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Larry Parrish posted:California has this very depressing variation on this where you still have decaying urban areas but you also have upscale gentrified areas that nobody but homeless people live in lol. Downtown Sac has a bunch of boarded up storefronts and a bunch of the condo towers are mostly empty
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im feeling agitated, fellers
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Chuka Umana posted:evidence? Lol
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 17:21 |
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Poverty is really bad in the US right now; not bad like unpleasant but bad like mean like
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 17:38 |
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Poverty in the us right is the worst its ever been lol But lets keep running liberal businessmen and centrists
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poverty in the US is pretty bad, OPStatement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights posted:Washington, December 15, 2017 The statement then goes on to talk about things like how poverty undermines human rights, defining who falls into the category of 'the poor,' the current extent of poverty, problems with existing policies, etc. etc. It's really worth reading the whole thing in full, imo: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 18:21 |
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Communism is good, America hates good things so there's no communism which means instead there's lots of bad poverty.
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redneck nazgul posted:dont serious post poverty at this chud as someone with asperger’s syndrome, it’s very upsetting when someone tries to erase my identity and value as a person because I’m not either Forrest Gump or some mathematical genius. I am a man. yes, I do have difficulty with communication and yes I do take medication for it. Sometimes I say things or get defensive over things I didn’t mean. Yes I did regret and get defensive over my unnecessary comments in the cop thread. I’m not asking for special treatment, I’m just asking that you understand.
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you don't regret anything because you're a chud
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:06 |
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I’d say a solid 6.5 OP
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redneck nazgul posted:you don't regret anything because you're a chud No, I am a man. I just have difficulty communicating. I’m sorry I’m not the idealized form of an autistic person that you have in your head, but I will try to be from now on.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:12 |
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When I worked retail I knew a woman who used rags or old t shirts during her period because she couldn't afford pads to this day I still have no idea why she told me this
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 19:56 |
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there's a lot of poverty in the US, but as this think tank report exlains its v. good poverty
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 21:13 |
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i mean last time i was in mexico all the televisions were black and white. all of them.
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Chuka Umana posted:No, I am a man. thread title?
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FactsAreUseless posted:"Cancel culture" sounds like some right-wing "political correctness" bullshit, it doesn't pass the smell test. Someone post the Fox News screenshots about it of which I assume there are many. that's how it's usually used. but i did read an opinion piece by a genuine leftist that used the term, and usefully juxtaposed it with discursive/social practices rooted in restorative justice https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/cancel-culture-call-out.html Finicums Wake has issued a correction as of 21:55 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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Finicums Wake posted:that's how it's usually used. but i did read an opinion piece by a genuine leftist that used the term, and usefully juxtaposed it with discursive/social practices rooted in restorative justice this is just the usual "instead of being mean to racists and rapists, why don't we try being nice to them and winning them over with love" stuff
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Finicums Wake posted:that's how it's usually used. but i did read an opinion piece by a genuine leftist that used the term, and usefully juxtaposed it with discursive/social practices rooted in restorative justice yeah so the problem with this is the one little note where she goes “sometimes it is justified in the case of those in power out of reach” and that’s almost all of them. white rich males are extremely powerful and out of reach. so... she just wrote an entire worthless article and undermined it right there I would agree that punching down or sideways while completely ignoring the greater structure of socioeconomics meant to exploit, marginalize, and engorging oneself like a fat tick off the results is not productive at all and is in fact what the rich and powerful want
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 22:07 |
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on the one hand, there an enormous number of people suffering in miserable, inescapable poverty. on the other hand, this means they buy fewer groceries so the shelves stay more full, unlike in VENEZUELA
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Gazpacho posted:i mean last time i was in mexico all the televisions were black and white. all of them. tbf mexico has a constant yellow orange haze so you wouldnt get the full color tv experience i have watched all the episodes of breaking bad that take place in mexico, i can be considered "authority"
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Main Paineframe posted:this is just the usual "instead of being mean to racists and rapists, why don't we try being nice to them and winning them over with love" stuff why are you lumping racists together with rapists? they are very different concepts lol most Americans are racist from a life of propaganda, and can be educated and taught this is false, thinking it's about being nice or mean is a very weird reaction rooted in liberal individualism
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 22:34 |
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Ace of Baes posted:why are you lumping racists together with rapists? they are very different concepts lol because that's what the article is doing, and what the "cancel culture" whine in general usually does
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Main Paineframe posted:because that's what the article is doing, and what the "cancel culture" whine in general usually does cancel as a phrase is a talking point or whatever but there is definitely a good critique around the current impotent 'activism' of canceling major/minor celebs as a substitute for collectivism, see mark fishers vampires castle
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Main Paineframe posted:this is just the usual "instead of being mean to racists and rapists, why don't we try being nice to them and winning them over with love" stuff if someone was advocating for making the american criminal justice system more like the scandinavian ones, and someone replied with exactly what you said here, would you find the response reductive and dumb? Xaris posted:yeah so the problem with this is the one little note where she goes “sometimes it is justified in the case of those in power out of reach” and that’s almost all of them. white rich males are extremely powerful and out of reach. so... she just wrote an entire worthless article and undermined it right there i read the article as primarily an intervention in intra-leftist discourse. like, she starts by giving examples of call-outs she encountered in leftist activism, and then frames her criticism of call-outs and cancelling in terms of whether leftist social movements learned the right lessons. in none of those examples from her activism were the people being called out white rich males who were powerful and out of reach. i guess whether her article is worthless or undermined comes down to whether "most public shaming is horizontal and done by those who believe they have greater integrity or more sophisticated analyses," as she writes, or if almost all of them are aimed upwards, as you claim. even if you're right though, i don't see how her criticisms of how leftists interact with eachother, or in their roles as activists, are worthless Finicums Wake has issued a correction as of 23:34 on Sep 10, 2019 |
