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Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

shut up you hack

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Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

Counterpoint: all of recorded history.

TayIor Swift
Oct 29, 2016

by zen death robot
[wringing my hands together as steam begins to pour out of my privileged tech startup head and Face] Hillary should have denounced radical Islam and promoted white supremacy to win the election

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

cumshitter posted:

greetings fellow wordsayers, i hop eeveryone is having a radically islamic night

/hail cumshitter

skylined!
Apr 6, 2012

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON
I stepped away for a bit to work on painting my living room because of this point it is one of the few things that is somewhat therapeutic and I've been meeting do it for a long time.

I was thinking, if Trump truly does try to run his cabinet like he runs his businesses he really is going to try to pit these people against each other to fight for their right to have an influence. These are people that think very highly of themselves and have been spending their entire careers in politics. I considered, if Trump really demesnes these people how long will it take for them to say gently caress it, and how long would the in fighting take to really set in.

Apparently the answer was about 3 1/2 hours, or the length of time it takes for me to prep a 14 x 12' room to paint.

Of course I don't want to get too excited. I think a lot of us saw this sort of thing happened during the election, where we thought the GOP was going to cannibalize itself, yet here we are.

At least my walls will look nice when I'm done. A nice light gray, and a deep ocean green.

Tainen
Jan 23, 2004
I hope Newt gets the coveted ambassador to the national zoo position.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

lol

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
cant wait to visit the donald "j" trump presidential library

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



Tainen posted:

I hope Newt gets the coveted ambassador to the national zoo position.

it says a lot when newt gingrich is probably the least awful person in an administration

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007

Couple states go the other way and his tone would change so fuckin fast.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit

Dapper_Swindler posted:

oh gently caress, the collapse starts before the first week is out. holy gently caress.

i wouldnt be as optimistic to hope for a collapse, if anything, i hope this rickety structure lasts into inauguration so it can paralyse them. just as we're going through a brief and violent civil war, the gop is also due for one as well. but the different factions of the gop have more to lose, so they have incentive to try and paper over the cracks for a few more months

Bolton Hairy-Bore
Jul 31, 2013
honestly tho, everybody should just stop listening to liberal hacks. they're powerless, useless, wrong, and collaborators. if they succeed in defining the narrative, they're going to get lots of people killed under the Trump regime

Entropic
Feb 21, 2007

patriarchy sucks

triple sulk posted:

it says a lot when newt gingrich is probably the least awful person in an administration

I wonder how many American liberals would be willing to swap the current state of affairs for a third GWB/Cheney term.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Bolton Hairy-Bore posted:

honestly tho, everybody should just stop listening to liberal hacks. they're powerless, useless, wrong, and collaborators. if they succeed in defining the narrative, they're going to get lots of people killed under the Trump regime

https://twitter.com/sheckyyoungman/status/796446256050491393

Captain Internet
Apr 20, 2005

:love: HOTLANTA :love:
IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS

mormonpartyboat posted:

cant wait to visit the donald "j" trump presidential library

You ever find porno in the woods? Probably that.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Bolton Hairy-Bore posted:

honestly tho, everybody should just stop listening to liberal hacks. they're powerless, useless, wrong, and collaborators. if they succeed in defining the narrative, they're going to get lots of people killed under the Trump regime

what?

Tainen
Jan 23, 2004

triple sulk posted:

it says a lot when newt gingrich is probably the least awful person in an administration

Just wait till they kick Ryan to the curb and reinstate Newt as speaker.

TayIor Swift
Oct 29, 2016

by zen death robot

>_<

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007

Entropic posted:

I wonder how many American liberals would be willing to swap the current state of affairs for a third GWB/Cheney term.

Getting kicked in the jaw > Bush > Trump > Cheney

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
"Mr. President, I want to make sure I stay respectful here, but what do you do best?"

"Mr. President, that decision to jail reporters may be seen as hostile to free speech and I know it wasn't meant to be that way. Why may people think that?"

"Mr. President, some people are questioning your decision to use public funds to and political power to enrich yourself. Are they out of line?"

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008


Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

hey i think you dropped some anime somewhere outside

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Tainen posted:

Just wait till they kick Ryan to the curb and reinstate Newt as speaker.

yeah, technically doesn't actually have to be a house member if i remember correctly

logikv9
Mar 5, 2009


Ham Wrangler
i kickstarted the this is fine dog plush and i can't wait for it to get here

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Admiral Ray posted:

"Mr. President, I want to make sure I stay respectful here, but what do you do best?"

