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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-k-v7i-QeI

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skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

after my struggle session i'd just like to publically state that states have been ruling humanity for billions and millions of years

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Epic High Five posted:

ive got a degree in truckin and fuckin and I say Marxism-Leninism-Maoist is the light

actually I’ll have you know that this has already been tried for over two hundred and sixty years and the results are, let me tell you, not looking good for communists

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Larry Parrish posted:

is he wrong. who cares that you have a history degree. i wouldn't trust someone on the basis of their secondary education in pretty much any scenario.

Degrees aren't from secondary education

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

xtal posted:

Degrees aren't from secondary education

the point is who cares lol if you choose to post about your BA in the socialism jokes forum you’re a fuckin loser

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

indigi posted:

the point is who cares lol if you choose to post about your BA in the socialism jokes forum you’re a fuckin loser

Gotta justify spending so much on my political science degree

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
i also have a history degree it has made me the poster you see today. i'd consider it a waste of money if i ever planned on paying for it

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
I have a history degree and I noticed that you registered your account two days before 9/11. Coincidence?

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

xtal posted:

Degrees aren't from secondary education

you are not wanted dipshit.

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

indigi posted:

the point is who cares lol if you choose to post about your BA in the socialism jokes forum you’re a fuckin loser

Lol you're the one who melted down though

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Over a shitpost in a comedy forum lllol

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
hello my name is Zuzie

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

I am renouncing and editing my core spiritual and ideological convictions because someone farted at me over the internet

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
that’s “Zuzie” with a “z”

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Larry Parrish posted:

you are not wanted dipshit.

Gonna start calling you Mars Climate Orbiter cause you're mixing up all these degrees

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

xtal posted:

Gonna start calling you Mars Climate Orbiter cause you're mixing up all these degrees

i know you feed off of negative attention but this is the most painfully unfunny poo poo

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

xtal posted:

Gonna start calling you Mars Climate Orbiter cause you're mixing up all these degrees

... what?

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
can someone translate from Detached Negative Attention Guy into human language for me

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

indigi posted:

nice appeal to authority

loving lol

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot
I'm glad i have a computer science degree, which means I get to be smug and right about everything.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

thotsky posted:

I'm glad i have a computer science degree, which means I get to be smug and right about everything.

:same:

elaboration
Feb 21, 2020

lol i never noticed the degree is from evergreen state college

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Larry Parrish posted:

can someone translate from Detached Negative Attention Guy into human language for me

Yes, start here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Rutibex posted:

i watched a documentary recently about poverty reduction in China and one example stuck out to me, a family of former farmers who had been relocated off of their land into an apartment in a city by the central government. a few members of the family were assigned jobs in the local factory and they were miserable at the loss of their independence

hobby farms are not an efficient use of social property!

Rutibex posted:

yup this is the exact part i was referring to, socialist government taking away a families garden because its not efficient
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuaJGPZCBYU&t=1623s

i always like to contrast china with i think is its closest comparison, in india. both countries emerged in the late 40s as independent countries with massive levels of poverty, illiteracy and huge masses of peasantry engaged in farming. they have taken radically divergent paths with obvious differences in out comes.

land reforms in india led to millions of freeholding peasants owning their own tiny little plots of land (similar to the situation in the USSR between 1917 and the collectivization drive in the late 20s/early 30s).

the consolidation of farmland still happens there under capitalism because consolidated agriculture is more efficient and leads to higher yields. small landowners get their lands appropriated by agribusiness because they cannot compete, in india this often takes the form of putting them into debt slavery because they need loans to survive and then forcing them to flee their land and go to the cities to live in extremely bad urban slums when the debtors come calling (or they just commit suicide). it seems the people in your documentary had a far better fate than that. the recent massive unrest in india over the farm bills is because the government wants to remove what subsidies still exist for small farmers to maintain their independence from agribusiness. you also don't need to go to the third world to see this in action, agribusiness has gobbled up and driven out family farmers in the first world as well with brief pauses and exceptions for government subsidies propping (some) of them up.

fundamentally your vision of strong independent yeomen owning their own little plots of land cannot exist without being subsidized by the rest of society. the only genuine choices you have are consolidation at the hands of the free market, or collectivization (the ultimate evil for libertarians like you). if you require the rest of society to prop you up in order for you to exist, it begs the question of why society shouldn't ask you to allocate your labor to somewhere its collectively useful instead.

mila kunis has issued a correction as of 22:11 on Jul 5, 2021

MLSM
Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth
which lib dipshit changed Larry’s custom title

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world
not me. i'd have made sure to write "CPC"

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
https://twitter.com/yvesduv/status/1412300427727708160

if america pull out of the forever wars the dominoes will fall, and there will be fields of corpses like the ones in cambodia where america supported the people doing the genocide. and i say this as an anarchist

Kaedric
Sep 5, 2000

mila kunis posted:

https://twitter.com/yvesduv/status/1412300427727708160

if america pull out of the forever wars the dominoes will fall, and there will be fields of corpses like the ones in cambodia where america supported the people doing the genocide. and i say this as an anarchist

crosspostin

Kaedric posted:

Point sort of ruined by linking to Caleb Maupin, who is sort of the 'communist' version of Vaush (meaning: a complete idiot moron who doesn't, or shouldn't, represent what they say they are)

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
whos caleb maupin and what did he do

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
unfortunately vaush is very typical of American anarchists so it’s kind of a no true Scotsman thing at this point to paint him as anything else

skewetoo
Mar 30, 2003

Keep it together indgi

Kaedric
Sep 5, 2000

indigi posted:

unfortunately vaush is very typical of American anarchists so it’s kind of a no true Scotsman thing at this point to paint him as anything else

ehhhh I've made the point before but I'd say more 'typical of people who CALL themselves anarchists'.

