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I'm surprised we didn't get another round of handwringing when Yasha was making the rounds with his water wars article and Kickstarter. That throw away line about him being a soviet citizen is pretty weak sauce. I guess Mark and Matt just have a knack for knowing which beehive to kick.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I can distinctly remember the last two times this happened. The first was right after The Exile had to flee Russia and they were growing their roots back into the US (and Mark was still doing speed). Mark & Yasha were the first journalists to expose that the Koch Brothers were astroturfing the Tea Party movement, and then all of a sudden there was a big right wing push to discredit them for being sexists and rapists - which was coming from disgusting mutants like Jim Goad of all people. Then it was what, last year or a couple years ago? They did the same thing because Matt Taibbi was getting too popular. I didn't know about right after the Exile got banned, but certainly every time one of them takes on a billionaire (as with Yasha and Ames), or however many people Taibbi pissed off with I Can't Breathe, it starts up again. Nothus posted:I'm surprised we didn't get another round of handwringing when Yasha was making the rounds with his water wars article and Kickstarter. That throw away line about him being a soviet citizen is pretty weak sauce. I guess Mark and Matt just have a knack for knowing which beehive to kick. I assume we are about to get another one because Yasha went after a couple of maniac billionaires.
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StashAugustine posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1085200290804985857 Cugel's Saga and Cugel the Clever are some of the only examples of conman scifi ever written. An absolute joy to read.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
Lol I forgot about that one. Classic Ames: https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/breitbart/
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all the gene wolfe talk made me wish i knew what the gently caress he was talking about and the jack vance talk made me wanna play dark souls
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They undersold the Dying Earth a little bit, because the most compelling thing about the Cugel stories is that Cugel is a huckster and a conman. It's how he gets conscripted into the wizard's quest, because he's caught trying to steal from the wizard's mansion. The Cugel stories just move between exotic vignette to exotic vignette where the challenge is how Cugel's going to pull one over on the provincialist rubes to get at what he needs. The other interesting thing is how magic works. It's implied that magic in the Dying Earth is based on some ancient form of technology, but the only knowledge of it which has survived is the user interface. So to use magic you have to memorize the magical phrases and repeat them verbatim - but you can only memorize a few spells at a time, and once you've cast a spell your memory of it is spent until you re-memorize it. That's the tie-in that D&D has to Dying Earth, because wizards in D&D have to memorize spells from a spell book daily and you can only cast spells a limited number of times. This has a big payoff at the end of the first Cugel book, because Cugel ends up getting too full of himself and pulls an Ash.
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I’m assuming that “War of the Babies” Dolan article (the link to it leads nowhere) is him in full Gary Brecher mode and the author is mischaracterising it.
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snoremac posted:I’m assuming that “War of the Babies” Dolan article (the link to it leads nowhere) is him in full Gary Brecher mode and the author is mischaracterising it. quote:What that means is that immigrants in some situations”€”not Kosovo, not Palestine, but some”€”are the biggest fans of anti-immigrant politicians. I would bet you that a lot of French people from North Africa voted for le Pen: “Yes! Get those dirty Arabs out!” What those people want above all is to shrug off where they came from. I’ve seen it too many times growing up with Mexicans: five years after they come north from Guadalajara they’ve got the big truck with Republican bumper stickers on it. Sure, they have a lot of kids, but that’s what immigrants always do. It’ll stop in the next generation, they’ll turn into nice kid-less selfish yuppies. The only Mexicans I ever met who really got all nostalgic about the old country were second-generation college brats, who’d never been there. lol
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Plutonis posted:Nazbol Gang is real They wore black and had armbands with badges of the grim reaper putting his thumbs up in a... how you say it, field of cocaine?
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chapo is cancelled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsdPdlcrEcE
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i say swears online posted:chapo is cancelled I made it about 3 seconds in before throwing up.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Bastaman Vibration posted:what im really tryin to say is mark ames go on chapo edit: or Max Bluementhal, or anyone else named in the ARR hit piece
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I'm sorry but this article is maybe a bit too positive towards Limonov http://exiledonline.com/moscow-babylon-free-edward-limonov/ The connection between Mark Ames and Strasserism might not extend beyond this but it's still not a good look
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Yossarian-22 posted:I'm sorry but this article is maybe a bit too positive towards Limonov http://exiledonline.com/moscow-babylon-free-edward-limonov/  Nazbols aren't Strasserist. They also let Limonov publish in theExile regularly. They were basically one of the only outlets Limonov was ever published in English.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Also since I brought this up in the Chapo thread: the hammer & sword is a symbol of the Strasserist Black Front, which hasn't existed since the Night of the Long Knives. Russian Nazbols wore armbands with a grenade on them. Alexander Reid is so unbelievably full of poo poo he can't even get the symbolism right in his own obvious lie. russian nazbols are goons?
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Darkman Fanpage posted:russian nazbols are goons? 
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Darkman Fanpage posted:american nazbols literally only exist online And like they are probably like stirnerists a weird irony ideology.
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John Dolan: alt-right puppet master and modern boogeyman.
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Yossarian-22 posted:I'm sorry but this article is maybe a bit too positive towards Limonov http://exiledonline.com/moscow-babylon-free-edward-limonov/ I don't know if you can effectively determine what's a good look in 2019 based on an article from nearly 18 years ago. I just got the impression that it was a general lament to the eventual corruption of his punk icons by capitalism and the trappings of the bourgeoisie, compared to the purity of Limonovs straightforward unabashed contrarianism. That medium article is some horseshoe theory bullshit .
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StashAugustine posted:also tbh while the exile did some good work everyone involved was better once they moved on Yeah, it's just surprising to me how bad people are at taking set and setting into account when reading what are effectively articles from a different (pre-911) era, where capitalism had won and history was over as far as everyone was concerned.
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I looked up Alexander Reid Ross and he appears to have pretty much written "Horseshoe Theory: The Book", and based on the first few pages its every bit as thoughtful, well written and informative as that article.
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Dolan mentioning GRRM multiple times this episode only to say how much he sucks in comparison to Vance was hilarious.
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Crakkerjakk posted:Why exactly do some people not like Rania Khalek? I'm seeing some trash talking of her in GiP and also in the greenwald thread here. What the gently caress is going on in the greenwald thread here, seems like a bunch of d&d morons doing intelligence community fud unmolested
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mila kunis posted:What the gently caress is going on in the greenwald thread here, seems like a bunch of d&d morons doing intelligence community fud unmolested seems to mostly be people nursing decades old grudges
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mila kunis posted:What the gently caress is going on in the greenwald thread here, seems like a bunch of d&d morons doing intelligence community fud unmolested Glenn is a goon now? He might be better if he didn't come to bat for Milo and Alex Jones over free speech, or boost Tulsi Gabbard so much
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Yossarian-22 posted:Glenn is a goon now? ames and dolan seem to agree with him re the deplatforming nonsense, but i don't care so much about that stuff as the usual russiagate cretins claiming he's a putin/assad/whatever agent. the usual directed at people who've gone up against and embarassed the us government's military and intelligence apparatus
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Greenwald and the BrasilWire guy are the only people who did decent coverage of my country since the Dilma coup and I'll always be grateful for them, especially now that Glenn and his husband are extremely at risk living here given recent circumstances.
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Glenn's a real land of contrasts. Most of the time his relentless contrarianism is a force for good. But sometimes he just makes a fool of himself.
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Yossarian-22 posted:I'm sorry but this article is maybe a bit too positive towards Limonov http://exiledonline.com/moscow-babylon-free-edward-limonov/ how are your rabbits doing you sick gently caress
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