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ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

the mean lunch lady posted:

Is there a state democratic party anyone would describe as "good?"

the dems are a waste, op

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Al!
Apr 2, 2010

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

"usually my employees get their healthcare back at the prison"

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

Vox Nihili posted:

It doesn't really matter whether he "knows" something, he'll still say anything if you cut him a check.

/me writes dean a 69 cent check with the memo "say you know socialism will win"

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010




lmao

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Addamere posted:

i think the superhero you want to see is captain planet
IMO They really need to relaunch the series, but I'm afraid it'd be vapid modern poo poo rather than dumb stories with dumb villains and a moral thing afterwards

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

I don't know if it's worse that my socialist waifu is a succ dem or that I had to find out through Jimmy Dore.

only libtards don't like "Jimmy "gulag the kulaks" Dore

theCalamity
Oct 23, 2010

Cry Havoc and let slip the Hogs of War

The public subsidizing the lack of adequate care for their employees? Please tell me he has to piss in a bottle, too.

Addamere
Jan 3, 2010

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

ThndrShk2k posted:

IMO They really need to relaunch the series, but I'm afraid it'd be vapid modern poo poo rather than dumb stories with dumb villains and a moral thing afterwards

On the other hand, Captain Planet instilled in kid-Addamere the false impression that we were actually trying to do good things for the environment. :shrug:

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
I'm reading the Long Halloween, its good

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012



god drat

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

gradenko_2000 posted:

succrose zone

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Trabisnikof posted:

i challenge anyone to find a worse state party than tdp

TNDP. They've all the corruption of places like Florida and New York, but incredibly, incredibly incompetent.

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

I like it when Batman punches the evil clown.

got any sevens
Feb 9, 2013

by Cyrano4747

ThndrShk2k posted:

Liberals and Neoliberals would make Waynecorp public and tied to profits.
Waynecorp is the classic philanthropic corporation that conservatives say all companies should be like and if they were then everything would be wonderful, but they're not and you can't force companies to be like waynecorp because they gotta make a profit for their shareholders and there's nothing we can do other than hope they have morals. :shrug:

Not to mention that implying a rich person being a vigilante is keeping the downtrodden in misery means that the police are the good guys instead of mostly useless or even corrupt (historic mobster involvement)?


I'm also talking about oldschool batman where the whole moral abstract is more relevant to society at that time and not the modern Dark Knight where Waynecorp is dumb and he mismanages the company so hard much like modern neoliberals.

dems are more like Obie in iron man, shut down tony when he threatens the company profit

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

Miracle man is cool cause he made Thatcher cry and then created a utopia

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Probably Magic posted:

Let's be clear, Pence is incompetent as gently caress.

Remember how he caused an HIV outbreak in Indiana and the Democrats never mentioned it.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ
zero democrats voted against increasing the military budget

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1042394554996011013

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Joementum posted:

zero democrats voted against increasing the military budget

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1042394554996011013

Aside from Democratic Senator Bernie (D-VT) Sanders, A Democratman from Democratland.

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

docbeard posted:

Aside from Democratic Senator Bernie (D-VT) Sanders, A Democratman from Democratland.

Actually.........

ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar

Joementum posted:

zero democrats voted against increasing the military budget

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1042394554996011013

Lmao

Iron Twinkie
Apr 20, 2001

BOOP

ThndrShk2k posted:

IMO They really need to relaunch the series, but I'm afraid it'd be vapid modern poo poo rather than dumb stories with dumb villains and a moral thing afterwards

Modern Captain Planet villains would be people that have to commute by car 2 hours each way who the team defeats by calling their managers and getting them fired. The episode ends with Captain Planet telling the audience that they can help by downloading this app that records all their personal data and tracks their carbon footprint and reminding their parents to shop at Whole Foods.

Oh and Gaia has been replaced with an Alexa.

