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BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/bowsnonk/status/1200190373772947456

what's wrong with people

# ? Nov 29, 2019 01:27

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# ? May 11, 2024 08:57

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

https://twitter.com/T4RIG/status/1199736990687739905
i think you're a poseur

# ? Nov 29, 2019 01:33

Mr. Lobe: Feb 23, 2007; ... Dry bones...

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

what's wrong with people

I think a couple of centuries ago a person cursed with that kind of personality would have been a part of some joyless christian cult like the shakers or something

# ? Nov 29, 2019 08:15

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

I touched on this in the succ zone, but WSWS has been picking a fight with the New York Times's 1619 project, and I think I know why:

https://twitter.com/WSWS_Updates/status/1200225385096634368

quote:

The essays featured in the magazine are organized around the central premise that all of American history is rooted in race hatred—specifically, the uncontrollable hatred of “black people” by “white people.” Hannah-Jones writes in the series’ introduction: “Anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country.”

This is a false and dangerous conception. DNA is a chemical molecule that contains the genetic code of living organisms and determines their physical characteristics and development. The transfer of this critical biological term to the study of a country—even if meant only in a metaphorical sense—leads to bad history and reactionary politics. Countries do not have DNA, they have historically formed economic structures, antagonistic classes and complex political relationships. These do not exist apart from a certain level of technological development, nor independently of a more or less developed network of global economic interconnections.

The methodology that underlies the 1619 Project is idealist (i.e., it derives social being from thought, rather than the other way around) and, in the most fundamental sense of the word, irrationalist. All of history is to be explained from the existence of a supra-historical emotional impulse. Slavery is viewed and analyzed not as a specific economically rooted form of the exploitation of labor, but, rather, as the manifestation of white racism. But where does this racism come from? It is embedded, claims Hannah-Jones, in the historical DNA of American “white people.” Thus, it must persist independently of any change in political or economic conditions.

they're unable to grasp metaphor

# ? Nov 29, 2019 17:05

Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Another stunning brain genius move from the weird sex web site

# ? Nov 29, 2019 17:09

MizPiz: May 29, 2013; by Athanatos

gradenko_2000 posted:

I touched on this in the succ zone, but WSWS has been picking a fight with the New York Times's 1619 project, and I think I know why:

https://twitter.com/WSWS_Updates/status/1200225385096634368

they're unable to grasp metaphor

"Eating the rich will inevitably normalize cannibalism, which would then lead to greater health risks across the population. Even as a metaphor, it's a dangerous concept to promote."

# ? Nov 29, 2019 17:17

Enjoy: Apr 18, 2009

The technology to surgically sow humans together is purely theoretical at this stage, which is why we repudiate the slogan "Workers Of All Countries Unite"

# ? Nov 29, 2019 17:57

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

the gently caress would we do with a hundred flowers anyway

# ? Nov 29, 2019 18:20

Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

i say swears online posted:

the gently caress would we do with a hundred flowers anyway

if they�re tulips I have an idea

# ? Nov 29, 2019 18:24

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

owns

# ? Nov 29, 2019 19:14

Plutonis: Mar 25, 2011

What

# ? Nov 29, 2019 19:16

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

slovenia didn't vote for the "don't glorify nazis" thing in UN for some weird reason(??). also our country map kinda looks like a hen, so now the flaghen is eating swastikas

# ? Nov 29, 2019 19:25

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Larry Parrish posted:

Another stunning brain genius move from the weird sex web site

whenever i see a picture of david north (usually in popups asking for donations upon entering the weird sex web site) i think of noir jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEI2zet48Uc

# ? Nov 29, 2019 19:41

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

david north corners you in a smoky piano bar, taking a sip from an old fashioned. the pitter patter of rain can be hear smacking beyond the window of the bar

"all train compartments smell vaguely of poo poo. it gets so you don't mind it. that's the worst that i can confess.

you know how long it took me to get there? a long time. when you die you're going to regret the things you don't do. you think you're queer. i'm going to tell you something: we're all queer. you think you're a thief? so what? you get befuddled by a bourgeois morality? get shut of it. shut it out. you cheat on your wife? you did it, live with it. you gently caress little girls? so be it. there's an absolute morality? marx didn't think so. neither did trotsky. if you think there is, go ahead, be that thing.

bad people go to hell? i don't think so. religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. it is the opium of the people. a hell exists on earth? yes. i won't live in it. that's me."

[pause]

"you ever take a dump that made you feel like you'd just slept for twelve hours?"

# ? Nov 29, 2019 19:48

ClassActionFursuit: Mar 15, 2006

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

david north corners you in a smoky piano bar, taking a sip from an old fashioned. the pitter patter of rain can be hear smacking beyond the window of the bar

"all train compartments smell vaguely of poo poo. it gets so you don't mind it. that's the worst that i can confess.

you know how long it took me to get there? a long time. when you die you're going to regret the things you don't do. you think you're queer. i'm going to tell you something: we're all queer. you think you're a thief? so what? you get befuddled by a bourgeois morality? get shut of it. shut it out. you cheat on your wife? you did it, live with it. you gently caress little girls? so be it. there's an absolute morality? marx didn't think so. neither did trotsky. if you think there is, go ahead, be that thing.

bad people go to hell? i don't think so. religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. it is the opium of the people. a hell exists on earth? yes. i won't live in it. that's me."

[pause]

"you ever take a dump that made you feel like you'd just slept for twelve hours?"

# ? Nov 30, 2019 01:49

Finicums Wake: Mar 13, 2017; Can't post for 8 years!

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/28/mikhail-gorbachev-pizza-hut-ad-thanksgiving-miracle/

foreignpolicy dot com/2019/11/28/mikahil-gorbachev-pizza-hut-ad-thanksgiving-miracle

# ? Nov 30, 2019 08:37

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1200498826580242432

# ? Nov 30, 2019 12:27

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

LastInLine posted:

I mean you don't keep anything, really. Security. Things, things, you know? It's just, you try to stave off insecurity. You can't do it. Stocks, bonds, objects of art, real estate, what are they? An opportunity. To what, make money? Perhaps. To lose money? Perhaps. To indulge and to learn about ourselves? Perhaps. So loving what? What isn't? They're an opportunity. That's all they are -- they're an event. A guy comes to you, you make a call, you send in a card: I have these properties I would like for you to see. What does this mean? What do you want it to mean? You see what I'm saying?

Things happen to you. Glad I met you. *clinks glass* I'm glad I met you, LastInLane.

I want to show you something. It may mean something to you, it may not, I don't know anymore. What is... this?