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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

and boy howdy has talking about how america = oppression theft and brutality has been a winning strategy for the Left ever since
do you honestly think they didn't believe in the art of the "useful idiot"

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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
im still mad at cointelpro for breaking up lf

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
turns out saying "no America, you are the demons" leads straight to "and then America voted Republican"

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

turns out saying "no America, you are the demons" leads straight to "and then America voted Republican"
why else do you think the media signal boosts shame politics in regards to "leftists"

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/809791169702096896

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

do you honestly think they didn't believe in the art of the "useful idiot"

of course they do, but lots of the people who scream the loudest about it are comically ineffectual nebbishes who couldn't organize a coke and hooker party in a brothel owned by Tony Montana

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/wheredabrewsat/status/809877717445287936

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008


china doesn't see your name on it

under international finders keepers rules it's fair

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

why else do you think the media signal boosts shame politics in regards to "leftists"

because it's easy and cheap, not because the media is a monolith marching to the beat of their shadowy overseers

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

nowadays COINTELPRO is the Russian Hackers of Occupy types.

This is a fuckin' gross comparison and you should be ashamed to make it. The FBI hosed up the lives of real people as part of an organized campaign and very intentionally destroyed actual organizations, and they didn't do it just by (maybe) leaking a few private documents.

Main Paineframe posted:

nah, I was just takin a cheap shot in hopes that maybe I'd stimulate someone's braincells to think about potential other reasons the left might not be super patriotic

like, for instance, the fact that America represents oppression, theft, and brutality to pretty much everyone in the world except Western white males, and patriotism in the left started dropping off around the time the left stopped being a whites-only club and started paying attention to civil rights both at home and abroad. incidentally this is also around the time anti-war views started to become significant, as before that, all but the most radical fringes of the left promptly fell into line every time the US went to war

The left would be better off if we it also had the support of folks who support their values but are also like feeling patriotic, though. So why the hell do you want to try and stomp out discussion of welcoming more patriotic elements into the movement?

The left doesn't have to be and shouldn't be a monolith, and patriotism can be an incredibly vehicle for hope and change

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

of course they do, but lots of the people who scream the loudest about it are comically ineffectual nebbishes who couldn't organize a coke and hooker party in a brothel owned by Tony Montana

seems to have worked out well for donald trump

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

of course they do, but lots of the people who scream the loudest about it are comically ineffectual nebbishes who couldn't organize a coke and hooker party in a brothel owned by Tony Montana
and they were promoted to stardom this decade (though by corporate media these days) much to the chagrin of socialists and unions and civil rights orgs, it's not like they popped out of the ether.

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

because it's easy and cheap, not because the media is a monolith marching to the beat of their shadowy overseers
porque no los dos

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

GlyphGryph posted:

This is a fuckin' gross comparison and you should be ashamed to make it. The FBI hosed up the lives of real people and very intentionally destroyed real organizations, and they didn't do it just by leaking a few private documents.

I said nowadays, genius. Of course they did heinous poo poo back then. In fact they did such a good job of ruining the left they COINTELPRO'd themselves out of a job.

Oh Snapple!
Dec 27, 2005

how do u pronounce COINTELPRO

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

porque no los dos

no why

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

so since the democrats are following the british labour schedule, how is everyone going to spend the next 4 years of ineffectual coup attempts by blairitesneoliberals

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Oh Snapple! posted:

how do u pronounce COINTELPRO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pen3isZj4cM

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Yinlock posted:

so since the democrats are following the british labour schedule, how is everyone going to spend the next 4 years of ineffectual coup attempts by blairitesneoliberals
like the uk, watching this country go bankrupt signing away any and all assets to privatization while we try to salvage what is left in the last days of the union

they may not be a monolith but they do skew towards what outcomes they want

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Yinlock posted:

so since the democrats are following the british labour schedule, how is everyone going to spend the next 4 years of ineffectual coup attempts by blairitesneoliberals

Man I only wish we'd given Corbyn party leadership

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

they may not be a monolith but they do skew towards what outcomes they want

oh, absolutely, it's I just didn't remember enough spanish to say it's more one than the other so I used a rather infamous chinese phrase that means, basically, "no reason"

Vincent Van Goatse has issued a correction as of 23:03 on Dec 16, 2016

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
I don't even know who the gently caress is arguing about what anymore


I'll at least reiterate my own positions:

I think the Left, or at least a faction thereof, should definitely pursue a form of patriotic socialism that celebrates the potential of what this country can be while repurposing its symbolism to their own ends and fighting to make a country people can and should be proud of.

We know it is possible, because it happened before and it was largely successful until destroyed by concerted government action. We don't need to come up with the idea, just rebuild something we've already accomplished, and it's a drat shame it doesn't seem to have already been done.

Does anyone actually disagree with either of these points?

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

you know how i'd answer!!!!!

