|
I don't have twitter. Is he actually following him nowcenotaph posted:Even the New Left of that era seemed particularly dumb. They thought the revolution was right around the corner and they could push society over the edge by doing random property damage and layer bombings. Some of them were less dumb but they weren't really building a mass movement with any kind of solidarity. There were post war periods where some sort of popular revolution might have been possible under the right circumstances. People now are way too atomized and the security state too overwhelming to even imagine it but just because it didn't happen I dont think you can say it's stupid to have thought that it might terrorist ambulance fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Nov 21, 2018 |
#
?
Nov 21, 2018 21:35
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 17:23 |
|
|
Imagining Mahmoud reading Virgil’s posts New Year’s thanks paired with mspaint erotic Garfield fan art.
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2018 21:38
|
|
|
terrorist ambulance posted:I don't have twitter. Is he actually following him now I'm getting most of this from the relevant chapter in the book Direct Action, so maybe I'm missing some stuff but I think the way the new left went about their organizing was flawed. Sure, we got useful tools like affinity groups, but for instance the Days of Rage didn't seem to have a well thought out purpose and was only supported by African American activists after the protest was underway in the form of shelter from the police because, by the activists own admission, they were tired of getting beaten and figured it was someone else's time to take the baton (to the head). IMO they also suffered from some confirmation bias about how pissed off people really were at the establishment. The majority of Americans polled after the Kent State Massacre felt the shooting was justified which doesn't seem like a particularly sympathetic populace. I don't recall much organizing in conjunction with the gay and lesbian community either, though I may be misremembering that. There is definitely no revolution imminent in modern society but there at least seems to be more coordination between groups with shared interests. Even the idea that you were going to get normies to join your movement by bombing random places seems preposterous.
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2018 22:20
|
|
|
terrorist ambulance posted:I don't have twitter. Is he actually following him now  Those are some pretty wild follows. Much respect for him following GiGi Buffon. Real recognise real, I guess.
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2018 22:53
|
|
|
Ziggy Tzardust posted:
He follows David Duke lol
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2018 23:42
|
|
|
prefect posted:Looks like Matt Christman is one of the guests on the new Sitdown w/Mike Recine. Also appearing: Red Scare Anna. Thanks for mentioning this. I didn’t know this existed. Listened to matt and now an old one with nick Mullen. It’s really fun to listen to authentic nick and not his cum town persona. Nick is best chapo.
|
|
#
?
Nov 21, 2018 23:44
|
|
|
cenotaph posted:The hippies were not progressive at all, they just didn't like how uptight society was. A lot of them were raging misogynists who would ostracize any woman who wouldn't gently caress whenever they wanted and I remember a story about some of them calling for a feminist speaker to be dragged off of a stage and raped. Adam Curtis is right.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2018 01:03
|
|
|
The Sitdown without a good guest is dogshit. The cohost who isn't Recine is a charisma void.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2018 01:07
|
|
|
I love it when Mike totally shits on the guy (also named Matt) for loving up the recording or whatever. Sounds like someone chastising a dog. It's great. Unless you're taking about the guy on earlier episodes who believes the mafia is honorable and poo poo like that. But, yeah, Sitdown is definitely filler-grade podcast unless there's a good guest. The episode with Matt is prolly the best one because he actually knows what he's talking about.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2018 02:20
|
|
|
These activist kids are good and cool.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 03:27
|
|
|
GANDHITRON posted:I love it when Mike totally shits on the guy (also named Matt) for loving up the recording or whatever. Sounds like someone chastising a dog. It's great.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 03:35
|
|
|
The riff about the Iraqi currency scam guy that Felix did was one of the funniest moments of the show ever.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 03:53
|
|
|
I ate thanksgiving dinner with the ceo of Otis elevators who I am, as I just learned, related to via marriage. I spent the after dinner washing up time regaling of this autistic man I knew of by the name of Virgil Texas who spent his time exploring elevators and putting them on YouTube.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 04:39
|
|
|
Virgil ain't autistic. He's a perfect special man.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 04:46
|
|
|
Ron Jeremy posted:I ate thanksgiving dinner with the ceo of Otis elevators who I am, as I just learned, related to via marriage. I'm autistic and I'm jealous of you, checks out.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 05:10
|
|
|
My hospital has a really lovely Otis elevator.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 05:20
|
|
|
That bit about the cop chiding him for giving pizza to people in need is wild.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 05:49
|
|
|
Nothus posted:The Red Scare ladies are a little bit of professional success away from moving to the burbs and becoming full-on chuds. I can smell their type a mile away. becoming?
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 10:32
|
|
|
they should change the name of their podcast to Red Hat Scare
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 10:59
|
|
|
Red Scares ep that was somewhat about Sarah Jeong was really, really bad
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2018 19:58
|
|
|
Hmm this turd I’m eating tastes bad?
|
|
#
?
