Serf posted:

the only thing more boring than reading old books is exercising

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

you say you don't want to read books and yet you read these threads

Serf posted:

you can't make me read books, but i will read posts

quote:

The need for money is therefore the true need produced by the economic system, and it is the only need which the latter produces. The quantity of money becomes to an ever greater degree its sole effective quality. Just as it reduces everything to its abstract form, so it reduces itself in the course of its own movement to quantitative being. Excess and intemperance come to be its true norm.

Subjectively, this appears partly in the fact that the extension of products and needs becomes a contriving and ever-calculating subservience to inhuman, sophisticated, unnatural and imaginary appetites. Private property does not know how to change crude need into human need. Its idealism is fantasy, caprice and whim; and no eunuch flatters his despot more basely or uses more despicable means to stimulate his dulled capacity for pleasure in order to sneak a favour for himself than does the industrial eunuch – the producer – in order to sneak for himself a few pieces of silver, in order to charm the golden birds, out of the pockets of his dearly beloved neighbours in Christ. He puts himself at the service of the other’s most depraved fancies, plays the pimp between him and his need, excites in him morbid appetites, lies in wait for each of his weaknesses – all so that he can then demand the cash for this service of love. (Every product is a bait with which to seduce away the other’s very being, his money; every real and possible need is a weakness which will lead the fly to the glue-pot. General exploitation of communal human nature, just as every imperfection in man, is a bond with heaven – an avenue giving the priest access to his heart; every need is an opportunity to approach one’s neighbour under the guise of the utmost amiability and to say to him: Dear friend, I give you what you need, but you know the conditio sine qua non; you know the ink in which you have to sign yourself over to me; in providing for your pleasure, I fleece you.)

GorgonLiker posted:

*looks up from this tweet and blows on a pipe intelligently*

actually when the indigenous mongolians erupted from their homeland on a campaign of slaughter and subjugation that wouldn't be matched until the twentieth century it was incredibly dope and good because they weren't european

ShriekingMarxist posted:

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Zas posted:

he's being autistic, in the literal, not strictly pejorative sense. its not a big deal

Karl Barks posted:

there's something called degrowth that's v trendy right now. not sure what it's all about. i won't bother reading about it, bills to pay and what not

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/1051921756091535360?s=19

https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1051464262827290624?s=19

Dreddout posted:

Bernie participated in the civil rights protests so I'm gonna make an educates guess and say this is what we call a "public position" in the biz

I don't like it, but he's gotta make an effort to court crats

Zas posted:

he's being autistic, in the literal, not strictly pejorative sense. its not a big deal

Slanderer posted:

his argument is: technically correct, a deliberate troll and also missing the post

a masterpiece of posting

Dreddout posted:

Bernie participated in the civil rights protests so I'm gonna make an educates guess and say this is what we call a "public position" in the biz

I don't like it, but he's gotta make an effort to court crats

quote:

I am very strongly in favor of mobilizing the American people to stand up and fight for economic justice and social justice and racial and environmental justice. I think we have to mobilize I am not a great fan of being rude or disrupting activities, but this is what I will say. This entire election campaign will come down to two words and that is voter turnout. And if you are out there and you're sick and tired of what's going on, of the very rich getting richer while the middle class continues to struggle, then you are going to have to not only get out and vote but you're going to have to get your friends and families to vote. Four years ago when the Republicans did really, really well. My hope is that people stand up, fight back and get involved in this campaign.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Cutting off the full quote from Sanders is extremely disingenuous of CNN

Zhulik posted:

if you think about it posts are just very small books

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

we're gonna force everyone to reverse puberty

gradenko_2000 posted:

Cutting off the full quote from Sanders is extremely disingenuous of CNN

megalodong posted:

His actual statement was this:


I bolded the single bit CNN just happened to quote him on.

Serf posted:

yeah, just vote 'em out. that's all it takes

Victory Position posted:

some folks go through a second puberty