I know it's fun to dunk on morons, but someone calling themselves something doesn't make them that thing.

Similarly, I extend the same courtesy to the below

mila kunis posted:

whos caleb maupin and what did he do

Same thing. Someone who says they are communist and has a big following and lots of hot takes, but (to me) is not representative of actual communists.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, I just like this thread more when it's actually talking about what the future of communism looks like or should be, and less about finding random idiots online who pretend they are revolutionaries just because it's gauche to outright say you're a democrat.

Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world

mila kunis posted:

https://twitter.com/yvesduv/status/1412300427727708160

if america pull out of the forever wars the dominoes will fall, and there will be fields of corpses like the ones in cambodia where america supported the people doing the genocide. and i say this as an anarchist

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

good if true

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Kaedric posted:

ehhhh I've made the point before but I'd say more 'typical of people who CALL themselves anarchists'.

I know it's fun to dunk on morons, but someone calling themselves something doesn't make them that thing.

Similarly, I extend the same courtesy to the below

Same thing. Someone who says they are communist and has a big following and lots of hot takes, but (to me) is not representative of actual communists.

I don't want to sound like a broken record, I just like this thread more when it's actually talking about what the future of communism looks like or should be, and less about finding random idiots online who pretend they are revolutionaries just because it's gauche to outright say you're a democrat.

theres a pretty long and proud tradition of pro-empire leftists and i disagree, this guy is pretty representative of a lot of these "ALL states are bad -> the states the empire targets are particularly bad and we should emphasize their badness -> we should vote joe biden for harm reduction -> heres why the american empire is the lesser evil actually" trajectories this rear end in a top hat and similar others are trying to shepherd their audience towards

that said in the grand scheme of things this is a microscopic portion of people, 99.9999% of people haven't heard of him although he's getting more exposure recently, its just funny stuff to post about

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

mila kunis posted:

https://twitter.com/yvesduv/status/1412300427727708160

if america pull out of the forever wars the dominoes will fall, and there will be fields of corpses like the ones in cambodia where america supported the people doing the genocide. and i say this as an anarchist

vaush is afraid of the Khmer rouge because he is the glasses wearing nerd that will end up in a ditch if that happened and he knows it

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

mila kunis posted:

theres a pretty long and proud tradition of pro-empire leftists and i disagree, this guy is pretty representative of a lot of these "ALL states are bad -> the states the empire targets are particularly bad and we should emphasize their badness -> we should vote joe biden for harm reduction -> heres why the american empire is the lesser evil actually" trajectories this rear end in a top hat and similar others are trying to shepherd their audience towards

that said in the grand scheme of things this is a microscopic portion of people, 99.9999% of people haven't heard of him although he's getting more exposure recently, its just funny stuff to post about

Anarchists used to kill western heads of states for being imperialist pigs, oppose WWI when the Western socialist parties wouldn't (although not Kropotkin lol), and do general strikes. Chomsky is also more ardently anti-imperialist than spooks and dweebs like Robert Evans and Vaush. So I'd say that there is a tradition of "real anarchists" that are unequivocally better than the current crop of losers and liberal faux-revolutionaries, even if many aren't far removed from liberalism e.g. Chomsky.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Top City Homo posted:

vaush is afraid of the Khmer rouge because he is the glasses wearing nerd that will end up in a ditch if that happened and he knows it

this is why I too am afraid of the Khmer Rouge. I think anyone with an account in SA would be on their short list for ditch occupancy

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

indigi posted:

this is why I too am afraid of the Khmer Rouge. I think anyone with an account in SA would be on their short list for ditch occupancy

sure but i think he is just afraid of a cultural revolution type scenario

he knows that he is an over-socialized lil Eichmann who hates half the country and his material interests are best served in the current society as it exists

neoliberalism is factually his socialism

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Brain Candy
May 18, 2006

Yossarian-22 posted:

Anarchists used to kill western heads of states for being imperialist pigs, oppose WWI when the Western socialist parties wouldn't (although not Kropotkin lol), and do general strikes. Chomsky is also more ardently anti-imperialist than spooks and dweebs like Robert Evans and Vaush. So I'd say that there is a tradition of "real anarchists" that are unequivocally better than the current crop of losers and liberal faux-revolutionaries, even if many aren't far removed from liberalism e.g. Chomsky.

you shouldn't forget the other group of socialists that stayed antiwar in WWI. debs ran for president from prison for opposing the war

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