"Mr. President, that decision to jail reporters may be seen as hostile to free speech and I know it wasn't meant to be that way. Why may people think that?"

"Mr. President, some people are questioning your decision to use public funds to and political power to enrich yourself. Are they out of line?"

"Great President Or Greatest President"

GrimGypsy
Mar 27, 2007

please share legit good sites/journos on the Left who aren't hacks, please

(not sarcasm, I'm trying to make sure I have a wide range of good voices and know I'm probably missing some)

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
donald "j" trump middle school

Hamelekim
Feb 25, 2006

And another thing... if global warming is real. How come it's so damn cold?
Ramrod XTreme

Phobophilia posted:

i wouldnt be as optimistic to hope for a collapse, if anything, i hope this rickety structure lasts into inauguration so it can paralyse them. just as we're going through a brief and violent civil war, the gop is also due for one as well. but the different factions of the gop have more to lose, so they have incentive to try and paper over the cracks for a few more months

Oh I think we are headed towards war and collapse, the entire west is, and Trump might be the catalyst that causes that war.

Trump sure as hell isn't changing the distribution of property, so the only way out for him is war. With people like Bolton, and the other fascists and war-mongers in his administration, you can be guaranteed to have war and oppression of any opponents.

https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/walter-benjamin-fascism-crisis/

quote:

Fascism logically leads to the aestheticising of politics. Politics is turned into the production of beauty, according to a certain aesthetic. This is achieved through an immense apparatus for the ‘production of ritual values’. Benjamin is thinking of the Nazi propaganda-machine, with its choreographed torch-lit marches and rallies, iconic posters and statues, and films such as Triumph of the Will. This machine is widely recognised as a forerunner of the modern PR industry.

Fascism is thus partly a product of spectacle. Benjamin relates it to the spectacular nature of commodities, which are transformed in their presence from simple objects to spectacle or phantasmagoria. Fascism expands the logic of spectacle into the field of politics, with its charismatic leaders, eye-catching posters, movie-like Manichean discourse, torchlit rallies, and powerful logos and symbols.

According to Benjamin, fascism inevitably leads to war. War is the only way to channel mass movements and intense emotions, without challenging the property system. It simultaneously serves, in classic Marxist fashion, to channel the forces of production which are blocked by the property system.

Some Marxists see crises such as those of the 1930s and today as crises of overproduction. This means that capitalism is in crisis because it can’t get people to consume as much as it can produce, usually because people aren’t being paid enough. As a result, people are left unemployed and machines and factories are left idle. People who adhere to this theory see the Second World War as a resolution of the crisis of overproduction. The state artificially inflated demand by producing weapons. It then destroyed a lot of other resources by using them. This got people producing again, and was a way out of the crisis.

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



the billy mays ep of south park is on tv rn

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

he's talking about poo poo like this


and is right?

change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

"Drain the swamp!" I shout, making GBS threads into my diaper

Agrajag
Jan 21, 2006

gat dang thats hot

GrimGypsy posted:

please share legit good sites/journos on the Left who aren't hacks, please

(not sarcasm, I'm trying to make sure I have a wide range of good voices and know I'm probably missing some)

the left doesnt have anything like that that i know of

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

change my name posted:

"Drain the swamp!" I shout, making GBS threads into my diaper

drain the womp womp

a.lo
Sep 12, 2009

change my name posted:

"Drain the swamp!" I shout, making GBS threads into my diaper

it's time...........for a chang e

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007
Every time I get less shook, I remember that war is imminent and there is nowhere I can go in the US that is not in danger. It may be foreign powers or gun fetish right wingers vs Molotov throwing leftists

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
https://twitter.com/McNaughtonArt/status/796464299073884160

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

GrimGypsy posted:

please share legit good sites/journos on the Left who aren't hacks, please

(not sarcasm, I'm trying to make sure I have a wide range of good voices and know I'm probably missing some)

noam chomsky, michel foucault, that book about your teacher lying to you, seasons 2 & 3 of penn and teller's bullshit, the bitcoin white paper

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

please god kill me first

Bolton Hairy-Bore
Jul 31, 2013

by normalizing trump, by saying let's wait and see, by discouraging any effective resistance, by collaborating with proto-fascism, by being neoliberals. if trump is just more of the same -- more prison, more police, more deportations, more war, more austerity, that's more death by capitalism and the state, aided by its liberal collaborators.

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Montasque
Jul 18, 2003

Living in a hateful world sending me straight to Heaven

It will hang above the bust of MLK.

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