Nov 24, 2018 01:06
|
|
|
coathat posted:Hmm this turd I’m eating tastes bad? stop eating my posts
|
|
#
?
Nov 24, 2018 08:29
|
|
|
I for one am shocked that a group of Strasserites have bad takes on a subject involving a person of color.
|
|
#
?
Nov 24, 2018 08:45
|
|
|
Didn't Sarah Jeong interview some Chinese tech activist for Vice and then neglect to keep any of her identity secret which then resulted in the Chinese government going out of its way to harass and ruin said activist's livelihood
|
|
#
?
Nov 24, 2018 22:37
|
|
|
Thompsons posted:Didn't Sarah Jeong interview some Chinese tech activist for Vice and then neglect to keep any of her identity secret which then resulted in the Chinese government going out of its way to harass and ruin said activist's livelihood https://medium.com/@therealsexycybo...ne-3f4a32fda9b5
|
|
#
?
Nov 24, 2018 22:46
|
|
|
Jeong also went all in on Hillary in the primary then cried about Bernie bro harassment. Which is rich considering what she and vice did to that poor Chinese lady. She has an account here and used to post in the yospos buttcoin thread so I used to think she was alright until I saw how annoying she is on Twitter.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 03:47
|
|
|
Thompsons posted:Didn't Sarah Jeong interview some Chinese tech activist for Vice and then neglect to keep any of her identity secret which then resulted in the Chinese government going out of its way to harass and ruin said activist's livelihood the people that stalk and harass her or whatever are bad, but she is also bad
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 04:16
|
|
|
Yea there's a large amount of people that think she's bad because she's an asian lady who said racism and misogyny exist and those people can eat a fat one but she is also a terrible person who deserves scorn for entirely different things.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 04:31
|
|
|
vice is bad #truth
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 07:33
|
|
|
The only good thing about vice is the Documentary Now! episode Fred Armisen made about them.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 07:38
|
|
|
poo poo POST MALONE posted:The only good thing about vice is the Documentary Now! episode Fred Armisen made about them. The Onion had a fairly good Vice parody, one was about how hard it is to score good drugs in the Gaza Strip e: here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHvrirXi5Ds TheBigAristotle fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 25, 2018 |
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 13:46
|
|
|
T-man posted:vice is bad #truth How dumb do you have to be to run off desus and mero
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 14:30
|
|
|
I really like VICE News Tonight on HBO.
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 16:06
|
|
|
Jackie D posted:How dumb do you have to be to run off desus and mero I hope desus and mero eventually go on chapo to promote their showtime show
|
|
#
?
Nov 25, 2018 16:26
|
|
|
Oh look! It's that thing Felix has been working with Bois for years!
|
|
#
?
Nov 26, 2018 19:15
|
|
|
Just finished it, it’s very good!
|
|
#
?
Nov 26, 2018 19:46
|
|
|
cenotaph posted:The hippies were not progressive at all, they just didn't like how uptight society was. A lot of them were raging misogynists who would ostracize any woman who wouldn't gently caress whenever they wanted and I remember a story about some of them calling for a feminist speaker to be dragged off of a stage and raped. yeah, i've heard the 68-era new left in paris in particular described in similar terms, even as being anti-normative rather than necessarily anticapitalist. and disturbingly often into carrying a transgressive, libertine individualism right on into endorsing rape and paedophilia. e: TheBigAristotle posted:The Onion had a fairly good Vice parody, one was about how hard it is to score good drugs in the Gaza Strip lmao that's something vice actually literally did, far as i can remember. they had a segment ages back where they were just sitting with a bunch of palestinian teenagers taking tramadol and asking them how hard it was to score anything better TomViolence fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Nov 27, 2018 |
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2018 03:15
|
|
|
Chakan posted:She never talks about Shaun, but has mentioned the others. She does mention Shaun (and other left YouTubers) in this interview from earlier this month at about 33:50.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2018 04:03
|
|
|
Armack posted:She does mention Shaun (and other left YouTubers) in this interview from earlier this month at about 33:50. I should have clarified, I meant my girlfriend.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2018 04:36
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 29, 2024 17:23 |
|
|
I didn't expect the series to start with a history of the origins of MMA. (Which is IMO very good for a half-hour video.) I spent years studying karate, and a recurring theme in most martial arts is myths of the weak overpowering the strong, as if martial arts training is part of some narrative of justice. That falls apart pretty quickly when you look at the backgrounds and lives of famous martial artists. Royce Gracie was positioned as the underdog in the first UFC, but the Gracies were rich kids. Books about martial arts are, as a rule, really lovely when it comes to real history, and it's common to pass down oral history and even folk tales as truth. I used to hear all about how poor Okinawans used karate to defend themselves against samurai. The truth is that karate as we know it was handed down mostly by the ruling class, and Funakoshi was a fascist who didn't have a change of heart until droves of his students died in WWII.
|
|
#
?
Nov 27, 2018 15:12
|
|