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Probably Magic posted:I'm just happy for Tilda Swinton that she gets her biggest career get yet, pretending to be a villainous press secretary for four years. Tilda Swinton as lunatic Biden would be gold
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Oct 11, 2021 05:00
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sexpig by night posted:love when they try the dumb faux-woke "Oh so some DEAD WHITE GUY????" to reveal how little they know about actual leftist writings. I bet they have some cool names for the various African revolutionaries that are also cited. nonwhite leftists.... you mean tankies???
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Oct 11, 2021 05:01
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I ♥️ Thomas Sankara remembering the time an anarchist tried to cancel sankara for making polycules illegal
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Oct 11, 2021 05:03
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Fleetwood posted:Tilda Swinton as lunatic Biden would be gold Alan Alda could probably nail it too
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Dixon Chisholm posted:I have no idea who that kid is with Jackson on the left, but Lightfoot's bout to get to get her calves cramped Beto style on the right. jfc
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Oct 11, 2021 05:24
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sexpig by night posted:love when they try the dumb faux-woke "Oh so some DEAD WHITE GUY????" to reveal how little they know about actual leftist writings. I bet they have some cool names for the various African revolutionaries that are also cited. It's always fun to point out that Marx was Jewish and erasing his heritage and identity is antisemitic so BACK OFF!
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Oct 11, 2021 05:30
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Homeless Friend posted:lol at his new gimmick he's just espousing 2019 CSPAM
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I ♥️ Thomas Sankara I literally have a poster of him on my living room wall. 
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Oct 11, 2021 05:55
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yeah i read hegel Hating Every God damnEd Liberal
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Oct 11, 2021 05:56
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I loving love math!!!
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Oct 11, 2021 06:12
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According to my calculations, good things go up when bad things go down.
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Oct 11, 2021 06:14
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Nichael posted:According to my calculations, good things go up when bad things go down. Why are you attacking the Democrats like this?
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Oct 11, 2021 06:21
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Think about all the Democrats have done for you before you attack them
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Oct 11, 2021 06:22
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Nonsense posted:Think about all the Democrats have done for you before you attack them i've thought about it and now i think we're gonna need more guillotines
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Oct 11, 2021 06:32
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Sartre's conception of Bad Faith is pretty straightforward, and I love it when people gently caress it up because they're uncomfortable with the implications So Sartre starts with a thought experiment: imagine a young man who loves his country, but also sees himself as a devoted son. There is a war on, and the army needs soldiers, but also his mother is very sick and requires care. So the young man needs to choose: will he join the army and fight for his country, or will he stay home and care for his mother? Pretty rough choice to be presented in France just after World War 2 by a guy who was very weird about his experiences in a concentration camp (IIRC Sartre escaped by telling the guard he needed to go pick up some glasses from the optometrist, and then just never came back to the prison). Anyways, our guy can cite all sorts of reasons for making either choice: he's a devoted son, he's a patriot, family is more important than country, if the nation falls his mother will suffer under the occupation, etc. and these are things to take into consideration. But, at the same time, he must make the choice. No one makes it for him, and if he says something like "I must serve in the Army, my country needs me!" or "My mother cannot get along without me, I have no choice but to stay" he is lying. He could choose either one, and he would have to face the consequences for his decision, but it is untrue that he must do one or the other, that there is some external force making him do something. If he claims that he must do XYZ and cannot do otherwise, he is acting in bad faith. He is denying his agency in the situation. He is rejecting his personhood and his responsibility. He is pretending that other people make him do the things he does. And this is where the "hell is other people" from No Exit comes in. In a short, sloppy summary, three people are in Hell. Hell is not some torture chamber or icy lake, it is instead a waiting room with some couches. One of the characters of the play, Garcin, was a journalist who says that he was executed for running a pacifist newspaper. He plays himself up to the other characters as a man of upstanding moral character and iron devotion to truth and all that poo poo. It eventually comes out that he was a coward, and was executed for trying to escape the country. According to him, he was going to Mexico, to start another pacifist newspaper. He swears. Definitely. He's not a coward. Another of the characters, Inez, a lesbian sadist who seduced her cousin's wife, drove her cousin to suicide, and who died in a murder suicide with the cousin's wife killing them both, sees right through his self-justifications and attempts to make himself into the hero of the story who deserves praise from others. She recognizes that he's just a bully who wanted to gently caress around behind his wife's back, and then, when the time came to actually be the Big Man he always presented himself to be, he turned tail and ran. Garcin desperately tries to get the third woman, Estelle (who in hell for murdering her infant child), to love him the way he wants to be loved, but it doesn't take, as she's pretty dumb, and anyways Inez is constantly there mocking him and trying to get Estelle to gently caress her instead. No Exit posted:GARCIN: Still there? Now listen! I want you to do me a service. No, don't shrink away. I know "Hell is other people" when we are trapped with people who force us to be honest, force us to reveal the actual motivations behind our actions, and refuse to indulge in our self-delusions. So, you know, go ahead and vote for the Democrats if you want, but don't pretend it's because they're the Good and Moral party made up of Upstanding and Smart People Who Always Make the Right Decisions Even if They Are Hard and who are Never Bad, and anyways the other party is so wicked that no person could ever have it in their best interests to vote for them. That, plus or minus Virgil Texas, is Bad Faith
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Zizek, of course, turns this whole thing into a joke that neatly deflates the binary nature of these types of dilemmas within a larger passage about being "forced" to choosequote:In a well-known passage from his ‘Existentialism and Humanism’, Sartre deployed the dilemma of a young man in France in 1942, torn between the duty to help his lone, ill mother and the duty to enter the war and fight the Germans; Sartre’s point is, of course, that there is no a priori answer to this dilemma. The young man needs to make a decision grounded only in his own abyssal freedom and assume full responsibility for it.
