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Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
"in the argument days"

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Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Centrist Committee posted:

are these chapo beltway episodes supposed to be ironic or am I just so cynical about the election that I’ve gone subcultural?

can you feel the pulse of America?

Lady Militant
Apr 8, 2020

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Centrist Committee posted:

are these chapo beltway episodes supposed to be ironic or am I just so cynical about the election that I’ve gone subcultural?

gotta talk about something

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Centrist Committee posted:

are these chapo beltway episodes supposed to be ironic or am I just so cynical about the election that I’ve gone subcultural?

its fun, like eating a bag of cracker jacks - and the prize is getfiscal

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

virgil has always been an electoralist stats nerd and matt was a civil war kid so is willing to argue about meaningless things forever. its why the eps work so well

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

"Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."
Okay so all I know about liz bruenig is shes adjacent to leftist podcasters but people are mad at her because she said a guy shouldn't have sex with an octopus can I get some kind of explainer here

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Wolfsheim posted:

Okay so all I know about liz bruenig is shes adjacent to leftist podcasters but people are mad at her because she said a guy shouldn't have sex with an octopus can I get some kind of explainer here

married to left Policy Wonk and autistic good boy Matt Bruenig. catholic and she’s anti abortion personally but says she doesn’t care about applying that view in any legal manner (which is a pretty common stance among left of center catholics). probably the biggest strike against her is that she isn’t offensively radical enough in her writing, to the point where she’s allowed to be a WaPo columnist. truly shameful

generally the people who get the most bent out of shape about her are always leagues worse than her

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


Wolfsheim posted:

Okay so all I know about liz bruenig is shes adjacent to leftist podcasters but people are mad at her because she said a guy shouldn't have sex with an octopus can I get some kind of explainer here

liz criticized the “theorist“ mentioned here

https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/1308465362669834242?s=21

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Wolfsheim posted:

Okay so all I know about liz bruenig is shes adjacent to leftist podcasters but people are mad at her because she said a guy shouldn't have sex with an octopus can I get some kind of explainer here

liz bruenig is a woman, on the left, with some kind of a platform, and she's on twitter

as a result she has a truly baffling array of people who despise and/or worship her

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
there must be more podcast out there like common sense surely. this content is too delectable to only come around twice a year god damnit

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica
big fan for both bruenigs, but they're absolutely wrong going in on sophie lewis

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

it is pretty funny to see people gushing about the beauty of the erotic coupling between man and octopus

https://twitter.com/reproutopia/status/1308134109219299328?s=20

Kunster
Dec 24, 2006

It was less "Oh, she criticized the thread" and more "She referred to it a a sign of the collapse of western civilization".

Terminal autist
May 17, 2018

by vyelkin
If academics can position octopus loving as "inspirational" or whatever can we make it socially acceptable to jerk off to hentai I'm tired of hiding my secret

Doc Hawkins
Jun 15, 2010

Dashing? But I'm not even moving!


Homeless Friend posted:

there must be more podcast out there like common sense surely. this content is too delectable to only come around twice a year god damnit

is Skullduggery still going?

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Terminal autist posted:

If academics can position octopus loving as "inspirational" or whatever can we make it socially acceptable to jerk off to hentai I'm tired of hiding my secret

She kept calling loving an octopus a queer act. She was equating beastiality with homosexuality. But academically, and wokely. That lady sucks and I hope she gets cancelled.

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica

Kunster posted:

It was less "Oh, she criticized the thread" and more "She referred to it a a sign of the collapse of western civilization".

especially as bruenigs own twitter threads for her catholic nerd audience routinely use highly specific understandings of context and definitions unrelated to common discourse. that i've been offended by on occasion, for how they squash queer-ness as some Other, unrelated to their culture.

sophie's entire thread was a criticism for the scientist letting the octopus he had interfered with, then subsequently monetized, die.

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:
what the gently caress was the guy supposed to do? suspend the octopus’ natural metabolic process of death following it giving birth? this academic sounds kinda dumb!

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Terminal autist posted:

If academics can position octopus loving as "inspirational" or whatever can we make it socially acceptable to jerk off to hentai I'm tired of hiding my secret


https://twitter.com/reproutopia/status/1307785460815724547?s=20

Gripweed posted:

She kept calling loving an octopus a queer act. She was equating beastiality with homosexuality. But academically, and wokely. That lady sucks and I hope she gets cancelled.

https://twitter.com/reproutopia/status/1308109300146073603?s=20

Serf
May 5, 2011


so wait, you're telling me i can gently caress the octopus without ever even going near it? why didn't anyone tell me this sooner??

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Serf posted:

so wait, you're telling me i can gently caress the octopus without ever even going near it? why didn't anyone tell me this sooner??

buddy,

Grevling
Dec 18, 2016

That's my definition of eros.

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


Homeless Friend posted:

there must be more podcast out there like common sense surely. this content is too delectable to only come around twice a year god damnit

i just checked out the new ep and wow it fuckin sucks rear end!!

