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Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

4 million died when capitalist Britain took the majority of the subcontinent's harvest for the war effort.

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KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

but what about *deaths caused by system no one was particularly defending * checkmate capitalists



steinrokkan posted:

It's easy to be a pundit smugly pontificating about how good the subservient nations had it under the USSR, when you are looking at them from the comfort of a warm living room, with a full stomach.

Goatman Sacks
Apr 4, 2011

by FactsAreUseless

TomViolence posted:



French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre participated in a heinous reign of terror in the wake of the French revolution.


actually Robespierre did nothing wrong


MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

stone cold posted:

Ah, yes, Robespierre and Cromwell truly upheld republican ideas.





Just like these exemplary leaders!

They became authoritarian after the previous republican governments descended into corruption and infighting over petty personal slights. Both situations required a strong, central leaders to curtail the dangerous whims of both the elites and masses. This is why a democracy is the most ineffectual form of government.

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

Capitalism fails us daily, communism failed hard enough to kill itself, fascism tried to kill everyone until there was no-one left to fail.

Comrades, there is but one option left to us.



Let us collectively fail ourselves and each other as free individuals.

Bob le Moche
Jul 10, 2011

I AM A HORRIBLE TANKIE MORON
WHO LONGS TO SUCK CHAVISTA COCK !

I SUGGEST YOU IGNORE ANY POSTS MADE BY THIS PERSON ABOUT VENEZUELA, POLITICS, OR ANYTHING ACTUALLY !


(This title paid for by money stolen from PDVSA)

KazigluBey posted:

whataboutism

"Whataboutism" is a word that cold warriors invented because they thought it was hilarious to make fun of leftists for criticizing the fact that they lynched black people and treated women like lesser beings. Hoho look at these pinko commies pretending that these things are more important than private property, what losers.
It's not a very good look in 2016 in retrospect.



Never mind also the fact that these days it's the liberal defenders of capitalism who go on about "what about all the people who died in this famine under communism" every time anyone is unsatisfied with capitalism and wants to discuss socialism as an alternative.

Bob le Moche fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Oct 25, 2016

xthnru
Apr 6, 2007

FUCK YOU GUYS. I'm out.


This seems somewhat appropriate, for some reason.

KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner


Project & strawman harder, please. Whataboutism is a fine term that describes exactly the kind of rhetorical bullshit that was going on a handful of posts back; nobody was explicitly defending Capitalism in the posts that proceeded this.

Hmm yes someone pointed out life in Eastern Europe under the USSR wasn't that great, better point out that life in the West wasn't that great either!

wayfinder
Jul 7, 2003
https://twitter.com/danielradosh/status/790568116023615488

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!
https://twitter.com/imraansiddiqi/status/790972236601503744

plainswalker75
Feb 22, 2003

Pigs are smarter than Bears, but they can't ride motorcycles
Hair Elf
loving gun nuts

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

plainswalker75 posted:

loving gun nuts



I seriously wonder if guys who buy this would be happier as eunuchs. I can't imagine a man who would buy this and doesn't loathe his own genitals.

https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/790987840884617216

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




MizPiz posted:

I seriously wonder if guys who buy this would be happier as eunuchs. I can't imagine a man who would buy this and doesn't loathe his own genitals.

https://twitter.com/ChuckTingle/status/790987840884617216
It is a weapon attachment, genital protection is usually done with whatever is the body armour for whatever you are doing, maybe combined with "hard"-shell underwear if we talk about sports, like hockey. For example:

This thing, on the other hand, is a foregrip who can't get enough of their own balls.

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

cinci zoo sniper posted:

It is a weapon attachment, genital protection is usually done with whatever is the body armour for whatever you are doing, maybe combined with "hard"-shell underwear if we talk about sports, like hockey. For example:

This thing, on the other hand, is a foregrip who can't get enough of their own balls.


I know, I'm saying that people who buy the foregrip must hate their own cock and balls because it's admitting that want your gun to replace them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FObVW2abE68

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




MizPiz posted:

I know, I'm saying that people who buy the foregrip must hate their own cock and balls because it's admitting that want your gun to replace them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FObVW2abE68
Oh, I see.

Negostrike
Aug 15, 2015


https://twitter.com/jpeghz/status/791061276088819712

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
http://youtu.be/XsoSVdJikDw

GI Joe jobs
Jun 25, 2005

🎅🤜🤛👷
Joe Arpaio joins the club!

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012



No, but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzFALq3fP2I

Elias_Maluco
Aug 23, 2007
I need to sleep

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Guavanaut posted:

What happened to the other lakes in that map?


Speaking of lakes and communism

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013

Phlegmish posted:

Speaking of lakes and communism



Also there's a abandoned bioweapons facility on the island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtM6I9XYeFg

bagual
Oct 29, 2010

inconspicuous

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth

MacheteZombie
Feb 4, 2007

Phlegmish posted:

Speaking of lakes and communism



Urmia (Iran)


Lake Mead


Columbia Glacier


Dubai


Wyoming Coal Mine

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069




Clapping Larry

This is terrifying and amazing, it's like the city sprawl is sucking the lake dry. I spent a week toodling around Lake Mead on a houseboat in 2011 and it was about 20 feet below "normal" water levels, entire hillsides were bleached and gross.



courtesy of Kansas, the shittiest state with the awesomest statehouse art.

bad news bareback
Jan 16, 2009

Ideological purity is brain cancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9n0Amr9RI

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat


Lake Chad, which may be the worst eco-humanitarian problem of them all.

TheBigAristotle
Feb 8, 2007

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.
I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Grimey Drawer

steinrokkan posted:



Lake Chad, which may be the worst eco-humanitarian problem of them all.

That is incredibly depressing. I dug this gem up just to say that. I wish there was a Trump version, there's plenty of faces and phrases.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist


Donald Trump's Hollywood Star vandalized by a guy with a sledgehammer and pickaxe.

Snowman Crossing
Dec 4, 2009

steinrokkan posted:



Lake Chad, which may be the worst eco-humanitarian problem of them all.

Will it impact us in some way? Or is the problem limited to Africa?

FlyingCheese
Jan 17, 2007
OH THANK GOD!

I never thought I'd be happy to see yet another lubed up man-ass.

Met posted:



Donald Trump's Hollywood Star vandalized by a guy with a sledgehammer and pickaxe.

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

An actually good ad from a republican.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzjRwNUQDRU

Nea
Feb 28, 2014

Funny Little Guy Aficionado.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbryz0mxuMY

Today, we have- Epic Rap Battles.

Dr. Arbitrary
Mar 15, 2006

Bleak Gremlin

There were some amazing lines in that one:
Spoiled because it's one of the best lines in the video:


GI Joe jobs
Jun 25, 2005

🎅🤜🤛👷
Old but good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWuv2txl_5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJpWOY3r18

GI Joe jobs fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Oct 27, 2016

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

A Handed Missus
Aug 6, 2012




nice

Nonviolent J
Jul 20, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Soiled Meat
who gives a gently caress about lakes


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pillsburysoldier
Feb 11, 2008

Yo, peep that shit

http://jessehimself.tumblr.com/post/147131403728/law-students-attempt-to-lecture-law-professor

https://twitter.com/sevyn/status/791432200608702464

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