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Stalin is actually a really easy read. Everyone else is a different breed of egghead but Stalin gets right down to the nuts and bolts of it cuz he's the type of guy more concerned with getting poo poo done than slap fighting with his posting enemies.
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Feb 13, 2022 18:49
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indigi posted:Marx does kind of stink to read (at least the translations I’ve read), read Engels and Lenin instead He's a very dense writer but you can make it past that the stuff you gain is so valuable. It took me a while to get through The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte but it's probably one of the best takedowns of the concept of a state that i've ever read.
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Feb 13, 2022 18:50
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:liberal revisionists love calling the March to the Sea a form of "Total War" even though they mostly just lived off the land and did a lot of property damage. Which wasn't nearly as bad as the kind of total war waged in Europe, which involved a lot of mass rape & murder. The only people Sherman did wage total war on were the natives. It is kind of a dark irony that the only American war which didn't immediately turn into never-ending atrocity was also pretty much the only one we were on the right side of
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Feb 13, 2022 18:50
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Stalin is actually a really easy read. Everyone else is a different breed of egghead but Stalin gets right down to the nuts and bolts of it cuz he's the type of guy more concerned with getting poo poo done than slap fighting with his posting enemies. This is true. Foundations of Leninism and Economic Problems of the USSR were fun reads.
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Feb 13, 2022 18:51
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AnimeIsTrash posted:He's a very dense writer but you can make it past that the stuff you gain is so valuable. It took me a while to get through The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte but it's probably one of the best takedowns of the concept of a state that i've ever read. Imo brumaire isn't hard to read per se but it's largely a blow by blow of the intricacies of contemporary French politics. The points he's making still make sense today but the specifics are mystifying, even if you know a bit about the time period
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Feb 13, 2022 18:55
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Stalin is actually a really easy read. Everyone else is a different breed of egghead but Stalin gets right down to the nuts and bolts of it cuz he's the type of guy more concerned with getting poo poo done than slap fighting with his posting enemies. First time I entertain doubts that Stalin was a real Communist.
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Feb 13, 2022 18:55
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indigi posted:Marx does kind of stink to read (at least the translations I’ve read), read Engels and Lenin instead His shorter stuff is okay. I'd save Capital for when you're really ready to dig in, and follow along with Dave Harvey's lecture series or companion book. Engels and Lenin are much more approachable for sure.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:00
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indigi posted:Marx does kind of stink to read (at least the translations I’ve read), read Engels and Lenin instead disagree, Capital is a genuinely engaging and entertaining book, far more so than most western philosophy. the most challenging part is the opening chapters, and it's also a book that makes substantially more sense on the second read because so much is jammed into the opening chapters. just couple it with a outside source, like Harvey's lectures/companion book [e:f,b]
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Feb 13, 2022 19:01
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:disagree, Capital is a genuinely engaging and entertaining book, far more so than most western philosophy. the most challenging part is the opening chapters, and it's also a book that makes substantially more sense on the second read because so much is jammed into the opening chapters. I could barely get through vol 2 and kinda dreading 3 but I can't stop now. Does it get better. Is part 2 the dark middle.chapter
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Feb 13, 2022 19:03
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lollontee posted:just getting straight into the job, shitposting against the leftist menace lmao wetdela posted:This thread is such a contrast.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:05
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shouldnt US government employees be required to state when they are working the clock, aka punching the card, at the propaganda dicksucking factory? im pretty sure thats a legal
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Feb 13, 2022 19:09
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Only foreigners get branded with their affiliation on social media. West aligned stuff doesn't need a disclaimer because it's not evil chicom propaganda
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Feb 13, 2022 19:12
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StashAugustine posted:It is kind of a dark irony that the only American war which didn't immediately turn into never-ending atrocity was also pretty much the only one we were on the right side of You should probably workshop this one, man.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:16
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The "Greenwald Left" thing stands out because C-SPAM's largest thread is making fun of Greenwald.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:17
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:disagree, Capital is a genuinely engaging and entertaining book, far more so than most western philosophy. the most challenging part is the opening chapters, and it's also a book that makes substantially more sense on the second read because so much is jammed into the opening chapters. was part one written before basic algebra was taught to children because the whole sections dedicated to proving "if a = b and b = c then a = c" are where i lose the ability to continue reading
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Feb 13, 2022 19:17
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Best Friends posted:that’s my past 15 years. I went from standard dnd style lib in the military and applying (and failing) to get into state, to having it dawn on me in stages that literally everything the good liberal framework predicted would happen in the world did not ever come true. what broke me completely was all the mainline dems suddenly becoming very politically competent when it came to ending any possibility of Medicare for all, mainline liberal press rallying around the far right Bolivia coup, and realizing all those positive incremental progress “everything is getting better in the developing world under capitalism“ metrics only worked if you included china. Same, although i've had my political experience bolstered by theory too. I applied to the FS in 2013, although I was unemployed at that time and would have taken any job, it's still funny to look back then and realize it felt like a different person just from how drastically my political mindset and beliefs have changed. I really thought I did was to become a State department cop and worse, thought it was working with "the good guys." I guess I did have some growing up to do even in my mid 20s. It's fortunate my application went nowhere and I moved on. edit: lol found an old post of mine praising  as SECSTATE and saying she'd be an excellent president. Well I still at least think she'd be a good candidate, just for completely different reasons now! 