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Terminal autist posted:

If academics can position octopus loving as "inspirational" or whatever can we make it socially acceptable to jerk off to hentai I'm tired of hiding my secret

hentai is the only form of porn that doesn't result in exploitation of women so it is in fact the only moral pornography

Often Abbreviated
Dec 19, 2017

1st Severia Tank Brigade
"Ghosts of Honcharivske"
I hope the voice actresses are union

papa horny michael
Aug 18, 2009

by Pragmatica

Dr. Killjoy posted:

what the gently caress was the guy supposed to do? suspend the octopus’ natural metabolic process of death following it giving birth? this academic sounds kinda dumb!

oh okay suddenly this thread is anti-magical thought too?

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

THS posted:

probably the biggest strike against her is that she isn’t offensively radical enough in her writing, to the point where she’s allowed to be a WaPo columnist. truly shameful

It's even worse than that - she's moved to the NY Times as an opinion writer.

Wraith of J.O.I.
Jan 25, 2012


the corbyn/nationalizing birds tweet but queer theory and octopuses

ur in my world now
Jun 5, 2006

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was


Smellrose
academia must be destroyed

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

i just checked out the new ep and wow it fuckin sucks rear end!!

trump reducing people to gibbering children is my dream content. hits that same pleasure center listening to alex jones does lol

sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011

Gripweed posted:

She kept calling loving an octopus a queer act. She was equating beastiality with homosexuality. But academically, and wokely. That lady sucks and I hope she gets cancelled.

She didn't talk about loving and queer doesn't mean homosexual in this context.

Twitter is a loving awful platform for people thirsty for empty spectacle and not conducive to meaningful discussion, the fact that people are cheering on Liz's stupid debate club tactics in this case is evidence enough.

Terminal autist
May 17, 2018

by vyelkin
I'd agree twitter is a terrible place to have a nuanced discussion but I mean her article or whatever she wrote is behind a patreon paywall. She also managed to cloak her point whatever it is behind enough academic language as to convince other leftists who presumably would otherwise be on her ideological side that dude needs to gently caress the octopus.

I know this isn't Bruenigs point and at risk of getting horse shoe theoried but Mao was right and we need a cultrual revolution in the west ASAP

Often Abbreviated
Dec 19, 2017

1st Severia Tank Brigade
"Ghosts of Honcharivske"
I am staying firmly neutral on the gay octopus debacle until the cum boys weigh in

Bar Crow
Oct 10, 2012

ur in my world now posted:

academia must be destroyed

Paying half the population to kill the other half works. So does paying half the “smart” people to endlessly distract and confuse the other half.

ur in my world now
Jun 5, 2006

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was


Smellrose

Often Abbreviated posted:

I am staying firmly neutral on the gay octopus debacle until the cum boys weigh in

"what if a guy was gay with an octopus" basically is a cum town bit already but instead of hearing stav cackle at it, you have to read a book

ur in my world now
Jun 5, 2006

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was


Smellrose

Bar Crow posted:

Paying half the population to kill the other half works. So does paying half the “smart” people to endlessly distract and confuse the other half.

do academics really get paid tho. I guess maybe the big name profs do but my broke rear end sure as hell didn't get poo poo when I worked "in academia"

Bar Crow
Oct 10, 2012

ur in my world now posted:

do academics really get paid tho. I guess maybe the big name profs do but my broke rear end sure as hell didn't get poo poo when I worked "in academia"

Do soldiers really get paid? They keep killing for what little they get. The worse things get the less people have to be paid.

Soup du Jour
Sep 8, 2011

I always knew I'd die with a headache.

Tempora Mutantur posted:

how does 538 still exist



e: then again, looking at their presentation, I guess it makes sense given their target audience

that data spread looks suspiciously like a certain country...

has 538 been infiltrated by putin?? :tinfoil:

Paffgen
Jul 13, 2009
Sophie Lewis, erotics of the octopus lady, is a Philly gentrifier via England who is also the Abolish the Family lady who has been hawking her book with tons of interviews for the past year or two. She's also the girlfriend of the white In Defense of Looting anti-union lady, from the New Inquiry (red flag) formerly Occupy exploiter. It's inspiring that they've joined forces to make at best embarrassingly abrasive unconnected from reality academic arguments so they can then cry bullying when people take the bait. Bruenig can chill with the "destroying civilization" hyperbole, but Lewis sucks and now she has thousands of people thinking the guy in the doc wants to gently caress the octopus.

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Troy Queef
Jan 12, 2013




Sophie Lewis is a loving idiot who went to a Swiss boarding school followed by not one, but two Oxford degrees, and from reading about her basically made her dreadful relationship with her family into a whole academic theory with her whole "Full Surrogacy Now" poo poo.

she's also in a relationship with Vicky Osterweil, who wrote that equally-bad "In Defense of Looting" book. the point is, The New Inquiry and its exponents (Osterweil, Malcolm Harris, Zoe Samudzi) will not be welcome in the Belden Program to put it lightly.

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