotta get in on that  :bolo
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« Reply #1276 on: February 16, 2020, 03:32:14 PM »
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« Reply #1277 on: February 16, 2020, 03:59:21 PM »
shosti, you gotta get in on that  :bolo
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« Reply #1278 on: February 16, 2020, 07:23:33 PM »
these black flag people offer such interesting takes

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« Reply #1279 on: February 17, 2020, 02:36:28 AM »
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« Reply #1280 on: February 17, 2020, 02:40:41 AM »
I learned about the existence of Distributism in my meme tap.
I don't get it, cool logo though.


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« Reply #1281 on: February 17, 2020, 02:47:03 AM »
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« Reply #1282 on: February 18, 2020, 12:11:44 AM »

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« Reply #1283 on: February 18, 2020, 09:03:27 AM »
Truly a modern Renaissance man.
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« Reply #1285 on: February 18, 2020, 10:45:21 PM »
I don't have feelings, why would other people have them?

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« Reply #1288 on: February 20, 2020, 02:33:23 PM »
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« Reply #1290 on: February 20, 2020, 08:48:35 PM »
BisMarckie's Hegel 2020 Project status update: I have bought Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences and held the books in my hands once by unpacking them. Felt pretty smart doing that tbh. :ego

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« Reply #1291 on: February 20, 2020, 09:40:34 PM »
guys, going through kant and hegel is cool and fine, but you don’t have to read everyone in the canonTM. best piece of advice someone can give you is don’t let reading get in the way of things you actually want to read. you’ll better understand marx, or whoever, just by reading marx.

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« Reply #1292 on: February 20, 2020, 09:47:31 PM »
My favorite professor was a huge Hegel stan, he unironically had the position that all philosophy ended with Hegel.

I thought to myself: Well if he is that good, I'll have to read his magnum opus one day.

But here I am shitposting on a neogaf splinter forum. :fbm


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« Reply #1293 on: February 20, 2020, 09:56:00 PM »
Honestly a better use of your time

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« Reply #1294 on: February 20, 2020, 10:12:46 PM »
dialectics
part of what you find out is that this is just a giant red herring getting in the way of actually understanding anything. not in the sense that ‘it’ is bullshit, but in the sense that ‘it’ depends entirely on who’s talking and how theyre using it.

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« Reply #1295 on: February 20, 2020, 10:25:18 PM »
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« Reply #1296 on: February 20, 2020, 10:35:43 PM »
33 %

higher than benji, which means he should be the first in the gulag after the revolution, not me.

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« Reply #1297 on: February 20, 2020, 10:39:43 PM »
I just want to read hegel for hegel.
this is a good look. one of the biggest things i’m alluding to above is that virtually everyone points to hegel when they need to explain ‘dialectics’ and it turns out that that’s just an awful way of understanding what’s going on in the phenomenology or the rest of his system. there’s a kernel of truth to it, but the term brings too much osmotic baggage with it, to the point where it’s better to just scrap it and start with a clean sheet

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« Reply #1298 on: February 20, 2020, 10:40:13 PM »
A 24%er is someone who can help implement land and copyright reform while not being a threat to leadership, a 33%er sounds more like someone who will make doctrinal disputes and try to challenge centralism.

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« Reply #1299 on: February 20, 2020, 10:44:56 PM »
35%

what's the labour camp cutoff?

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« Reply #1301 on: February 21, 2020, 02:57:06 PM »
(Image removed from quote.) guys, going through kant and hegel is cool and fine, but you don’t have to read everyone in the canonTM. best piece of advice someone can give you is don’t let reading get in the way of things you actually want to read. you’ll better understand marx, or whoever, just by reading marx.
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« Reply #1302 on: February 21, 2020, 02:59:18 PM »
prolific incel Jake will disregard that due to feminine pronouns 


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« Reply #1304 on: February 21, 2020, 05:57:24 PM »
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« Reply #1305 on: February 22, 2020, 12:08:06 AM »
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« Reply #1306 on: February 22, 2020, 11:47:06 AM »
browsing elsewhere on idrlabs
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« Reply #1307 on: February 22, 2020, 11:57:57 AM »
Of course not. How do you know that's not the 11% I missed!!!!!!! Seriously, I didn't get 100%! Not at all! 11 as a percentage or age is much too small!

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« Reply #1308 on: February 22, 2020, 12:00:01 PM »
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« Reply #1309 on: February 22, 2020, 12:05:53 PM »
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« Reply #1310 on: February 22, 2020, 12:11:07 PM »
Hang on, what do purple carrots or reading about sports tell me about my political leaning?
Am I already on an anticommunist watch list?

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« Reply #1311 on: February 22, 2020, 12:14:48 PM »
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« Reply #1312 on: February 22, 2020, 12:15:17 PM »
Stro out here trying to smear me when he was a CENTRIST the whole time. :karen

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« Reply #1313 on: February 22, 2020, 12:17:40 PM »


It was the arugula, wasn‘t it? :existential

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« Reply #1314 on: February 22, 2020, 12:24:21 PM »


Fuck, this proves that I'm Joe Rogan.

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« Reply #1315 on: February 22, 2020, 12:25:56 PM »
guess i have to vote for trump daddy over berndawg now :-\



i said that i like arugala AND i'd try the purple carrots and i still end up with this :thinking

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« Reply #1316 on: February 22, 2020, 12:27:42 PM »
centrists to the left of me, centrists to the right of me :notlikethis

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« Reply #1317 on: February 22, 2020, 12:28:29 PM »
The #1 question for discerning political stances from ostensibly non-political questions would be "Agree or disagree: college basketball is more entertaining to watch than the NBA because of the teamwork and fundamentals."

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« Reply #1318 on: February 22, 2020, 12:29:55 PM »
it's because you guys are all thinking of this and picking country music:

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« Reply #1319 on: February 22, 2020, 12:31:39 PM »
The #1 question for discerning political stances from ostensibly non-political questions would be "Agree or disagree: college basketball is more entertaining to watch than the NBA because of the teamwork and fundamentals."

What if I enjoy college hoops more because the crowds are more into it?

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