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exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/VP/status/863182608552906755

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StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Tias posted:

Who is Redpill McPimpbeard supposed to be?

Giantdad

Unexpected Raw Anime
Oct 9, 2012

Poppyseed Poundcake posted:

no American addicts use afghani heroin. all that stuff goes to Europe and Russia. we get our stuff more locally

Most of it goes to Iran

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!



:thermidor::q:

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009


just start throwing pieces of silver at the gently caress

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

A minmaxed pvp build is the platonic ideal of a Patriach

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

du -hast
Mar 12, 2003

BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT GENTOO
Gonna be totally, 100% honest: I would watch, in its entirety, a video of Mike Pence getting hosed by a horse.

Doctor Spaceman
Jul 6, 2010

"Everyone's entitled to their point of view, but that's seriously a weird one."
http://i.imgur.com/5alp022.mp4

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007



Somehow this is the most flattering picture of Mitch ever

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

nature is truly beautiful

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 26 days!)

https://twitter.com/ASI/status/780671422884618240

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/863312235501846529

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Darkman Fanpage posted:

nature is truly beautiful

If GOP senators reproduced by laying a bunch of eggs on a beach and then left, never to be involved with their offspring again that'd explain a few things

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

"how dare you point out that neoliberalism and looking to the democrat elites is not the answer to trump!"

Iridium
Apr 4, 2002

Wretched Harp
https://twitter.com/JackSmithIV/status/863413631261736960

Fallen Hamprince
Nov 12, 2016

snoo
Jul 5, 2007





:agreed:

Poppyseed Poundcake
Feb 23, 2007
:420:?

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

WUZ KINGZ?

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 207 days!

Wait, the Kek people are now pro-Healthcare?

I'm conflicted, but intrigued.

Tias
May 25, 2008

Pictured: the patron saint of internet political arguments (probably)

This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund
Who the hell knows with those crazies.

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos

Hodgepodge posted:

Wait, the Kek people are now pro-Healthcare?

I'm conflicted, but intrigued.

They're trolls. They're whatever makes people mad.

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
Like if America turned hard right 4chan would swerve into FULL COMMUNISM NOW COMRADE [soviet_anthem.wav] poo poo.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Peanut President posted:

Like if America turned hard right 4chan would swerve into FULL COMMUNISM NOW COMRADE [soviet_anthem.wav] poo poo.

We already have /leftypol/

Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747

Peanut President posted:

Like if America turned hard right 4chan would swerve into FULL COMMUNISM NOW COMRADE [soviet_anthem.wav] poo poo.

Did America not turn hard right

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Modest Mao posted:

Did America not turn hard right

It could always turn, like, actual factual fascism. Which is something it seems like a lot of Americans don't seem to understand the character of very well, if the relentless comparisons with Trump (a reactionary kleptocratic populist, not really interested in reshaping the state) are any indication.

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Like, if your strategy to overcome a political entity is merely to elect the Correct Politicians or even the Less Bad Politicians next time, you're probably not dealing with actual fascism. It is notoriously impervious to mere electoralism.

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
Anyone know where I can get some basic information on why the ovetton window drifted toward the bad opinion zone over the past few decades?

Accretionist
Nov 7, 2012
I BELIEVE IN STUPID CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Volcott posted:

Anyone know where I can get some basic information on why the ovetton window drifted toward the bad opinion zone over the past few decades?

Billions of dollars over forty years.

Reminder: Conservatism is literally a plot to bring back the Gilded Age.

quote:

On August 23, 1971, prior to accepting Nixon's nomination to the Supreme Court, Powell was commissioned by his neighbor, Eugene B. Sydnor Jr., a close friend and education director of the US Chamber of Commerce, to write a confidential memorandum titled "Attack on the American Free Enterprise System," an anti-Communist, anti-New Deal blueprint for conservative business interests to retake America for the chamber.[13][14] It was based in part on Powell's reaction to the work of activist Ralph Nader, whose 1965 exposé on General Motors, "Unsafe at Any Speed," put a focus on the auto industry putting profit ahead of safety, which triggered the American consumer movement. Powell saw it as an undermining of Americans' faith in enterprise and another step in the slippery slope of socialism. [...]

The memo called for corporate America to become more aggressive in molding society's thinking about business, government, politics and law in the US. It sparked wealthy heirs of earlier American Industrialists [...] to use their private charitable foundations, [...] to fund Powell's vision of a pro-business, anti-socialist, minimalist government-regulated America as it had been in the heyday of early American industrialism, before the Great Depression and the rise of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

The Powell Memorandum thus became the blueprint of the rise of the American conservative movement and the formation of a network of influential right-wing think tanks and lobbying organizations, such as The Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as well as inspiring the US Chamber of Commerce to become far more politically active.[15][16]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Memorandum

Recognize, "Heritage Foundation," and, "ALEC?" The think tanks and lobbying organizations they're talking about are the institutional core of conservativism and have been enormously influential over the past forty years. Why have they been so successful? They're basically here to accelerate the naturally occurring positive feedback loop between wealth concentration and power concentration.


If you have Amazon Prime, The Brainwashing of My Dad is a documentary which provides a quick overview of the rise of conservative media

FabioClone
Oct 3, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

crazy cloud
Nov 7, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Lipstick Apathy

*link pulling the master sword out of the pedestal sounds*

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

crazy cloud posted:

*link pulling the master sword out of the pedestal sounds*

No way that shitbird got the three pendants of virtue

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

Mitch McConnell is a beautiful human submarine

Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747

Mr. Lobe posted:

Like, if your strategy to overcome a political entity is merely to elect the Correct Politicians or even the Less Bad Politicians next time, you're probably not dealing with actual fascism. It is notoriously impervious to mere electoralism.

actually we live in fascism and it's just been normalized hth

Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747
fascism is that scary system where elections are meaningless millions are in prison and they bomb foreign countries who did nothing to provoke it

now imagine if it came to america

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Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 207 days!

Modest Mao posted:

fascism is that scary system where elections are meaningless millions are in prison and they bomb foreign countries who did nothing to provoke it

now imagine if it came to america

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

the error in this line of thinking is that it absolves (classical) liberalism and it's economic aspect, capitalism, of its sins by attributing them to fascism

Volcott
Mar 30, 2010

People paying American dollars to let other people know they didn't agree with someone's position on something is the lifeblood of these forums.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/512060/Stay_Stay_Democratic_Peoples_Republic_of_Korea/

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Youth Decay
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