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redneck nazgul posted:i wasn't aware trot was a disability but the more i think about it... tell me more about how (((trots))) have bad dna. regardless the op railed against "liberal trotskyists" which is a critique i definitely don't share, but i'm sticking up for my own kind itt regardless of any :problematic: takes he may or may not have had i will concede that the people who run wsws probably have a disability and that they might be on the spectrum, and basically all of the trotskyist political parties suck. but i mean, hey, name a dead leftist party that doesn't suck? maybe i'll make that my band name my dog is super timid and her/the buns live in separate households now anyway and were always confined to separate rooms, so somehow, even having a shitposting meltdown in the bunny thread that allowed me to focus on my actual life, i was still less hysterical than the rest of that thread still waiting for fau to eat a 6'er for his accusation that two autists must be the same person by virtue of being on the spectrum. do we both have to be logged on at the same time? i'm not enough of a terminally ill poster to know how to prove that we're different people without doxxing myself Yossarian-22 has issued a correction as of 03:51 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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the irony of this is not so much "cancel culture" as i inarticulately put it before but that you're all narcs https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/planet-of-cops-50889004904d
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Xaris posted:ooooooo the those dirty sjw cancelculture comment now makes sense lmao. as someone who lives in a place like that, it's not the poor people voting for trump or other reactionaries lol. they just dont vote at all anymore. it's the landlord class that's the vocal minority that carries the district for neonazi politician #17 because everyone else either has to work while the polls are open or they're for some reason required to present 3 forms of id which of course is easy when your a comfortable landowner and hard when you've never lived in the same place for more than a few years, as many poors have. i know a lot of my dads friends who were vocally supportive of trump and not a single one of them actually voted lol. the same was mostly true for the depressed young adult class, who were all big on bernie and just sighed and went to work instead of voting when Hillary got nominated. trump barely got 30% of votes in my county, if you compare the numbers against total voting age citizens
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 03:51 |
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Xaris posted:ooooooo the those dirty sjw cancelculture comment now makes sense lmao. you can get a bad mark on your record for doing just about anything whether it's using the n-word on twitter when you were 14 or burning an american flag. it's more about the internet being trash and everyone being a narc than any kind of sjw exclusive thing. everyone being a narc affects vulnerable groups all across the board more than your strawman conservative dumbshit white guy just look at all the precious women's march white women who tried to cancel linda sarsour for going to a farrakhan thing and tell me that cancel culture isn't a problem, regardless of how much the phrase "cancel culture" has become a stupid catch-all for loving with people's privacy Yossarian-22 has issued a correction as of 03:59 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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Finicums Wake posted:poverty in the US is pretty bad, OP Thanks for posting this. Everyone should read it. This is the country you are living in, and it’s only going to get catastrophically worse if we don’t get the Bernie platforms implemented. In pessimistic terms, I think we’re likely to see the collapse of the U.S. government beforehand.
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 03:56 |
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the issue with woke online harassment is that it just works far better on people connected to the community in some manner than unreachable elites or unrepentent bigots, so people end up finding the optimal area between righteousness and effect somewhere around hitting relatively privileged marginalized people who reveal some outrageous weak point. and ofc there's always a bunch of unwoke but genuine people who could have been won over but are instead taught to avoid certain spaces. it's not all bad but people finding something with such severe shortcomings such a great tool is a sign of collective weakness
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 05:56 |
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When I was growing up people from Europe would take "the poor of Appalachia" tours and just gawk at people living in poverty. Homes with dirt floors and no electricity. It was just insane that people lived like that and it was insane that tours were offered to see that.
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 06:43 |
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Yossarian-22 posted:tell me more about how (((trots))) have bad dna. regardless the op railed against "liberal trotskyists" which is a critique i definitely don't share, but i'm sticking up for my own kind itt regardless of any :problematic: takes he may or may not have had
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not gonna pretend i gave this thread a huge amount of attention but i dont think i saw anything to warrant bitching about ableism? being a lovely poster isnt a disability hth
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 06:48 |
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poverty is wack, close thread
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 06:50 |
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FactsAreUseless posted:So what determines which account you choose to post on? idk but apparently i post on d&d a lot now
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 06:51 |
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Yossarian-22 posted:idk but apparently i post on d&d a lot now
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In all honesty I have no idea if those are the same dude lmao, an admin can check if they care edit: I mean I'm pretty sure but it's not like I can check IPs now
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 06:53 |
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nice thread. too bad about yossarian posts.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Okay, but I don't believe you and I don't think anyone else does. I'd be amazed if you're not the OP, and I'm happy to take whatever probation comes with that if I'm wrong. Or if I'm right. Maybe this counts as helldumping, IDK. reposting this for posterity guyovich have i said enough bad things about the pepes in hong kong to boost my social credit score and get you to probe this guy
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Yossarian-22 posted:the irony of this is not so much "cancel culture" as i inarticulately put it before but that you're all narcs https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/planet-of-cops-50889004904d Jesse singal is a huge transphobe
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