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I love how racist this is. It's as if Asia and Africa don't matter whatsoever in terms of scientific advancement. I mean sure there's Egypt in the beginning, but after that only Europe matters! No don't bother looking up what other countries were doing at the time of the "Dark Ages".
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Oct 11, 2021 07:01
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Well the important thing is we got rid of Christianity and that fixed the problem
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Ah, Egoism. You don't see that one too often.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I love how racist this is. It's as if Asia and Africa don't matter whatsoever in terms of scientific advancement. I mean sure there's Egypt in the beginning, but after that only Europe matters! No don't bother looking up what other countries were doing at the time of the "Dark Ages". liberal anti-Putin darling Garry Kasparov believes in this poo poo unironically
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gradenko_2000 posted:liberal anti-Putin darling Garry Kasparov believes in this poo poo unironically The Oldest Man posted:Well the important thing is we got rid of Christianity and that fixed the problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep1oktyqBpc punk rebel ecks has issued a correction as of 07:26 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 07:17
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Considering climate change, this chart indicates the dark ages helped delay things for hundreds of years.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I love how racist this is. It's as if Asia and Africa don't matter whatsoever in terms of scientific advancement. I mean sure there's Egypt in the beginning, but after that only Europe matters! No don't bother looking up what other countries were doing at the time of the "Dark Ages". we can never hope to regain the progress lost to the korean hyperwar
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gradenko_2000 posted:liberal anti-Putin darling Garry Kasparov believes in this poo poo unironically
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gradenko_2000 posted:liberal anti-Putin darling Garry Kasparov believes in this poo poo unironically no no no, you're being too vague here, don't spare cspammers from the absolute hilarity of the new chronology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_chronology_(Fomenko) quote:The new chronology is a pseudohistorical conspiracy theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the civilizations of the Roman Empire, Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, actually occurred during the Middle Ages, more than a thousand years later. according to wiki kasparov later denounced them but i like to think it's because he realized it was bad press and he still believes in this poo poo
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Nichael posted:I loving love math!!! I know, right??!? Thanks modern liberalism, which invented science, math, and
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Nichael posted:According to my calculations, good things go up when bad things go down. I know one good thing that's rising like a tide  https://twitter.com/NutDivide/status/1447416199113895937
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https://twitter.com/roun_sa_ville/status/1447238364105691140 Democratic Sexpests of America
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It didn't endear Trump to voters enough to stop him from losing the House in 2018 and losing the presidency in 2020. I think people here overestimate the power of this kind of theater. It pleased the hardcore base who already supported him no matter what, but doesn't seem to have been a path to electoral success. But the eviction moratorium is kind of a weird example here, given that Biden did extend an eviction moratorium even after the courts indicated they wouldn't support an extension, and the Biden administration did defend the eviction in court, and the court did force the eviction moratorium to end. It doesn't seem to have made much of an impact in anyone's opinion of Biden here!
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/roun_sa_ville/status/1447238364105691140 Minecraft Is a good game
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sexpig by night posted:Who tf wants to read some dead white german guy from the 1800s. tbh that's one of the big structural weaknesses of marxism. It's like requiring people to read hegel for membership to join a group: either no one is actually reading it or your group has a member ceiling of like 30 people drake no: understanding politics via marxism drake yes: understanding politics via Fate/Zero
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Doctor Jeep posted:no no no, you're being too vague here, don't spare cspammers from the absolute hilarity of the new chronology: bill maher voice: new chronology
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Did it happen? If so, praise is not necessary to admit that it happened. Especially when someone is saying that it's something he should do and is failing to do. I mean, it's not like "why aren't Dems at least doing <thing that Dems are in fact openly and publicly doing>?" arguments are rare, but it's still worth pointing out when it happens. Also worth remembering that a common criticism of Biden, like Obama before him, was that he doesn't use the bully pulpit enough, go out on TV every week to outline his goals and shout out challenges to his enemies. I admit some sympathy to this, but also....we just saw how that happened with Trump who did exactly that. His own fanatic cult of personality mostly started tuning out after a while, save for those into it enough to literally go from rally to rally like they were following the Dead on tour. His most friendly media sources stopped carrying many of his speeches live, or would cut away once it got to parts we'd all heard before. I mean, I still think a president has a powerful ability to speak to the public that no one else in government does, but we've also seen its limits and they're far short of what the Green Lantern theorists tend to imply.
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Catpetter1981 posted:Did it happen? If so, praise is not necessary to admit that it happened. Especially when someone is saying that it's something he should do and is failing to do. Yea god I'd hate for a president I support to have a fiercely dedicated base of supporters they can turn loose to increase pressure for their agenda.
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Deontology is a loving disease.
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Oct 11, 2021 12:48
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punk rebel ecks posted:I love how racist this is. It's as if Asia and Africa don't matter whatsoever in terms of scientific advancement. I mean sure there's Egypt in the beginning, but after that only Europe matters! No don't bother looking up what other countries were doing at the time of the "Dark Ages". The Christians outside of Europe did fine, it wasn't a Christian Dark Age, it was a European one.
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Probably Magic posted:The Christians outside of Europe did fine, it wasn't a Christian Dark Age, it was a European one. not all renaissances were as depicted either
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