Iron Twinkie fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Sep 19, 2018

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Kamala Harris is a cop and therefore has to meet her quota of dead black men

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void


Seeing Ted Cruz go down in such a fashion is pretty good

i wonder how he is going to take it if he loses

he could maybe have some kind of melt down

most likely just big money job in the corporate lobbying sector

docbeard
Jul 19, 2011

Over Easy posted:

Seeing Ted Cruz go down in such a fashion is pretty good

i wonder how he is going to take it if he loses

he could maybe have some kind of melt down

most likely just big money job in the corporate lobbying sector

Or he'll take the new up-and-coming path for washed-up Republican officials and run for office as a Democrat

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Joementum posted:

zero democrats voted against increasing the military budget

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1042394554996011013



soggy bread

Joementum
May 23, 2004

jesus christ

she is really really bad on foreign policy and that's why i've always hoped she stays in the senate where this is the worst she can do and most of her time is spent complaining about banks, which is good

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Over Easy posted:

Seeing Ted Cruz go down in such a fashion is pretty good

i wonder how he is going to take it if he loses

he could maybe have some kind of melt down

most likely just big money job in the corporate lobbying sector

he is a gelatinous alien with a glistening chitinous faux human skin shell

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Joementum posted:

she is really really bad on foreign policy and that's why i've always hoped she stays in the senate where this is the worst she can do and most of her time is spent complaining about banks, which is good

:agreed:

i hope she never runs for president

SirPhoebos
Dec 10, 2007

WELL THAT JUST HAPPENED!

Addamere posted:

On the other hand, Captain Planet instilled in kid-Addamere the false impression that we were actually trying to do good things for the environment. :shrug:

At this point it would be more appropriate (well, relatively) to make a cartoon of Werewolf: The Apocalypse and call it a spiritual successor. :killing:

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

Joementum posted:

zero democrats voted against increasing the military budget

https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1042394554996011013
:bernchloe:

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

i am sure jake tapper is going to immediately grill senator warren on his next show on how the country is going to pay for the military budget increase

Iron Twinkie
Apr 20, 2001

BOOP

SirPhoebos posted:

At this point it would be more appropriate (well, relatively) to make a cartoon of Werewolf: The Apocalypse and call it a spiritual successor. :killing:

We may not want to indoctrinate a generation of children into being Furry Anarcho-communists, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

comedyblissoption posted:

i am sure jake tapper is going to immediately grill senator warren on his next show on how the country is going to pay for the military budget increase

lol

gently caress me man sometimes you just have to laugh

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Iron Twinkie posted:

This article does a really good job of clearly and succinctly describing the dystopia we are living in. It's quite an accomplishment of neoliberalism that most of us live with this constant anxiety and pressure in our chests and we're robbed of a language to express it making finding solidarity with each other impossible.

Not as eloquently, but my wife and I have talked about this in the context of why hosed up broken relationships seem to be the norm. Under the framework of a neoliberal capitalist society, having a human, loving relationship based on compassion for another person is not possible. You are in completion with everyone and if you are putting more into a relationship than you think you are getting, then you are losing.

its a framework of late stage capitalism coupled with advertising and car culture, it affects us all even to the way we think

neoliberalism is a byproduct of this transactional relationship that we have with people and even leftists who live under this operate like this subconsciously. Every thought or rational is give or take as well.

We have to break through by being more aware of these habitual offenses and being receptive of each others needs

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

just building political capital to excori8 bankers

Ruzihm
Aug 11, 2010

Group up and push mid, proletariat!



if i lick the boots really hard maybe i can get healthcare :unsmith:

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



ok so i wasnt sure which thread to post this in but this is probably the highest trafficked of the ones it would fit in the best

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/868677225/



quote:

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This internship will offer the opportunity not just to develop leading academic research, though it will offer this, but also to engage actively in on-going public discourse and communications efforts around the ideas you develop. The balance of these different activities will evolve in response to world and industry events.

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ThndrShk2k
Nov 3, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Bread Liar
The gently caress is a political economy

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

Lmao they won't even take care of their own apparatchiks.

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GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

ThndrShk2k posted:

The gently caress is a political economy

uhh

find out here

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