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

GlyphGryph posted:

I don't even know who the gently caress is arguing about what anymore

Me neither.

quote:

I'll at least reiterate my own positions:

I think the Left, or at least a faction thereof, should definitely pursue a form of patriotic socialism that celebrates the potential of what this country can be while repurposing its symbolism to their own ends and fighting to make a country people can and should be proud of.

We know it is possible, because it happened before and it was largely successful until destroyed by concerted government action. We don't need to come up with the idea, just rebuild something we've already accomplished.

It is a good idea.

Hell, :same:

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
If I start up a local branch I could call it the New England Patriot Party and I'd probably get a bunch of free members just from the association with football.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

like the uk, watching this country go bankrupt signing away any and all assets to privatization while we try to salvage what is left in the last days of the union

at least you'll get some funny headlines out of it

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

GlyphGryph posted:

If I start up a local branch I could call it the New England Patriot Party and I'd probably get a bunch of free members just from the association with football.
well, that and also the appeal of playing dirty (politically)

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

GlyphGryph posted:

If I start up a local branch I could call it the New England Patriot Party and I'd probably get a bunch of free members just from the association with football.

Brady and Belichick were all about the Trump so you'd be hosed as a socialist org before you got out of the starting gate

comingafteryouall
Aug 2, 2011


GlyphGryph posted:

If I start up a local branch I could call it the New England Patriot Party and I'd probably get a bunch of free members just from the association with football.

really kills your prospects outside of your area though.

gotta nip that short term corporate think in the bud.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

i was beating off lads left and right let me tell you

Fiction
Apr 28, 2011

Yinlock posted:

so since the democrats are following the british labour schedule, how is everyone going to spend the next 4 years of ineffectual coup attempts by blairitesneoliberals

Using my power of making insane posts to rant insanely in front of my local DSC.

Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Fiction posted:

Using my power of making insane posts to rant insanely in front of my local DSC.
hey, some of us reel back our insane nihilistic outbreaks when it comes to talking to officials ok

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

There are absolutely populist/socialist heroes in our country's history and culture which we should be glorifying as best we can (FDR, Eugene Debs, Huey Long, Joe Hill, the movie The Grapes of Wrath, Rage Against The Machine, the list goes on)

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

GlyphGryph posted:

I don't even know who the gently caress is arguing about what anymore


I'll at least reiterate my own positions:

I think the Left, or at least a faction thereof, should definitely pursue a form of patriotic socialism that celebrates the potential of what this country can be while repurposing its symbolism to their own ends and fighting to make a country people can and should be proud of.

We know it is possible, because it happened before and it was largely successful until destroyed by concerted government action. We don't need to come up with the idea, just rebuild something we've already accomplished, and it's a drat shame it doesn't seem to have already been done.

Does anyone actually disagree with either of these points?

statist

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Brady and Belichick were all about the Trump so you'd be hosed as a socialist org before you got out of the starting gate

Gisele was very emphatic that they didn't vote for Trump and I believe her more than I believe Trump

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

Yinlock posted:

i was beating off lads left and right let me tell you

This is literally how I read that at first and had to do a double take.


comingafteryouall posted:

really kills your prospects outside of your area though.

gotta nip that short term corporate think in the bud.

That's why I said "local branch"!

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

Brady and Belichick were all about the Trump so you'd be hosed as a socialist org before you got out of the starting gate

Yeah but almost no one actually gives a poo poo about that, lol. The Patriots are all that is holy and good, they will have no problem holding Tom Brady, Belichick and Socialism as good at the same time as long as they are all associated with the Patriots, regardless of the political opinions of Brady and Belichick even if they did support Trump.

At least, speaking personally. We still voted overwhelmingly for Hillary so I'm assuming most folks don't care too much about any Trump support they provided.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.

Al! posted:

statist

minarchist.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

People on this website get so mad about the patriots though

I think the majority of all rage-avatars I have had bought for me were bought because someone was really mad at the patriots

deflategate was a hoax, tom did nothing wrong and will be the 2016 MVP

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

loquacius posted:

There are absolutely populist/socialist heroes in our country's history and culture which we should be glorifying as best we can (FDR, Eugene Debs, Huey Long, Joe Hill, the movie The Grapes of Wrath, Rage Against The Machine, the list goes on)

You mean the book, philistine

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

GlyphGryph posted:

The left would be better off if we it also had the support of folks who support their values but are also like feeling patriotic, though. So why the hell do you want to try and stomp out discussion of welcoming more patriotic elements into the movement?

The left doesn't have to be and shouldn't be a monolith, and patriotism can be an incredibly vehicle for hope and change

because those patriotic elements are not very compatible with the various movements widely described as unpatriotic, like the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the free speech movement

besides, look at how well America Is Already Great worked in 2016

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Anime Schoolgirl
Nov 28, 2002

Main Paineframe posted:

because those patriotic elements are not very compatible with the various movements widely described as unpatriotic, like the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, and the free speech movement
they USED to be compatible, which is what his point is.

do you think that it is not actually possible to reclaim that?

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