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Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
The Nanny named Len

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ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
like, I would respect stein more if she actually blew something up

one way ticket to heroism: blowing poo poo up

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


House Un-American Activities Committee chairman Francis E. Walter (Democrat :smug:) sounds exactly like Ed Asner as Ed Wuncler I in Boondocks, and it's driving me nuts.

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich
"woke" liberals should join their "socially liberal" republican friends across the aisle and make the neo-neocon party

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Tight Booty Shorts posted:

"woke" liberals should join their "socially liberal" republican friends across the aisle and make the neo-neocon party

Isn't this basically the Liberal Democrats in the UK?

Rand alPaul
Feb 3, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo

James Earl Jones?

Subjunctivitis
Oct 12, 2007
Causation or Correlation?

Inescapable Duck posted:

Isn't this basically the Democrats in the US?

Probably Magic
Oct 9, 2012

Looking cute, feeling cute.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

democrats like to call everyone that disagrees with them as racist and sexist kind of like the republicans like to call everyone that disagrees with them as immoral and unamerican

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
the democrats loving suck

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
an Ode to Joy:

https://twitter.com/FJPotts/status/888468762885668865

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless

comedyblissoption posted:

democrats like to call everyone that disagrees with them as racist and sexist kind of like the republicans like to call everyone that disagrees with them as immoral and unamerican

what if im all four

Frijolero
Jan 24, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

Curses! You got me.

That's the official secret conspiracy meeting where Putin told Stein to run for president, very problematic.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/themoneygame/status/888444368939606016

Zuck!

My Face When
Nov 28, 2012

Hide your healthcare.
Hide your wife.

poo poo. He's going to run isnt he?

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

My Face When posted:

poo poo. He's going to run isnt he?

Look it's not all bad, someone else outlined 2 good things about Zuck

1) Trump will throw a fit if he loses to a nerd
2) the Pepe's will throw a fit at president (((mark zuckerberg)))

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
More like the Zuck Sone.

Donkwich
Feb 28, 2011


Grimey Drawer
inescapable zuck

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Scent of Worf posted:

she's replying to the backlash right now..

https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/888645301128638464

liberals are breaking my brain :shepicide:

no one tell her about emma goldman

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
god im dumb mods pls namechange dumbgoon

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

someone pointed out that CPUSA was basically the only white organization fighting for black civil rights in the 30s, right?https://twitter.com/LanaDelRaytheon/status/888746471113187329

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

That whole "capitalism/industrialization would have killed slavery sooner or later" argument has always just struck me as ludicrous. Like Henry Ford wouldn't have used slave labor in his factories if he were allowed.

Now, full automation might finally be slavery's death knell (when the robots we enslave to do all our work rise up and murder us all).

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
im pro robot uprising. we have it coming.

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Something I've heard people say a lot is that the only reason the American North was abolitionist was that Northern workers were worried about having to compete with slave labor for wage-slave jobs

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
yes, there was an element of that in the abolitionist movement; different people had different motivations

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES
The South was capitalist as gently caress in the slavery era, Zaid is a retard

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.

If anything the grunts might have liked slavery because it meant there wasn't black freedmen taking their jobs

white sauce
Apr 29, 2012

by R. Guyovich
The American south is so stupid I've had leftist dudes from Louisiana tell me the civil war was over state's rights

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

If anything the grunts might have liked slavery because it meant there wasn't black freedmen taking their jobs

I mean, if there's no economic incentive, your horrifically-racist 19th-century boss probably isn't gonna hire black freedmen of his own accord

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.

We need more education so people can have the better skills to know the civil war was about slavery

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:

I mean, if there's no economic incentive, your horrifically-racist 19th-century boss probably isn't gonna hire black freedmen of his own accord

Finally, someone I can pay less than the Irish

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

white sauce posted:

The American south is so stupid I've had leftist dudes from Louisiana tell me the civil war was over state's rights

Like states' rights to not participate in the Fugitive Slave Act? :grin:

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

white sauce posted:

The American south is so stupid I've had leftist dudes from Louisiana tell me the civil war was over state's rights

whatever you do, don't let Twitter get wind of that or we will never hear the end of it

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

We need more education so people can have the better skills to know the civil war was about slavery

this, but either unironically or more unironically

deadgoon
Dec 4, 2014

by FactsAreUseless
before the civil war private citizens could own slaves

now that right is reserved to the state alone, who leases out its slave labor

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




Probably Magic posted:

Squizzle, if you're reading this, I'm going to need more Jungle Fury .gifs, please, because that's the best Power Rangers after In Space.

imo the back half of it is decent but the first half drags while we just see dai shi get angrier and the power rangers get new toys, both of which are real predictable

poo poo starts happening around the werewolf part tho

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Oh Snapple! posted:

when precisely did dems start framing the left as innately and historically hostile to black people

i know it got turned way the gently caress up in the last couple of years but was it always kind of present

a lot of the moderate economic left was racist...back in the first half of the 20th century when basically every major group and organization was racist. many New Deal programs were essentially whites-only, and a lot of unions were exclusionary of minorities

also, the current leftist wave had some early stumbles on messaging in regards to racism, and there are individuals who do try to use socialist rhetoric to argue that racism doesn't exist (mostly young sheltered white people who don't really acknowledge structural racism, have only just discovered socialism, and think they're the first ones to notice the correlation between being discriminated against and being poor)

now that a 30s-style economic left is making a comeback, people are combining those things into an attack message

of course, the actual socialists of the 30s were generally racially inclusive, and fought against the racism of the moderates. true leftists understand that the fights for racial equality and economic equality are deeply linked

loquacius posted:

Something I've heard people say a lot is that the only reason the American North was abolitionist was that Northern workers were worried about having to compete with slave labor for wage-slave jobs

given working conditions at the time, the wage slavery practiced in the north was probably more profitable than slave labor. with slaves, capital had to pay the a big up-front cost and then provide for the slave's basic needs. meanwhile, actual workers only had to be paid as long as they were productive, and company towns meant that the worker typically ended up with barely more than basic necessities anyway. if they got hurt or sick, there was no sunk cost, so they'd just be fired and replaced

that wouldn't have actually ended slavery, though. even if slavery became totally unprofitable for any form of work or business, Southern aristocrats would still keep slaves around as a way to display wealth and status by literally owning another person, as well as to enforce the cultural doctrine of white supremacy. people don't stop hating just because it becomes unprofitable.

Squizzle
Apr 24, 2008




but de gustibus non eat disputandum friend so next few suck probes gonna be jungle fury

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

loquacius posted:

Something I've heard people say a lot is that the only reason the American North was abolitionist was that Northern workers were worried about having to compete with slave labor for wage-slave jobs

my american history professor once explained the north's opposition to slavery as concentric circles. at the center you had hardcore abolitionists that realized the horror that slavery was. further out you had people that believed slavery would cause the collapse of wage employment. even further out you had people that wanted tariffs and a transcontinental railroad that the south was blocking because it wouldn't mesh with their slave society

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Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Shear Modulus posted:

at this point with the big social media sites where visibility is based on popularity like reddit and youtube the odds are pretty good that any given thing you see is part of an astroturf campaign anyway

Reddit's system makes it not just trivially easy to astroturf, but also very effective because their lovely threading interface makes it easy to completely control not just the top comment, but the entire top conversation.

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