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Feb 13, 2022 19:17
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so hey I thought on friday Russia was just two days away from invading
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Feb 13, 2022 19:19
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Mantis42 posted:The "Greenwald Left" thing stands out because C-SPAM's largest thread is making fun of Greenwald. team Glenn is Right is not beaten forever, they will arise stronger
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Feb 13, 2022 19:19
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:You should probably workshop this one, man. yeah probably
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Feb 13, 2022 19:20
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sexpig by night posted:so hey I thought on friday Russia was just two days away from invading Tuna-Fish posted:Vähän ajoissa? Eikös se päivä mille sitä on povattu ole 16.2. naw bro, we got the definate date now
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Feb 13, 2022 19:20
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sexpig by night posted:so hey I thought on friday Russia was just two days away from invading the 16th is still the big day, supposedly
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Feb 13, 2022 19:21
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Flavahbeast posted:the 16th is still the big day, supposedly oh poo poo really? fuuuck, its finally going down guys....
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Feb 13, 2022 19:21
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https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1492904639427190788?s=20&t=rX2Gc9_i3GYYo-0MUf13gQ
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Feb 13, 2022 19:25
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:https://twitter.com/RichardEngel/status/1492904639427190788?s=20&t=rX2Gc9_i3GYYo-0MUf13gQ pov you are loading into escape from tarkov as a scav
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Feb 13, 2022 19:27
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please add grandmas to tarkov
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Feb 13, 2022 19:30
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Everyone needs to hurry up with this poo poo. A proper wars scare should be fast and unexpected, like when general Soleimani got assassinated and nobody knew what was happening. Instead, spending months on hyping it up is just exhausting.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:32
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sexpig by night posted:so hey I thought on friday Russia was just two days away from invading You're talking about Europe. Obviously it's workdays.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:34
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In Training posted:I could barely get through vol 2 and kinda dreading 3 but I can't stop now. Does it get better. Is part 2 the dark middle.chapter vol 1 is the one most worth reading through yourself and the most ineffectively summarized, so I suggest it to anyone on the left, regardless of background. vol 2 and 3 are worthwhile but more boring and I don't think they are nearly as damaged by summary Raskolnikov38 posted:was part one written before basic algebra was taught to children because the whole sections dedicated to proving "if a = b and b = c then a = c" are where i lose the ability to continue reading it's a combination of marx having weird ideas about his audience while also responding to a history of utopian socialism that had no interest whatsoever in logic or argument BRAKE FOR MOOSE has issued a correction as of 19:36 on Feb 13, 2022 |
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Feb 13, 2022 19:34
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sexpig by night posted:so hey I thought on friday Russia was just two days away from invading Still is.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:41
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Weird question - nearly all of the time the Ukrainian Army is shown by US media, it’s guys in their new digital camo, with M4s/416s and either FAST or other HSLD helmets. When shown by regular journalists, or especially Ukrainians’ own photos, they have the Ak-74s, soviet era uniforms and helmets you’d expect. Is the US media only photographing one unit?
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Feb 13, 2022 19:41
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https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1492932251495112707?s=20&t=7KCmIt0ySeH-oPH3ivqN-w
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Feb 13, 2022 19:43
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lol that's who that lady is? what a dumb thing she posted
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Feb 13, 2022 19:46
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https://twitter.com/iresimpsonsfans/status/1492625508940623883?s=20&t=GxkTI_jp3f6RaOonyuyUww
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Feb 13, 2022 19:49
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Frosted Flake posted:Weird question - nearly all of the time the Ukrainian Army is shown by US media, it’s guys in their new digital camo, with M4s/416s and either FAST or other HSLD helmets. There's just too much footage out there, that I assume this kind of poo poo would be noticeable? Here's for example a Ukranian news channel reporting on civilian training https://youtu.be/zPWAhjgr5SY
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Feb 13, 2022 19:49
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Has anyone posted the toy gun brigade?
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Feb 13, 2022 19:53
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is there a reason they’re all holding onto the magazine as opposed to the fore grip
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Feb 13, 2022 19:55
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Lostconfused posted:Maybe it's more a difference between the Ukranian standing army, the civilian reserves/militias, and the foreign volunteers. So… did we reequip their entire army since 2014? I mean, they were definitely not rocking any of that poo poo before then lol
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Feb 13, 2022 19:55
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indigi posted:is there a reason they’re all holding onto the magazine as opposed to the fore grip
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Feb 13, 2022 19:57
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Frosted Flake posted:Weird question - nearly all of the time the Ukrainian Army is shown by US media, it’s guys in their new digital camo, with M4s/416s and either FAST or other HSLD helmets. I think they've been sending all the good stuff to the front to show off for media. All the guys who are tac'd up and in full body armor are being interviewed from the trenches and bunkers. The AK-74s are for the back line and reservists. It gets even weirder with the fascist paramilitaries because they're sourcing weapons from all over the drat place, including Israel.
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Feb 13, 2022 19:59
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Frosted Flake posted:So… did we reequip their entire army since 2014? I wouldn't know lol Here's a video where some was wearing a Galicia division patch https://youtu.be/j77BneooPvA It's where the fighting with Donbas is going on, and they seem to be carrying foreign weapons. I just assumed the good stuff is more likely to get sent to where the fighting is actually taking place.
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